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Jason Stuart & Mitch Hara - Nominated for The Spotlight Award for Best Low Budget Series
Jason Stuart - Best Actor in a comedy for the Indie Series Awards - WINNER
Clent Bowers & Pedro Moler - Best Guest Star In A Comedy for the Indie Series Awards
In SMOTHERED Season 2, Our entitled boomer-aged gay couple Randy and Ralph still can't stand each other and still can't afford to get a divorce.
It’s going to take a lot more than the Jewish mafia, harebrained shrinks, and heavy meds to keep them together before they kill each other and everyone else!
Starring:
Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara .
Director:
Acclaimed theatre director Carlyle King is helming this season, making her Television début.
The cast for Season 2 is:
Amanda Bearse,
Linna Carter,
Jasper Cole,
Robert Costanzo,
Ivan Davila,
Nic Few,
Kareem Ferguson,
Armand Fields,
Ellen Gerstein,
Carole Goldman,
Byron Quiros,
Aida Rodriguez,
Jai Rodriguez,
Krishna Smitha,
Samantha Tan,
Karen Tarleton,
Joshua Bardier,
Mercedes Steele,
Nicole Lynn Evans,
Robb Padgett,
Susan Hooper,
DawnMarie Ferrara,
Vasilios Filippakis,
and Carole Ita White.
A bickering gay couple who can't stand each other but can't afford to get divorced.
The "boys" attempt to salvage their hideous relationship in therapy hell.
It's a hysterical, touching, psychotic exploration of love, crashing to bits
like cheap china from the Olive Garden.
It's also a celebration of diversity, Little People, Transsexuals,
Asians, Latin X, Blacks, Whites, Jews, Closet Cases & a fluid dog.
Starring:
Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara .
Director:
Terri Hanauer
The cast for Season 1 is:
Dalia Ali Rajah,
Erik Aude,
Clent Bowers,
Erika Ervin,
Helen Hong,
Scott Krinsky,
Mercedes Steele,
Pancho Moler and Carole Ita White.
Film Festivals SMOTHERED has appeared in:
Cinema Diverse, Hip Hop Film Festival, Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, ARFF Barcelona International Film Festival, Queen Palm International Film Festival, Queer X from REVRY.
Also both Jason Stuart & Mitch Hara were nominated for Best Actor and best digital series for the Queertly Awards and on the list to be nominated for Outstanding Actors & Series for the Emmy Awards.
In addition to the Honorable Mention as Best Comedy Series from the ARFF Barcelona Film Festival.
When you think one of the most prolific character actors, who’s also an outrageous openly gay stand-up comedian, one name comes to mind…. Jason Stuart. As an actor he is best know for his major role as a slave owner in The Birth Of A Nation. Recently he won The Indie Series Award For Best Actor In a Comedy Series for his Amazon comedy series Smothered. Jason has also appeared in the award winning films Tangerine, Love Is Strange, Gia, Kindergarten Cop and Vegas Vacation. He has wowed TV audiences with guest roles on such shows as Goliath, Swedish Dicks, Love (Judd Apatow), Sleepy Hollow, Real Rob, Entourage, The Closer, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, House, Everybody Hates Chris, George Lopez, Will & Grace, Charmed and as “Dr. Thomas" on My Wife and Kids. As a stand up comic he just won the Worldwide Comedy Award for Best LGBTQ Comedian. And you have laughed with him on Gotham Comedy Live, Red Eye, One Night Stand Up, Wisecrack, Comics Unleashed and his own comedy special, Making It To The Middle. His new comedy album I’m The Daddy and I Have Candy and autobiography Shut Up, Im Talking! From CCB Publishing.
Connect with Jason:
Mitch Hara (Actor/Writer/Director)
Raised by speed-freak alcoholics, an experience that shaped his unique voice and eccentric view of the world.
Drugs, cookies and chaos also helped inform his artistic flare.
He escaped to New York City at age 19, when he was invited to join the acclaimed Actors Studio. There, he performed in several plays off-Broadway as well as comedy clubs, Studio 54 and a few rehabs.
While pole dancing on 42nd Street, he was called to L.A. to do a burp-and-it-was-gone pilot, Eddie Dodd with Treat Williams.
He’s guest-starred on numerous series, including a recurring role on ER as Stanley a suicidal mental patient, several pilots and film roles including a snuff-film producer, Latin Jerry in THE ART OF DYING with Wings Hauser.
He scored 11 more indies playing everything from a “Harley-hitman” to a “bipolar nurse.”
Hara’s got a unique talent for infusing humor and humanity into the darkest characters.
He’s written, directed and performed in 5 critically acclaimed plays, winning an “Outstanding Performance” award from Backstage for his portrayal of “Sister Coco Call-Me-Ishmael,” a mental-patient-drag-queen-nun, in The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun.
More recent acting credits include a co-starring role in the pilot I RUN HOT for AMC/Peacock directed by Ilana Glazer and the pilot, “SUNNY’S CLOSET” as TayTay, the gaslighting, scheming, executive assistant.
His short form series, SMOTHERED Season 1, co-written with and co-starring Jason Stuart, went viral on Amazon Prime and voted “Top 10 to Binge.” SMOTHERED Season 2 just dropped on AMAZON, REVRY, YouTube & internationally. The premiere was held at Sony Pictures in the John Singleton theatre.
Mitch is on stage in Hollywood doing his award-winning solo show MUTANT OLIVE 2.0 gaining rave reviews and getting ready to tour NYC, Chicago, London & Edinburgh. Directed by the fabulous Carlyle King, who also directed SMOTHERED Season 2.
Other projects currently in development, include his screenplay, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? a gay Aunty Mame meets Rain Man meets Kramer vs. Kramer (about his relationship with his amazing 11-year-old nephew with Aspergers), the black comedy PARTY TIME (about destiny, annoying angels and cancer) and the TV series version of MUTANT OLIVE, currently called SWEET DREAMS.
He’s also pitching SMOTHERED to studios as a full-on series.
Hara worked, directed or had sex with John Travolta, Maura Tierney, Susan Luccci, Sally Kirkland, John Savage, Angela Lansbury, Doris Roberts, Joe Manganiello, Karen Black, Marlon Wayans, Eliot Glazer, Colton Haynes, and half of NYC.
Mitch says, “I never take ‘no’ for an answer. For me, everything is YES. So ‘no’ is just a slow yes.”
His inner child is alive & well and ready to play!
PHOTOS
PRESS
In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with actors Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara about the second season of their must-watch comedy series “Smothered” currently available on all major streaming services including Amazon, Apple, DirecTV and Revry.
#ILoveGay Today connects with Mitch Hara, originally from Chicago, then NYC with an Off-Broadway stint (including Studio 54), and finally Los Angeles, where he lives now.
EDGE NETWORK MEDIA by Kilian Melloy
"Out Comics Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara Make Feuding Couple Funny on 'Smothered'."
WASHINGTON BLADE Magazine
"Short-form ‘Smothered’ is long on laughs"
Indie sitcom features longtime gay couple who can’t stand each other...
By John Paul King
"Prime Video has renewed Smothered — a comedy that centers on longtime gay couple Ralph (Jason Stuart) and Randy (Mitch Hara) — for a second season, a press release announced."
"Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara are returning for another outing of Amazon Prime's outrageous dark comedy SMOTHERED."
"The comedy team of Jason Stuart & Mitch Hara is breaking all records for the lol indie Comedy series SMOTHERED."
"An In depth interview with Jason Stuart & Mitch Hara on their hit comedy series "Smothered" on Amazon."
"LRM Online’s Gig Patta spoke with actors Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara in creating and starring in the web series. We discussed the origination of the show, writing the scripts, having guest stars, and the future of the series."
"After rave reviews on Amazon, SMOTHERED has created such a buzz it's on everyone's, "The Series To Watch" list, including Daily Xtra, Queertly & iHeartRadio.
Now REVRY makes SMOTHERED available on Apple TV, Samsung, Android TV, ROKU, FIRE TV and global platforms!"
"We started to write it out,” Stuart says. “Then it all came flowing. We knew there would be improv, and it works for us because we know where each other is going."
"Having been in a relationship for either 14 or 22 years (depending on which one of them you ask), whatever Ralph (Jason Stuart) and Randy (Mitch Hara) once felt for one another has gone into hiding, and the romance has long escaped their life together."
"Comedian, actor and star of the Amazon Prime series Smothered calls in to talk about his work, his new book and what it was like being gay and Jewish when he first started out.
About 15 minutes in, his co-star, comedian Mitch Hara joins in on the fun. These guys are hysterical! That takes up the first half of the show."
"Anybody could mistake Jason Stuart and Mitch Hara for a longtime married couple.
The two have an immediate rapport, a rapid-fire banter between them that lends itself toward completing each other’s thoughts, or spontaneous bickering. No wonder, then, that the pair decided to actually play a married couple in the new digital series Smothered."
"Amazon recently debuted an offbeat romantic comedy series titled Smothered about a gay, Jewish middle-aged couple who hate each other but can’t afford to get divorced. The comedy series highlights the occasional bliss, humour and love in the otherwise dysfunctional relationship."
"As written & performed by series creators Mitch Hara and Jason Stuart, Smothered captures the misery and mystery of long-term coupling, and of couples aging together. It’s a very funny look at domesticity gone horribly–and hilariously–sideways."
"With everything that’s happening in the world right now “Smothered” brings much needed comedic relief with a thirty-minute binge session of seven, five-minute episodes of outrageous, irreverent & laugh out loud bliss."
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