Concourse Media Acquires Worldwide Sales Rights to Yara Martinez’s Comedy “Good Egg”

Yara Martinez will be eggin’ on audiences across the globe…

Concourse Media has acquired the worldwide sales rights to the 42-year-old Puerto Rican actress’ comedy Good Egg ahead of its premiere at the Bentonville Film Festival this week.

Yara Martinez, Good EggThe film follows a warmhearted schoolteacher, played by Martinez, who inadvertently gets plunged into a dangerous scheme by her suspicious IVF egg donor, played by Andrea Londo. As the adventure ensues, she and her husband, played by Joel Johnstone, must evade criminal captors.

The film was written and directed by Nicole Gomez Fisher and produced by Fisher alongside Dorottya Mathe and Martinez.

The film also stars Priscilla Lopez, Joseph Melendez, and Sharinna Allan, alongside Johnstone, Nick Creegan, Haas Manning and Nicholas Cirillo.

Concourse Media will be presenting the film to select domestic distributors during this week’s Bentonville festival and will launch international sales at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Good Egg is an entertaining and heartfelt film that puts an amusing spin on the complexities of fertility treatment, which millions of families in the US and abroad go through,” said Concourse Media CEO Matthew Shreder. “There’s a large audience out there who will relate to and enjoy this film which we are excited to share with distributors.”

Martinez’s previous credits include Jane the Virgin, Bull and The Tick.

Priscilla Lopez to Star in Broadway Play “Grand Horizons”

It’s a new Horizon for Priscilla Lopez

The 71-year-old Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress has been cast in Broadway’s upcoming Grand Horizonsthe Bess Wohl play to be directed by Leigh Silverman at the Hayes Theatre beginning in December.

Priscilla Lopez

Lopez will star opposite Michael UrieThomas SadoskiAshley Parkand Maulik Pancholyin the play.

The Second Stage Theatre production is set for a strictly limited 10-week engagement, with previews starting December 20 and an official opening on January 23, 2020.

The full creative team includes scenic design and costume design by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Jen Schriever, and sound design by Palmer Hefferan.

Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Wohl’s new comedic play, co-commissioned by Williamstown Theatre Festival and Second Stage Theatre, charts a family’s reaction to the sudden break-up of a 50-year marriage. As described by Second Stage: “Bill and Nancy have spent fifty full years as husband and wife. They practically breathe in unison, and can anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore and sneeze. But just as they settle comfortably into their new home in Grand Horizons, the unthinkable happens: Nancy suddenly wants out. As their two adult sons struggle to cope with the shocking news, they are forced to question everything they assumed about the people they thought they knew best.”

Lopez has appeared on Broadwayin PippinIn the HeightsHollywood/Ukraine and as the original Diana Morales in A Chorus Line, among other productions.