| A Star-Studded 1-Night-Only-Reading of "SQUEAKY" by Jeff Cohen | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:41 pm EDT 09/23/24 | |
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| The Peccadillo Theater Company In association with Burke-Cohen Entertainment presents A One-Night-Only-Reading of SQUEAKY By Jeff Cohen Directed by Dan Wackerman Featuring an Award-Winning cast: CRAIG BIERKO LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON DAN JENKINS HARRIS YULIN Monday, October 7 at 7:00 pm Theatre at St. Clements, 423 W. 46th St (New York) The Peccadillo Theater Company, in association with Burke-Cohen Entertainment, will present a "ONE-NIGHT-ONLY" reading of Drama Desk Award winner Jeff Cohen's autobiographical comedy "SQUEAKY." The reading, directed by Dan Wackerman, features a multi-award-winning cast including Craig Bierko, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Dan Jenkins, and Harris Yulin. Drama Desk Award winner Jeff Cohen (The Soap Myth, The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller) has penned an audacious autobiographical comedy about his eccentric father, Stan "Squeaky" Cohen - the man who was banned from every Old Country Buffet in metro Baltimore. Squeaky lives in Baltimore's most crime-ridden neighborhood in a ramshackle house that is a city inspection away from being condemned. His son Jeff, a writer living in New York, finds himself battling his older brother Rob - a charmer with a felonious past for drug trafficking - over what is best for their father. Jeff is forced to reckon with childhood events he's spent a lifetime trying to forget. At its core, "SQUEAKY" is about wrestling with end-of-life issues while maintaining your sense of humor. The reading will be performed on Monday, October 7 @ 7:00 pm at Theatre at St. Clements, 423 W. 46 th St (between 8th & 9thAvenues). Admission is free and seating is limited. For reservations, please email squeakyreading@gmail.com. JEFF COHEN has been an actor, playwright, producer and director during his four-decade acclaimed theater career. His work has won every major theatrical award shy of the Tony, including the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Outer Critics, Obie and AUDELCO. He won a special 2002 Drama Desk Award for The Tribeca Playhouse Stage Door Canteen, his response to the tragedy of 9/11 in which stars from Broadway came downtown to entertain "the troops," the rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero. His plays include The Soap Myth (starring such actors as Ed Asner, Richard Dreyfuss, Jayne Atkinson and Tovah Feldshuh ), The Man Who Ate Michael Rockefeller (Critic's Pick in New York Times and Time Out New York) and Men of Clay (Best New Play 2005 in The City Paper, Critics Pick in Time Out New York). He is known for his contemporary American adaptations of classics as profiled alongside Ivo Van Hove and The Wooster Group in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times. Mr. Cohen is credited with launching the careers of such acclaimed actors as Laura Linney, Kathryn Hahn, and Michael Ealy, and playwrights Tom Disch, Christopher Shinn and Tristine Skyler. His productions have been selected for the annual Ten Best lists of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Star Ledger, The Baltimore City Paper, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and many others. HARRIS YULIN portrays "Squeaky Cohen". In his 50-year career Harris has become one of the world's most sought after and recognizable character actors with blockbuster films like "Clear and Present Danger"opposite Harrison Ford, " Ghostbusters 2," and "Training Day" opposite Denzel Washington classic TV movies like "The Missiles of October" and "Victory at Entebbe", guest star in such series as "Kojak ," "Frazier " (Emmy nomination), "Cagney & Lacey" and Murphy Brown" and co-star in such series as "24," "How the West Was Won," "Ozark," and "Billions." DAN JENKINS plays "Jeff." Dan received a Tony Award nomination for playing Huck Finn in Big River. Other Broadway credits include Josh Baskin in Big (Drama Desk nomination), Prior Walter in Angels In America Parts 1 and 2, Mary Poppins and Oslo. He made his film debut as O.C. in Robert Altman's National Lampoon comedy "O.C. and Stiggs." Other film credits include Martin Scorcese's "The Irishman" (as E. Howard Hunt) and John Patrick Shanley's " Five Corners" (as Willie). On TV, Dan starred (as Stringer Kincaid) in Robert Altman's acclaimed, Emmy Award winning mini-series "Tanner '88." CRAIG BIERKO, who portrays "Rob Cohen", received a Best Actor Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut as Professor Henry Hill in the 2000 revival of The Music Man. Other Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls and the 2022 revival of Girl From the North Country. He was part of the all-star cast of the New York Philharmonic's concert staging of Sondheim's "Company" opposite Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, Patti Lupone, Jon Cryer and Katie Finneran. On film, Craig starred as Max Baer opposite Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, and Paul Giamatti in "Cinderella Man" and opposite Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson and Brian Cox in "The Long Kiss Goodnight." TV viewers know him as Jeffrey Coho in "Boston Legal" and Chet Wilton in the Peabody award winning series "UnReal." LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON will play the role of "Connie," Squeaky's long-time roommate and caretaker. LaTanya received a 2014 Tony award nomination for A Raisin in the Sun" opposite Denzel Washington. She directed the acclaimed 2022 Broadway revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson which starred her husband Samuel L. Jackson. She has co-starred in such blockbuster films as "U.S. Marshals," "Sleepless in Seattle," and "Malcolm X". Director DAN WACKERMAN is the artistic director of The Peccadillo Theater Company. Some directing credits for Peccadillo include Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven, Rex Pickett's Sideways (NYC premiere), George Kelly's The Show-Off , Thornton Wilder's A Wilder Christmas, Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon (Drama Desk nomination), William Inge's A Loss of Roses (Best Theatre of 2014, Wall Street Journal), Jeffrey Hatcher's Ten Chimneys (NYC premiere), the Schwartz/Fields/ Abbott/Smith musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Musical Revival), Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law (Obie Award for Outstanding Direction, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, Outer Critics Circle nominations for Outstanding Direction and Revival) and The Talk of the Town by Ginny Redington and Tom Dawes (MAC nomination). Dan was also director recently of Two Jews, Talking starring Hal Linden and Bernie Koppel. The Peccadillo Theater Company, in association with Burke-Cohen Entertainment will present a "ONE-NIGHT-ONLY" reading of Jeff Cohen's "SQUEAKY" on Monday October 7 @ 7:00 pm at Theatre at St. Clements, 423 W. 46th St (between 8th & 9thAvenues). Admission is free and seating is limited. For reservations, please email squeakyreading@gmail.com. |
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