Bryce Pinkham Joins Jim Brochu for Industry Reading of New Play PAGE COUNT

Tony Award nominee Bryce Pinkham (Holiday Inn, A Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder) and Drama Desk Award winner Jim Brochu (Character Man, Zero Hour) will join forces as an odd couple of writers in 1931 Hollywood in the new play PAGE COUNT by Kerr Lockhart. An industry reading is scheduled for Monday, May 14 at 1:00 PM and 5:30 PM at 353 Studios (353 West 48th Street, Studio 3). For reservations, please email PageCountProds@gmail.com.

Pinkham plays a playwright struggling to find his footing in Hollywood and is teamed with a hard-drinking Chicago journalist played by Brochu. After a wary start, they form a partnership. But just as it catches fire, it is threatened by the ravages of the journalist's alcoholism.

PAGE COUNT is directed by Joseph Discher (The Violin, Butler, Off-Broadway) and also features Diane Findlay (I Loved Lucy, Tales of the City) as the hardboiled boss who shepherds the team.

PAGE COUNT was a finalist in the annual New Jersey Playwrights Competition sponsored by William Paterson University and was part of the reading series of American Theater Group in residence at South Orange Performing Arts Center and the Garage Theater Group in Teaneck, NJ. PAGE COUNT is represented by KGM Theatrical at (212) 500-0989.

Bryce Pinkham is most widely known for originating the role of 'Monty Navarro' in the Tony Winning Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, for which he was nominated for Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk awards. He soon after appeared in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance in 2015. His other Broadway credits include Holiday Inn, Ghost the Musical, and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He most recently starred in Benny and Joon a new musical adaptation of the 1993 movie starring Johnny Depp at The Old Globe Theater. His latest onscreen appearances include Baz Luhrmann's Netflix series The Get Down, Robert De Niro's The Comedian, and as a series regular on PBS's Civil War drama series Mercy Street. His other TV credits include "Blindspot," "The Good Wife" and "Person of Interest." @theBrycecapades

Jim Brochu is best known for writing and starring in the Off-Broadway plays Character Man, The Big Voice: God Or Merman? and Zero Hour, for which he won the Drama Desk Award, the Helen Hayes Award, and the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his portrayal of Zero Mostel." He is also co-author with his life partner Steven Schalchin of the musical The Last Session, for which he won the GLAAD Media Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Backstage West Award for his direction. He appeared in Brigadoon and Oliver! on Broadway and Off-Broadway in The Roar of the Greasepaint and as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came To Dinner.

KERR LOCKHART (Author) began his career as an intern for Fran and Barry Weissler. He was a Business Affairs attorney for William Morris Agency, NBC/CNBC, Hallmark Entertainment and many others. He co-produced arts documentaries such as You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story and Glenn Miller: America's Musical Hero. For the past 16 years, he has been a full-time educator. His previous play, The School Inspectors is published by Stageplays, Inc.

JOE DISCHER (Director) The New York Times has called his work "devastatingly effective," "enchanting," "beautiful," "sensitively directed," "exceedingly enjoyable" and "joyously funny." Most recently, he directed the off-Broadway world premiere of The Violin starring Robert LuPone at 59E59. Mr. Discher also directed the NYC premiere of Ben Butler at 59E59, as well as regional productions at Barrington Stage Company, Majestic Theater, and the world premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company. Mr. Discher is an associate artist at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where he spent twenty years on staff as Associate Artistic Director and Casting Director. www.joedischer.com