DAN REMMES (writer/director/"Doug Dinkins") is an award-winning, published playwright whose work has featured Emmy-, Obie-, Tony- and Oscar-winning actors. He is best known as the book-writer of the critically acclaimed GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL. As an actor, he's appeared on stages from New York to Los Angeles as well as in film and television, including three of the LAW AND ORDER spinoffs. DanRemmes.com
MIA MORELAND ("Dana Payne-Dinkins") graduated from Bretton Hall College in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and has worked extensively in theatre in the United Kingdom and New York City. Her most recent project as both actor and producer (OPHELIA) was an official selection for the Capital Fringe Festival. She is currently workshopping a feature film scheduled to shoot in the Bay area (GREASEMONKEY).
The Origin of Covid Couple
THE YEAR WAS 2020
The world closed down for a "novel coronavirus." Theaters and film production across the globe shuttered indefinitely.
Frustrated actors, writers and directors turned to the internet, performing plays and skits on the new software platform ZOOM.
Dan Remmes thought it would be fun to "drive into that skid." He wrote a short scene acknowledging the pandemic, with Zoom itself as one of the characters, calling the experiment COVID COUPLE.
Once written and recorded, his friend and costar, Mia Moreland, insisted it wasn't a short scene at all — but the first episode in a more elaborate story.
Frustrated actors, writers and directors turned to the internet, performing plays and skits on the new software platform ZOOM.
Dan Remmes thought it would be fun to "drive into that skid." He wrote a short scene acknowledging the pandemic, with Zoom itself as one of the characters, calling the experiment COVID COUPLE.
Once written and recorded, his friend and costar, Mia Moreland, insisted it wasn't a short scene at all — but the first episode in a more elaborate story.
PERSISTENCE PAYS
The fictional story of Doug and Dana Dinkins developed a story arc over multiple episodes, coinciding with political and medical events playing out in real time.
Among other recognition, COVID COUPLE became a semi-finalist in the San Francisco Independent Short Festival and won an Award of Excellence in the WRPN.TV International Webisode Competition.
Including contemporaneously-coined expressions such as "Covid Cut," "Contactless Delivery" and "Zoom Happy Hour" — and a ninth and final episode shot over four cities and three states — the series now serves as a comic time-capsule of a unique era in modern history.
Among other recognition, COVID COUPLE became a semi-finalist in the San Francisco Independent Short Festival and won an Award of Excellence in the WRPN.TV International Webisode Competition.
Including contemporaneously-coined expressions such as "Covid Cut," "Contactless Delivery" and "Zoom Happy Hour" — and a ninth and final episode shot over four cities and three states — the series now serves as a comic time-capsule of a unique era in modern history.
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Music used in COVID COUPLE courtesyKevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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