OS ANGELES, CA (May 15, 2025) – Experience the world premiere of Holy Holy: The Birth Of Disco at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025.
What if David Lynch directed a sleepover with seven clowns?
About Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco
Part physical comedy, part ethereal fever dream, Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco, hurls audiences into a surreal playground where women dare to choose playtime over capitalism. Under the direction of award-winning Natasha Mercado, this feminist allegory champions absurdity, ritual, and rebellion.
Welcome to Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco, where work is an endless dance, sleepovers open portals, and pillow fights become battles of mythic proportions. In this fever dream comedy, Holy Holy stages a revolt against the grinding gears of productivity. When one among them succumbs to the seductive trap of work, the rest pull her (kicking and screaming) into the anarchic realm of play. But play turns perilous, and soon bodies fly, allegiances shift, and slow-motion warfare erupts. Pole-slayings, sexual awakenings, dream sequences, and a mysterious egg push Holy Holy (and the audience) toward the ritualistic birth of disco — a shimmering symbol of joy, awe, and togetherness. But playtime cannot last forever.
As promises are made and the portal home reopens, the Holes return to the grind of the “real world.” All but one. Left alone in the fading glow of the disco ball, they cling silently to the magic of what was.
Holy Holy: The Birth of Disco is a wild, wicked, and tender invitation to remember that play is sacred — and maybe, just maybe, to stay there a little longer.
The Cast
The ensemble features Angelika Giatras, Alex Derderian, Emily Markoe, Hollis Hart, Tiffany Ogburn, Molly Koch, and Franny Harold
The Team
Written by Angelika Giatras, Alex Derderian, Emily Markoe, Hollis Hart, Tiffany Ogburn, Molly Koch, and Franny Harold and Natasha Mercado
The Production Team
Natasha Mercado – Director / Co-Writer
Angelika Giatras – Producer
Hollis Hart and Tiff Ogburn – Set Design
Sandra Kuker-Franco – Publicist (SANDRA KUKER PR)
As seen on Chicago Med, Eastbound & Down, Toronto and San Francisco Sketchfest, Just for Laughs, Sleep No More, Edinburgh Fringe, and a Rugrats commercial.
BIOS
NATASHA MERCADO – Director
Natasha Mercado is a director, writer, performer, and creator of Soft Clown, a performance style defined by blending vulnerability, absurdism, and heart. She has directed genre-defying Fringe favorites including Thank You So Much For Coming, Medicine Woman, and The Incredible Shamé, and her solo shows Tree and #1 Sonhave toured internationally to critical acclaim. Her work was named a 2024 “Best Thing in Comedy” by The Comedy Bureau. More at natashamercado.com.
ANGELIKA GIATRAS
Angelika Giatras is a Greek-American actor, writer, and producer. She has performed and produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, and most recently in Edinburgh for the 2024 Fringe Festival. Favorite credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatricum Botanicum), The Book of Will, Othello, and the Second City sketch revue It’s the End of the World and We Blow It. Angelika has appeared on Chicago Med and the web series Home Feed. She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and the Upright Citizens Brigade. Angelika is represented by Talent X Alexander. Instagram: @angelikagiatras
TIFFANY OGBURN
Tiffany Ogburn is an LA-based dancer, clown and immersive theater artist. She received her BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She has danced professionally for Andrea Miller’s Gallim Dance and Stephen Petronio Company, as well as performed in and devised many immersive theater productions, including Sleep No More NYC, Oddknock Productions, Mister & Mischief, Japanese Arts Network, and Casa Bonita.
FRANNY HAROLD
Franny Harold is an anxious, award-winning actress, writer, and clown from New Orleans with 15 years of improv experience. She’s taken original dramedic works and sketch shows to Just for Laughs, San Francisco Sketch Fest, and FronteraFest— the latter for which she won Best of Fest. Comedy saved her life and ignited her love for grounded and absurd storytelling. When she’s not napping, her goal in life is to make one person laugh a day. https://www.frannyharold.com/acting
EMILY MARKOE
Emily Markoe is an actor, writer, clown, comedian, and human who has performed at Edinburgh Fringe, SF Sketchfest, Austin Out of Bounds, and in several of your favorite commercials. In 2024, she premiered her award-nominated solo show My Little Phobia at the Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. She trained at The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade, and can be seen regularly performing in and around Los Angeles. emilymarkoe.com
HOLLIS HART
Hollis Hart is a seasoned voice-over artist with three decades of loop group and ADR experience, and co-founder of indie book press, Not a Cult. Hollis was director of the Mojave Desert’s former Rattletales Ranch artist residency. Hollis collaborates through cardboard sculptural installations, while contributing characters to immersive theatrical worlds, including with Take 3 Productions. A consultant to creatives, a lover of storytelling and mostly wholesome mischief-making, Hart continues to weave magic across multiple mediums.
MOLLY KOCH
Molly is a Los Angeles-based clown and performance artist whose heart and soul she owes to the open fields and stormy weather of New England. She has been practicing Clown and Idiot workshops since august of 2022. She’s taken many classes with teachers such as Chad Damiani, Jet Eveleth, Dean Evans, and Natasha Mercado and Zach Steele from the Idiot Workshops. She formed the clown ensemble Holy Holy in July of 2024 and is gearing up to perform in a one-hour show for the Hollywood Fringe this June 2025. She is also an editor by trade and play the bass guitar in a band with her brother. website: www.mollydoesfilm.com
ALEX DERDERIAN
Alex Derderian is an award-winning visual artist, filmmaker, and performer based in Los Angeles. She got her “big break” on Public Access TV, where she co-created the video project Triple Yeah Productions. When she’s not on the computer, she screens her films, performs absurdist comedy, plays drums in the band Inspector 34, and works with The Dog Theater puppetry troupe. You can check out her work on Instagram (@tiredjustwakeup), www.alexandraderderian.com, or on Youtube at Triple Yeah Productions.
SANDRA KUKER-FRANCO, SANDRA KUKER PR – PUBLICITY
An award-winning publicist with over four decades of experience, Sandra has created a client list of diversity and successful campaigns. Film highlight: A World Away (Mark Blanchard). Stage: I’m Not A Comedian, I’m Lenny Bruce (Ronnie Marmo, Director, Joe Mantegna), Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground (Tony Winner John Rubinstein), Adventures In The Great Beyond, Death Of A Salesman (Frances Fisher & Joe Cortese), Elephant Man, My Child, Mothers Of War (an all-star cast), Voice Lessons (Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart and Maile Flanagan), Write Act Repertory 15+ Production Campaigns, Panic! Productions: Footloose The Musical, plus eight others. Crimson Square TC/BHP: Outrage + eight other shows. Utilizing the strength of relationships, social media and traditional PR. www.SandraKukerPR.com
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