"Crowned" is a Comedy Series about the realities of working as a professional Party Princess. With your support, we are creating a second season of our independent television show and seeking worldwide distributon and festival recognition. 

The show centers around twenty-something Macie & her fellow Birthday Party Princess co-workers who serve clients in their homebase of Los Angeles. These parties are not for the faint of heart. Princesses endure flirting bystanders, jealous co-workers, rambunctious kids, wacky parents, and situations that seem impossible but actually happen on a daily basis. Our Season One premiered on YouTube, and gained a following of real party princesses and comedy fans alike! You can see it HERE!

Being a Party Princess is a symbol of female entrepreneurship with all the pitfalls and pain of running your own business.

The proliferation of Princess Party Companies is a 21st Century phenomenon. When we were kids, we were lucky to get a balloon party at Burger King! In this modern age, parent's are set on one-upping each other and giving their kids the absolute best of the best. Somewhere at the conjunction of this parental desire and the economic downturn of late 2008: the first Party Princess was born. In present 2019, there are Party Princess companies all over the World!

Macie/Co-Creator (Brianne Sanborn)

Brianne is so excited to be presenting her baby, Crowned: Season Two! You might have caught her on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program and on CBS’s The McCarthy’s. A lifelong Disney-fan, Brianne got her start working in Parades and as a Face Character Performer at Disneyland. Brianne has performed in many regional theatre and touring productions including Seussical, Little Women, and Gypsy. She recently starred alongside George Takei in a benefit concert of the Broadway Musical ‘Allegiance’. Crowned is largely based on Brianne's 6+ year tenure as a Professional Party Princess Performer. She loves long walks in Central Park and snuggling on the sofa watching films with her dog, 2 cats and husband Josh Bednarsky. 

Vianka (Veronica Mannion)

Veronica Mannion is a native of the Northern California area, where she first got bit by the bug for acting. She directed, starred-in and wrote her own indie-musical feature film Booze, Boys, and Brownies that garnered multiple garlands across the country . She likes epic karaoke and watching Golden Girls. She can been seen on HBO in Insecure with Issa Rae, Ryan Murphy's Feud, and worked with Lady Gaga in AHS: Hotel. Veronica is so excited to return to Crowned after being an original cast member.

Winnie (Sasha Compere)

Sasha Compere (another original cast member of Crowned) is a native of Detroit, Michigan and is of Haitian parentage. She performed in theater productions throughout high school, and college, attending University of Michigan where she fell in love with the craft. She likes long walks on the beach, watching horror movies with both eyes closed, and improv shows at UCB. She can been seen in works such as (Miracle Workers, TBS), (Reverie, NBC), and the upcoming Netflix film (Uncorked), written and directed by Insecure's Prentice Penny. 

Thanks to the experience of our lead actors & the improv talent pool (from Groundlings, UCB, and The Second City)  available to us in Los Angeles, we can create semi-scripted television. In the vein of shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and The League, our scripts are structure outlines that allow for the magic of improv and onset writing and directing. This way of comedy creation fits in perfectly with the world we are creating and also helps to deliver the best laughs. We are so excited to bring that kind of show to the world and also share what our behind-the-scenes experience is like. 

We're so excited make this show, but we need your help! With your contributions, we'll be able to develop 6 new episodes of this series in August 2019 and begin pitching for distribution in Fall 2019. Having the proper funds to make an industry-standard show is so important to us!

Thank you all so much for your contributions and support!

- From Brianne & the entire Crowned Team