One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical (2009)
at American Theatre of Actors (Chernuchin)
Friday, Oct 9th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Sunday, Oct 11th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
A completely improvised hour-long musical! Using an audience-suggested title, everything is made up on the spot without ANY writing or planning, including the music, the lyrics, the singing melodies, the characters, the choreography, the plot, the dialogue and anything else you can think of. Fun for all ages!
ONE NIGHT STAND has improvised over 50 musicals across the globe since its inception in January 2007. They’ve performed at The Groundlings Theater and Hudson Theater in Los Angeles, the Dirty South Improv Festival in Carrboro, North Carolina, and twice at the Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh, Scotland for the 2007 & 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. They’ve appeared on BBC Radio, CurrentTv.com (http://current.com/items/89236258_one-night-stand.htm), and several live U.K. talk shows. During their 2008 Total Sell-Out run in Edinburgh, out of 3000 shows, they were named the “#1 Thing to Do” by the Edinburgh Evening News. They can currently be seen on-stage at The Hudson Theater in Hollywood, where they are in the midst of a glorious 5-week run of never-before-seen, never-to-be-seen-again musicals.
JONAH PLATT is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Creative Writing and minors in Film Studies and Music. As a junior at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, CA, Jonah founded the Scene Monkeys, a student improv troupe now in its seventh year. He has appeared in four Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, two with One Night Stand and two with the award-winning HWS-Rembiko Project. Jonah has studied improv at The Groundlings School in Los Angeles, The People's Improv Theater in New York, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in both New York City and Los Angeles. He ran a summer improv program for high schoolers in California and taught musical theater at The Adderley School for the Performing Arts, where he wrote and directed a musical stage adaptation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. A former intern of Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jonah was recently employed as an executive assistant to showrunner Greg Daniels for NBC's Emmy-winning series The Office, and most recently as a writer's assistant for NBC's new comedy series Parks and Recreation. His proudest accomplishment to date is his founding of One Night Stand, which he began in January of 2007. This is his first foray into both producing and directing, though you could say it runs in the family.
QUINN BESWICK
is currently a senior earning his B.F.A in Acting at Emerson College. Since being at Emerson College, Quinn has been Vice President of both the sketch comedy troupe Jimmy's Traveling All-Stars and the theatre troupe Mercutio. Quinn's Emerson Main Stage Credits include Harold in Harold's Fall or King Will and ommy in Six Characters in Search of an Author. Other roles at Emerson include Kip in Life Under Water and The Narrator in Martin Luther: The Rock Opera. Quinn has been on the Dean's Honor List at Emerson College for the past couple years, which is new and different for him. Before going to Emerson College, Quinn graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles like many other members of One Night Stand. While at Harvard-Westlake, Quinn began his improv career as part of The Scene Monkeys. Also, along with Josh Margolin from One Night Stand, Quinn help found Three Young Gentlemen, an improv troupe based out of Boston, MA. Quinn has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival four times in his career, both with and without One Night Stand. Quinn is a member of both SAG and AFTRA, earning him a very small IMdB page. Quinn is the youngest of three boys and his parents think he is great. He looks like his mom and has the same birthday as his dad. Quinn loves to read comic books, play video games, and kills it on the wiffleball field. Quinn also won a singing contest in a McDonald's parking lot, which was judged by Ronald McDonald himself.
has been making things up off of the top of her head since before she can remember and is happy that this is considered a talent onstage. She started doing improv when she was eight at the LA Comedy Connection and was a member of the Harvard-Westlake Scene Monkeys for three years along with several other One Night Standers. She is a senior at NYU where she is pursuing a Bachelor in Music. At NYU, she most recently appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night and originated the role of Friendetta in the new musical I'll Be Damned. She also produced, wrote, and directed The Brady Bunch Experience at NYU. Other favorite roles include Amy in Company, Kim in Bye Bye, Birdie!, and Dona Alhambra inThe Gondoliers. She also writes and records her own original music, which you can check out at www.myspace.com/hellosamanthamartin
SAMANTHA MARTIN
has appeared as an improviser with Chicago City Limits, Broadway's Next Hit Musical, Yale's Just Add Water and Impro Theater's Sondheim Unscripted. He is a member ofChicago City Limits' National Touring Company as well as co-creator of Symposium, an improvised conversation (www.symposiumshow.com). In scripted theater, his work has been seen at Yale Rep (King Lear, Comedy of Errors), Theater for a New Audience (Ohio State Murders), Emerging Artists Theater (Honky, reading), MCC (Zero, reading), The Cherry Lane (Boiling Pot - FringeNYC), The Ohio (The Cenci - Hotel Savant), The Ontological (Great Ape Love Song - Target Margin) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (The Jammer - Fringe First Award). On camera, Kobi has appeared in several commercials, director Casey Neistat's (HBO's Neistat Brothers) recent pilot Washington, as well as the web series Inconvenient Molly. Kobi studied theater at Yale University and improvisation at Second City Chicago.
KOBI LIBII
is a recent graduate of Yale University where he received a BA in Music. A classically trained pianist, he has since served as the music director for the world premiere of Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf Theatre), a reading of Ricky Ian Gordon's upcoming musical Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre VA, 2010) and Twilight in Manchego (NYMF). He has improvised (on the piano, of course), with numerous comedy troupes, including Chicago City Limits, Broadway's Next Hit Musical, One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical, Impro Theatre's Sondheim Unscripted, Just Add Water (Yale University) and The Scene Monkeys (Harvard-Westlake). He also music directed numerous shows at Yale, and co-wrote the music to The Yale Show 2008. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the drums, competitive sports, and attempting to meditate.
ANDREW RESNICK
is a junior at Wesleyan University, where he is pursuing a major in Theater. He graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School in 2007, where he was part of short-form improvisational comedy troupe The Scene Monkeys and participated in multiple school plays. While in high school, Josh was also a member of a two-man comedy group called The Flat (videos at www.theflatwebsite.com). Recently, Josh (with fellow cast member Quinn) was a member of three-man improvisational comedy group The Three Young Gentlemen, which performed in venues across the Boston area. At Wesleyan, Josh can be seen performing with long-form improv group Gag Reflex. This past year he co-organized and performed in Wesleyan's annual student-produced Comedy Show. He has written and directed numerous short films, many of which have won awards at film festivals across the country including the National Undergraduate Film Festival of Columbia University, the LA Film Festival and the Westport Youth Film Festival. Most recently, Josh played the role of Graham in new web series Showbizzle, which is currently running online at showbizzle.com. Josh is thrilled to be a part of One Night Stand and hopes you can all come!
JOSH MARGOLIN
is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, GA with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Theater Studies. In her four years at Emory, she performed in numerous student theater shows including The Laramie Project, Arcadia, No Exit, Lucky Stiff,Act without Words II, and The Actor's Nightmare. She also directed and improvised with Emory's only comedy improv group: Rathskellar (apparently the oldest college improv group in the country). After graduation, Mollie relocated back to her hometown of Los Angeles where she has been performing as a guest artist with Los Angeles based Impro Theatre (www.improtheatre.com) in Jane Austen UnScripted, Tennessee Williams UnScripted and will appear in Shakespeare UnScripted this summer at Theatre of the Arts in Hollywood. Mollie is also a founding member of One Night Stand with whom she has performed for sold out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2007 and 2008.
MOLLIE TAXE
is a graduate of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts (CAP 21 and Playwrights Horizons) with a BFA in Theater and a minor in Producing, who now resides in New York City. He is a proud member of Theater Mitu (www.theatermitu.com), an East Village theater company. With Mitu, he's appeared as Adam Cochran (the character) in DR.C (or How I Learned to Act in Eight Steps) (3-Legged Dog), Pollux in The Apostle Project (New York Theatre Workshop), Peaches in Canticle (NYU Grad Acting), an SFX artist in Blind Mouth Singing (Baruch College) and Berger in Hair (Skirball Center). Outside of Mitu, he's most recently appeared as Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (Access Theater), Miss West Coast in Pageant(Stoneham Theatre, Boston) and Gavin on the web series Showbizzle.com. He is also a founding member of One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical, with whom he sold out two summers in a row at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Highlights at NYU include Peter (Peter Pan), Flashlights & Knives (Nate), Polaroid Stories (Narcissus) and serving as both Skszp the guitarist and music director of Hedwig & The Angry Inch. He is also an emerging songwriter/recording artist, currently in the throes of developing a rock-cabaret persona named Minq Vaadka and recording Minq's first album, The Plastic Masquerade. (www.minqvaadka.com) Adam also designed and built One Night Stand's website!
ADAM COCHRAN
Marc is represented on Broadway, in London, Melbourne, and throughout North America by Wicked. He also produced the Broadway debut of Richard Greenberg’s play Three Days of Rain, starring Julia Roberts, directed by Joe Mantello; Pal Joey starring Stockard Channing; and Matthew Bourne’s ballet Edward Scissorhands. Films: Rachel Getting Married, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Anne Hathaway and Debra Winger; Wanted starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, and Morgan Freeman; Legally Blonde;Legally Blonde 2; Honey; Josie and the Pussycats; The Perfect Man; The Seeker. Upcoming Films: Ninedirected by Rob Marshall, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren; Kate Hudson and Fergie; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Michael Cera; Love and Other Impossible Pursuits starring Natalie Portman, directed by Don Roos; Couple of Dicks starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan; and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud starring Zac Efron. Television: Taking The Stage (MTV); Empire Falls (HBO - Golden Globe Award); Once Upon A Mattress (ABC); The Path To 9/11 (ABC). Mr. Platt has served as president for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal).
MAX GLASS
is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.A. in Neuroscience, and he is currently a student in U. Penn's Masters of Applied Positive Psychology Program. Building on his success as business manager (and member) of Off The Beat, U. Penn's premier co-ed performing-arts ensemble, Max joined the production team of One Night Stand in the Spring of 2009. In addition to his ongoing producer duties and psychology studies, Max currently works at Cohen Commercial Properties, a real estate private equity firm in New York City. Often, you can find Max out running in central park or in the audience of One Night Stand.
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