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Synopsis
Zen loses everything including her marriage, car, and husband and in the midst of the heartbreak, she decides to become a stand-up comedian. When an agent, Jeff Goldstein, notices Zen in the Comedy House and offers to book her on a national tour of comedy houses Zen and her best friend Gail, a widow, are ecstatic and ready to go. That is until Zen’s son, who is autistic, walks off, which results in chaos, the police being called and Zen’s ex husband showing up, all of which Jeff witnesses when he comes to have Zen’s contract for the comedy tour signed.
Bio
MeMe Kelly is a multi-faceted creative artist, who directed, wrote and produced the feature One Night in LA which has screened at notable festivals and was most recently an official selection of the Essence Film Festival. After Essence, MeMe signed a distribution deal and it's been green lit for a streaming platform and will be shared with the world soon. MeMe is in pre-production on its sequel Every Night in LA, a heart-felt, warm family dramedy, whose script received two positive scores, landing it just shy of the top 20% out of 7,831 scripts in the prestigious Academy's Nicholl's Screenwriting contest. MeMe has directed three other short films that have been in notable festivals and has written two television comedy pilots, two feature movies, an hourly dramedy television script, and an hourly dramatic script that she hopes will be produced one day. She's also in pre-production on the Georgia Mae Project Documentary, which raises awareness of the high mortality rates of Black women to breast cancer. She has a B.A. and MFA from the University of California and inherited her "Do Not Stop" spirit from her Mom, who was the first and youngest African American, female Superintendent of a local school district and Director of Military Schools for the Department of Defense.
