About the Sketch Show
Written by: Laura Lane & Ellen Haun
Starring: Ellen Haun, Laura Lane & Amber Reauchean Williams
Directed by: Chet Siegel
Once upon a time...
The New York-based all-female comedy show Femme Fairy Tales premiered at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City. It traveled to Los Angeles and Chicago. Everyone in the audience wore tiaras.
About the show...
Sleeping Beauty's prince realizes that it is super creepy to kiss a woman who is sleeping, the Little Mermaid discovers that legs come with a vagina-a-bob, Rapunzel grows out her armpit hair and Cinderella learns how dumb it is to wear gender-normative footwear made of glass. This all-female sketch show takes on classic fairy tales and turns the patriarchal stories on their heads.
Whether dealing with issues like consent, female friendship, beauty standards, cultural appropriation or socioeconomic disparity, we keep things fun – and magical! This is a world where all women, princesses or not, are equal - now that's a fairy tale!
FUN FACT: Co-writer and cast mate Laura Lane performed the show throughout her pregnancy up until 6 days before giving birth!
CAST
Laura Lane - writer/ star
Laura Lane is an author, journalist, comedy writer and performer. She’s written for The New Yorker, People, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, ESPN, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Cosmopolitan. She is the co-author of Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling and This Is Why You’re Single, which was optioned for TV and has been covered by the New York Times, the L.A. Times, The Washington Post, and Bustle. She co-hosts the This Is Why podcast. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Ellen Haun - writer/ star
Ellen Haun is a writer and actress. Best known for her role as Ms. Chapin on How to Get Away with Murder, she has also appeared at St. Ann's Warehouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. OMGHI, the 2017 web series she co-wrote and starred in, was covered by Paper Mag and The Wrap. Her indie short No Limes made the film festival circuit in 2016. She also hosted The Sports Show at the PIT in New York for many years and co-wrote the murder-mystery-comedy script Golden Shores.
Amber Reauchean Williams- star
Amber spent four years studying Theatre Arts at the Boston University School of Theatre. She has worked in film & television and performed in theaters from New York City , NY to Oslo, Norway. She regularly performs in comedy shows at Upright Citizen's Brigade NYC and The People's Improv Theatre. Credits include, but not limited to: Genesis (Ginny's Supper Club, Harlem) Little Sister (Netflix), Vanya & Masha & Sonia & Spike (Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble), How to Break (Hip Hip Theatre Fest/ HERE Arts Center) The Night Club (People's Improv Theatre), Sketch Cram (U.C.B.) No King In Israel (NY Summerfest), Watch me Burn (Fresh Fruit Festival NYC)."