KEEPING UP WITH THE JORGENSONS Comes to the 2017 San Francisco Fringe Festival

By: Aug. 21, 2017
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Keeping Up with the Jorgenson plays the 2017 San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 8th, 10th, 17th, 21st. A new comedic play written and performed by Jeremy Julian Greco / Directed By Mark Kenward

Jeremy will do anything to secure a visit to the most magical place on earth: Disneyland

San Francisco. Sept 8th, 10th, 17th, and 21st, 2017. Pullover Productions presents Keeping Up with the Jorgensons, The year is 1982 and Jeremy takes a road trip with his week-end father to Orange County. Forced to repeatedly tickle his father's feet, sleep in his grandmother's bed and go to an unknown relative's wedding - to do and say anything that will secure a visit to the most magical place on Earth: Disneyland.

Keeping Up with the Jorgensons, Greco's newest solo comedy, will premiere in its entirety as part of the 26th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival, September 8 through 23, 2017. Keeping Up with the Jorgensons will be presented Friday, Sept 8th at 7pm, Sunday, Sept 10th at 5:30pm, Sunday, Sept 17that 8:30pm and Thursday, Sept 21st at 7pm at the Exit's Studio theater.

Jeremy Julian Greco, a San Francisco-based actor, director and writer, recently performed excerpts of Keeping Up with the Jorgensons at The Marsh and the Yes to Everything Festival produced by Mary Alice Fry and Paco Romane.

Greco's first solo show, With Held, also directed by Mark Kenward, was based on six months of interviews with San Francisco mail artist and writer, John Held Jr. Greco performed it as part of the Marsh's Rising series, CounterPulse, San Francisco Fringe Festival, The Rogue Festival in Fresno and the Marin Fringe Festival, where Greco won a Critics' Circle Best Actor Award.

Thomas Gladysz of the Huffington Post said, "With Held is a quietly transformative work, insightful, compelling, humorous, and ripe with what the stage should always possess - pathos." -Huffington Post 9/9/2013. Read full article at huffingtonpost.com/thomas-gladysz

Other credits include playing Cousin Bubba on the Discovery ID television show, I (Almost) Got Away With It. Greco also penned The Thrilling Adventures of Elvis in Space and The Thrilling Adventures II: Elvis Rex, staring Stefanos X and directed by Margery Fairchild. Both plays were set to the tale of Oedipus, performed in the style of a 1940s serial radio show and premiered at the San Francisco Fringe Festival to sold-out crowds. The Elvis in Space plays also aired on Pirate Cat Radio for six consecutive weeks.

Now celebrating its 26th season, the San Francisco Fringe Festival presents a bold line-up of eclectic theatrical offerings for adventurous and open-minded audiences of all persuasions. Often over-the-top and under-the-radar of traditional theatre-going fare, the Fringe champions the motto No Risk, No Artand has its rabid devotees and wins more fans every year. Most performances run under one hour and it all takes place under one roof, allowing audiences to march from venue to venue, seeing as many shows as possible in a single day.

The 2017 San Francisco Fringe Festival runs September 8 through 23, with performances all days except Mondays, and brings 30 unique productions to San Francisco's EXIT Theatreplex located at 156 Eddy Street in the Tenderloin. For complete listings of shows and curtain times, patrons can visitsffringe.org or call the Fringe Hotline at (415) 673-3847. Tickets are $12 (at the door, cash only) or less per show, with a ten-show Frequent Fringer pass available at $85 and a five-show pass available at $45. Advanced ticket sales are available through the Fringe website: sffringe.org.



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