CHER! Marianne Bayard's Original Character CHER! performs regularly in Comedy and Vaudeville venues in Boston and NYC. We have been working on new material for a full show to tour late 2011. Physical comedy, puppetry, music and emotional glory!
Written and performed by Marianne BayardDirected by Audrey Crabtree
Marianne Bayard’s original character Cher! uses physical comedy, puppetry, improvisation and of course music to explores love, loss and redemption. Experience Cher! in all of her emotional glory!
Marianne Bayard studied acting at Emerson College and clown and physical comedy in Paris at the Ecole Phillipe Gaulier, as well as additional Master workshops Mick Barnfather, Kenny Raskin and Kendall Cornell. She has written and produced her own video short Eloise Cooks and co-wrote sketches for the improv group The Line. She has been featured in a variety or short films and worked background for Knight and Day (2010), The Zookeeper (2010) and What’s Your Number?(2011).
Cher! has performed at:
Improv Boston Theatre
Vaude Kill! @ The Camtab Lounge, Cambridge MA
Neon Lights, Brooklyn, NY
Amazing Things Art Center
Claire de Lune Cafe, San Diego, CA
La Strada returns to New York running Off-Broadway! La Strada returns after winning two HOLA awards (for Best Direction and Outstanding Performance). I am proud to have directed the clowns. Running October 22nd-December 4th Tues-Wed 7pm, Thurs-Sat 8pm and Sat and Sun 3pm. TBG Theatre 312 West 36th St. 3rd Fl. In Spanish with English supertitles.
La Strada returns to New York running Off-Broadway!
LA STRADA
Off-Broadway run at Barrow Street TBG Theater
OCTOBER 22nd- DECEMBER 4TH
The play opens as three desperate clowns scramble to create an act to save their jobs. La Strada then unfolds into the story of a frail and innocent young woman, Gelsomina, sold to a brutish man, Zampanó, who works as a traveling showman. She joins him on the road as a part of his act, enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. Trouble erupts when the pair joins a traveling circus, where they meet a clown who secretly falls in love with the woman. What will happen when Zampanó realizes the clown's intentions towards Gelsomina? Will she stay with him, even if that means further enduring his maltreatments?
Peg-Ass-Us Workshopped in NYC, in 2008 toured The Fringe Festival Circuit, Winning "Best Comedy” at the 2008 San Francisco Fringe, Performed at Bard College, and in 2010
WINNER OF: BEST COMEDY @ THE SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL 2008
See promo video above!
Written and Performed by :
PEG-ASS-USThis real-life couple, have crafted perhaps the silliest, most heartfelt romantic comedy about strap-on anal sex ever. Their beginner's guide to “pegging” complete with sing-a-longs, how-to’s, puppets burlesque and audience interaction - offers a hilariously penetrating look at queer sex for straight folks. But as the lesson probes deeper, it devolves into a lover's quarrel that tickles qualms, exposes scruples, liberates desire and comes to a climax where everyone gets off! Most shows also feature an audience talk-back!
John Leo and Sophie Nimmannit
Directorial Consultant: Audrey Crabtree
John first described the idea for this show to me after a rehearsal for his show Numbers UP!we were working on together. I had never heard the term "Pegging" before. He described his struggle to share his private sexuality with a partner. It is a story of rejection, gender exploration, mis-conceptions from potential partners, lovers and friends and ultimately the challenges of the reality after finding a loving partner. He explained they thought the show could be educational, sweet, dark and really really funny!
The more the three of us talked it became clear this show could be all those things and more. It could open up discussion among couples, encourage people embrace their personal sexuality, create healing, and remind us all that we are here to love and play with each other and that we do it best when we communicate.
Sophie and John are both hilarious, brave, mulit-talented performers who have revealed their personal sexual truth, making us giggle at the long standing American taboo of discussing S-E-X!
For more info on this dynamic, innovative company see: PACK OF OTHERS
LA STRATA This is a staged version of the Fellini Film in Spanish. I am clown consulting for this production directed by René Buch and Jorge Merced. Congratulations to the amazing cast and crew as this show is moving on to DC, Miami, Spain and Italy! :)
FEDERICO FELLINI, TULLIO PINELLI and ENNIO FLAIANO
Spanish adaptation by
GERARD VAZQUEZ
Directed by RENE BUCH
Co-directed by JORGE MERCED
Clown Consultation by AUDREY CRABTREE
La Strada tells the story of a frail and innocent young woman, Gelsomina (played in Fellini's classic by Giuletta Massina,) sold to a brutish man, Zampanó (played by Anthony Quinn in the film,) who works as a traveling showman. She joins him on the road as a part of his act, enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. Trouble erupts when the pair joins a traveling circus, where they meet a clown who secretly falls in love with the young woman. What will happen when Zampanó realizes the clown's intentions towards Gelsomina? Will she stay with him, even if that means further enduring his maltreatments?
Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Film in 1956, La Strada is a timeless masterpiece that will be brought, for the first time, to the New York theatre scene. This production is the result of a collaborative work between IATI, one of the most prestigious Hispanic theaters in New York, and a Spanish artistic company also named La Strada, whose goal is to build a cultural bridge between Spain and the US.
IATI Theater and La Strada Company are pleased to announce the US premiere production of the stage adaptation of Federico Fellini’s La Strada, co-directed by Rene Buch and Jorge Merced. La Strada will play only 12 performances at IATI Theater (64 East 4th Street). Performances begin Wednesday, February 23 and continue throughSunday, March 6. The performances will be in Spanish, with English supertitles.
Starring
LUIS CARLOS DE LA LOMBANA, IRENE AGUILAR, ISREAL RUIZ,
WINSTON ESTEVEZ, NANDA ABELLA, ADELA MARIA BOLET
