The Celebrity Wedding of the Year!
Hosted byMelissa Center aka Future Mrs. Gyllenhaal...?
You are cordially invited to a very special & sacred celebration. There will be raps and ballads and an uptempo too. Written and performed by your soon-to-be favorite Jew. Inspired by her Mom. And her #singlelife disasters. Here's hoping she learns to live Happily Ever After...
"In Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal, we witness Center’s work standing on the shoulders of feminist giants." - Ms. Magazine
ABOUT MARRYING JAKE GYLLENHAAL
When Mel, late 30’s, single, broke and desperate, buys into her Jewish mother’s fantasy that she and Jake Gyllenhaal are bashert, she embarks on a hilarious and heartbreaking reckoning with the bullshit fairy-tales women and girls are expected to believe.
MARRYING JAKE GYLLENHAAL was originally hatched at the Seed&Spark Creative Sustainability Summit where Melissa Center was selected as one of three “hometown heroes” to crack her story with actor/filmmaker Mark Duplass. As Covid-19 halted all live theater, Center and her team pivoted to produce the very first “one night only” live-streamed play inside The Pico, LA.
Center and team then debuted the recorded play at Edinburgh Fringe Digital to rave reviews.
Initially devised as an elaborate ruse to actually marry Jake Gyllenhaal, - after moving from Los Angeles to New York and facing her history of toxic, destructive relationship models - Melissa has revamped the play as a rallying cry to confront the reality of gender-based trauma, and burn down the patriarchal myths that keep women and girls trapped by delusional fantasy.
JOIN US in this most radical new union as we seek Producers & a home, Off-Broadway and beyond!
CREATIVE TEAM
