MY ALAMO WAR
My Alamo War
PRESS CONTACT:
Marlene Kearney
[email protected]
(310) 625-6517
PRESS RELEASE
“Lean Dog – Mean Dog Productions” presents
“MY ALAMO WAR”
Written and Performed by
Ernest Kearney
Directed by Dennis Gersten
“IN SEARCHING FOR SPIRITUAL FRUITS – YOU RUN ACROSS A LOT OF RELIGIOUS NUTS!!”
PRESS CONTACT:
Marlene Kearney
[email protected]
(310) 625-6517
“MY ALAMO WAR”
Written and Performed by
Ernest Kearney
Once a war erupted on the streets of Hollywood
that would stretch across the city and beyond.
It was writer Ernest Kearney’s war. He fought in it. He declared it.
It began on a summer afternoon in 1981
with him simply picking up a pamphlet with the heading
“The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation….”
For the next two and a half years he fought a vicious and relentless guerrilla war against an organization with a nationally televised ministry, that enslaved its followers,
while selling designer jackets to the elite of “Tinsel Town” and infants on the black market.
This is the story of the Alamo War,
from its ludicrous beginnings to its shocking conclusion of madness and rape.
One man’s narrative on the nature
of warfare and faith
ERNEST KEARNEY (Writer & Performer)
Raised by a family of wolves after his abandonment on a remote mountain top Ernest Kearney was naturally drawn to the theater.
As an actor he has played a wide variety of parts including every role in “Hamlet” not requiring a falsetto voice (he was the “Gravedigger” of his generation). He is the recipient of two Dramalogue Awards and has been a finalist or semi-finalist in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition three times. For his play “Peddle” he was named one of America’s best emerging playwrights by the Midwest Theatre Network Competition (1997), and his oft produced “The Little Boy Who Loved Monsters” was accorded East Germany’s Kunstler Preis for a staging directed by Rainer Fassbinder. His most recent work “The Salt Prince” was awarded top honors in the Nathan Miller History Play Contest and received an honorable mention in the Fremont Center Theatre Play Contest. His work has been staged at, to name a few, Berlin’s Black Theatre, Ashland, Oregon’s NPT, and in Los Angeles the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Moving Arts, Theater/Theatre and the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre.
The show will run as part of the 2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Written and performed by award winning playwright Ernest Kearney.
Produced by David Narine and Marlene Kearney
“AMONG THE VIPERS”
“L.A. playwright Ernest Kearney writes with a unique voice that’s part demonic and part phantasmagoric”
The Los Angeles Times
“Among the Vipers plays like a simple, engaging story, not a profound spiritual journey, which makes it infinitely more enjoyable as theater and more powerful as a social statement….”
The LA Weekly
“URNED HAPPINESS”
“…a fatal dose of black comedy.”
The Los Angeles Times
“…Mordant extravaganza of bad taste and guilty giggles…you’ll be buried alive in lethal laffs and mortal mayhem.”
The LA Weekly
“…occasionally hilarious…”
Dramalogue
(Dramalogue Award – Best Comedy)
“THE LITTLE BOY WHO LOVED MONSTERS”
“Kearney’s bizarre play leaves a lasting, disturbing impression….”
The Los Angeles Reader
“Inordinately creative writing…. Kearney exercises control, momentum, and fashions leaps of verbal imagination.”
The Los Angeles Times
“MEAT MARKET”
“…frightfully poignant…crack comic timing…remarkable….”
The LA Weekly
“…a wildly shocking ride.”
The Leader Newspapers
ERNEST KEARNEY
Social Critic for “The TVolution”
Theatre Critic for Bitter Lemons
Winner of The Joyce Award
Winner of The Kunstler Pries
Finalist in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, and the Carnegie Mellon Award,
Voted one of Americans Best New Playwrights by the Midwest Playwrights Conference
ADA Nominee
Honoree of the Nathan Miller History Play Contest
Two Dramalogue Awards
Three restraining orders
Arrest records on three continents
