“The first sin was a woman who ate.” 

In this irreverent DARK COMEDY, 6 hysterical women are stranded when their Eating Disorder Recovery Center on a remote island loses power during a generational storm.

The inhabitants are forced to grapple with whether or not they want to survive, and if they can accept the women they become. The island becomes a war zone, as the women fight tooth-and-nail to become "Top Dog." As they struggle for power and control, their only choice is to eat. There is no other option. 

It's a dog-eat-dog world, and these are some hungry bitches...

Welcome to the official campaign to fund "Women Who Eat," an exciting new play by Award-Winning Actor, Writer and Hollywood Fringe Alumna Devin Davis-Lorton. Devin received her BFA in Theater and Performance with a Minor in Writing from Emerson College. Since then, she has been an integral member in both The Road Theatre Company and City Garage Theater, and now expands her horizons with the founding of the theater company Point Blank Productions.

This breakout play is an exciting, new, and daring look into the minds of strong, witty, troubled young women on a dark path.

This play is written as a response to American culture now. While this play allows the audience to interpret their own messaging, it does highlight and react to the current state of the world. Recently there has been an enormous resurgence of blatant sexism, homophobia, fatphobia with an emphasis on "heroin chic" as the ideal body type; as well as "anti-woke" and "anti-feminist" movements gaining traction among groups on the left and right alike. This play grapples with important and relevant themes without telling the audience what to think or making them cringe. This play exists to challenge and respond to the culture while telling a dark and edgy story and stays comedic throughout. Stories like these are what change minds, not ones that exist to police what's "right" or "wrong."

"Women Who Eat" is a surprisingly lighthearted comedy that dives deeply into themes that are challenging to contend with. Just the title, "Women Who Eat" touches on the fact that adult women do not have stories in media about eating disorders, but instead those types of stories are reserved for adolescent girls. This also refers to the idea that women, especially young women, are referred to as "girls," and are infantilized and dismissed. This is a feminist story about intelligent, witty, wacky women with something deeply wrong with them; perhaps as a result of their self-loathing in a violent society where thinness and beauty are commodified as social currency in the modern social-media landscape. This play exists offline where none of that is accessible to the girls, and where they are able to create their own society entirely.

Support for this play is support for young, new artists bringing fresh perspectives to light in a powerful way. Comedy has a sneaky way of tricking audiences into thinking through laughter.

This project is going full-steam ahead; having already cast the show and hired a production team. We've registered for the Hollywood Fringe Festival and will be putting on a 5-show run of the play. This campaign will help us realize the potential of this project and stage it to the best of our collective abilities. Through funding this project, we'll be able to professionally record the show for fans, as well as families of actors and crew who couldn't make the live show; costume the actors; and able to create believable and creative spectacle for the play the way the artists imagine.

Our team is made up of some of the most talented, undiscovered, and visionary artists of our generation. We have been incredibly fortunate to hand-select each member of our team to do exactly what they do best.

OUR TEAM:

Written by Devin Davis-Lorton

Story by Devin Davis-Lorton and Jack Callahan

Directed by Laura Bertrand and Jack Callahan

Produced by

Devin Davis-Lorton, Laura Bertrand, Jack Callahan,

Billy Baker, and Khalil Muhammad

Dramaturg

Kyle Ferris

Stage Manager

Nikki Rubinsztain

CAST

(in order of appearance)

Alyssa Frey is Erin

Ashley Abrams is Gia

Natalie Valentine is Chrys

Laura Bertrand is Liv

Khalil Muhammad is Nurse Francis

Charleston Harvey is Nico

Devin Davis-Lorton is Alex

Billy Brodeur is Dr. Walsh / The Fisherman

Zoey Dillon (Swing)

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