Theater 194: The Mush
Synopsis:
Elena (she/her) meets up with her daughter Rox (they/them) a day late, to help Rox pack up their apartment after graduation from college with her Master’s degree. As they go through the piles of things to pack or discard the conversation between them delves into unresolved mother-child issues.
Writer
Chance Lang
Chance Lang is the playwright New York City born, and Los Angeles raised, Chance is a Writer/Director known for his original works Going Home (2025), Trying (2023), One Take (2021), and Hypocrite (2019), and has collaborated internationally with The Useless Room at Institute Grotowski in Wroclaw and Brzezinka, Poland (2018), and WITKACY/Two Headed Calf at the Divine Comedy Festival in Krakow, Poland, TEATR Studio Warsaw, and REDCAT in Los Angeles.
Chance Lang
Director
Bernadette Armstrong
Bernadette Armstrong moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990’s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in North Hollywood. Her play The Reading Group was named Pick of the Week by LA Weekly Magazine and in 2017 her play Simple Lives was nominated for Outstanding Writing of an Original Play or Musical by the Valley Theater Awards (the only woman nominated).
Bernadette Armstrong
Julia Sanford as Elena
Julia holds a B.A in Dance & Theatre from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and studied at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco before moving to Los Angeles. Favorite theatre credits include The Crucible, The American Dream, To Kill A Mockingbird, C-Cup, Pirates Of Penzance, Steel Magnolias, Necessary Targets, Incorruptible, War Bride, and Inhale Harmonica. Favorite television credits include Artista Obscura, Harry’s Law, Mad Men, Melrose Place, Criminal Minds, Life, Monk, Scrubs, Ally McBeal, Dragnet, Dr. Vegas, Wings, General Hospital, Beyond Belief, and numerous commercials. Film credits include Music, Butterfly Caught, American Exit, Know Your Enemy, Transformers 4, The Prestige, Something’s Gotta Give, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Waning Moon, Dawn, and a number of other independent films. Web series include the comedy, Burt Paxton and the thriller, Undertow.
Julia Sanford
Christine Uhebe as Roxs
Christine Uhebe was born in Juiz de Fora, Brazil and started her acting career when she lived in Florence, Italy. Since moving to Los Angeles, Christine has been working tirelessly to further her career, beginning her journey studying at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Upon graduating she was cast in Distant Vision, directed by the visionary Francis Ford Coppola.
On stage, Christine has appeared as Cecilia in the sold out performance of María Irene Fornés' Fefu and her Friends, at the historic Hollyhock House. She also played Beth in Berndatte Armstrong's Simple Lives, as well as Inez in the World Premiere of Affluence at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills.
She appeared in The Rookie opposite Eric Winter, Lazareth opposite Ashley Judd, and the final season of Seal Team opposite David Boreanaz. Christine's voice career has taken off since appearing as the Brazilian “La Portia” opposite Wil Wheaton in the Facebook Watch Original Rival Speak. Her most prized credit to date has been voicing Nina Da Costa in Marvel's X-Men '97.
Christine Uhebe
