FRIGID NY Presents Wonder Woman: A How To Guide For Little Jewish Girls

FRIGID New York presents an HT production: Wonder Woman: A How To Guide for Little Jewish Girls, Written by Cyndi Freeman* / Directed by David Drake

Presented as part of Frigid New York 2011- February 23-March 6
www.frigidnewyork.info

@ THE RED ROOM (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery)

Wed Feb 23rd - 8:00 PM
Sat Feb 26th - 9:30 PM
Tue Mar 1st - 8:00 PM
Thu Mar 3rd -11:00 PM
Sat Mar 5th - 2:00 PM

Ticket $10 ($7 Students & seniors)
www.smarttix.com / or call: 212-868-4444
Two-time FringeNYC award-winning writer/performer Cyndi Freeman's latest solo show traces her journey from a little suburban Jewish girl obsessed with Wonder Woman to a fabulous burlesque Queen in NYC. A veteran storyteller and MothSlam winner Freeman recounts personal tales of heroics and harrowing adventures while joyfully spewing trivia about America's first and favorite female super hero, Wonder Woman. Join her on a crusade to right wrongs while wearing fabulous outfits. For more information and images got to -www.heroicsinhotpants.com

"Freeman's performance throughout is charged with electricity" - Backstage.com / NY
"Freeman is a dynamo." - www.Broadway.com / NY
"[Freeman's] brilliant monologue and her skill at mimicry keep the
audience in the palm of her hand."?- The Independent / London??
* * * * "The theatrical equivalent of a night in with a tub of chocolate
chip ice-cream...."? - Three Weeks / Edinburgh
* * * * "...packed choc-full with the sort of observational humour and delicious wit
that renders resistance useless." - The Evening News / Edinburgh

Biographies
Cyndi Freeman* - (Writer / Performer) is a two-time Fringenyc award winning performer, playwright, and theatrical producer. She has created and produced several solo shows, including: I Kissed Dash Riprock, which was performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Assembly Rooms, and won a "Best in Festival Award for Excellence" at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival. I Kissed Dash Riprock also enjoyed success in Boston, toured the UK with Guy Masterson Productions and was presented by Xaviera Hollander in Amsterdam. Inside Cherry Pitz was presented at the EdFringe at The Gilded Balloon, in NYC at The Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival and at The Cherry Lane Theatre as part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival. Greetings From Hollywood was spotlighted on CNN, received a "Best in Fringe Festival" award at the NY Fringe, and was voted "Best New Play of New England -1998" by the Independent Reviewers of New England. Greetings From Hollywood was also presented at the EdFringe at the Gilded Balloon. Ms Freeman is a recipient of a grand prize playwriting fellowship award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (with collaborator Ellen Groves). Other credits include HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime. She resides in NYC. www.Heroicsinhotpants.com

David Drake - (Director) is the Obie Award-winning playwright/performer of long-running hit The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. As a director, last season in New York David a cast of 37 in the final act of Taylor Mac's 5-act, 5-hour epic The Lily's Revenge at HERE Arts Center, which made the "Best of 2009" lists at Time Out, Paper Magazine, the New York Post, the New Yorker, and won a "Special Citation" Obie Award from the Village Voice. David also directed Taylor's internationally renowned solo show The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac (Edinburgh, London, Sydney, Stockholm, Dublin, NY's "Under the Radar" Festival, the Spoleto Festival and dozens of others). Regionally, David has twice been a Directing Fellow at the Sundance Theatre Lab, and most recently directed the premiere of David Parr's Slap & Tickle at the Provincetown Theater in Massachusetts, as well as a revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town - recently chosen one of the "Best Productions of 2010" by critics at the Cape Cod Times. David's current day job is standing-by for Charles Busch in the playwright/performer's hit off-Broadway comedy The Divine Sister at the Soho Playhouse.
Equity approved showcase - *These actors are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

For more information and larger images got to -www.heroicsinhotpants.com

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