Tucson: Etcetera presents THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW at LTW.

From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:rumspringaandcoke@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 4:01 PM
Subject: Etcetera presents THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW at LTW.

 

Contact: Christopher Johnson

Artistic Director of Etcetera,

the late night series at Live Theatre Workshop

(520) 425-4163 | RumspringaAndCoke@gmail.com

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Etcetera, the late night series at Live Theatre Workshop, proudly presents

THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW

By Christopher Johnson

Directed by Leslie J. Miller

Featuring Christopher Johnson, Kristi Loera and Danielle Dryer

 

August 5-21

Opening Night Performance, Thursday, August 5 at 7:30 PM

All other performances Friday and Saturday Nights at 10:30 PM

Tickets $10 at the Box Office

To make your reservation call (520) 327-4242

For more information go to www.EtceteraLateNight.com

LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP - 5317 E. Speedway | Tucson, AZ 85712

Located on the North side of Speedway between Rosemont and Craycroft

 

This production contains strong adult language and content. No one under 16 admitted.

 

SYNOPSIS:

                An autobiographical memory play written and performed by the author, THE EATING DISORDER TALENT SHOW chronicles his misadventures in growing up gay, bulimic and bipolar in the American Theatre. Hilariously tragic and painfully hopeful, this honest and sometimes extremely ugly look at how hard it can be to stomach a chaotic and abusive childhood examines the roots of addiction and sexuality in a time when mental health physicians are handing out prescription drugs like Halloween candy.

 

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON - Christopher / Playwright - is the Artistic Director of Etcetera, the late night series at Live Theatre Workshop - where he has directed Killer Joe, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, The Importance Of Being Earnest, I Wrote This Play To Make You Love Me, The Penis Monologues, Savage In Limbo, Bug, Old Pueblo Playwrights: UNBOUND, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Titus Andronicus. Notable roles with Etcetera include The Narrator (Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show), Hedwig (Hedwig & The Angry Inch - for which he was nominated for a 2009 MAC Award for Best Actor) and CB (Dog Sees God: Confessions Of A Teenage Blockhead). Johnson is making his full-length playwrighting debut with The Eating Disorder Talent Show, which was workshopped at Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre (2007). Christopher’s shorter one-man plays, Mistaken Nakedness and Beforeskin, were featured in the Etcetera production of The Penis Monologues (2008). Christopher has performed with Winding Road Theatre Ensemble, Invisible Theatre, Brachiate Theatre Project, 1984 Theatre, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre and Tucson Community Theatre / Shakespeare Under The Stars. He can next be seen directing the upcoming Etcetera production of Robots Vs. Fake Robots.

 

KRISTI LOERA - Mother - has previously appeared with Etcetera in Killer Joe (Sharla), The Penis Monologues (Ensemble), Bug (Agnes) and Fuddy Meers (Mother). A regular on the Mainstage at LTW (where you may have caught her this past season in Picnic, Wife Begins at Forty, The Unexpected Guest and as the title character in The Housekeeper), Kristi is Live Theatre Workshop’s Executive Director. For Etcetera, Kristi recently co-choreographed Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, directed Mr. Marmalade and will next be seen performing in The Little Dog Laughed.

 

DANIELLE DRYER - Sister - has previously performed with Etcetera as The Cactus (Mr. Marmalade), Riff Raff (The Rocky Horror Show), Roberta (Danny and the Deep Blue Sea), Token Dyke (The Importance Of Being Earnest), Cat (Kitty Kitty Kitty), Yitzhak (Hedwig and the Angry Inch - for which she received a 2009 MAC Award nomination for Best Actress), April (Savage In Limbo), R.C. (Bug), Tybalt (Romeo & Juliet), The Dolphin Masturbator (Old Pueblo Playwrights: UNBOUND) and Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). For Etcetera, Danielle has directed Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, and Sweet Eros. In 2008, Danielle graduated from The University of Arizona with a degree in Art History. She can next be seen with Etcetera as Nintendo 64 in Robots Vs. Fake Robots.

 

LESLIE J. MILLER - Director - is making her Etcetera debut directing this production of The Eating Disorder Talent Show, which she also helped to workshop through the final draft with the playwright. For the mainstage at Live Theatre Workshop Leslie has directed The Clean House, The Unexpected Guest, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Inspecting Carol and Beau Jest. Leslie can next be seen with Etcetera performing in the upcoming staged reading of The House of Yes. Before coming to LTW Leslie was Artistic Director of Catalina Players in Tucson and recently directed The Language of Flowers for the Old Pueblo Playwrights 2010 New Play Festival.

 

 

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