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INVISIBLE THEATRE - PRESS RELEASE Contact: Cathy Johnson or Susan Claassen 1400 N. First Ave, Tucson, AZ. 85719 Administration – (520) 884-0672 Box Office – (520) 882-9721 [email protected] www.invisibletheatre.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE INVISIBLE THEATRE presents KEVIN BARTINI & GABRIELLE MIRABELLA in A New Comedy About Love & Marriage Written by ANNABELLE GURWITCH and JEFF KAHN With additional material by DAVID KOTELES Directed by PATRICK WALSH Based on Original Direction by DARREN KATZ Made possible in part through the generous support of the Milton and Elizabeth Kahn Fund of the L&R Lawrence Family Foundation WHERE: The Berger Performing Arts Center On the campus of the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind 1200 W. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85745 WHEN: Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 3:00 pm Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 8:00 pm TICKETS: Ticket Price: $42 To charge tickets by phone, call (520) 882-9721 To purchase tickets on-line, go to www.invisibletheatre.com and click on the OvationTix logo Discounts available for groups of ten or more RUSH TICKETS: One half-hour prior to curtain for any scheduled performance, tickets are available for half price, subject to availability RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes with no intermission Celebrate 2013 with You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up! A comedy that People Magazine called “LAUGH OUT LOUD!” As it continues its National Tour starring Kevin Bartini and Gabrielle Mirabella. After 17 years of marriage, writers-actors-and real-life-married-couple Annabelle Gurwitch (Dinner and a Movie, Fired!) and Jeff Kahn (The Ben Stiller Show, Forty Year Old Virgin) have adapted their hilarious, often moving, memoir, YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP! for the stage. In this 75-minute tour de force, YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP, takes a humorous look at a relationship that seemed doomed by opposing personalities from the start. After trials and tribulations they learn to navigate the conflicts that come with romance, money, and children by embracing each other’s differences, taking on parenting as a competitive sport, and dropping out of couple’s therapy. Their delightfully crazy lifestyle has managed to keep their relationship intact, up-ending every idea you ever had about living “happily ever after.” This uproariously funny story is sure to strike both laughter and terror into the hearts of any couple (not to mention every single man or woman who is contemplating the connubial state). The book was developed through sold-out performances at The Comedy Central Theatre and at Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, and made its New York premiere at The New York Comedy Festival 2009. “BOLD…HUMOROUS. AND COMPLETELY REFRESHING.” WomanAroundTown “LAUGH OUT LOUD!” People Magazine “HILARIOUS” Judd Apatow “KAHN AND GURWITCH ILLUMINATE THE INSANITY OF MARRIAGE. THEY MAKE YOU WANT TO EMBRACE YOUR SPOUSE FOR THE SAME REASON YOU WANT TO STRANGLE THEM.” Ben Stiller “FINALLY, A MARRIED COUPLE THAT DOESN’T HIDE BEHIND SUCH TEDIOUS TRAITS AS PERSONAL LOYALTY, GOOD TASTE, AND AN OVERALL SENSE OF DECORUM!” Liz Tuccillo, co-author, He’s Just Not That Into You “LIKE LOVE LETTERS WITH MORE LAFFS!” Media Bistro “ANNABELLE GURWITCH AND JEFF KAHN ARE THE LUCY AND DESI OF THE APATOW AGE” Lauren Lonnatti, Marie Claire Magazine “STRONG COUPLES, WHO ARE ABLE TO LAUGH AT THEMSELVES, CAN MAKE IT THROUGH ALMOST ANYTHING.” Bettyconfidential.com WHO’s WHO - The Cast: KEVIN BARTINI (Jeff) - Stand-Up Comedy Fans the world over have taken notice of Kevin Bartini’s cutting edge, quick witted biting sense of humor. After twelve years honing his skills in New York City, Kevin has become one of the brightest stars on the comedy landscape. Kevin is the warm up comic for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has also worked for two seasons as an audience warm-up comic for Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. Kevin has also appeared on television on Discovery Channels Cash Cab, The Game Show Network’s Newlywed Game and NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Kevin got his start in theater working with the likes of The Williamstown Theater Company, Barrington Stage Company and Shakespeare and Company. Kevin lives in NYC’s Morningside Heights with his wife Jessica and their cats Archie and Edith. www.KevinBartini.com Twitter.com/KevinBartini GABRIELLE MIRABELLA (Annabelle) - is a Florida native with a degree from the Manhattan School of Music. After studying in NYC for both theater and opera, she is currently cramming as many new and wonderful opportunities into her career as possible. Gabrielle is thrilled to be a part of such a fun and original project. Some of her favorite regional theater credits include Velma in HAIRSPRAY, Laura in SWING! and numerous original “MattocS” productions in the Tampa Bay area including NEW YORK NIGHTS and A JOYFUL NOISE. WHO’s WHO - The Creatives: ANNABELLE GURWITCH (Creator/Writer) - Actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch gained a loyal comedic following as the co-host of the cult favorite Dinner & a Movie on TBS. Annabelle turned being fired by Woody Allen into her first book and comedic documentary Fired! which Oprah Magazine called "entertaining and slyly subversive." Annabelle was a regular commentator for NPR for numerous years and has written for More, Glamour, Marie Claire, Men's Health, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and regularly blogs for XOJANE and The Huffington Post. People Magazine gave the You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up book raves calling it “laugh out loud.” Annabelle has appeared on The Today Show, Oprah, Bill Maher's Real Time, and made numerous appearances on CNN and Fox. TV hosting includes three seasons of WA$TED on Planet Green and programs on ABC, HBO, and the Style Channel. Her acting career includes numerous plays OffBroadway and over 50 guest roles on shows like Medium, Boston Legal, Seinfeld, and Murphy Brown. Her films include Shaggy Dog, and Melvin Goes to Dinner. Most recently, Annabelle starred in the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Marguiles’ A CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Currently, she’s working on a comedic memoir about turning fifty for Penguin coming out in the spring of 2014. She loves twitter; you can join her @AnnabelGurwitch. This is her second book and her second marriage. JEFF KAHN (Creator/Writer) - is a writer/performer who began his career on MTV’s The Ben Stiller Show. A few years later, he won an Emmy award for writing on FOX’s The Ben Stiller Show - it was a moment so unexpected and shocking that he literally cried. Jeff has written on several other shows including, Later with Greg Kinnear, Austin Stories and Dilbert. His essays can be read online at FreshYarn.com and in his wife’s terrific and very funny book, Fired! He also has written and produced numerous television pilots, in particular, a spin‐off of All American Girl starring Margaret Cho. He can be seen on HBO reruns of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage and The Larry Sanders Show, and has been seen in films including, Tropic Thunder, 40‐Year‐Old Virgin, and The Cable Guy. Online, Jeff is featured on the show, The Writer’s Room. This is his first book and first marriage. Annabelle and Jeff live in Los Angeles with their 14 year old son, Ezra. Their beloved cat Stinky has gone to the great litterbox in the sky. They now share their home with two kittens, Anthony Perkins and Alexander Puskin. DAVID KOTELES (Additional Material) - has had plays produced on the east and west coasts, including his award-winning, GLAAD-nominated comedy BALD DIVA!: THE IONESCO PARODY YOUR MOTHER WARNED YOU ABOUT. BALD DIVA! was later published in NYTE’s anthology Playing with Canons: Explosive New Works from Great Literature by America’s Indie Playwrights. And it was listed on numerous end-of-the-year (“Best of the Season”) lists for best play of 2004. David's enjoyed numerous New York productions, workshops and readings of his work at such places as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Manhattan Class Company, The Rattlestick, Alice's Fourth Floor, Primary Stages, The Perry Street Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Source, Clemente Soto Velez, the Fresh Fruit Festival, the Homogenius Festival, Cherry Picking, the Red Room, and the Westbank Café. A graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts, David has studied playwriting with Theresa Rebeck, Anne Bogart, Eduardo Machado, Leslie Ayvazian, Frank Pugliese, and Kelly Stuart. He was also honored with the Richard Rodgers Scholarship and a Howard Stein Fellowship while at Columbia. David graduated summa cum laude from Queens College, where he was made Phi Beta Kappa and earned the John Golden Award for Playwriting. He has also written several (as of yet unproduced) film scripts and TV pilots, and David was a finalist for the Writer’s Lab at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s a staff writer on the webisode sitcom, Ernie’s Girls. And he currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is desperately trying to be a Hollywood sell-out. PATRICK WALSH (Director) – Theater - Director: Hangar Theatre – MACBETH, THE EMPTY OCEAN, THE ADVENTURES OF THE DISH AND THE SPOON; Chautauqua Theatre Company – THE BROTHERS SIZE; Victory Gardens – PUSH COMES TO SHOVE; Rubicon Theatre Project – LUCY DREAMING; Theatre Building Chicago – FIFTH OF JULY, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST; Bailiwick Repertory Theatre –TWO SPOONS, HARAM IRAN; Mad Hatter Theatre Productions – CHICKEN BONE BEACH; Props Theatre – CLOSER; Trail’s End Theater – INTO THE WOODS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. As Assistant Director: Guthrie Theatre Goodman Theatre; Dallas Theatre Center; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Chautauqua Theater Company, and Next Theatre. Patrick is a member of the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab; the Recipient of an SDC Foundation Observership, as well as a Chautauqua Theater Company Directing Fellowship, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. DARREN KATZ (Original Director) - is currently Resident Director for THE LION KING on Broadway. Recent directing credits include I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER at New York Theatre Workshop (co-directed with James Lapine), THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (2nd National Tour), HAPPY SUNSHINE KUNG FU FLOWER (The Zipper Factory), and the development of original shows at Pace University and NYU/Strasberg Studios. He is directing and developing numerous new theater pieces, including SUNRISE AT HYDE PARK by Tom Wilson Weinberg and Peggy Stafford; SEXURITY by Yuval Boim (Joyce Soho); THE BIRTHDAY BOY by Wes Webb; and THE WASP WOMAN by Phillip Chernyak and Blake Hackler (NYTE). AJ MATTIOLI (Production Stage Manager) - is delighted to be coming back to his routes of Stage Management for TOMATO! Mattioli has Stage Managed over 25 shows in NYC. Most notable credits are FACESPACE, LECTURE WITH CELLO, and SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL I AM. At Queens Theatre, he has worked on over 200 shows since he began working there in 2007. Recently, AJ opened his own company called Mattioli Productions, LLC which serves the LGBTQ community as a media specialist. As quoted by Times Square Gossip (AJ) "could very well be considered the voice of the LGBT community in the independent film world.” The May 2011 issue of The Advocate included Mattioli in their issue of Forty People Under 40 to Look Out For. With his films An Affirmative Act, Lady Peacock, and his Mini-Series The Coffee Shop it is obvious that this Transmale is definitely making his mark. GILLIAN ALBINSKI (Costume and Production Designer) - is currently the Prop Master for the hit Showtime series Homeland, having previously served as the Prop Master for Season 5 of the Lifetime series Army Wives. A graduate of the theatre program at Penn State, Gillian has spent the last 15 years working in the film industry and her credits include such projects as The Strangers, Shallow Hal, The Royal Tenenbaums, Leatherheads and He Got Game. For Blumenthal Performing Arts, she has previously production designed Les Lankhorst: Red, Hot & Swing, Embraceable Me and Charlotte Squawks. In 2011, she celebrated her 15th Anniversary happily married to Douglas Young. JOHN G. HARTNESS (Lighting Designer) - has directed, designed and performed in dozens of shows in Charlotte and the surrounding areas. Among his favorites are RENT, CORPUS CHRISTI, HAMLET, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, ANNA KARENINA, JEFFREY and RAGTIME. When away from the theatre, John is the author of the best-selling urban fantasy novels The Black Knight Chronicles. JEFF MONTGOMERIE (Sound Designer) – Every time Jeff thinks that he has retired from the theatre, something seems to lure him back. In previous lives he has designed sound, projections and lighting for Davidson Community Players, Off Tryon Theatre, Innovative Theatre, The Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Chelsea Stage and Geva Theatre. He has also mixed live performances by Wynton Marsalis, Doc Watson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Koko Taylor, BeauSoliel, and Loonis McGlohon. He currently manages the North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia branches of Barbizon Lighting Company, selling theatrical, filmmaking and television equipment. OBB (Producer & Booking Agency) - Was established in 2005 as a booking agency dedicated to the promotion and awareness of Off Broadway as a brand of excellence in theater to audiences outside of New York City. Since that time, OBB has grown into a full service booking agency and production company placing Broadway and Off Broadway productions, Special Events, and award winning Solo Shows in theaters across the country and the world. Past and current shows include The Aluminum Show, Footloose, The Wedding Singer, Blast, Celebrity Autobiography, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Judy Gold's 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Robert Wuhl's Assume The Position, My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish and I'm in Therapy, Dixie's Tupperware Party, One Man Star Wars, Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano, 'S Wonderful and many more. www.obbnyc.com. Invisible Theatre Booking Agency – OBB 1400 N. First Avenue Tucson, AZ 85719 Box Office – (520) 882-9721 Administration – (520) 884-0672 Fax – (520) 884-5410 www.invisibletheatre.com 1650 Broadway, Suite # 408, NY, NY 10019 New York, NY 10019 Phone – (212) 586-7777 Fax – (212) 586-7809 www.tomatoplay.com