HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr
Heather Massie
New York, NY
A True Story of Hollywood Glamour & Scientific Genius!
Hedy Lamarr, glamorous siren of the silver screen and ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in the World’, also invented Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Technology that makes the world of wireless communication tick. From Austria to Hollywood, WWII, torpedoes, ecstasy, and intrigue to the very cell phone in your pocket, she was there!
Category: Solo Performance
Tags: Science, Comedy, Drama
Rating: PG-13 (13+)
Venue: Art Academy – Room 204 (A204)
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Artist Bio
Fulbright Specialist and NYC Artist, Heather Massie brings her 22x Award-Winning, Internationally Acclaimed show to Cincy! With dreams of becoming an astronaut, she studied Astrophysics before studying Theatre Arts. She now marries her loves of art and science in “HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr” which premiered Off Broadway in 2016 and has toured throughout the US, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Ukraine, and Iceland. “Captivating” – The Huffington Post.
Past Fringe Credits
Festival History: “HEDY! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr”
2022 PortFringe – Portland, ME
2022 FinFringe – Turku, Finland
2021 Lucido’s Festival “Extraordinary Women” – Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
2021 Reykjavík Fringe Festival – Iceland – US Embassy Iceland Grant Award, Character Actor Award, & Maine Award
2021 National Arts Festival – Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa – virtual from Iceland
2020 PRO.ACT Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine – Best Performance Award
2019 RedFest, Rural Education Festival – Limpopo Province, South Africa
2019 OnStage! Festival – Rome, Italy
2018 Scranton Fringe – Scranton, Pennsylvania
2018 New York New Works