Ovation Award Winning Actress Announces New Character Comedy "GET
LOST! With Sarah Cornell"
LOS ANGELES,
Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -
Sarah Cornell, known for her
Broadway portrayal of "Ulla" in the Mel
Brooks musical comedy "The Producers," will play an
amplified version of herself as a scatter-brained tour guide with a
cable access travel show, on her new original comedy web series
"GET LOST! With Sarah Cornell."
"The character is based on my own flawed sense of direction,"
said Cornell, winner of the 2010 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award
for Best Supporting Actress in a Stage Musical for "The Producers."
"I always thought I'd make a frustrating tour guide. It's quirky
and fun! I don't know where I am…and neither will you."
Cornell is co-writing the series with Star Search winning comedian, Tracey MacDonald. The series will be directed by
Sarah Hamblin, produced by Mo' Easy
Productions and appear on FunnyOrDie.com in 2013.
"Sarah Cornell is one of the most
inspired comedic actors I've ever had the pleasure to work with,"
MacDonald said. "Writing for her is easy because she can take
anything and make it funny!"
Cornell created the character who appears in a Canadian National
commercial campaign for Quaker Harvest Crunch. Renowned director
Miguel Arteta directed the campaign,
paying Cornell ACTRA triple scale rates to star in the
commercials.
Cornell will appear in the upcoming television special of the
Winnipeg Comedy Festival. It will
broadcast on the CBC in Canada and
on Spike TV in the U.S. in 2013. The show will be
hosted by Shannon Tweed and features
Cornell performing her celebrated impressions of Paris Hilton and Björk.
In 2009, Cornell was one of three women applicants
selected from a pool of thousands to be given an exclusive audition
for "Saturday Night Live" with Primetime Emmy winning producer
Lorne Michaels.
Cornell starred in the short film "Planet Sun" which was
selected for screening out of 5,000 submissions at the 2010
Slamdance Film Festival.
In 2007, Cornell starred as "Annie/Shelly" in "Evil Dead
the Musical" at the Diesel Playhouse in Toronto, which earned her a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination.
Next up, Cornell will star as a mail order bride in "From Russia
With Love," a feature comedy she wrote and will produce.
SOURCE Sarah Cornell