Matt Smith Brings ALL MY CHILDREN to FringeNYC, 8/14-26

The off-beat comedy ALL MY CHILDREN, written and performed by Matt Smith and directed by Bret Fetzer makes its NYC premiere at The New York International Fringe Festival, FringeNYC, a production of The Present Company. ALL MY CHILDREN begins performances on Tuesday, August 14 for a limited engagement through Sunday, August 26. The performance schedule is below. Performances are at Venue 9 (Gene Frankel Theater at 24 Bond Street, between Lafayette and Bowery). The regular ticket price is $15 in advance; $18 at the door. For tickets, call 1-866-468-7619 or visit www.fringenyc.org. For more information, visit:www.matt-smith.net

The performance schedule is:
Tuesday, August 14 at 3:45 PM
Sunday, August 19 at 7:30 PM
Thursday, August 23 at 8:30 PM
Friday, August 24 at 2:45 PM
Sunday, August 26 at 12:00 PM

What happens when a man's biological clock starts ticking? Max Poth takes ‘what-might-have-been’ to extreme lengths: he tracks down the now-grown children of long-ago girlfriends and tells them he's their real father (knowing that he’s not). Journeying through iconic Seattle locations like The Hurricane, The Bins and Scary Teriyaki, what starts as a strange lark soon grows into a hilarious, if not downright bizarre, look at the making of a modern American family.

ALL MY CHILDREN began as a 20-minute piece at Seattle’s renowned writer’s sanctuary Hugo House, as part of their monthly Hugo Literary Series. Hugo House commissioned Matt Smith to write the complete show, which premiered there in 2010. Called “smart and funny and self-deprecating enough to make this amoral cad almost lovable (and shockingly entertaining)” by The Stranger, ALL MY CHILDREN subsequently toured to The Marsh in Berkeley and the Ottawa Fringe in 2011.

Popular Seattle-based solo writer/performer Matt Smith (“Yarns spin effortlessly off his tongue, somewhat in the Garrison Keillor mode,” SF Theater Blog) is a fundraising auctioneer, a Partner on Cookusinterruptus.com, a Communication Consultant, and an ambassador for Hanford Challenge, dedicated to cleaning-up nuclear waste. Solo works: All My Children, My Last Year with the Nuns, Helium, Beyond Kindness, My Boat to Bainbridge. Screen: The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, Outsourced, White Face, Sleepless in Seattle, Almost Live. Theatre: Co-founder: Stark/Raving Theatre and Seattle Improv. Artistic director of Seattle TheatreSports. He was last seen in NYC in 2000 at HERE with My Last Year with the Nuns.

Bret Fetzer (director) has directed all of Matt Smith's solo shows.  He is also a playwright, a former theater editor for the alternative weekly The Stranger, a former artistic director of Annex Theatre in Seattle, and he co-wrote the documentary Le Petomane: Fin de Siecle Fartiste.