Dratch and Ziemba Lead Celebrity Autobiography at Long Wharf Theatre 12/29-30

"Saturday Night Live" star Rachel Dratch and Tony Award-winning actress Karen Ziemba join the cast of Celebrity Autobiography, playing at Long Wharf Theatre.

The show takes place Dec. 29-30 at 7 and 9:30 p.m. on the Mainstage, located at 222 Sargent Drive in New Haven. Tickets are $40.

Celebrity Autobiography, created and developed by Emmy Award-nominated writer-performer Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, recently won the 2009 Drama Desk Award in the category of Unique Theatrical Experience and the 2010 Bistro Awards.

Celebrity Autobiography features a first rate comedic ensemble performing from the actual memoirs of a wide range of celebrities. The passages run the gamut from the "poetry" of Suzanne Somers to the shocking "romance tips" from Tommy Lee to the most famous Hollywood love triangle in history---ElizaBeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Eddie Fisher. "The funniest docu-theater stunt of the year," said Time Magazine.

Dratch is best known for her seven season stint on "Saturday Night Live," from 1999 to 2006. Some of her notable film appearances include Just Go With It, My Life in Ruins, Spring Breakdown, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Click, Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star, and Down With Love. Dratch has appeared on the television shows "Ugly Betty," "Wizards of Waverly Place," "30 Rock," "King of Queens," "Frasier," and "Monk." In addition to her work with Celebrity Autobiography, Dratch has appeared on stage in with Sylvia, Minsky's and her original show with Tina Fey called Dratch & Fey. She also was a member of Second City in Chicago before joining the cast of "Saturday Night Live."

Ziemba is best known to Long Wharf Theatre audiences for her work in last season's hit production of Sylvia. She is one of Broadway's most versatile and beloved performers, receiving the Tony Award - along with the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards - starring in Susan Stroman and John Weidman's hit musical, Contact, at Lincoln Center Theatre.

She starred as Roxie Hart in Kander and Ebb's Chicago, and Rita Racine in their Steel Pier (for which she received her first Tony award nomination as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), and starred in the "new Gershwin musical, " Crazy For You. She also appeared in the Broadway companies of A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Teddy And Alice, before she burst on the scene in Kander and Ebb's revue And The World Goes 'Round, capturing the Drama Desk Award. She won another Drama Desk nomination for I Do! I Do!, and her third Tony award nomination and the Outer Critic's Circle award for Never Gonna Dance. She starred at the New York City Opera as Lizzie Curry in 110 In The Shade, and Cleo in The Most Happy Fella-and at the New York City Center in Encores! concert revivals of The Pajama Game and Bye, Bye, Birdie, as well as Ziegfeld Follies Of 1936 and Allegro.
Further casting announcements are pending.

For more information visit www.longwharf.org or call 203-787-4282.

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