For Immediate Release
GRAB YOUR “GO-GO JUICE” AND GO!
“Deena Domino was everything I wanted . . . If you’re looking for a show that incorporates
the best of what the Capital Fringe has to offer, then you should definitely check this out. Hilarious!”
– DC METRO ARTS
Pick of The Fringe: 5/5 Stars!
“The play is hilarious . . . The crowd was in tears laughing,
and it makes this particular reviewer wonder how these girls aren’t on the big stage.”
– DC THEATRE SCENE
Straight From A Smash Run At D.C.’s Capital Fringe
The Underdeveloped & Overexposed
Life & Death of Deena Domino
Created by and Starring
Katie Hartman & Leah Rudick
At
The 16th Annual New York International Fringe Festival
A production of The Present Company
Begins Performances Saturday August 11th
The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino, created by and starring acclaimed comedy duo Katie Hartman and Leah Rudick (Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting), will be presented as part of the 16th annual New York International Fringe Festival – Fringe NYC (August 10th – 26th). Directed by Daniel Pettrow (Wooster Group), this darkly absurd rumination of celebrity will play five performances at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street): Saturday, August 11th @ 4:15 p.m.; Sunday, August 12th @ 2:15 p.m.; Thursday, August 16th @ 8:45 p.m.; Saturday, August 18th @ 6:30 p.m. and Tuesday, August 21st @ 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15-$18. Visit www.FringeNYC.org for more information.
What’s more depressing than an aging child movie star? An aging child Reality TV semi-star! Katie Hartman and Leah Rudick play more than 15 characters in The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino, the curdled odyssey of a baby pageant princess and monster extraordinaire. A wicked exploration of the duo’s twisted fear for the children who know nothing in their lives but the desperation of cheap fame, the show began as a five minute sketch lampooning shows such as “Toddlers and Tiaras” and “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” and evolved into an hour-long comedy that follows the life of one baby pageant princess into adulthood and beyond. When there’s nowhere to go but down, proceed with caution . . . and tampered amphetamines.
The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino headlined The Ladies Are Funny Festival in Austin, Texas in May and played DC’s Capital Fringe Festival in July.
Leah Rudick and Katie Hartman have been tearing up the NYC comedy circuit as Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting since 2008, performing at such notable venues as Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Caroline’s on Broadway and the Peoples Improv Theater. Their previous festival appearances include: New York Sketchfest, East to Edinburgh at 59E59, Austin’s Out of Bounds Comedy Festival and Ladies Are Funny Festival, the Charleston Comedy Festival, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe, Boston’s Women in Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They host a monthly variety/comedy/freak show called “Daddy’s Basement” at the PIT that features some of the best talent in New York.
The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino will be stage managed by Youree Choi.
More acclaim for Leah Rudick & Katie Hartman / Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting:
“A vivid, funny, and lively reminder of the joy that is comedy, the joy that is performing,
and the joy that is life.”- IFC
“Wickedly funny. The festival’s ‘Biggest Revelation’!” – The Guardian
“Brilliant – think French and Saunders on crack and you’re nearly there.” – Three Weeks (Edinburgh)
“You owe it to yourself to check out Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting.” – Charleston City Paper
“Sketch comedy at its funny, filthy best.” – NYTheatre.com
“We want to see more of Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting.” – Time Out NY
BIOGRAPHIES
Katie Hartman (Creator/Performer). As one half of the sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, Katie performs comedy all over NYC and travels to festivals across the U.S. and abroad. Other stage credits include her solo show Unhuggable (The PIT), the recent interactive, half improvised production of Flanagan’s Wake off-Broadway, and the upcoming production of Freezer Dreams produced by White Horse Theater Company.
Leah Rudick (Creator/Performer). In addition to performing with Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting (Edinburgh Fringe, The PIT, UCBT, 59E59, Charleston Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds), Leah has performed in New York with Elevator Repair Service Theater, Black Moon Theatre and International WOW. Her film credits include Lost Children (Desperate Comfort Prod., IFP Lab Selection), Bloody Mary (Sci-fi channel), Kids Go to the Woods, Kids Get Dead (Darkstar Entertainment), and Prayer to a Vengeful God (Insurgent Pictures).
Daniel Pettrow (Director) has been an associate actor with The Wooster Group since 2006, and has performed in Hamlet, Who’s Your Dada? and their latest work Vieux Carre. He is also an instructor at The Wooster Group’s “Summer Institute.” Daniel is a frequent collaborator with Bluemouth Inc, having recently presented Dance Marathon at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Daniel works closely with French Director Arthur Nauzyciel and performed the lead roles in Bernard Marie Koltes’ Black Battles With Dogs, Roberto Zucco, and Mark Antony in his current production of Julius Caesar. Daniel directed Marie Darrieussecq’s The Sea Museum for FIAF’s “Crossing the Line” festival in 2010. The production took place in Brooklyn’s abandoned Atlantic Avenue Tunnel – the oldest subway tunnel in the world. He was also part of the cast of Hetero by Denis Lachaud, a site-specific performance directed by Arthur Nauzyciel within the same festival. His film/TV credits include Good Eats, The Cult of Sincerity, The Last Adam, FightF*ckPray, Psychopathia Sexualis, Kathy T and My Uncle Sidney.
For more information, visit www.SkinnyBitchComedy.com and www.FringeNYC.org.
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This show was originally developed in part with the support of Voice & Vision Theater at the 2011 ENVISION Retreat for Women Theater Artists at Bard College.