Current Notices as of July 19, 2010 LUNCH LIVE! Manhattan Theatre Club (Rehearsal Studios) 311 W. 43rd Street, 8th Floor (between 8th and 9th Avenues) 7/28/10 at 1:00PM and 7:00PM 7/29 at 1:00PM 8/9 at 7:00PM 8/11 at 1:00PM 8/12 at 1:00PM Pamela Scott's brilliant Lunch Live! series returns this year featuring 26 actors, including many graduates from the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts training program. Two completely different sets of actors performing an invigorating variety of scenes designed to show off their skills can be seen at lunchtime every other week from the end of July through the 2nd week of August. Two evening performances have also been added those weeks for industry that can’t attend during the daytime. This year's potpourri of talent includes lots of 20 something actors and an intriguing mix of multi-ethnic talent. Conveniently located in the heart of Midtown, Lunch Live! is a pleasant way for agents, casting offices and managers to watch top new and seasoned talent work in one fast paced hour while enjoying an excellent free lunch (or succulent evening snacks) provided by Ms. Scott. Versatile producer Pamela Scott is a director, playwright, actress, teacher at AADA, T. Schreiber Studio and Artistic Director of the Aching Dogs Theater Company. An Actors Scene Night (Showcase) The Barrow Group 312 W 36th Street, 3rd Floor - Studio Theater 8/9 at 7:30PM 8/11 at 7:30PM Paul Le Mos, a gifted teacher, actor and screenwriter who was once a favorite student of his mentor, Sandy Meisner now uses Meisner’s superb method technique to get the most out of his actors. Nine of Paul’s top actors will perform in these scene night showcases of riveting drama and wild comedy. The group features an interesting range of talent (some multi-ethnic and actors of color) who are mostly in their 20s. with film, television, commercial and theatre backgrounds. Scared Skinny Tom Noonan’s Paradise Factory 64 E. 4th Street (between 2nd Ave. and Bowery) 14th Annual New York Fringe Festival 8/13 at 7:00PM 8/14 at 3:00PM 8/15 at 5:00PM 8/17 at 9:30PM 8/19 at 9:30PM 8/21 at 5:00PM As a flabby, funny and fearful kid growing up in a dysfunctional Italian American family from Queens, Mary Dimino’s sausage and pepper sandwich lunches made her stand out from her peers, but so did her mother’s fear that playing in a sandbox could give her venereal disease. Still dictated by bizarre fears and body issues at age 26, she finally attempted to fulfil the prophecy foretold to her by her Quigi board at age 8; that she would one day be thin. Now one hundred and 15 pounds later Mary invites you to come laugh your fat off as she tells the hilarious and perilous journey behind her remarkable accomplishment. Scared Skinny is written by and stars 2010 MAC Award Winning Comedienne and actress, Mary Dimino who also won the 2008 Gracie Allen Award for her PBS Documentary, Fat, What No One is Telling You. Her many television appearances include The Today Show, The Chris Rock Show, Comedy Central’s The Graham Norton Effect and New York Undercover. Produced by Small Pond Entertainment, the show will be directed by Lisa Milinazzo whose credits include.Rattlestick, H.B. Playwrights’s Foundation, Capital Repertory and Fleetwood Stage. Protected Connelly Theatre 220 E. 4th Street (between Avenues A and B) 14th Annual New York Fringe Festival 8/13 at 9:15PM 8/14 at 2:30PM 8/15 at 9:45PM 8/26 at 2:00PM 8/27 at 2:00PM Former New York City accountant, Langley Peterson, protected his mafia clients and used his big salary to protect his wife from a horrifying illness. Now enrolled in the Witness Protection Program, he’s been trained to assume another identity and sent to Albuquerque, New Mexico. What he hasn’t prepared for are an obsessive compulsive female neighbour with a phobia for germs and an overly welcoming male co-worker that moonlights as a drag queen; each of whom, like Langley, have something to hide. Through the lens of the Witness Protection Program, Protected examines the fears and phobias Americans living in a post 9/11 world. Critically acclaimed writer-director, Timothy Scott Harris is the author of The Adventures of Captain Neat-o Man (published by S. French) and a founding member of the Drama Project, as well as former Artistic Director of the WorkShop Theater through 2009. The cast features Dee Dee Friedman* (Nat’l Tour: Lost in Yonkers, Off-Bway: Beau Jest), Cam Kornman* (Demon Bitch Goddess), Jeff Paul* (Moonlight and Love Songs), Bill Tatum* ( Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and Matt Walker* ( The Elephant Man-Arkansas Rep). *(Members of Actor’s Equity). Picking Palin Connelly Theatre 220 E. 4th Street (between Avenues A and B 14th Annual New York Fringe Festival 8/13 at 5:00PM 8/18 at 1:30PM 8/21 at 9:45PM 8/25 at 9:30PM 8/28 at 12:00 Noon As the 2008 Democratic National Convention plays on television, four top Republican strategists meet to discuss who will accompany their candidate, 72 year old John Mc Cain, in the race for President. With Obama gaining momentum in the swing states and the country weary of George Bush, their choice is crucial. So how is it that they come up with Sarah Palin, a Walmart Mom from Alaska whose only recorded policy as Governor of that state was for oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge? Can the young and attractive Palin provide the “star-power” required to put the Republicans across in a close election, or is she just “George Bush in drag”? Simultaneously suspenseful, humorous, and insightful, Picking Palin portrays a riveting debate between image verses merit, the outcome of which was arguably the Republican party’s Achilles heel in their desperate battle to regain the confidence of the American people. Writer-director Stephen Padilla is an award winning filmmaker whose feature film The Little Things won top honors at domestic and international film competitions. His latest feature, Kisses Chloe will be screened in New York in the fall. The cast includes Bill Timony (Principal Role: Alfred Vanderpool in All My Children, Off-Broadway: The Irish Curse), Stephen Gleason (Henry’s Crime with Vera Famiga and Keanu Reeves), Keith Herron (Accidental Repertory Theater) and Judy Pollack (Women and Wallace). back to top
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