Cassidy Slaughter-Mason + Poppy Golland
Cassidy Slaughter-Mason (Co-creator, Writer, Actor, Producer):
Cassidy Slaughter-Mason is an actor and writer based in Chicago with collaborations in NYC and LA. In 2022 she won the Jeff Best Actor Award for her work in The Luckiest at Raven Theatre. Her acting career in Chicago includes performing at Goodman, Steppenwolf, and Northlight Theatre. Recent Film and TV credits include: All Happy Families, Chicago Fire, Mixtape and Easy. She writes for both theater and film with productions and short films produced in LA, NYC and Chicago. Along with Poppy Golland, she is a founding member of the experimental theatre company One Year Chekhov (2013-2020). In 2023 she and Poppy started a production company (KISSA productions LLC) and Rabbit Rabbit is their inaugural project in collaboration with Thank You Baby Productions, based in LA. In 2018 her web-series pilot episode (Exquisite Corpse) was produced through OTV.
Poppy Golland (Co-creator, Writer, Actor, Producer):
Poppy Golland (she/her/hers) is an actor, writer, artist and member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 476. Her most recent credits include key onset for props department on The Bear S4 for FX. Her acting credits include Chicago Fire and Chicago PD, and various indie films. She grew up in Northern California acting in community theater, film, and commercials. She has a diverse background working in scenic design and painting in theater and television, as well as mural and visual fine art.
Rabbit Rabbit
It’s June 24th, 2022. Eeva (Poppy Golland) wakes up from her ordinary abortion procedure and remembers that earlier today SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade. Dr. Robbie (Amy Morton) and Nurse Angela (Echaka Agba) manage the surge of calls at the clinic. Eeva’s best friend, Baby (Cassidy Slaughter-Mason), watches a soap opera on the waiting room TV. She fixates on the couple at the center of the drama--Soap Opera Woman (J. Nicole Brooks) and Soap Opera Man (Travis Knight). The plot thickens as Soap Opera Man goes to pull the cord on Soap Opera Woman who is in a coma and hooked up to life-giving machines. But why is Baby so obsessed with it? Could it have to do with her compartmentalization of her own abortion a year ago? Mel (Owais Ahmed), the penis behind Eeva’s pregnancy, arrives with half the abortion cost. He’s been ghosting Eeva for weeks. He’s also late for an audition. As he leaves, Eeva and Baby use the cash he brought to get a cab home. Eeva and Baby are guilted into attending their other best friend, Al’s (Debo Belogun) new girlfriend’s birthday party. They haven’t met her yet, but Al insists it’s important they come. Antisocial Baby doesn’t want to go. Restless Eeva is determined to go. But why? Is she secretly hoping to run into Mel? Al’s girlfriend, Bowie (Gloria Imseih Petrelli) is brilliant, funny, and causes friction between Eeva and Baby. Bowie talks about the protests today, Eeva talks about her abortion, but avoidant Baby would rather drink gasoline than talk about abortions and protests right now. She slips out of the bar as Mel shows up. The night dissolves into chaos as Al proposes to Bowie, Eeva confronts Mel, and Soap Opera Man appears as Baby’s new imaginary friend. Through flashbacks, trampoline jumping, and emotional disclosures, both Eeva and Baby face their pasts in order to reclaim their potential. Based on our own abortion experiences, the film explores the ambivalent feelings this life-saving procedure can evoke, and the communities that help ground you as your rights are threatened.
Surreal Comedy Short
While Rabbit Rabbit is inspired by our personal abortion experiences, we believe the future and (sometimes obfuscated) history of reproductive justice is collective and intersectional. OTV feels like an ideal home for this work - not only because of our alignment with your mission and community, but because of the work OTV has done to re-enforce independent artists through shared resources, values and collective action.