The Colombo Company, in association with Exhibit Z Productions and Eric Michael Gillett
The Choking Game
March 19- 23 2013
In Residence: March 5-24, 2013
A suburban high school couple wage a violent and emotionally-crippling war against one another against the backdrop of their live amateur internet pornography show. However, when she reveals she has a terminal illness, she makes an unspeakable request of him: “Kill me, live, on the Internet. In front of forty thousand people.”
Performances:
March 19- 23, 7pm
Running time: 90 minutes
Directed by Susanne Boulle
Written by Kaitlin Colombo
Starring Kaitlin Colombo (Natalie), John Zdrojeski (Matt), Dannie Flanagan (Natalie u/s), Benedict Mazurek (Matt u/s), (*)
Creative Team
Fight Choreographer: Christopher Halladay
Scenic Design: Joseph Croghan
Costume Design: Christina Kim
Photographer: Christina Kim
Props Design: Bryan Hartlett
Add’l Props Design: Celey Schumer
Lighting Designer: Lauren Bremen
Projections Design: Greg Westby
Sound Design: Colin Whitely
Producing Team
General Manager /Casting: Director Bill Camany
Production Consultant: Becca Pickett *
Producer: Zach Zoppa (Exhibit Z)
Producer: Andrew Zoppa (Exhibit Z)
Producer: Eric Michael Gillett
Stage Manager: RL Campbell*
Kaitlin Colombo: Kaitlin is a NYC-based stand up comedian, actor, and writer. As a comic, she has appeared on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” (Season IV; Winner, Week #1 Online Fan favorite), MTV’s “The Reality Show”, The Maury Povitch Show, and E! Entertainment television as a comedic correspondent for multiple specials and including “Countdown to the Oscars: Live from the Red Carpet”. She served as Host for AOL/XM’s Satellite Radio’s coverage of the New York City Underground Comedy Festival and hosted Ladies Home Journal’s “Funny Women We Love” gala. The daughter of a Gay man and a Lesbian, she has appeared as a headliner of Rosie O’Donnell‘s R Family Cruise and has been a featured performer for Los Angeles and NYC’s Gay Pride festivities. A regular on the college comedy and lecture circuit, she has lectured about LGBT Inclusion at various colleges across the country. As an actor, she has appeared as Marcy in “Dog Sees God” (The Red Door Theater Company/The Barrow Group Theatre, NYC), Vixen in “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues” (Times Square Arts Center, NYC), Evelyn in “The Shape of Things” (The Colombo Company, NYC) and has workshopped many original theatrical pieces as part of The Actors Studio‘s Playwright-Director’s Workshop. For more information please visit www.KaitlinColombo.com.
Exhibit Z/The Zoppa Brothers: (Producer) The North American premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher‘s adaptation of Frank Marcus‘ The Killing of Sister George; Co-directed and produced the Theater Row revival of Alan Bowne‘s Beirut, with Meital Dohan (Showtime’s Weeds )and Sammi Rotibi (Django Unchained); the New York premiere of Catch a Falling Star, a concert/staged production with Grammy nominee Angela McCluskey. Upcoming Production: ‘Dumb Money’ by playwright, screenwriter and novelist David Klass.
(Photo Credit: XTina Kim)