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May 25, 2017 · 2:37 pm

CFF17: FIGHT FOR 52¢

CFF_Fight for 52 logoFIGHT FOR 52¢
Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival ’17
Coffee Emporium
Over-the-Rhine

Performed by Howard Petrick

V. R. Dunne’s whole life and character had prepared him for the Minneapolis truck drivers strike of 1934. The workers knew him as a good organizer, who smoked union-made cigarettes, was fond of the movies, didn’t get drunk, and was honest. He never raised his voice or wrote someone off without giving them a chance. The men followed his leadership and many of them, if the occasion offered, would be willing to die for him.

  • Wed, May 31 at 7:45pm
  • Sat, June 3 at 4:45pm
  • Sun, June 4 at 8:30pm
  • Fri, June 9 at 7pm
  • Sat, June 10 at 7pm

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May 22, 2017 · 2:18 pm

The Carnegie at Cincinnati Fringe Festival

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The Carnegie is excited to partner with The Mini Microcinema and Chase Public in the creation of a new, multi-media performance piece selected for the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The work features work by 30+ independent filmmakers, writers, actors, and artists.

TWO TRUTHS: NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER is an avant-garde mixed media mashup of Robert Bresson’s celebrated book on film making. Audiences will choose between pairings of notes that probe the dividing line between film and theatre. For each note selected by the audience, a film or live scene created in response to that note will be shown. Every show will be different and every audience will have the opportunity to create a unique performance experience.

Show Dates

Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:45pm
Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 7:45pm
Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 4:45pm
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 7:45pm
Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 7:45pm

All screenings will take place at
The Mini Microcinema, at 1329 Main Street, Cicninnati, OH 45202

Tickets to screenings of TWO TRUTHS: NOTES ON THE CINEMATOGRAPHER are $15 and are available online at  www.cincyfringe.com.

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May 17, 2017 · 11:54 am

Gideon Productions Presents GOD OF OBSIDIAN as Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival

Gideon Productions Presents
GOD OF OBSIDIAN

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World Premiere as Part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival!
Written by Mac Rogers
Directed by Jordana Williams

May 31st – June 5th at Gabriel’s Corner

Gideon Productions, the award-winning company behind the Cincy Fringe CityBeat Critic’s Pick Ligature Marks, will present the World Premiere of playwright Mac Rogers’ (The Honeycomb Trilogy; the global hit podcast The Message) dark fairy tale/drama GOD OF OBSIDIAN, May 31st to June 5th at Gabriel’s Corner as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The production will be directed by Jordana Williams (The Honeycomb Trilogy; Universal Robots) and will feature Rebecca Comtois (Viral; Crystal Skillman’s Geek! with Vampire Cowboys) and Mac Rogers (NYIT Outstanding Lead Actor Nominee for The Adventures of Nervous-Boy with Nosedive Productions).

You have to cross a bridge to get to Nathan’s house. Crossing in is easy. But crossing out – as Alice is about to discover – is almost impossible. GOD OF OBSIDIAN is a dark fairytale about a psychologically abusive relationship, as one woman seeks the story that will take her back across the bridge and set her free.

GOD OF OBSIDIAN will run May 31 at 9pm, July 2 at 7:45pm, June 4 at 2:45pm, and June 5 at 7:45pm, as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival at Gabriel’s Corner (Sycamore & Liberty, Cincinnati, OH, 45202)). Tickets ($15) may be purchased online at www.cincyfringe.com. The show will run 60 minutes with no intermission.

MAC ROGERS (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and audio dramatist. His sci-fi thriller podcasts THE MESSAGE and LIFEAFTER were downloaded a combined 5 million times.  His plays include THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY (New York Times and Backstage Critic’s Picks and winner of the NYIT Award for Best Premiere Production), VIRAL (winner of Outstanding Play at FringeNYC 2009), and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre awards). Mac’s plays have earned acclaim from The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out New York, The New York Post, , and many others.

JORDANA WILLIAMS (Director) has directed numerous plays by Mac Rogers, including Ligature Marks (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks), Universal Robots and Viral. Other favorite directing work includes Kill Shakespeare at NY Comic Con 2012 and The Particulars with The Bridge Theater Company, FringeNYC.

REBECCA COMTOIS (Alice) previously worked with Mac Rogers and Jordana Williams on Ligature Marks (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), Viral (Winner of FringeNYC’s Outstanding Production of a Play) and The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics’ Picks).  Other notable roles include Minnie the Minotaur in Cystal Skillman’s Geek! (Vampire Cowboys), Jenny in James Comtios’ Infectious Opportunity (Nosedive Productions) and Mag in Taylor Mac’s The Hot Month with Carol Kane (Boomerang’s Legacy Reading Series).

Critical acclaim for Gideon Productions:

“Television is where you find complicated storytelling. Film is the home of epic sci-fi trilogies. Giant aliens are expensive. Mac Rogers’s “Honeycomb Trilogy,” a titanic story about humanity in crisis wedged into a small theater in Queens, laid waste to these truisms, and provided giddy, cerebral fun along the way.” The New York Times

“Mac Rogers—genre playwright extraordinaire—can rant like Sorkin, plot like Mamet, banter like Whedon and sting like a bee.”  Time Out New York

“This is full-on, unapologetic science fiction with a galactic-scale backdrop involving interstellar trips and an insectoid race.” New York Post

“One of the most intelligent and complex theatrical events of the year.” Flavorpill

“Both pitch-perfect science fiction about an alien occupation and a wrenching treatise on the state of humanity.” io9.com

GIDEON PRODUCTIONS crafts gripping plays that explore what’s strange about being human and what’s human about being strange, using familiar genres and cultural touchstones as a springboard to something wholly unexpected.

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May 16, 2017 · 3:22 pm

ZELDA AND HADLEY: TOGETHER AT LAST at the 2017 Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF_Zelda and Haldey_1x1A radio show revenge dramedy inspired by infidelity

E Cubed Productions makes their Cincinnati Fringe Festival debut with ZELDA AND HADLEY: TOGETHER AT LAST performing at the Arts Academy Commons, 1212 Jackson St.

The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even with a radio drama. To begin, the audience decides which literary masterpiece to tackle. The ladies then improve that story by playing all the characters, creating all the sound effects, and reminding the audience that “hell hath no fury…” Also, there’s gin.
Rated: PG 13.

E Cubed Productions is the brainchild of Eileen Elizabeth Earnest. This is, of course, how she ended up with a production company called E Cubed. She is an Executive Member of OTRimprov, Co-Manager of ComedySportz Cincinnati, and 50% of the Sketchy Dames Comedy Troupe. She has performed with Know Theatre, Falcon Theater, Hugo West Theatricals, Carnegie, Human Race Theatre Co, and Landmark Productions.

The inspiration for ZELDA AND HADLEY: TOGETHER AT LAST came from the desire to see strong, women-led shows. Realizing that she didn’t need to wait for someone else to write a show for talented, funny, brassy women-because she freaking is one-she wrote it her own damn self. While this is Eileen’s first Fringe production as writer and director, she has performed with OTRimprov and was featured in last year’s Fringe offering, Furlesque. Eileen thanks her talented cast for their time and dedication and you for supporting live theatre. This much and more.

CAST

Elizabeth Chinn Molloy as Hadley Richardson
Elizabeth is making her Fringe debut! A native of Cincinnati, Elizabeth has performed with various theatres throughout the Greater Cincinnati area, including Concert: Nova, New Edgecliff Theatre, and Falcon Theater. Most recently, Elizabeth had the opportunity to travel the country as a touring actor with MadCap Puppets. Elizabeth is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. As always, she would like to thank her friends and family for their continued support and encouragement, especially Eileen, in all her Upper Echelon glory!

Why I signed on for this particular Fringe Show: Eileen said she was writing a Fringe show, and she asked if I would be interested in being in it. I said yes.

Alison Rampa as Zelda Fitzgerald
Alison is delighted to be making her scripted Fringe debut in this new and original work. Alison is a cast member of OTRimprov and ComedySportz Cincinnati where she gets to regularly flex her improv chops at the Know Theater, Below Zero Lounge, Memorial Hall and beyond. She is also part of Sketchy Dames a two woman sketch and improv group whose mission is to change the world through pretty dresses and funny make em ups. Her day job is teaching 8th grade Reading and English at Wilson Middle School in Hamilton. She’d like to thank Eileen for this opportunity, her husband Justyn for letting
her out of the house several nights in a row and her three year old Ozzy for being the best little monster a mom could ask for. Rawr.

Why I signed on for this particular Fringe Show: This show allows me the great honor of playing a strong vibrant woman, while working with equally strong vibrant women in an interesting genre.

CREW

Scott Miller- Stage Manager
This is Scott’s first foray in stage management for Fringe and he is doing an amazing job. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that he is the best stage manager ever. This stage is so well managed that it has conformed to his every whim, has always been on time, and has never talked back even once. Scott hopes to participate in future Fringe shows and is  available for parties. He accepts payment in donuts—sweet, delicious, cuddly donuts. He’d like to thank the little people, but he doesn’t know who any of them are. Most especially, Scott looks forward to continuing to speak about himself in the third person, much to the dismay of his doting wife.

Why I signed on for this particular Fringe show: My wife made me do it, that, and the donuts.

PERFORMANCES:
Art Academy Commons-1212 Jackson St. 45202

  • Mon 6/5-6:30pm
  • Wed 6/7-8:30pm
  • Thu 6/8-7:45pm
  • Sat 6/10-3:30pm

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May 16, 2017 · 2:10 pm

SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN Makes Cincinnati Debut

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CINCINNATI (May 11, 2017) — Transgender storyteller Penny Sterling brings her one-woman show SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN: A One-Woman Show with Balls to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival for five performances, beginning June 1, at the Coffee Emporium, 110 E. Central Parkway, in Cincinnati.

In SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN, Penny tells the story of how she lived the first 54 years of her life as Brian; growing up with her parents and brother, navigating relationships with women, raising kids, and attempting to be as much of a “man’s man” as she could figure out how to be– mostly by watching how guys behaved and looked. Hers is a story of pain and shame, but also of discovery and ultimately, joy.

Told with lots of humor by an actor, writer, and standup comedian who was voted the Funniest Man in Rochester (NY) in 1992 (and no, we’re not making that up), SPY IN THE HOUSE OF MEN premiered to rave reviews and sold-out performances at the 2016 Rochester Fringe Festival, and was voted Audience Favorite this year at Ithaca Fringe, where reviewers called it “a hilarious, suspenseful, heart-stopping story” and “a compact evening’s entertainment that’s as funny as it is enlightening.”

“This show started out as a series of Facebook posts where I tried to explain to my friends who I was, what I had been through, and what it means—and maybe more importantly, what it doesn’t mean—to be transgender,” says Penny. “People responded positively, asked me questions, and told me stories of friends and relatives who were also struggling with issues of gender identity.

They told me what I wrote helped them better understand the issue. ‘You should write a book,’ they’d say,” recalls Penny. “‘I don’t wanna write a book,’ I’d reply. But I could make a show about it.”

Penny received her BA in Theatre from Ithaca College, but made her living behind the camera as an Emmy Award-nominated photographer, editor, producer and director. In the 1990’s, she tried her hand at standup comedy, but gave it up in order to raise a family. Coming out as transgender when her youngest child was a senior in high school, Penny thought about going back into standup. “I made it to the semifinals of the 2016 ‘Funniest Person’ competition, but my heart wasn’t in it,” she says. “I realized I was sacrificing truth for jokes, and that’s not what I wanted.”

Penny makes her home in Rochester, NY, and is available for pre-festival interviews via phone, email, Facetime, or Skype, and during the festival by appointment. Stills and Video are available upon request. For more information on Penny and her upcoming performance schedule, visit penny-sterling.com.

Tickets and showtimes are available through the Cincy Fringe website: cincyfringe.com.

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