Larry Phillip's New Play LEARNING TO SKIP Comes to Shelter Studios, 4/23-5/3

Randomly Specific Theatre has announced that Learning to Skip, written by Larry Phillips and directed by Austin Tooley, is set to begin April 23rd, 2015 and will close May 3rd, 2015.

Featuring Paul Frederick, Phoebe Leonard, Larry Phillips and Debra Weed Hahn H.

Nobody's perfect... except my child.

When sweet and kindhearted Kindergarten teacher Pam reveals to Alpha-Mom Jill that her son may not be as perfect as she thinks, she has no idea she is setting off a powder keg. Jill's reaction to her son's shortcomings quickly lands Pam and her fiancé Doug in an increasingly bizarre situation that forever changes their lives. Now they must work together with Jill's trophy-husband Eric in order to put the pieces of this family back together.
Can Pam and Doug's relationship survive an unexpected change? Will Jill and Eric accept that a weakness in their child doesn't reflect poorly on their parenting? And how much peanut butter is too much peanut butter?

Learning to Skip is a hilarious new comedy from the company that brought you Secondary Pitch, which will keep you on your toes with every unexpected twist and turn.

Larry Phillips (Playwright/Doug) is an actor, playwright, and founding member of Randomly Specific Theatre. He wrote and appeared as Paul Dowd in Secondary Pitch, Randomly Specific's inaugural production, which premiered in Fall 2014. Larry recently appeared in The Animal Kingdom for Hunger and Thirst Collective, The Why Overhead for Zootopia Theater Company, Farewell to Sanity for Original Binding Productions, and Hellcab and Ice Age for Rising Sun Performance Company. Other past roles include; Louie in Lost in Yonkers, Norman in The Boys Next Door, Ken in Rumors, Joshua/Cathy in Cloud 9, The Bellhop in Lend Me a Tenor, and Father Dan in Jeffrey. In LA he took part in training programs with both The Groundlings and Second City.

Larry has several plays currently in development including Arbuckle Syndrome, Koalas are Dicks, The Rise of Mediocrity and Last Chance for Mama. Larry holds a BFA from Montclair State University.

Austin Tooley (Director) is a recent arrival to NYC. Originally from north Texas, he received his Masters from SUNY Binghamton where he directed both at the university and in Regional productions. Recent productions include Narcissus, A Roman Masque, Annie Baker's The Aliens, Sam Shepard's Forensic and the Navigators, and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Assistant directing credits include Charles Ives' The Liar and The Merry Wives of Windsor, at the Texas Shakespeare Festival.

Paul Frederick (Eric) is excited to be performing in his first production with Randomly Specific Theater, Learning to Skip. He has appeared in several theatre festivals in New York City after completing his MFA at the New School for Drama in 2013, and participates in monthly events including Darkroom series and various Improv Jams. Paul is currently helping out several friends with their web-series, and has created youtube ads for startup companies in the past. In his non-acting life Paul enjoys exercising, reading, long-division, rewatching old Keanu Reeves' movies, and scouring Wikipedia to make corrections to falsified claims and misinformation.

Phoebe Leonard (Jill) is an Australian born actor, writer, producer and founding member of Randomly Specific Theatre. Since relocating to New York Phoebe has appeared in Ice Age for Rising Sun Performance Company, Othello: The Panther, Salome: Da Voodoo Princess of Nawlins, and Black Footnotes for Rebel Theater and Secondary Pitch for Randomly Specific Theatre. Australian Theatrical credits include Telling Tales, The First Stone Thrown, A Line In The Dust, Love, Death and A Little Madness and A History Of World Theatre for the Hayes Gordon Repertory, Angry Young Woman In Low Rise Jeans With High Class Issues for Stella Green Productions, Girl Interrupted, Morning Sacrifice, Ladies at The Alamo and Road for Ensemble Studios, and Stairwell (Writer/Actor) for Operating Theatre. Film and Television credits include 'Home and Away' (Seven Network), 'Housos' and 'Swift and Shift Couriers' (SBS), '2010', 'Game On' (Writer/Actor), 'The Other Woman' (Writer Actor) and 'The Ex-Factor'.

Phoebe is a graduate of the Ensemble Studios, Australia and the New York Film Academy Screenwriters Program.

Debra Weed Hahn (Pam) originally from Las Vegas, holds a degree in Music Dance Theatre from Brigham Young University. Her regional production credits include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Janet Van DeGraaf in The Drowsy Chaperone, Polly in Crazy For You, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Nikki in Curtains, and Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities. She has been a featured soloist with the Zions Youth Chorus & Symphony and toured the world with the BYU Young Ambassadors. When not performing, she enjoys teaching music & dance classes, watching Nashville and eating thai food. She would like to thank her friends and family for their support and New York City for helping her find her dreamboat husband. "I love you, Bren. Thanks for believing in me!"

Scenic Design is by Duane Pagano, Lighting Design is by Kevin Duchon and the Production Manager is Peter Buck Dettmann

Learning to Skip plays Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, Monday and Tuesday at 7pm and Sunday at 2pm. Individual tickets for Learning to Skip are now available and are priced at $20. They can be purchased www.randomlyspecifictheatre.com.

Randomly Specific Theatre (Producer) is a New York City based independent theatre company founded in 2014. Our mission is to produce new plays with an emphasis on excellence in writing and script development and high quality production aesthetic. We do not subscribe to any single method of training or rehearsal technique. We believe that each aspect of a production, both onstage and behind the scenes, is as integral to the production as any other. Above all else we are story tellers. The play's the thing. Spinning a good yarn for the entertainment of an audience is our number one goal.