Los Angeles based Australians Amanda Worthington-Brown and Katherine Wallace will launch their new web series today on YouTube.
Sessions With My Parents, directed by Taylor Bradley, is set around two lively Australian sisters who move to Los Angeles.
Shortly after arriving in Hollywood, the two sisters have very different, and often hilarious, reactions to the vanity-driven trends of Tinseltown.
The show records their weekly video chats with their guileless parents in Australia.
These sessions showcase the string of hilarious situations in which they find themselves.
Nicole, an over-the-top aspiring actress, tumbles head-first into the many pitfalls that await newly-arrived thespians, all to the amusement of her straight-laced older sister Melanie, who is in LA to attend university.
Over the course of the series, hear the two recount Nicole’s adventures during video chats with their conservative and concerned parents.
Creators of the series, Amanda Worthington-Browne and Katherine Wallace, also star in the show, along with Lyndee-Jane Rutherford, Daz Byard, Tom Carmody and John Montoya.
Sessions With My Parents is presented by The Actors Resource, an online community of actors, by actors, for actors.
Worthington-Browne said both she and Wallace had been confronted at varying point in their careers with with the cliché, hilarious and downright absurd pressures that most actors are faced with in Hollywood.
"We wanted to use the most modern form of communication – video chats – to highlight the hilarity of conveying these pressures to the uninitiated," she said.
"“The series embraces the quirky style of comedy familiar to many Australians in homegrown shows.
“We believe it’s vital to embrace the broader points of view from another culture while keeping our innate Australian identity in the essence of the show.”
Wallace said: "With the rising abundance of veritable roles for women, in what still remains a predominantly male-centric industry with opportunities limited to roles in which women are often props or objects,” she said.
"We saw this as a ripe time to create a series which featured women in comedic lead roles.”