Roseland|ROSE & the end of the world   

Rose, a delusional, drug-addled nobody, desperately chases big fame before the end of days. A comedy.

Rose, relaxing one night after a standard bout of partying, discovers that the world will imminently be ending. Terrified, she decides she must flee New York and her lifelong dream of being somebody. Running madly around the city, she hits up family, employers, and lovers on a madcap dash for $$$ and security. Will she get it? Leave New York City? Or chase her dreams as the world burns? 

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Rose wants what every twenty-something in New York City wants: love, success, money — and unlimited cocaine. Also to be the most beautiful, the richest, the most desired, the thinnest, and the most envied. 

Rose is none of these things. 

She is, in actuality, a hopeless layabout with a more-than-minor coke habit and no discernible talent, long on grandiosity and short on any conceivable means of accomplishing anything. 

Then one night she gets the news — from her TV, TMZ and Siri — that the world is ending. Rose has been chosen as the “one who knows” that the apocalypse is coming. (Or, more likely, she’s just hallucinating.)

Will she run like hell from NYC and hole up in some pinko survivalist community? Or finally manifest what she’s always known in her heart — and from her astral chart — was her birthright: the bright lights of fame.

Helping Rose along the way is JR, her best friend and roommate, her cooler-than-thou girlfriends (more rivals than bosom buddies), her sometime-employer Mitchell and his insane daughter Dudley, a menagerie of useless guys Rose is hopelessly in love with, and, most importantly, her drug dealer Sal — along with a constant coterie of people who want to sleep with her desperately.

Curb Your Enthusiasm meets Citizen Ruth for the Brooklyn coke set, Rose & the End of the World is an unflinchingly honest single-camera comedy following Rose as she careens through the seedy fringes of New York City from one hysterical misadventure to another. Funny, sexy and tragic, Rose & the End of the World is a show befitting the end of everything.

As the apocalypse approaches — and, more importantly, as she exits her twenties — time is running out on Rose’s shot at big young fame. Will she stumble into the life she dreams of, or come to from a blackout on the L train like always? Will she gets what she needs, or die trying? 

Mired in the sewage side of New York City, Rose & the End of the World traverses the awful back byways of the tragically hip and recently irrelevant, a world of themed after-hours speakeasies, ever the next-big-thing event happenings, and decrepit warehouses on the outskirts of the city, peopled with forgotten party girls, avant-garde gays, hygiene-abhorrent lotharios, and self-styled cultural mavens clawing for their fifteen seconds of internet fame.