What passes for comedy
by g.d. kimble
Directed by Rick Hamilton
Showtimes
Tuesday, February 11
7:30pm
Friday, February 14
7:30pm
Synopsis
In the golden of age of live television, the nation is rocked when a backstage prank causes America’s #1 talk show host to utter a vile racial slur live on-the-air. The three young, idealistic writers who are responsible must face the consequences and each other when an all-night work session reveals some hard truths. They each find out where laughter stops and bigotry begins, while they fight for their professional lives.
BIOS
G.D. Kimble is an actor, playwright and director. He is a native of Louisiana, where he was a founding member of both GreenDoor Productions and The Pass-The-Hat-Theatre, having served as artistic director of the latter. He is the author of numerous plays, debuting with Megiddo at Manhattan Repertory Theatre in September 2009. His play Two Irishmen Are Digging A Ditch opened the Neil Labute New Theater Festival and made its Off-Broadway debut in January 2016. In the summer of 2017, he opened The Gentrification Cycle in Los Angeles a double bill consisting of the west coast premiere of Jen Tries Vacation and the world premiere of Locomotive Repair In Three Easy Steps, which was nominated for the Inkwell’s Playwrights Promise Award for Best Play.
Rick Hamilton, Managing Director of the Chain Theatre, is an award-winning filmmaker whose short films "Seeing Glory," "Choices" and "The Fear Inside" have screened around the world and are available on multiple streaming platforms including Amazon, TelloFilms and LesChicks. He directed the Off-Broadway hit show Fabulous! The Queen of New Musical Comedies. Other productions include the NYC premieres of Candy Hearts, Geeks! The Musical and Sophia as well as the Audelco Award-nominated production of Gypsy. www.rickhamilton.nyc