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Gay Marriage – The Final Frontier: Sneak a Peek at Jane Espenson’s Husbands

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Published on September 12, 2011

Jane Espenson (executive producer of Battlestar Galactica and Caprica) and co-writer, Brad “Cheeks” Bell, have created a webseries called Husbands, the first marriage equality comedy, which will premiere tomorrow at husbandstheseries.com!

Husbands is the story of a high-profile actor named Cheeks, and a pro baseball player named Brady who wake up after a drunken night in Vegas and realize they’ve gotten married. Not wanting to make the Gay Marriage Movement look bad, they decide to stick out their marriage and see if they, like Tim Gunn, can make it work.

In addition to the writing of the talented Ms. Espenson and the brilliantly creative Cheeks, whose comedy videos on YouTube have made him an internet sensation, there is some top-tier talent attached to this series, including Caprica‘s Alessandra Torresani (as Cheeks’ BFF, Haley), True Blood‘s Sean Hemeon (as Brady), and director Jeff Greenstein, who has written for shows like Friends, Will & Grace, Parenthood, and Desparate Housewives.

Jane Espenson, Cheeks, Jeff Greenstein, Sean Hemeon, and Alessandra Torresani at the Husbands Q&A

The entire team was on hand last night at Meltdown Comics in L.A. giving 100 lucky fans a sneak peek at three 2-minute episodes of Husbands as part of the Nerdist Writers Series. Not only is it hilarious, but it is also really tender and sweet. And if you’ve ever wanted to see Alessandra Torresani drink her face off and stumble around like a young Karen Walker, this is the webseries for you!

Check out the trailer for Husbands below, then check out the World Premiere of Husbands at Streamin’ Garage.


Teresa Jusino fought for marriage equality in New York, then moved to Los Angeles so she could straighten our California. So to speak. She can be heard on the popular Doctor Who podcast, 2 Minute Time Lord, participating in a roundtable on Series 6.1. Her “feminist brown person” take on pop culture has been featured on websites like ChinaShopMag.com, PinkRaygun.com, Newsarama, and PopMatters.com. Her fiction has appeared in the sci-fi literary magazine, Crossed Genres; she is the editor of Beginning of Line, the Caprica fan fiction site; and her essay “Why Joss is More Important Than His ‘Verse” is included in Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them, which is on sale now wherever books are sold! 2012 will see Teresa’s work in two upcoming sci-fi anthologies. Get Twitterpated with Teresa,“like” her on Facebook, or visit her at The Teresa Jusino Experience.

 

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Teresa Jusino was born the day Skylab fell. Coincidence? She doesn't think so. A native New Yorker, Jusino has been telling stories since she was three years old, and she wrote a picture book in crayon in nursery school. However, nursery school also found her playing the angel Gabriel in a Christmas pageant, and so her competing love of performing existed from an early age. Her two great loves competed all the way through early adulthood. She attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she majored in Drama and English Literature, after which she focused on acting, performing in countless plays and musicals in and around New York City, as well as short films, feature length independent films, and the one time she got to play an FBI agent in a PBS thing, which she thought was really cool, because she got to wear sunglasses and a dark suit and look badass. Eventually, producing was thrown into the mix. For four years, she was a company member and associate producer for a theater company called Stone Soup Theater Arts. She also produced a musical in which she also performed at Theater For the New City called Emergency Contraception: The Musical! by Sara Cooper, during which she ended every performance covered in fake blood. Don't ask. After eight years of acting, Jusino decided that she missed her first love – writing – and in 2008 decided to devote herself wholly to that pursuit. She has since brought her "feminist brown person" perspective to pop culture criticism at such diverse sites as Tor.com, ChinaShop Magazine, PopMatters, Newsarama, Pink Raygun, as well as her own blog, The Teresa Jusino Experience (teresajusino.wordpress.com), and her Tumblr for feminist criticism, The Gender Blender (tumblwithteresa.tumblr.com). She is also the editor of a Caprica fan fiction site called Beginning of Line (beginningofline.weebly.com), because dammit, that was a good show, and if SyFy won't tell any more of those characters' stories, she'll do it herself. Her travel-writer alter ego is Geek Girl Traveler, and her travel articles can be followed at ChinaShop while she herself can be followed on Twitter (@teresajusino). Her essay, "Why Joss is More Important Than His 'Verse" can be found in the book Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon By the Women Who Love Them (Mad Norwegian Press). In addition to her non-fiction, Jusino is also a writer of fiction. Her short story, December, was published in Issue #24 of the sci-fi literary journal, Crossed Genres. A writer of both prose and film/television scripts, she relocated to Los Angeles in September 2011 to give the whole television thing a whirl. She'll let you know how that goes just as soon as she stops writing bios about herself in the third person.
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