Horse Trade Theatre Group Presents BEACHES 2: PAGEANTS!!! 3/10

Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show! This month, they are going to talk about pageants, pageants, pageants. Featuring performance art's transgender darling and the reigning Mr. Coney Island, Glenn Marla! The comedy show, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and Beaches 2, will play at Under St Marks Theater (94 St. Marks Place between 1st and A) Thursday, March 10th @ 10:30pm. Tickets ($5) are available at the door. They serve beer!

Every second Thursday of the month, Beaches 2 will bring you a brand new hour-long sketch comedy show! Each month they choose a theme and write thousands of jokes on that topic. Past topics include farts, the holidays, John Travolta, and getting dumped. Beaches 2: sketch comedy for best friends.

This month's show includes three NYC pageant winners. Snap.

Glenn Marla (performer/writer) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, tranny superstar and beauty pageant queen (Miss LES 2006 and the reigning Mr. Coney Island). Glenn was last seen in Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge. Glenn was also featured in Justin Bond's in Lustre: A Mid Winters Trans Fest at P.S. 122 and Abrons Arts Center. Glenn's 2008 year-long performance project New York City's Hottest Fat Go-Go Boy explored fat, gender and sex, as he danced all over the city becoming a fixture in New York City nightlife. He was nominated for two 2008 Glammy Awards. "Performance art that pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away," - The Portland Phoenix

MEET BEACHES 2:

Tanya O'Debra is an art-doer. Her play Radio Star was nominated for three New York Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Full Length Script, Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and Outstanding Original Music. Radio Star ran at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Red Room, Ars Nova, and is published by Original Works. Miss O'Debra is the reigning Miss Fag Hag 2010. Formerly of comedic twin sister act, The O'Debra Twins, Miss O'Debra was the co-host of the popular open mic SHOW AND TELL at The Bowery Poetry Club for five years. Miss O'Debra was the co-writer, co-director, and a cast member of Fuck You or Dead Pee-holes; an American Tale in 13 Acts, which won the top award at Fringe NYC. She plays Patrice O'Debra in Straight Up Vampire, a perennial favorite at Joe's Pub. Creep on her at www.tanyaodebra.com "There can be no doubting O'Debra's talent: she's got a vocal arsenal that puts Saturday Night Live's Kristin Wiig to shame." - NY Press

Mary Crosbie is from Canada. She loves cats more than some people. She has done many commercials, one time with Martin Scorsese, another time with Danica Patrick. She has been doing comedy for many years. She does a cable access show in Manhattan called "the Moe and Mary Show" every Friday at 6. Mary loves life!

Bob and Tobly McSmith are two disease-carrying monkeys that should probably be quarantined. They have been nominated for a cornucopia of honors including: Class Favorite (Tobly, 5th Grade), Class Masturbator (Bob, 1st-12th Grade), and most recently: Most Likely to Be Arrested on a Playground. Bob and Tobly have one cat that has been dead for two years, wrote and directed two "successful" off-Broadway "plays" based on TV's Saved by the Bell, and are webmasters of the rarely updated and highly offensive: prettyponyparty.com.

Ben Lerman is the composer for Beaches 2! If the Flight of the Conchords and Stephen Lynch had a gay lovechild, it would be NYC's ukulele comedian Ben Lerman. Ben plays his solo comedy concert of original, twisted songs all over the country. You can hear him regularly on the Keith and the Girl podcast and on the Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius Radio. Please look at him and listen to him at benlerman.net. "Hilarious... Lerman is an extremely talented singer-songwriter." --Fringe Guru, Edinburgh

Drae Campbell is the reigning Miss LEZ. She has appeared on many stages and screens the world over, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Drae created and developed NERVE for the American Living Room Fest at HERE. Recently Drae received a space grant from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) to develop and create a theater piece showcasing talent of women who are over the age of 60. She wrote and starred in the short film YOU MOVE ME with Rebecca Drysdale, which won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST, 2010, The Short Film Jury Award and Audience Award at the Austin International Gay and Lesbian Film Fest. "Definitely the next lezzie comedian on the block." - afterellen.com

Horse Trade Theater Group is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

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