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Mini desire
Shauna Perlman and Julie Oh went from to after the Tony Awards rite in 2014, then shaped a date carefully.
By Rosalie R. Radomsky
Shauna Lauren Perlman and Julie Sujin Oh were in a family apartment when they passed the 2014 Tony Awards rite at Manhattan Radio City Music Hall.
“Or we were in paint mode, but we had to let the background noise disappear as we engaged in a warm and genuine conversation,” said Perlman, then a New York skills agent, who now focuses on representing actors at the Creative Artists Agency. in Los Angeles He graduated from Northwestern.
Ms. Perlman, 33, was at the Tonys with her clients, while Ms. Oh (left), 32, was there as part of her job as vice president of production and progression at the former Weinstein Company. He is now a film maker, racing in Manhattan in the netflix music drama directed through Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Tick, Tick. . . Boom! He graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
She and Ms. Perlman had met on screenings and occasions in the months leading up to the Tonys, and had at one point exchanged numbers. Perlman texted Ms. Oh after the June 8, 2014 exhibition of her meeting with her and her father, Lee H. Perlman, who is a board member of the American Theatre Wing, at the subsequent party at the Plaza Hotel.
“All I know is I’ve never met someone as attractive as her, ” said Oh.
After Ms. Perlman’s father left around midnight, they organized a few more parties and finished the night as many did after the afternoon at the Carlyle Hotel.
“Some other people stay till dawn, ” said Mrs. Oh. “We stayed up to four or five hours. “
Later, they shared a message she left to Ms. Perlman in the Flatiron community and then took Ms. Oh to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They stayed in touch the following month.
“It didn’t seem like it could just be romantic, ” said Ms. Perlman, who until then only had men.
Last July, Ms. Perlman, in her brain as a romantic gesture, invited Ms. Oh to screen a film on the Upper West Side. “I didn’t know if it was a date, ” said Mrs. Oh, “but waiting. “
After the film, they all had a glass of wine outdoors at a place to eat across the street from Lincoln Center, and then in a taxi, they kissed their first kiss.
“I was afraid before that, ” said Mrs. Perlman. “Once it happened, I had this feeling of Wow, I made the right decision. “
In April 2016, they moved to TriBeCa together, and about a year and a half later, they moved to Los Angeles when Ms. Perlman began working at the Creative Artists Agency.
In May 2019, Oh used Perlman’s birthday as an excuse to bring her to New York and made the decision to propose an early helicopter trip on the day of her supposed birthday party at the Fleur Room in Chelsea, which turned out to be a perfectly synchronized canopy for an engagement party. Oh, ready for the noisy helicopter flight with a dozen cards that stopped over the Hudson, which led to the last sentence that said, “Do you want to marry me?”
In December, Ms. Perlman proposed a sunset dinner on a beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and they began discussing wedding plans when the pandemic began.
“I’m an excessive introvert and Shauna is an excessive extrovert, ” said Oh. “When we started thinking about the wedding of our dreams, we had other ideas. We had to organize a little wedding rite and she could organize the biggest party. .
They married in August through Rachel Hoffman, deputy civil marriage commission, on the lawn of Santa Barbara City Council in Santa Barbara, California.
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