Barrington's BROADWAY BOUNTY HUNTER with Annie Golden Gets Concert at Joe's Pub

In its first season in residency at Playwrights Horizons, Musical Theatre Factory, under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Shakina Nayfack, announces a concert version of Barrington Stage Company's critically acclaimed production, BROADWAY BOUNTy Hunter.

The evening will be the first of five Joe's Pub concerts in MTF's 10-month lineup of developmental residencies, Joe's Pub Concerts, 4X15's and salons for the 2016-2017 season. A full season lineup will soon be announced.

BROADWAY BOUNTy Hunter with music and lyrics by Joe Iconis and a book by Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin, and Jason SweetTooth Williams, will run at Joe's Pub on September 26th at 9:30PM and features Annie Golden, Alan H. Green, Scott Watanabe, Jeff McCarthy, Badia Farha, Jason Veasey, Anastacia McCleskey, George Salazar, Shannon Tyo, Kourtney Keitt and Porsha Putney.

A Season Launch Party will follow the concert. Tickets are $20 - $40 and can be purchased at mtf.nyc or by calling The Public Theater at 212-967-7555.

Fresh on the heels of a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Barrington Stage Company, (directed by BSC Artistic Director Julie Boyd and produced by Boyd and William Finn) BROADWAY BOUNTy Hunter makes its boisterous Big Apple Debut in concert at Joe's Pub. Inspired by the exploitation movies of the 1970s (think Shaft or Enter the Dragon), this rafter-shaking new musical follows down-on-her-luck actor Annie (played by Annie Golden) as she's asked to become a bounTy Hunter and capture a South American drug lord. With an instant-classic R&B/Funk score, the musical follows a woman of a certain age as she tries to find the inner strength she needs to save theatre and realize her true badass identity. Starring an electric and diverse cast led by Alan H. Green, Scott Watanabe, and Jeff McCarthy, be among the first to catch a glimpse of the show that everyone is talking about. Ready or not, here comes Annie Golden: BounTy Hunter!

The BROADWAY BOUNTy Hunter band features Joel Waggoner: Musical Director/Keyboard; Josh Plotner: Flute/Sax/Shakuhachi/Keys II; Matt Brown: Guitar; Nick Frenay: Trumpet/Flugabone; Tom Jorgenson: Drums; Will Hack: Bass.

Joe Iconis (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a musical theater writer and a fixture on the New York cabaret scene. He has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, an ASCAP Harold Adamson Lyric Award, and a MAC John Wallowitch Songwriting Award. Joe's songs appeared on Season 2 of NBC's "Smash" and his writing has been featured in The New York Times and The Dramatist. He is the author of The Black Suits, Be More Chill, the rock and roll Spaghetti Western musical Bloodsong of Love, ReWrite, Theaterworks USA's The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We The People. Albums: Be More Chill (OCR), Things To Ruin (OCR) and The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Current projects: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse.

Lance Rubin is the author of YA novel Denton Little's Deathdate (winner of the 2016 ILA Young Adult Book Award) and its upcoming sequel, Denton Little's Still Not Dead. He's worked with Joe Iconis and Jason SweetTooth Williams for over a decade (including acting in Bloodsong of Love, Things to Ruin, The Black Suits, and The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks) and he can be heard on the Things to Ruin original cast recording and The Joe Iconis Rock n' Roll Jamboree album. Lance also co-wrote and co-starred in The Lance and Ray Show, which ran at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (and is now a podcast), and is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Jason SweetTooth Williams (Book) is an actor, singer, writer and familiar face in the world of developing musicals in New York City. Broadway BounTy Huntermarks over a decade of collaboration with co-writers Joe Iconis and Lance Rubin. As an actor he has appeared in many Iconis musicals including Bloodsong of Love (Arts Nova), The Black Suits (SPF- The Public Theater), ReWrite (Urban Stages), THINGS TO RUIN (2nd Stage, The Zipper Theater), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (Theaterworks USA) and the upcoming Hunter S. Thompson musical for La Jolla Playhouse. He can also be heard on the THINGS TO RUINOriginal Cast Recording and The Joe Iconis Rock n Roll Jamboree album, both on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. He also recently appeared opposite Jackie Hoffman in Transport Group's revival of Once Upon a Mattress.

Musical Theatre Factory was founded by Artistic Director Shakina Nayfack in January 2014 as a collective for early-career musical theatre makers interested in changing the way new musicals are developed in New York City. The mission of the Factory is to develop and present new Musical Theatre Works in a collaborative environment free from the pressures of critical or commercial success. With a focus on peer-evaluation and process-driven volunteer support, MTF's assembly line of development programming directly addresses the needs of today's musical theatre artists and is intended to nurture new work from initial concepts to full drafts and, occasionally, first productions.

In its first two years MTF has assisted in the development of over 90 new musicals with more than 900 volunteers contributing over 16,000 combined hours of service. The organization has partnered with a number of other theatre companies throughout NYC, including Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre, The People's Improv Theatre, Poetic Theatre Productions, and Playwrights Horizons, where they will begin a three-year residency this coming fall.

MTF members include some of today's most exciting composers, lyricists, book writers, directors, choreographers, music directors, dramaturgs, performers, and arts administrators. The organization is overseen by General Managers Frankie Dailey and Joey Monda, with Creative Producer Aaron Glick serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors.