KAPINSKI PRIVATE EYE ACADEMY Opens at the Brick, 9/17-24

Created by Butt Kapinski, Eric Davis, Sarah "Snaps" Alden and Patty Farrell. Featuring Butt Kapinski (Private Eye), Sarah "Snaps" Alden (Violin), Patty Farrell (Accordian). Directed by Eric Davis. Street Security by Emmet and Merrill. Special thanks to Bamonte's Restaurant and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. 

The Kapinski Private Eye Academy will run Fri 9/17 @ 8:30pm, Mon 9/20 @ 8:45pm, Tue 9/21 @ 8:45pm, Wed 9/22 @ 8:30pm & Fri 9/24 @ 10:30pm as part of the New York Clown Theatre Festival at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn). Tickets ($15 / $10 for Weekend Matinee Family Shows) may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111.

Deanna Fleysher is Butt Kapinski. As an improviser, Deanna has performed at the UCB, PIT and Magnet, created Foreplay (perhaps the world's only erotic improv comedy show) and Echo (perhaps the world's only interpretative dance improv comedy show. As a clown, she created Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir with Fools on Fire. She has studied with Phillipe Gaulier, Giovanni Fusetti, Eric Davis, Mick Barnfather, and others. She trained as an actor at Amherst College and in the world. She directs Emmet and Merrill, and Red Bastard.
 
Eric Davis is a master teacher and practitioner of Bouffon and Clown and a Co-Director of the New York Clown Theatre Festival. His Bouffon and Clown work have received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Time Out NY, The Village Voice, Backstage and the Hollywood Reporter. He is the Director and Co-writer of Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir, and Bouffon Glass Menagerie, which received 4 nominations (Outstanding Director, Original Short Script, Ensemble and Production) from the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Mr. Davis starred as the lead clown in Cirque du Soleil's Quidam and work shopped their 2009 touring production. His work as Red Bastard is celebrated both in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked with Sue Morrison, David Shiner, Rene Bazinet and studied under Philippe Gaulier.
 
Sarah Alden is an avid performer and community educator of many folk traditions. Sarah performs with the Luminescent Orchestrii, Hoppin John Stringband has worked with Dan Zanes, Astrograss. She has toured and taught internationally, hosting workshops in traditional folk music. As curator, Alden co-organizes The Balkan Shout Out, a yearly benefit for the Eastern European Folklife Center. Alden earned her degree from Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and has traveled to Eastern Europe, The balkans, and the Appalachian region of the United States to study and collect traditional folk music. Sarah currently teaches with The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music.
 
Patrick Farrell is a Brooklyn based accordionist, brass fanatic, composer and bandleader who has been described as a "wizard" by Feast of Music and as a player of "mordant wit and blistering speed" by Lucid Culture. An open-eared approach and consistent curiosity about music have led him to study and perform in an ever-expanding variety of musicAl Fields, including collaborations in theater, dance and spoken word.
 
F. O. Fire makes dark, idiotic comedy. Their last show, Kill Me Loudly: A Clown Noir" was featured at the 2008 New York Clown Theatre Festival. www.foolsonfire.org