James Judd's 7 SINS Runs At Theatre Off Jackson 3/6 - 3/7

7 Sins is a collection of true, fast, and funny stories from The Life of writer/comedian James Judd.  It chronicles his early ambition to win his 5th Grade book report competition with My Search for Patty Hearst, and his first job when his working mother paid him to watch The Young and the Restless and then reenact it for her. He relives his varied careers as a forgotten employee of AT&T, where he did nothing for a year, an even shorter-lived career as a dot.com journalist (which led to an insane night with five Chinese billionaires in a Chinese bordello), and as an under-prepared criminal defense attorney representing violent teenage girls, as well as many more strange and always funny stories.

James Judd's 7 SINS will be performed at Theatre Off Jackson (409 7th Ave S. in the International District) Friday and Saturday March 6 & 7, 2009 at 8:00 pm.

Tickets cost $15. For more information visit: www.theatreoffjackson.org or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56817.

James Judd grew up in Saratoga, California and began his training at A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory Summer Program.  He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco.  He has performed in the SF Comedy Competition, Star Search, Evening at the Improv and was a member of the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles.  He lives in San Francisco.
 
As part of SPF#3-"Apply Liberally!" SPF is Seattle's annual solo performance theatre festival, and is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo theatre artists.  SPF (Solo Performance Festival) strives to create a resonance in the community by illuminating the compelling nature of solo performance that exists between just one performer on stage and an entire audience.
 
The Solo Performance Festival was founded in 2007 by a group of theatre artists who wanted to support each other in producing their solo shows. The nature of solo shows is so lonely--why not band together. The history of solo performance has exploded over the last 20 years. It seems as though everyone has a solo show and why not? It is the most frightening thing an actor/creator can do: standing alone and speaking their truth (both real and imagined) and then suffer the consequences of owning it. When the bad reviews come out there is no one to blame and when the good reviews come out there is no one there to celebrate. The dressing room is empty and there is no one to laugh with about the lines that got flubbed. There is no way out. There is also a bigger risk for the audience. Generally the actor is looking right at you. The audience is the scene partner. The actor must listen to the audience and include them while not letting the audience and their yawns, clapping, laughing, cell phones and candy wrappers derail the show.  At its best it is one person's voice, body and imagination taking flight and bringing the audience along for the ride. This festival was co-founded and curated by Keira McDonald. 
 
Keira McDonald (Creator/Performer) is a self-producing theatre artist who lives in Seattle. Her first one woman show “Showerhead” was seen at Mae West Fest, Odd Duck Studio, Re-BAR (Seattle, WA.), Frontera Fest (Best of fest, Austin, TX) UNO SOLO festival (Victoria, BC) and Manhattan Theatre Source’s EstroGenius Festival (NY, NY.) Her second one woman show “The Bridesmaid” premiered at The Comedy Tree (London, UK) and was featured at Theatre Off Jackson and CHAC (Seattle, WA.) and Bryant Lake Bowl (Minneapolis, MN.) It toured The Canadian Fringe Festival Circuit to sold out audiences in Regina, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver 2007. Her third one woman show 'BLAsT!' premiered at The Regina International Theatre Festival and toured to Winnipeg and Saskatoon. She is the Founder and Producer/Curator of Seattle's Solo Performance Festival (SPF) at Theatre Off Jackson which is about to launch it's third season.
 
Since being created SPF has produced the work of 31 artists from Washington, California, Alberta and Ontario (Canada.) The stories that have been shared have been about weddings, zombies, suicide, Boobs, camping trips, gloomy  head masters, prodigal sons, the ethics of cat surgery, bombs, the seven deadly sins, condos, yoga retreats, horse obsession, shop lifting, maggots in your shoe and one Giant Invisible Robot among other things.

SPF # 3 continues to take risks. This year we are partnering with:

Local theater, dance and performance artists including both first time solo performers and veterans in “Shorties! An Evening of Short Solo Performance” (Wed-Thur Mar 4-5, 8PM)

San Francisco’s James Judd returns to SPF with “7 Sins” (Fri-Sat Mar. 6-7, 8PM)

The Burlesque Community: “xxperience Boylesque” curated by and featuring Waxie Moon (Fri-Sat Mar 13-14, 10PM)

Local playwright S.P. Miskowski’s “my new friends (are so much better than you)” featuring Morgan Rowe (Thur-Sat Mar 12-14, 8PM)

People’s Republic of Komedy presents “Theatre of Pain” (Fri-Sat Mar 13-14, 10PM)

Local playwright Keri Healey’s “Otter Pop” featuring Keira McDonald (Thur-Sat Mar 19-21, 8PM)

“xxplicit” by Seattle’s gender-bending queer boylesque performer (Thur-Sat Mar 19-21, 8PM)

London, Ontario’s J. McDonald presents his third show at SPF, “Fall Fair” (Thur-Sat Mar 19-21, 8PM)

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