Kim Jong Funner out of Hiding, a Few Blocks Over, in Primetime
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Nicholas Caprio presents, in association with the World Premiere of Kim Jong Funner Out of Hiding, A Few Blocks Over, In Primetime Directed by Todd Milliner and Nick Peet Produced by Michael C. Kricfalusi, Todd Milliner, Nick Peet Rebecca Eisenberg, Jason Moyer Sound and Stage Managed by Lights by Rebecca Eisenberg* Matthew Brian Denman with (in alphabetical order) Mary Buckley, John Colella*, Tamara Lynn Davis, Nathan Frizzell, Reamy Hall*, Jon Klaft, Marco Martinez, Jason Moyer, Justin O’Connor, Bobby Quinn Rice, Kelly Schumann, Michael Tauzin* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The photographing, videotaping or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. CAST (Alphabetical) MARY BUCKLEY MARCO ANTONIO MARTINEZ JOHN COLELLA* JASON MOYER TAMARA LYNN DAVIS JUSTIN O’CONNOR NATHAN FRIZZELL BOBBY QUINN RICE REAMY HALL* KELLY SCHUMANN JON KLAFT MICHAEL TAUZIN* PRODUCTION TEAM TODD MILLINER Director/Producer NICK PEET Director/Producer NICHOLAS CAPRIO Executive Producer REBECCA EISENBERG* Producing Director/Executive Producer/Producer/Stage Manager MICHAEL C. KRICFALUSI Executive Director/Executive Producer/Producer MICHAEL MATTHEWS Co-Artistic Director/Executive Producer MICHAEL A. SHEPPERD Co-Artistic Director/Executive Producer MICHAEL O’HARA Managing Director/Executive Producer NATHAN FRIZZELL Literary Director/Executive Producer MATT HOWARD Graphic Designer *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. CELEBRATION THEATRE MISSION Celebration Theatre is a community of artists dedicated to presenting innovative, provocative and relevant work that examines the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer experi- ence. We endeavor to challenge society’s perception of the community and give a vibrant voice to its evolving identity. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@celebrationthtr) SUPPORT CELEBRATION THEATRE THROUGH INDIEGOGO Our new Indiegogo campaign has launched with some amazing perks at all donor levels. Check out the campaign by clicking on the Indiegogo logo for VIP packages, Celebrity Voicemail Messages and more! Check out upcoming programs for donor acknowledgment. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/celebration-theatre-at-the-lex#/story Celebration Theatre is a founding member of the Purple Circuit Theatre Network. For infor- mation on other groups LGBT productions, visit www.buddybuddy.com/pc.html 2 CAST Mary John Tamara Lynn Nathan Buckley Colella* Davis Frizzell Reamy Jon Marco Antonio Jason Hall* Klaft Martinez Moyer Justin Bobby Quinn Kelly Michael O’Connor Rice Schumann Tauzin* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 3 CAST BIOS MARY BUCKLEY (Company) Mary is happy to be working again with all these funny people. Recent credits include “Hot In Cleveland”, “Space Hospital” webseries and a short film called For Rent that was featured at Cannes Film Festival. Thanks to Todd & Michael and Celebration Theatre for making a new home. JOHN COLELLA (Company) John is grateful to be working with Celebration, Todd, Nick and this talented ensemble again! He recently produced and acted in Niagara Falls at Theatre of NOTE where he is also a new company member. Other theatre credits include: Pinot Noir loving, Miles, in Sideways, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, It’s Just Sex, Revolver, Kim Jong Fun, Italian American Reconciliation, Faithful, & Lobby Hero. TV & Film: “Silicon Valley”, “Extant”, “Hot In Cleveland”, “Instant Mom”, “Parks & Recreation”, “Criminal Minds”, Hotel Noir, Girl Walks Into A Bar, & The Chicago 8. JohnColella.com TAMARA LYNN DAVIS (Company) Tamara is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where she did very serious theater and studied Suzuki technique. Since moving to LA she has dropped Shakespeare for comedy. This summer she participated in the Hollywood Fringe Festival in the show The 7th Annual One Man Show World Championships. The show was nominated for Top of Fringe and Best Comedy! She has also been on your TV a few times as a waitress (“Hot In Cleveland”) and one glorious time as a mermaid (“How I Met Your Mother”). NATHAN FRIZZELL (Company) This is Nathan’s 7th- or 8th (maybe 9th)- show with this crazy group of folks. When not referring to himself in the 3rd person, Nathan often can be found referring to himself in the 2nd person. I really hope you like this show. I mean, I have put a lot of work into it. If you don’t, you could at least pretend you do and laugh. Loudly. That would be nice of you.www.nathanfrizzell.com REAMY HALL (Company) Reamy is excited to be in her first show at Celebration!!! She just finished a sold out run as an actor/producer of Niagara Falls at Theatre of Note (Company member). She has also recently completed a successful run in It’s Just Sex (Broadway World Nomination). Other L.A. theatre: Best of The L.A. Cafe Plays, Faithful, Cloud Cuckooland, Welcome to the Moon, Playboy of the Western World and Aven’U Boys. TV: “Castle”, “Chas- ing Life”, “Criminal Minds”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “General Hospital:Night Shift”, “The Game”, “Strong Medicine”, “NYPD Blue”, (Recurring) “Philly” and “Passions”. FILM: Girl Walks into a Bar, Bowfinger, Life, Scorched, and Ringmaster. She holds a BFA from The Theatre School/ DePaul University and has run her own successful Pilates studio for over 20 years. JON KLAFT (Company) Jon is thrilled to be performing in his second sketch show at Celebration Theatre. Jon spent five years as an on-air radio DJ in his hometown of Detroit, MI before relocating to New York City to pursue a career as an actor. Now living in Los Angeles, Jon is involved in the improv scene at The Second City in Hollywood and is a member of Fred Willard’s MoHos sketch group. Early next year, Jon can be seen in the feature film, National Lampoon’s Snatched. 4 CAST BIOS (cont’d) MARCO ANTONIO MARTINEZ (Company) Marco was a member of the Roadside Theater in Heidelberg, Germany and attended the Rose Bruford College of Performing Arts in London, England. He has guest appeared on several television shows including “The West Wing”, “House M.D”. and “Castle”, to name a few. In 2011, he was hired by Forest Whitaker, to serve as Mr. Whitaker’s personal dialect coach on the feature film Catch .44. Marco has performed stand-up comedy and starred opposite Billy Dee Williams in the FunnyorDie.com sponsored, “The Most Interesting BLACK Man in the World”. JASON MOYER (Company/Producer) Jason really wanted to write something funny here. In fact, this sentence you are reading right now, had to be typed 10 times, because he kept deleting the previous sentence for fear that it wasn’t funny enough. Things like “Jason is the type of guy who likes to sip champagne while watching a sunset,” “Jason likes to run wild in a rainstorm,” or “Jason enjoys playing mahjong while drinking a Tequila Sunrise” had all been a sentence in this bio before they were deleted. But Jason thought better of it because, not only are those things ridiculous, but they are also true and Jason thought people might not realize that he was just being cute. www.thejasonmoyer.com JUSTIN O’CONNOR (Company) Justin is doing his 8th Sketch Show and we all know that after your 8th sketch show, you get a network sitcom. Since the last show, Justin has been successfully performing and improvising comedy for his 2 year old son, Oliver. Sadly, none of this writing will be seen in tonight’s show. Apparently, there is no room for extreme dancing and fart noise scenes which kill with the 2 year old demographic. Thanks to Susana for letting me sneak away for rehearsals. BOBBY QUINN RICE (Company) Bobby came from Colorado to study comedy at the Groundlings, I.O. West, and ACME comedy theaters. He performs improv and sketch comedy around the Los Angeles Area. Bobby has won awards for both comedy and theatrical per- formances working in film, tv, and for online comedic content. He has written and worked in sketch for NBC, Funny or Die, and recently “The Worlds Best Impressionist” with Dana Carvey. Go Denver Broncos KELLY SCHUMANN (Company) Kelly is excited to be back with Todd in the sketch show. Her previous Celebration credits include Leah in Beautiful Thing, Kimberly in Stupid Kids, Linda in What’s Wrong With Angry? and three previous sketch shows, Bar Tricks and Other Human Feats, Five Finger Discount and Kim Jong Fun!. TV credits include “Bones”, “The Mentalist”, “American Horror Story: Asylum”, and Kelly was a recurring character on TVLand’s “Hot In Cleveland” starring Betty White. MICHAEL TAUZIN (Company) Michael is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a BA in theatre. Regional theatre credits include The Bacchae, Beautiful Thing, Snoopy!!! The Musical, Master Harold...and the Boys, Haram Iran, and Very Still and Hard to See. He also works in TV and film. Michael would like to thank the cast and crew for another ridiculous sketch show. 5 CREW BIOS TODD MILLINER (Director/Producer) This is Todd Milliner’s Eighth sketch show at Celebration. Todd hails from Chicago where he worked and taught at The Second City. Todd formed Hazy Mills Productions with Sean Hayes in 2003. Currently Todd is the executive producer of “GRIMM” (NBC) “Crowded” (NBC) and the recently wrapped (after six seasons: “Hot In Cleveland” (TVLAND) which debuted to the largest basic cable comedy audience in history. Also Todd produces the NBC Game Show hosted by Jane Lynch “Hollywood Game Night,” and the Cedric the Entertainer comedy, “The Soul Man.” Todd also produced the Ovation-nominated production of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out in 2011 for Celebration Theatre. NICK PEET (Director/Producer) Nick graduated from Bard College with a concentration in Film Production.