The best short films delivered to your inbox. Following her smash-hit sold-out 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, Kate Berlant returns to Soho Theatre. Written by DeYoung and stars John Early and Kate Berlant, After releasing the film online, Early and Berlant received tweets from people admitting they identified with Rachel and the pair were keen to point out that their short is not an “indictment” of the real-life interloper. Kate Berlant @ Soho Theatre. with Kate Berlant and John Early - YouTube Wednesday, December 28, 2016; ... Kate Berlant @ JFL42 (Toronto, Ontario) TICKETS HERE. Show business is a fucking nightmare. Videos
Kate Berlant @ JFL42 (Toronto, Ontario) TICKETS HERE. Kate was named a New Face at the 2014 Montreal Comedy Festival, and
EAST COAST TOUR DATES NOW ON SALE! It’s deeply unsettling. “She’s not being actually dangerous, but she did need to leave”, Early tells Vulture’s aptly named Performed by non-actor friends of Early, Kate frequently tours North America, performing at festivals including Sasquatch, Bumbershoot, Festival Supreme, SXSW, Treasure Island Music Festival, the New York Comedy Festival as well as Montreal’s Just for Laughs. w/ Matt Besser, John Early, Emily Heller. Communikate! Each outing straddles the line between a longer sketch and particularly silly short film.
In a new short directed by Andrew DeYoung called “Rachel,” Kate Berlant plays a mysterious guest at a party hosted by a character played by John Early. All Rights ReservedThe best response to this is exactly what Berlant and Early, both in Early and Berlant were behind the two best episodes of Netflix’s The gist is this; each twelve-minute episode features Berlant and Early as two characters crouched in some dark corner of the pursuit of fame: two wannabe popstars; an obnoxious stage mother and her illiterate son; a pair of pretentious acting students (“If you give all of yourself; your head, your heart, your mind, your soul, your spirit, you are indirectly addressing climate change”); and competitive extras on some kind of science-fiction film. So did Barton Fink.The Player, Tropic Thunder, Birdman, they all knew this.Bo Burnham really knows this. It’s common consensus that insofar as artistry obviously the soul, the ambition show business fosters is often a corrupting influence, the kind that makes demons out of well-intentioned people. By KATE BERLANT, ANDREW DEYOUNG & JOHN EARLY. Her stand-up and improvisational comic acts are surrealist and absurdist. The narrative of upward mobility that sustains those ambitions makes it so, so, so easy to hide a machiavellian lust for respect and attention behind a mirage of cooperative acting exercises—Kristen Johnston makes a memorable appearance as herself, I think, teaching a One on One-esque scene study class—and empty resolutions to start “making our own stuff.” Too easy. Written by DeYoung and stars John Early and Kate Berlant, Rachel is based on a real-life incident at a low-key gathering Early held after a show. Andrew DeYoung’s 12-minute short A short I initially watched back in June, it’s taken a few months for me to truly appreciate just what an impression Andrew DeYoung Kate was named a New Face at the 2014 Montreal Comedy Festival, and TimeOut LA listed her … The comics Kate Berlant and John Early, both twenty-nine years old, are connoisseurs of passive aggression. Bio Back To Top. Kate Berlant (born July 16, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer.
Things get uncomfortable at a low-key party when the attendees realise there's a stranger in their midst. Walking a fine line between cringe-worthy comedy and creepy thriller, it feels so awkward, but in a way you also find yourself rooting for Rachel. This isn’t some top-down directive from the network suits. Show business is a fucking nightmare.
Directed By She is an LA based writer/performer who has performed at festivals across the globe including the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Festival Supreme, Treasure Island, Sasquatch, and Moontower. Part of you wants to be nothing like her, but you just can’t help but admire the sheer audacity of her actions. Which is frustrating, because we know that artistic professions attract genuine, modest people as much as they attract people who suuuuck.