Hello friends, Here’s an e-flier that you can pass along if you’d be so kind. This is a benefit for Hearts of Fire Project.

I hope you’re well. Warm regards, Ellen

Presented by the non-profit Hearts of Fire Project

Now That She’s Gone

Written & Performed By
Ellen Snortland
“With a name like Snortland, she’d better be good.”

Gloria Steinem says, “Ellen says I’m the ‘grandmother’ of this play, but I’m
not crazy enough to think that it was my planting of a seed when in fact it
is her enormous talent… She has a gift for being serious and funny, making
you laugh and understand at the same time. The first time I saw it, I
brought two friends who were visiting New York City from Kenya — a mother
and a daughter — to see it, and they loved it too; it’s universal.”

Nora Dunn, SNL Alum says, “Ms. Snortland has written a show with great
tenderness, surprise, and revelation. She delivers a poignant and
completely original insight into the mother/daughter relationship that is
deeply moving, and often profound.”

Ken Gruberman, Grammy award winner says, “I liked Ellen’s play so much that
I married her!”

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Saturday, May 2nd 2009

2:00 pm curtain; doors open at noon for reception
Victoria Hall Theater
33 West Victoria Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

General admission: $20 to benefit Hearts of Fire Project
http://www.heartsoffireproject.org

Tickets can be purchased by going to the above website and clicking on the
EVENT TICKETS link along the top of the page; tickets will be at Will Call.
Tickets may also be purchased at the box office.

For more information about tickets or volunteering, contact Bob Ballard at
805-646-5773, or email him at bobb@heartsoffire.tv

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Nominated for a 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, “Now That She’s Gone” was
first produced by EMP Theatricals, LLC, at the 2008 New York International
Fringe Festival.

Now That She's Gone is a play that explores Ellen Snortland's often
hilarious, irreverent and sometimes torturous relationship with her
Norwegian-American mother. Now That She's Gone has been described as a Lily
Tomlin / Garrison Keillor / Eve Ensler hybrid… passionate, poignant and
funny in turns. A memoir piece with Eleanor Roosevelt, sex, drugs and
lutefisk, the play and performance have received rave reviews and standing
ovations in California, New York, and Washington, D.C.

For more information about Ms. Snortland, please visit:
http://www.snortland.com

To view the trailer for her upcoming documentary, please visit:
www.beautybitesbeast.org