COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Head Block, by Jessica Sadler
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4m 50s
Cherry Ann Bigman hopes to hang up her casual-sex shoes for something more substantial. Unfortunately, online dating chews her up and spits her out. So she takes up a new hobby--MMA fighting--and once she stops seeking, what she wants finds her.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Cherry Ann: Hannah Ehman
Anonymous Man: Sean Ballatyne
Aanya: Allison Kampf
Writer Biography
Jessica Sadler's fiction has appeared in Bartleby, Drunk Monkeys, Enizagam, and Atlas & Alice, and she won her alma mater's annual Malcolm C. Braly Fiction Award. Her feature-length screenplay Omissions has been recognized/selected by several film & screenplay festivals. She earned a BA in Literature and an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from UMBC. She has taught English in Baltimore as a high school teacher, in Thailand as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, and in Japan as a Global Teaching Fellow. At writing and teaching conferences, Jessica has presented literature and education research. In 2020 and 2021, she received Maryland State Arts Council Professional Development Grants.
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