FRIGID New York Presents CANUCK CABARET 2/23-3/5

Be enthralled by Canadians living in New York, be excited by Canadians who have crossed the border to perform, be lured by amazing New York artists who have agreed to be honorary "Canucks", and be held spellbound by 2011 FRIGID Festival performers. Expect the unexpected with seven late-nights of music, comedy, character, and dance. It is going to be a great time, and not just because the theater serves booze!

Performers will include New Yorkers, John Murdock, Killy Dwyer, Laura Poe, and Don Piper. Canadians living in New York, Fraser Yonge, Moe Rosen and Mary Crosbie. Canadian artists will include Burlesque performer Sharon Nowlan, comics Jillian Thomas, Sandra Battaglini, Bobby Knauff, Rose Giles, and Diana Love, clown performers Christel Bartelse and Rachelle Ellie, monologist Jayson McDonald and dancer Meaghan O'Shea. With special guest straight from Manchester, performance poet Matt Panesh.

THE CANUCK CABARET will run late-nights, starting at midnight and on into the wee hours on February 23, 24, 25, 26, & 28 and March 2, 4, & 5 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Ave A) as part of The 2011 New York FRIGID Festival. Admission is Pay-What-You-Will at the door.

PAUL HUTCHESON has been a solo comedic performer for 8 years. His trilogy of one person comedies, The First Time, On Second Thought, & Third Time Lucky have toured to over 25 festivals in North America winning awards in New York, San Francisco and two award nominations for Best English Production and Best Comedy at the 2010 Montreal Fringe Festival. Currently Hutcheson has launched & produced a cabaret show with the help of muti-talented Sharon Nowlan & comic Jillian Thomas. The Canuck Cabaret premiered last year to great success in New York and is coming back to the big city for the 2011 FRIGID New York Festival. In the spring Canuck Cabaret will tour to Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. Paul had the special honor of opening for Bruce Vilanch in a recent taping for OUT TV.

SHARON NOWLAN has spent the past 10 years performing and costume designing for theatre and film. For the past five years she has taken her vast repertoire of novelty acts on the road. Under the stage persona Prairie Fire, she has toured the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit in solo shows inspired by dance, cabaret, vaudeville, and European and American burlesque. Sharon is thrilled to be back at Under St. Marks, performing in the Canuck Cabaret for it's second year at the FRIGID Festival!

JILIAN THOMAS is witty, dirty and aggressive. This Toronto comic and former Christian Rocker tells it like it is...even if you're not ready for it! "She has the face of an Angel and the laugh of the Devil." Joe Flaherty (SCTV, Freaks & Geeks)

THE FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL was founded by Horse Trade and EXIT Theatre in 2007. Since founding The San Francisco Fringe Festival - the 2nd oldest fringe in the United States - nearly 17 years ago, EXIT has learned a thing or two about festival running. They introduced Horse Trade to the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals (CAFF) in mid-2006. Besides feedback from dozens of thrilled CAFF participants and artists, Horse Trade was drawn to its main principle: "...to provide all artists, emerging and established, with the opportunity to produce their play no matter the content, form or style and to make the event as affordable and accessible as possible for the members of the community," Horse Trade is proud to sign on to the tradition and chill out the New York independent theater scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, the artists take home 100% of their box office, and the festival producers do not receive royalties from future performances. The festival's producers are proud to support self-Producing Artists' growth and future success. New York City is an indisputable hotbed of groundbreaking talent and we're proud to once again invite artists to take advantage of this opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination.

Canadians Are Warm
Canadians Are Great Guests
Canadians Are F*%#ing Entertaining

LATE NIGHT SHOWS
FEBRUARY 23-MARCH 5

 

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