Dark Comedy Aims To Lampoon Park Slope Moms

PARK SLOPE, NY — Yoga pants wearing, wine-swilling, organic produce eating moms from Park Slope will be the center of a new dark comedy series lampooning the neighborhood.

Alexandra Foucard started a campaign earlier this month to raise nearly $15,000 to start filming her series "Park Slope Moms," which parodies the stereotypical stay-at-home mothers wheeling strollers around Seventh Avenue.

"These moms are an amalgamation of moms that I have known and dealt with," said Foucard, a Park Slope mom herself. "I tweaked it a little bit to give it a darker edge."

The series follows four mothers who left their high-profile jobs and moved to Park Slope from Manhattan to raise their kids. Foucard's character, Carley Fuller-Fowler, gets elected president of her child's PTA and sets off to raise $1 million for the school when things take a dark turn.

Foucard, who moved to Park Slope in 2002, first got the idea for the series when she needed to write a monologue for acting class. While walking around the neighborhood, she overheard two moms talking about how to discipline their kids when inspiration struck and she created a character around them.

"I was so excited about this character and this world I thought to myself, 'I want to expand this and find the perfect world to put her in,'" she said.

Foucard, a Broadway actor, teamed with Linda Fiorella to write 10 episodes of the series then got a team of actors, producers and director Anette Marion together to get it off the ground.

They plan to use the money from the online fundraiser to shoot a proof-of-concept with the best scenes from the series then try to pitch it to networks and services to get picked up or release it online.

Despite the series poking fun of Park Slope, Foucard said she's trying to keep production as local as possible by hiring caterers based in the neighborhood and shooting scenes at area businesses.

"We really want to get everyone involved from the ground up," said Foucard. "As crazy and as dark as comedy gets, it's my love letter to Park Slope."

Image courtesy of Alexandra Foucard