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Monica Hammond is nominated for BEST ACTRESS in the Miami Web Fest!
Tim Brownson of A Daring Adventure Says:
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Today (Monday) sees the launch of ‘Get A Life Coach’ an online satirical look at Life Coaching.
I have only seen a few clips and quite honestly I laughed my ass off – many Life Coaches will not. In fact 3 or 4 have already told me they are concerned that it will damage an already skeptical public perception about Life Coaching...I have spoken with Monica Hammond who has pretty much done everything related to ‘Get A Life Coach‘ including taking the leading role, and she’s awesome...I don’t think she’s having a dig at me (or you), she’s poking fun at some less than stellar coaches in the same way as Fawlty Towers poked fun at arrogant hotel owners, The Simpsons pokes fun at middle America and The Office at, rather unsurprisingly, office workers.
Broadway World Says:
After performing camera left of such names as Carrie Fisher, Tim Gunn, and Anothony Bourdain, actress Monica Hammond has teamed up with award winning comedian Jenn Dodd, and filmmaker Brendan Mcloughlin to release her new comedy web series 'Get a Life Coach'. The series is about a clueless life coach struggling to make it in the cutthroat world of self-help. Get a Life Coach was an official selection of the inaugural year of the NYC Web Fest, as well as the Brainfarts Film Festival. The first episode of a 7-episode season premieres on YouTube/GetaLifeCoachSeries.com on Monday, January 5th.
Inspired by Ms. Hammond's one-woman show 'Funemployment' about her accomplishment of being laid off 5 times (and at such a young age!), the series examines what it means to be twenty something and having to reinvent yourself yet again. Get a Life Coach features an eclectic array of New Yorkers, ranging from a thrifty weed dealer repelled by Monica's misguided e-blast in episode 'Dealing with Dealing', to a chronically single philanthropist who agrees to befriend a burrito in episode 'Burrito Therapy'.
Monica Hammond is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, with training in improv and sketch comedy writing from the Uprights Citizens Brigade. Ms. Hammond has appeared on networks such as NBC (TODAY Show), ABC opposite Tim Gunn (The Revolution), The Travel Channel (Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations), A&E (Celebrity Ghost Stories as Carrie Fisher), HBO (Traditions), and MTV. Her one-woman show 'Funemployment' debuted at Dixon Place in 2013.
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Mockumentary Web Series ‘Get a Life Coach' Explores Making It In The Cutthroat World of Self Help
Raw Voices Podcast:
When Tim forwarded me Monica Hammond’s podcast request to talk about her new web-serie “Get a Life Coach”, I was far from being excited. Not like him I must say, see I don’t have any Hollywood unfulfilled dreams. No, I was just stuck in my douchey corner. Thinking : ”Here we go again, another one ridiculing coaching without knowing anything about it” Just great, this is exactly what we need. As if we don’t have enough haters bashing coaches, propagating the wrong idea and blindly dismissing an entire profession by calling us a bunch of incompetent con artists. Will we ever be taken seriously? And suddenly, I realised what I was doing…I realised I was just a douchebag that couldn’t laugh at himself. Monica was actually really funny.
This week we are talking to the very funny producer, writer and star of “Get a Life Coach,” the lovely Monica Hammond! Monica is an NYU graduate and New York-based actor, and talks to us about training programs, horrible jobs and creating her own web-based content. Check out the first season of “Get a Life Coach” online at www.getalifecoachseries.com. For more on Monica (and to see her stalk Anthony Bourdain) visit www.monicahammond.com or find her on twitter @monicahammond.
