CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Performs In Sarasota and San Francisco This Week

The 2009 Drama Desk Award winner and 2010 Bistro Award winner Celebrity Autobiography performs in Sarasota on Tuesday, January 11 at 7pm and 9pm at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Grand Foyer, and in San Francisco on Friday, January 14 at 8pm and Saturday, January 15 at 5pm and 8pm at Marines' Memorial Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest.

The casts are scheduled as follows:

Sarasota
Tom Booker, Annie Golden, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Jerry Springer, Dawn Wells, and Karen Ziemba

San Francisco
Will Forte, Rachel Harris, Laura Kightlinger, Laraine Newman (Friday only), Eugene Pack, Joe Pantoliano, Martha Plimpton (Saturday only), Dayle Reyfel, and Jonathan Silverman

Celebrity Autobiography began its national tour summer 2010 with acclaimed performances in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago, Arizona, and Austin, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as an ongoing production at Los Angeles's Broad Stage. The show also recently opened at London's Leicester Square Theatre where it received rave reviews and plays to sell-out audiences.

The comedy sensation Celebrity Autobiography features a line-up of rotating performers who interpret the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous, in both solo and ensemble "chamber" pieces. Some of the "authors" that are featured include Ivana Trump, VAnna White, Mr. T, Star Jones, Kenny Loggins, Tommy Lee, Sylvester Stallone, the Jonas Brothers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Cassidy, Neil Sedaka, Britney Spears, Madonna, Tiger Woods, Carrie Prejean, Sarah Palin, Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson, as well as the infamous memoirs of ElizaBeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds, which are edited together to create a Rashomon-esque playlet in the participants' own words.

Celebrity Autobiography is playing to sell-out audiences and rave reviews at New York's Triad Theater. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called the show "big-yuks entertainment" and a "merry compendium of the witlessness and wisdom of the rich and famous." Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News called it a "potent comic cocktail...you weep with laughter." The New Yorker called it "inspired." And Sam Thielman of Variety wrote, "Audience members hyperventilate. It should lead a long and happy life." The show has been featured by numerous media outlets, including ABC's "The View" and "Nightline," NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly," CBS's "Sunday Morning," NPR's "Morning Edition," CNN'S "American Morning," New York 1, WNBC'S "News for New York" at 11pm, and Bravo's "A-List Awards."

For ticket information for Celebrity Autobiography in Sarasota, phone 941 953 3368, and in San Francisco, phone 415 771 6900 or visit www.celebrityautobiography.com.

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