HYPOCHONDRIA Has Launch Party 3/13, Kyle Jarrow, Libby Winters Lead

HYPOCHONDRIA, a new play by OBIE wining playwright/composer Kyle Jarrow is having its launch party on Sunday, March 13th at Under St. Marks Theatre (94 St. Marks Place at First Avenue). Come enjoy performances of Broadway and downtown stars galore. Drink, dance, be aurally aroused, meet the cast and get a SNEAK PEAK at music from the show!

With live performances by:
Kyle Jarrow, Libby Winters (AMERICAN IDIOT), Mo Brady (THE ADDAMS FAMILY), Max Jenkins (THE LAST GOODBYE), Clay McLeod Chapman (THE PUMPKIN PIE SHOW), Lauren Worsham, Colin McAdoo, Molly McAdoo, Eli Zoller, Amanda Duarte, Preston Martin, Ethan Wagner and MORE...

$10 at the door. From 7 PM - 10 PM.

Jimmy Maize will direct the world premiere of HYPOCONDRIA at Columbia University, Shapiro Theatre on April 8th - 10th. The play will star Peter Balcke, Lauren Cipoletti, Will Dagger, Logan Hall, Leon Ingulsrud (Siti Company Member: bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Antigone), Preston Martin, Erika Rolfsrud (Broadway's Exit The King, The Coast of Utopia, Rabbit Hole) and Margo Seibert.

HYPOCOHONDRIA is a pulpy dark comedy about a hypochondriac, a serial killer, a detective, and a man who believes he's Marilyn Monroe. The play explores modern society's obsessions with celebrity, trauma, and tragedy with lying, killing, dying and a whole bunch of original rock songs.

The creative team includes Kyle Jarrow (Writer/Composer), Jimmy Maize (Director), Ethan Wagner (Arranger/Musical Director) and Alona Fogel (Producer)

Kyle Jarrow is a writer and musician based in New York City. He writes for the stage as well as film and television, he plays in the band Super Mirage, and he's a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press. He won the prestigious OBIE Award at age 24 for his Off-Broadway hit A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle wrote the film Armless, adapted from his play of the same name, which was an official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2010. Other stage plays include Love Kills, Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open (co-writer), Hostage Song (music & lyrics), Gorilla Man (script available from Samuel French), and Whisper House (with Tony-winner Duncan Sheik, record now available from RCA/Victor).

Jimmy Maize is an award-winning playwright/director and Artistic Associate of Tectonic Theater Project. He assistant directed 33 Variations with Jane Fonda on Broadway, Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo (Center Theatre Group), The Laramie Project (national tour) and helped develop numerous other projects with Moisés Kaufman. Recent directing credits include A Dream Play and The Seagull (Columbia University); The Skin of Our Teeth (Strasberg Institute); A Different Kind of Animal (Theater Row); You're Invited (Old Vic); Lucky Pink Wonderland (People's Improv Theatre) and Quantum Love Story (Theater Bureau). As a playwright he is a recipient of numerous awards including the David Nord Award and the first annual Bailiwick playwriting award for his interview-based play In One Room, which has been performed nationally. He is a current MFA directing candidate at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

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