NICKEL DICKERS
Nickel Dickers: A Hollywood Origins Story
NICKEL DICKERS PREMIERE
The satirical play about Old Hollywood debuts at the McCadden Theatre in June
For Immediate Release — Los Angeles, CA — April 2018 — Satirical one-act play Nickel Dickers debuts this June at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. A limited-run engagement, Nickel Dickers tells a Forrest-Gumpian tale of how two self-obsessed producers created everything in Hollywood ever, taking the audience on an over-the-top ride through Old Hollywood and the dubious origins of some of its most famed actors, films and flights of fancy.
Hot shots Dick Metro (Anthony Guerino) and Flint Springs (Breck Denny) navigate their way among neurotic starlets, authoritarian Austrian auteurs, poor waiter service, the changing times, monkeys, and their own inflated hubris. Nickel Dickers both celebrates and pokes fun at the archetype of the exploitative, power-lunching cover-up artist that is the Old Hollywood Producer, struggling to deal with the karmic cause-and-effect backlash of its own excess and inhumanity. The play is a prescient satire about everything we revere, scold, love and hate about Hollywood culture.
Breck Denny produces, co-writes and stars in Nickel Dickers as Flint Springs. After graduating from NYU, Breck moved to LA and rekindled his friendship his old New York buddy Anthony Guerino while in class at the The Groundlings. During two years of writing sketch and talking in goofy voices with each other, the two stumbled upon two of their favorite characters, Flint Springs and Dick Metro. They first put up what would become Nickel Dickers as a sketch in a local variety show; it played so well that they decided to make it a play. In addition to writing Nickel Dickers, Breck wrote for the 2017 CBS Diversity Showcase and his sketch show Breck and Tim’s Excellent 80’s Adventure Show was an LA Weekly “pick of the week.” He has also appeared in commercials for Ford, Progressive and Mike’s Hard Lemonade, among others.
Anthony Guerino produces, co-writes and stars in Nickel Dickers as Dick Metro. He is a recurring guest star on Fusion TV’s Happy Ending With Nando Villa and is the titular character and star of the feature comedy Bruce, currently streaming on Amazon. In 2017 Anthony won Best Supporting Actor at IndieFest for his role as Barney Allen in the feature drama The Meanest Man in Texas. He has received training at The New School, Atlantic Acting School, and the highest levels of Groundlings, UCB and the Second City Conservatory.
SHOWTIMES
June 2 at 5:30 PM
June 8 at 8:30 PM
June 10 at 3:30 PM
June 14 at 11:30 PM
June 16th at 10:00 PM
LOCATION
McCadden Theatre
1157 N. McCadden Place
Los Angeles, CA 90038
TICKETS/ADMISSION
June 2 at 5:30 PM — $15
June 8 at 8:30 PM — $10
June 10 at 3:30 PM — $8
June 14 at 10:00 PM — $5
June 16 at 10:00 PM — $15
RUN TIME
45 minutes
CONTACT
[email protected]
ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: Fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers. Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts.
