MITF Presents MAKING GOD 7/23-31

The Midtown International Theatre Festival presents MAKING GOD, a new musical by comedian Rodney Dickerman. Coco Cohn directs a cast of four including Rodney Dickerman, Cara Noel Antosca*, Angela Shultz, and Wayne Petro. Performances for MAKING GOD will be held at The Jewel Box Theatre, 312 West 36th Street in New York City for five performances from July 23-31, 2011. AEA Showcase. *Member, Actors' Equity Association.

The wickedly dry story of a would-be Messiah, who discovers the only way to be close to God is to replace Him. Arizona stand-up comic/musician Rodney Dickerman and a trinity of misfit disciples, save your soul in this divine new musical!

MAKING GOD is presented by Small Pond Enterprises, LLC and The Midtown International Theatre Festival. Director: Coco Cohn; Musical Director: Christine Riley; ­­­­­Track Programmer: Doug Oberhamer; Stage Manager: Stefania Schramm; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR.

MAKING GOD plays for five performances on the following schedule: Saturday July 23rd @ 8:30 pm; Tuesday July 26th @ 6:15 pm; Wednesday July 27th @ 8:00 pm; Friday July 29th @ 6:15 pm; Sunday July 31st @ 2:30 pm.

Director Coco Cohn is a NYU Graduate with a background in Musical Theatre. She spent a decade in Los Angeles writing, directing, and developing original musicals for her critically-acclaimed theatre company, Neurotic Young Urbanites. Coco built a successful private coaching business while in LA, working mostly with kids and young adults. She served as on-set coach for clients on shows such as The Suite Life, iCarly, and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. She is also the actor, Lauren Cohn!

Author/Composer Rodney Dickerman is a comedic writer/performer and composer based in Tempe, Arizona. His writing work includes his films How To Kill Your Mother (official selection, Independent Exposure National Film Tour), Skinny Man Blues (Arizona Film Society Screenplay Award) and Cereal Murders, and he has acted in such films as Superman's Wife, The Walker and The Noise Next Door. Like the hero of his musical Making God, Rodney is a former elementary band instructor with a B.A. in Music Education from OrAl Roberts University. Rodney's musical (a thinly guised semi-autobiographical satire of the evangelical world in which he was raised) was created in Matt Hoverman's Solo Show Workshop.

Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for students and seniors and can be purchased by visiting http://www.midtownfestival.org

The run time for MAKING GOD is 75 minutes with no intermission.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival's2011 Season runs from July 11 - 31 at the June Havoc Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 1st floor; the Main Stage Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor; and the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th Street, 4th floor. Tickets are $18-15 and are available at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival, now in its twelfth year, celebrates the diversity of theatre. The MITF welcomes theatrical storytelling across a broad spectrum of genres, forms, identities, cultures, and appetites. The MITF seeks to nurture these new ideas, perspectives, and stories on its stages, with an eye set on guiding these productions toward future success and longevity. The festival, traditionally held in summer, represents a fantastic, often paradoxical, adventurous and intriguing cross-section of the forefront of the Theatre World. The MITF proudly hosts production companies from across the country and around the globe, uniting talent in one of the biggest theatre capitals in the world.

John Chatterton created the MITF in 2000, a Midtown alternative to other theatre festivals, as a way to present the finest off-off Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety. In 2008, the Festival added two 99-seat theatres and inaugurated the Commercial Division for upwardly mobile shows with commercial ambitions.

For more information, visit www.midtownfestival.org.