Please join us for a screening of OTHER PEOPLE followed by a Q&A with Molly Shannon.
Moderated by Jessica Shaw, EW Morning Live
SYNOPSIS
A struggling comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone (including himself) he’s “doing okay.”
PANELIST BIO
Molly Shannon has become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents on television and the silver screen. Shannon spent six seasons as a member of the repertory company on Saturday Night Live, primarily known for the eclectic characters she created, such as Mary Katherine Gallagher and Sally O’Malley. She is also praised for her parodies of Courtney Love, Liza Minnelli, Monica Lewinsky, and Meredith Vieira. In 2000, she received an Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.” Prior to joining “SNL,” Shannon appeared at The Up Front Comedy Theater in Los Angeles in The Rob and Molly Show, an improvisational show she co-wrote with Rob Muir.
Molly was most recently seen in Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, an independent drama that follows a teenage filmmaker as he befriends a classmate with cancer that also stars Connie Britton, Nick Offerman and Olivia Cooke. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award. Additionally, Molly co-starred in the Wet Hot American Summer miniseries for Netflix. The eight-episode series serves as a prequel to the cult comedy classic film of the same name, which Shannon also starred in. She recently wrapped production on The Greens Are Gone, a drama about a crumbling family that also stars Catherine Keener and Anton Yelchin. Prior to that, she was seen in the American zombie comedy, Life After Beth alongside Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, Anna Kendrick, Cheryl Hines and John C. Reilly.
Molly is currently shooting the highly anticipated HBO comedy, Divorce, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church. Divorce tells the story of a woman who suddenly begins to reassess her life and her marriage, and finds that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought. In addition, she just wrapped the independent feature Other People, an ensemble drama with Jesse Plemons and June Squibb.
Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Molly earned a BFA in drama from New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. She currently lives in California with her husband and two children.
