FRIGID NY Presents ARE WE FREAKS? Running 2/26-3/8

FRIGID New York presents A Comedy Period debut ARE WE FREAKS?

Written and Directed by One of nytheatre.com's "people of the year ‘08" Bricken Sparacino
Co-Director: Lori Kee
Cast: Joy Gabriel, Uma Incrocci*, Jennie Inchausti, Annalyse McCoy*, Kara M. Tyler, Bricken Sparacino*, Melanie Wehrmacher and Hannah Wolfe

Performance Schedule
Thursday, February 26, 2009
9:00 PM
Saturday, February 28, 2009
1:00 PM
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
10:30 PM
Saturday, March 07, 2009
7:00 PM
Sunday, March 08, 2009
2:30 PM

Ticket Price: $15- go to: smarttix.com for advance tickets
Where: The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th Street, NYC 10003
Are We Freaks: 4 short stories about 8 abnormal women. Freaks and friends-who really is normal after all? A.W.F. is a Science Fiction comedy adventure that takes you from the carnival to the campus and from love to loathing. What's a fin between friends?

Are We Freaks crawled out of the fevered dreams of writer Bricken Sparacino. The seeds for these stories were planted during Groove MaMa Ink's "Plays in a Day". Are We Freaks is an exploration of what is normal and the search for companionship in a world gone askew.

Bricken Sparacino (Writer, producer, co-director and Wonder-ful Twin) Bricken was selected to be on of the "People of the Year ‘08" by nytheatre.com for her directing work on American Badass, Mother May I and Those Whistling Lads and for co-creating Until Midnight. Bricken producing credits include: Medication (FringeNYC) BACKSTAGE's theatre gem of '03 and the Time Out NY highly recommended, 10:17 Comedy Night. She is also an award winning/nominated director including the soon to be published American Badass by Chris Harcum for last years Frigid Festival. She has performed sketch and other original works all over NYC including work with her all female comedy troupe Comedy Period. The seeds of Are We Freaks were planted during Groove MaMa Ink's Plays in a Day series and a few fevered dreams.

Joy Gabriel (Abby) grew up all over the United States, the daughter of Mormon gypsies. She finally settled in New York where she was trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Theater Company Acting School. She wrote and starred in an acclaimed solo show about her Jesus-loving, swindling Mormon momma at the Midtown Theater Festival. She recently appeared in the short films "Regeneration" and "Sex, Drugs, and Jazz" and the original play "Wikipedia Brown and the Accidental Occidental." When not performing, Joy does lifestyle modeling and is completing her BA at Hunter College. She resides in Long Island City where she develops and produces film projects with her husband, a cinematographer.

Uma Incrocci (Liz) was last seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the new comedy Attack of the Soccer Moms. Regional: Catherine in Proof at Barnstormers Theatre, Celia in As You Like It and the Princess in Love's Labor's Lost at Connecticut Free Shakespeare, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Mill Mountain Theatre. New York Stage: Off-Broadway production of Fairytales of the Absurd, 365 Plays/365 Days at the Public Theater, Fringe Festival, Havel Festival, Ionesco Festival, American Globe Theatre. She has appeared on Lipstick Jungle, Chappelle's Show, and in a wide variety of indie projects, including the pilot Living in Captivity which she co-wrote and co-produced. www.umaincrocci.com

For more information go to www.frigidnewyork.info or www.comedyperiod.com

*Equity Showcase approval pending