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Comedy Web Series Shot This Summer in Prospect-Lefferts Premieres This Week

 Actors Rohana Kenin, left, and Laura Frenzer, right, play
Actors Rohana Kenin, left, and Laura Frenzer, right, play "exaggerated versions" of themselves, Julie Dooling and Karma Kaufman-Castro, in a new comedy series they created, "47 Secrets to a Younger You."
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Sean Elias-Reyes

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A new comedy web series created and shot in the neighborhood this summer by a pair of locals will be released online starting this week, its creators said.

The show, “47 Secrets to a Younger You,” is the first series created by Prospect-Lefferts Gardens residents and actors Laura Frenzer and Rohana Kenin, who made the semi-autobiographical show about working motherhood and not-so-graceful aging — or, “exaggerated versions” of themselves, they told DNAinfo this spring before filming began.

With an 18-person cast, a couple dozen crew members and cadre of volunteers, the pair shot the six-episode first season in a “tight” nine-day period this summer, Kenin said. They filmed for the most part in the neighborhood with scenes on local streets, in Prospect Park and at the Bluebird Cafe on Flatbush Avenue where a huge chunk of the show is set, though you may not know it.

“They have a downstairs bar, a main bar and then an outside eating area, so we could use those to look like we were in three different places,” Kenin said. “We really had to use it economically.”

Actors Laura Frenzer, left, and Rohana Kenin, right, play "exaggerated versions" of themselves, Julie Dooling and Karma Kaufman-Castro, in their new comedy series "47 Secrets to a Younger You." Photo credit: Uncommon Wombat Productions.

The first two episodes of the show will be released on the 47 Secrets to a Younger You YouTube page at 10 a.m. on Thursday. New episodes will be released every two weeks after the premiere, on Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Oct. 29 and Nov. 12.

The project was a long time coming for friends Kenin and Frenzer, who both have years of acting and producing experience, but had never written and shot a complete series from beginning to end before. To help get it off the ground, the pair successfully fundraised $18,000 online and put in a big chunk of change themselves.

“For a long time, we had this idea and we finally wrote it,” Frenzer said. “I’m just so glad that we took that step to say ‘We can do this.’ It felt daunting and it was a big project to take on, but we just took that first step.”

And the ‘47 Secrets’ creators are not stopping at season one.

“We have some ideas for a second season already,” Frenzer said. “We’d like, absolutely, to do it again.”