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DISGRACED PRODUCTIONS presents OUR GREATEST YEAR- A new play and comic by Robert Attenweiler and Scott Henkle as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival June 2 - July 1 @ The Brick
Fri 6/17 @ 7pm Wed 6/22 @ 7pm Sat 6/25 @ 3 pm Sun 6/26 @ 6pmFormer Clevelander, Robert Attenweiler (the playwright), has long joked to former Clevelander, Scott Henkle (the comic writer and illustrator), that 2007, at least for Cleveland sports fans, might go down as "our greatest year" - the joke being that each of our beloved sports teams (The Cavaliers, Indians and Browns) was wholly more successful than people in that sports-tortured part of the country believed they'd be ... and yet still managed to end their season in embarrassing, disgraceful fashion.OUR GREATEST YEAR is an innovative blend of live stage action and projected motion comics (partially animated comic book pages completely scored and voiced-over) that follows aspiring sports blogger, Harvey Pruit, and his new wife in Cleveland, Ohio in 2007 as they struggle through one year's achievements and disappointments, told through the lens of the city's masochistic, loving relationship with its three professional sports teams.
OUR GREATEST YEAR will run Fri 6/17 at 7pm, Wed 6/22 at 7pm, Sat 6/25 at 3pm and Sun 6/26 at 6pm as part of The Comic Book Theater Festival at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn). Tickets ($15) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 866-811-4111.Robert Attenweiler is a playwright, screenwriter and independent theater producer living in New York's East Village. He received his M.A. in English from The Ohio State University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2005, he formed his Production Company, Disgraced Productions, through which he has produced six of his plays: PLACES LIKE HERE (FringeNYC, 2005), THICK LIKE PIANO LEGS (The Red Room, 2006), KANSAS CITY OR ALONG THE WAY (The Red Room, 2006), THE BUTTERFIELD TONES (FRIGID New York, 2007), ...AND WE ALL WORE LEATHER PANTS (co-produced with Horse Trade Theater Group, UNDER St. Marks, 2007), ALL KINDS OF SHIFTY VILLAINS (The Kraine Theater, 2008) and KANSAS CITY in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and the first annual Access Theater Spotlight Series. A workshop of his play, TORRENTS, was produced by the Barracuda Theatre Club (TBG Arts Complex, 2008). He is the writer of the digital comic book THE ADVENTURES OF MAX QUARTERHORSE and created/wrote/produced the ongoing web series, APT1B, (disgracedtv.com) which was among the first series chosen for the 2011 Los Angeles Web Series Festival (www.lawebfest.com) and has twice made the Semi-Finals (top 30 of 2000) of the Disney-ABC Television Writing Program. He is a member of the Lark Play Development Center, the Dramatists Guild and The League of Independent Theaters. ...AND WE ALL WORE LEATHER PANTS is published in the New York Theatre Experience's Plays and Playwrights 2008 and Best Women's Stage Monologues 2008. He was named one of nytheatre.com's PEOPLE OF THE YEAR for 2008, is the recipient of a FAR grant from The Field and a space grant from the Access Theater and is a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in playwriting/screenwriting. He is also writing the blog, Raising the Cadavalier (www.cadavalier.com) about the NBA and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Born in Cleveland, Scott Henkle has an MFA in fiction from the University of Washington and has published prose work in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and The Massachusetts Review (PDF), where he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His visual/textual work has been featured in Web Conjunctions, Seattle's City Arts Magazine, and on the City Arts blog. More of his work can be found at scotthenkle.com and he features weekly comics/drawings at scientistsupremeallologies.com. He is currently in various stages of development on a novel, a dissertation, a graphic novel, and two sons.
