IN MY OWN DEFENCE

Criminal Defence - a Comedy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Murray Meyer, Esq.
[email protected]
213 706 1399
Twitter: @murraymeye
Web: www.itscriminalthecomedy.com www.murraymeyer.com

Single Father, Mob Boss and a Pot-Selling Nun Tangle
in Murray Meyer’s One-Man Show at the Hudson Guild Theater
IN MY OWN DEFENCE
See trailerish video https://youtu.be/5vxnHdMCyaI

It’s the 1980’s and I’ve just become a criminal defense lawyer when my ex-wife suddenly sends my two teenage boys to live with me in a Hollywood commune run by a pot selling nun. Over the years I’ve represented alleged murderers, pimps, prostitutes, cops, drug dealers, drug addicts, arsonists, robbers, and thieves but defending myself IS my toughest case.
Written and performed by: me, Murray Meyer
Directed by: my wife, Laurel Ollstein
Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018
www.Hollywoodfringe.org
June 15, 8pm June 16, 8pm, June 17, 7pm, June 22, 8pm, June 24, 7pm
$10 Tickets online and at the door
http://hff18.org/5157
Hudson Guild Theater
6539 Santa Monica Boulevard

Kristen Larocque of the Montreal Mirror wrote about my show Walking Back To Brooklyn. “Meyer’s transition from character to character and from past to present is seamless, funny and truly entertaining.”
And the Los Angeles Weekly noted re It’s Criminal! The Comedy, “More lawyers should do one-person shows.”
www.itscriminalthecomedy.com – is my take on the daily menu of mishegas I encounter in my job.
MURRAY MEYER (Writer/Performer)
- criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles
- comedian, story-teller and writer/performer of one man shows It’s Criminal! The Comedy, Walking Back to Brooklyn, In My Own Defence
LAUREL OLLSTEIN (Director) The biting wit of Dorothy Parker inspired Ollstein’s first writing and directing project — a one-woman show. Laughter, Hope and a Sock in the Eye toured New York City, Baltimore and Los Angeles, winning awards and Critic’s Choice from the LA Weekly and LA Reader. She has since coached dozens of other performers and writers through the Solo Show development process through her classes at UCLA and other venues.
Ollstein has directed many plays including Alice Tuan’s HIT at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, as well as Sardines and her own plays, Cheese and Esther’s Moustache, and They Promised Her the Moon. at the Actor’s Gang Theater, and New Jersey Repertory.
They Promised Her the Moon will receive its WORLD PREMIERE performance at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego for their 2019 season.