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A
(Bearded) Lady
BLESSING
HER HEART
Break-Upocalypse
Carnival
Of Chaos: "Survival Tips For The Reckless"
Cemetery
Golf
Cockroach
De
Rerum Natura; Or, Love The One You Whip
Eat,
Pray, Laugh!
Fists
of Funny
FOOL
FOR A CLIENT
The
Fox
The
Frank Diary of Anne
The
Godling
Hell,
The Musical
I
Prefer Fur
Inside
Private Lives
J.Lo.Hew
JESUS
IN MONTANA: Adventures in a Doomsday Cult
Knitting
LandEscape
Legs
and All
Marriage:
a queer institution
MISSING:
fugue #9: wear a warm coat
No
Ordinary Nut
Open
Season, A Queer Performance Spectacular
Play
4 Play
Poste
Restante
PUBLIC
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Comedy and Justice for All
Pulp
Scripture
Recess
Searching
for the Voice of the Third
Show
No Show
Spider
Baby the musical
Suicide
Me!
The
Surprise
The
Tao of Everest
Tater
Stew
tempestuous(ness)
or HIStory is Told by the Victors
The
Texas Chainsaw Musical!
Theatre
of the Battle
Ticonderoga
The
Unbearable Lightness of Raya
| Legs And All Climate Theater WEDNESDAY 9 8:30 PM FRIDAY 11 7:00 PM SATURDAY 12 7:00 PM SUNDAY 13 7:00 PM THURSDAY 17 10:00 PM FRIDAY 18 8:30 PM SATURDAY 19 7:00 PM SUNDAY 20 7:00 PM |
by Summer Shapiro PHYSICAL THEATER/COMEDY/MUSIC |
"I was entranced...Shapiro conspired to make the entire audience
fall at her feet...a masterful, sweetly-scathing performer." - Chloe
Veltman of SF Weekly
Legs shoot out from a box, dinner times turn to drum brigades, and fights
turn to tango dancing. This, paired with live original music by classical
percussionist Brandi Brandes and sound-scapes by Jeremy Shapiro, peaks at
human loneliness, roots in physical comedy, and hits up against reality's
glass ceiling to poke about in the breathing space beyond. The world premiere
of Legs And All takes a magical look at the mundane. In a world looking
similar to ours two people stumble into the extraordinary.
VIDEO OF ARTIST'S WORK: www.youtube.com/summershap
WEBSITE: www.summershapiro.com
REVIEW OF ARTIST'S WORK: http://www.artsjournal.com/lies/2008/07/of-cupids-and-clowns.html
Summer Shapiro - Creator/Performer
Summer Shapiro, a San Francisco Clown Conservatory graduate and current
Climate Theater resident artist, in the last year has written and performed
three original physical comedy shows touring to San Francisco, Hawaii and
New York. July 2008 she premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir
at the Climate Theater sharing the bill with Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John
Gilkey, and continuing on to headline with it at the WOW Festival in 2009.
Her clown show with April Wagner, PANTS! The Best Show Ever, sold out in
SF and in the New York Clown Theater Festival 2008. Summer was in a trapeze
clown duo in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles, by Paoli Lacy showcasing at the
Magic Theater in October, 2007. Summer was a performer and core company
member in The Medea Project: Theatre For Incarcerated Women, directed by
Rhodessa Jones in 2006. Summer has trained, performed, and taught performance
in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Ireland. She holds a BA in acting from
UCLA's School of Theater. Summer is grateful to be creating this bi-coastal
production and world premiere of "Legs And All" with some of the
most inspiring artists she's experienced, for this years SF Fringe!
Peter Musante - Co-creator/Performer
Peter Musante is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician currently performing Off-Broadway
in Blue Man Group. As a Blue Man, he's worked in Chicago, Boston, Orlando,
Bogota, Colombia and can be seen in ad campaigns all over Vegas and Brazil.
Out of blue, he has taught improv to kids, improvised in drag at Universal
Studios Hollywood, crooned cowboy tunes in Tokyo, worked as a standardized
patient for medical students and, most recently, developed workshops for
children with autism. After graduating from UCLA's School of Theater in
2005, he played Huck Finn in Big River at Vista, CA's Moonlight Amphitheater
and won the San Diego Theater Critic's Circle Award for Best Actor in a
Musical. A SF Bay Area native, Peter's earliest memories are of watching
his mother, now a respected arts educator, perform with her original improvisational
theater group Flash Family at Ft. Mason. At the moment, he's ecstatic to
be back at home working with his long-time playmate and creative hero Summer
Shapiro for this year's SF Fringe!
Brandi Brandes - Composer/Musician
Brandi Brandes is a multi-disciplinary percussionist, keyboardist, vocalist,
composer and resident artist of the Climate Theater in San Francisco. She
studied with San Francisco Ballet principle percussionist David Rosenthal,
Machete Ensemble composer, and arranger John Calloway. Brandi's musical
foundation is in theater and competitive marching band, evolving with her
involvement in diverse ensembles of San Francisco in Punk Rock Orchestra,
Garnada Arabic and Flamenco Quintet, Rennea y Sus Amigos salsa and Venezuelan
folk music ensemble, The SFSU AfroCuban ensemble, and the Bay Area Rainbow
Symphony. Original theater compositions include City Circus' Kamikaze Heart,
Brava Theater; Tim Barsky's 7 Beggars; work-shopping with Summer Shapiro's
Legs and All at the Climate Theater; and Territories at the Magic Theater.
Theater orchestra credits include Tommy, West Side Story, The Wiz, and she
is a regular stage band member for SF's award-winning sketch comedy troupe
Killing My Lobster. Brandi holds a Bachelor's in music with World Music
emphasis from San Francisco State University.
Jeremy Shapiro - Electronic Music/Sound designer
Jeremy Shapiro has written, recorded, and performed with bands Crank Up
Your Hearing Aid and The Droids You're Looking For. He has produced his
original electronic music for 8 years while training in guitar with Emmy
Award Winner John Lewis, as well as at the Community Music Center in San
Francisco, and on the drums with Jason Willard, San Francisco. Jeremy is
designing sound-scapes and complementary recorded music with Brandi Brandes'
live compositions for the world premiere of "Legs And All".