Arts & Entertainment
Screening of 'Broke AF' TV Pilot Set for Wednesday Oct. 30
The Event will Feature Stars Johnny Austen, Bonnie McMahan, Brandon Joseph and Others!
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Producers Maegan McConnell and Heather Wood will host a screening of their situation comedy pilot “Broke AF” to be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Altadena Ale House, 2329 Fair Oaks Ave, Altadena, CA 91001.
The event, which is open to the public, will feature cast members Bonnie McMahan, Maegan McConnell, Johnny Austen, Brandon Joseph and Mark Bramhall along with other notables who are scheduled to attend.
“I’m very excited to be a part of this project from these two very talented producer/creators,” Austen said. “I play Drew, an unemployed mall Santa with big ambitions to be a professional gamer, although he is too lazy to make that happen, he’s a very fun character to play.”
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The pilot follows the story of Molly and Addy, two best friends who try to tackle the challenges of love, work and the uniqueness of simply living in Los Angeles.
“I’m very excited to be a part of this project from these two very talented producer/creators,” Austen said. “I play Drew, an unemployed mall Santa with big ambitions to be a professional gamer, although he is too lazy to make that happen, he’s a very fun character to play.”
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In order to play the lovable loser Drew, Austen drews on his stage experience where he played a variety of dramatic and sometimes quirky characters with a penchant for drama and occasional humor.
The story for the pilot comes from real life drama, McConnell said. “It was late summer and our agent had asked us to write another comedy pilot, but when we’d pitched our ideas, he shot them all down (he wasn’t wrong). ‘Write what you know,’ he said. We’d spent the morning at Heather’s place, licking our wounds and trying to drum up ideas,” she recalled. “We stepped out for a break and immediately became embroiled in a situation involving the police, Heather’s 84-year-old landlord and his 48-year old ex-girlfriend. Everything turned out okay, but we learned something: Everybody (including us) is living their story right now, all the time. ‘Broke AF’ came from that.”