Sacred Fools presents THE ART COUPLE; Opening 2/16

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From: Sacred Fools Publicity <publicity@sacredfools.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:47 PM
Subject: Sacred Fools - The Art Couple - Opening February 16
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Good Afternoon! 
Attached please find the Word version of our press release for our next mainstage show of our 21st Season, the World-Premiere comedy The Art Couple by Brendan Hunt. We hope to see you soon! 
Thanks, 

Scott GoldenPaul PlunkettPublicitySacred Fools Theater Companywww.sacredfools.org
Sacred Fools Theater Company is the resident theater company of The Broadwater located at 1078 Lillian Way (Santa Monica Blvd. and Lillian Way) on Theater Row. Sacred Fools is a non-profit, ensemble-run theater company founded in 1997 committed to the development of new plays and projects that challenge traditional expectations of the theatrical experience. 

Media Contact Scott Golden and Paul Plunkett, Publicity:
Publicity@sacredfools.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sacred Fools Announces

World Premiere of The Art Couple

Los Angeles, CA (February 5, 2018) The Sacred Fools Theater Company is delighted to present the World Premiere of The Art Couple by Brendan Hunt (Absolutely Filthy), directed by Lauren Van Kurin. The comic mayhem begins Friday, February 16 and runs through Sunday, March 17 with performances on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm (with the exception of Sunday, March 4 - no performance that date). The show will be performed in the Black Box Theater of the Broadwater Theater Complex.

About The Art Couple

Long before Felix met Oscar, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were ill-fitting roommates in the south of France; a fateful co-habitation that would change the face of art - and Van Gogh's face, too. It's a lesser-known tidbit of theatre history that these two masters were also the subjects of Neil Simon's original draft of The Odd Couple. Sacred Fools now presents the first-ever performance of this abandoned script, and the odd tale of how it was written. Based on an untrue telling of a true story.

Production Team and Cast

Playwright Brendan Hunt appears in The Art Couple as Vincent van Gogh. He also appeared in the last Sacred Fools show he wrote, Absolutely Filthy, which garnered him an L.A. Weekly Award for Leading Male Performance, a Spirit of the Fringe Best Performance (Male) award, plus L.A. Weekly Award nominations for Playwriting and Male Comedy Performance. His recent solo show Still Got It was named Best Solo Show of the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Hunt is a veteran of many Sacred Fools shows including Savin' Up for Saturday Night (Ovation Award winner for Best Actor in a Musical), titular characters in The Poe Show and The Swine Show, plus most recently nabbing an Ovation Award nomination for his performance as Yorick in Skullduggery, the musical prequel to Hamlet.   

 

Director Lauren Van Kurin is a veteran of the Sacred Fools stage, having appeared in or directing multiple storylines in Serial Killers, (such as playing Jane Austen in last season's winning storyline Jane Austen's Emma Frankenstein), as well as appearing in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance. She is also a longtime collaborator with Hunt, having directed him in his aforementioned Hollywood Fringe show Still Got It, and having been directed by him in King of Kong: A Musical Parody, which she co-wrote and performed with Amber Ruffin, music by David Schmoll. King of Kong was the winner of the Serial Killers season 2013 playoffs at Sacred Fools, won Best Overall Musical at the New York Fringe Festival in 2014 and then won Best Musical at the Hollywood Fringe 2015. The Art Couple marks her debut directing a mainstage show.

 

Producer Bruno Oliver has worn many hats for the company over nearly two decades. Producer credits at the Fools include A Gulag Mouse and last season's Rose and the Rime. As an actor, a sampling of his Fools credits includes Timon of Athens, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? He is also the current President of the Board of Directors.

 

The design and production team for The Art Couple is a mixture of Sacred Fools company members, associates and newcomers. Set Design is by DeAnne Millais, Costume Design by Linda Muggeridge, Sound Design by Ben Rock, Projection Design by Corwin Evans (fresh off his Ovation Award win for the Soul City production Plasticity), Lighting Design by Andrew Schmedake (who also just won an Ovation Award for 33 Variations at the Actors Co-op), Properties Design by Ashley Crow with Fight Choreography by Trampas Thompson.

Joining Hunt in the cast for The Art Couple are Bryan Bellomo, Clayton Farris, Ryan Patrick Welsh, Marie-Francoise Theodore, Kristyn Evelyn, Laura Harrison and Joel Scher. The understudy cast consists of James Kirkland, Peter Fluet, Adam Meredith, Andrew James Villareal, Angela Sauer, Emily Clark, Madeleine Heil and Ryan Gowland.

Donate What You Can Performance - Friday, February 23

It's "Pay What You Can" with a twist! Half of all proceeds for this performance will be donated to WriteGirl, a creative writing and mentoring organization that promotes creativity, critical thinking and leadership skills to empower teen girls. "Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen."

 

Additional Programming at Sacred Fools

Also, during The Art Couple run, our long-running late-night show Serial Killers continues its 13th season. Finishing its run on the same weekend The Art Couple opens in the Broadwater Main Stage is the West Coast Premiere of Denim Doves (see previous press release). There will also be fresh installments of our ongoing shows Ten Tops and We The People, press releases forthcoming on both. For more information on these and other upcoming performances, please visit www.sacredfools.org.  

Quick Summary

WHAT: The Art Couple

WHERE: The Broadwater Black Box, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., LA CA 90038

WHEN: February 16 - March 17, 2018. Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm.

NOTE: No performance on Sunday, March 4.

TICKETS: $15

Press RSVP: Publicity@sacredfools.org

Public RSVP: Reservations can be made by contacting sfreservations@sacredfools.org   or buy tickets online at  www.sacredfools.org

MORE PRESS: Photos and EPK content (after opening) available at www.sacredfools.org/publicity

 

No Patron will pay more than $15 for a Sacred Fools show

We believe that theatre should be accessible to everyone.  That's why, for our 21st season, we've made a pledge to lower our ticket prices so that anyone who wants to experience live theatre has the opportunity to do so.

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Sacred Fools Theater Company, the resident theater company of The Broadwater, 1078 Lillian Way (Santa Monica Blvd. and Lillian Way) on Theater Row, is a non-profit, ensemble-run theater company founded in 1997, committed to the development of new plays and projects that challenge traditional expectations of the theatrical experience.

For more information about any of our programming or the company itself, contact us at publicity@sacredfools.org and visit www.sacredfools.org.

For information regarding The Broadwater, please visit www.thebroadwaterla.com

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