DADDY DIDN'T DIE, DID HE? - PRESS RELEASE
Daddy Didn't Die, Did He?
For Immediate Release
DADDY DIDN’T DIE, DID HE?
A New One-Act Comedy
Written and Performed by Will Matthews & Casey Christensen
Directed by Jeffrey Addiss
Thanks to his oddball mourners, Daddy’s funeral is running way behind schedule and it’s up to one overwhelmed undertaker to get it back on track in this world premiere farce.
Daddy Didn’t Die, Did He? is Will Matthews & Casey Christensen’s seventh show together, and their first at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The two have been a comedy team for over twelve years, and have written and performed their sketch shows at the New York International Fringe Festival, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, the ACME Comedy Theater, iO West, and UCB. New York Magazine called them “breakthrough performers” and NewYorkTheater.com said, "They are charming actors, together and separately… their enthusiasm onstage is infectious.” Their short film Hard Sell, was named Runner-Up for Best Writing in LA’s No Budget Film Festival.
Will Matthews (writer/performer) was a series regular on MTV’s Punk’d and on Logo’s Rick and Steve, and had a recurring role on ABC’s The Middle. Together, Will and Jeffrey are currently developing features with Paramount Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment, and recently completed a half-hour pilot for FX.
Casey Christensen (writer/performer) has appeared on Chelsea Lately and was part of the third cast of the Off-Broadway hit The Donkey Show in New York. She co-wrote and co-starred in the short film Skate Great! and recently made her directorial debut with the short film Hard Sell, in which she starred, co-wrote & co-produced with Will. Hard Sell was Runner-Up for Best Writing in L.A.‘s No Budget Film Festival. Casey also performs in another Hollywood Fringe show, Hemophilia’s House of Horrors.
Jeffrey Addiss (director) most recently directed and co-starred in the webseries, The Majestic. His acting work includes over two dozen national commercials, Light Years (with Allison Janney), and the world premiere of David Mamet’s Two Unrelated Plays (with Ed O’Neil and Michael Cassidy) at the Center Theater Group.
DADDY DIDN’T DIE, DID HE? has its PRESS PREVIEW on
June 6, 2013 at 9:15 pm at
The Ruby Theater at The Complex Theaters
6476 Santa Monica Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90038
Press and Industry comps are available.
DADDY DIDN’T DIE, DID HE? has five more performances at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, all at the Complex Theaters:
June 13 at 8:00pm
June 20th at 8:15pm
June 21st at 9:45pm
June 28th at 11:00pm
June 29th at 9:15pm
Tickets are $12 ($7 for Fringe participants) and can be purchased at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/1346.
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