A WOLVERINE WALKS INTO A BAR Starring Jaston Williams and Lauren Lane Opens, 11/11

Jaston Williams' hilarious new show A WOLVERINE WALKS INTO A BAR starring Jaston Williams and Lauren Lane opens Friday, November 11th Stateside at the Paramount (719 Congress Ave). For more information and to purchase tickets go to: http://tickets.austintheatre.org.

Join Jaston Williams (of Tuna, Texas fame) and Lauren Lane (veteran actress from TV's "The Nanny") as they bring to life a bevy of colorful, quirky and endearing American characters in multiple short scenes, including a pacifist from Texas who bonds with a gun-toting grandma, an elderly Grande Dame and world traveler who has a history of sinking gondolas, an Anglo man who longs to be Hispanic, married to a Hispanic woman who wants to be Anglo and the most unlikely couple to ever dance the cotton-eyed Joe!

ABOUT Jaston Williams:
Jaston Williams is known nationally as the co-author, co-star and producer of the four award-winning plays in the Greater Tuna cycle. His performances have played on and off Broadway at the Kennedy Center, the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and all over America. Jaston received the L.A. Dramalogue Award for both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas. A Tuna Christmas was published in "Best Plays of 1995." For several years, he toured in Larry Shue's The Foreigner. He performed in The Fantasticks and directed the musical Bad Girls Upset By The Truth. Jaston received the Texas Governor's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts by a Native Texan and has performed at the White House on three occasions. He has appeared at Austin's State Theatre in Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs and at Zachary Scott Theatre in Jay Preston Allen's Tru, for which he received the Austin Critics Table Award for Best Actor in a drama. He has also appeared at the Zachary Scott Theatre in The Laramie Project and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Jaston's autobiographical play, I'm Not Lying, was the first of his five solo shows, all receiving critical acclaim in performances across the country. The others are Cowboy Noises, Camping With Gasoline, Blame it on Valentine, Texas and his latest Maid Marian in a Stolen Car. Jaston has been seen recently with friends Joe Ely, Kimmie Rhodes, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Jo Carol Pierce in their performance piece, Is There Life After Lubbock? Jaston is the recipient of the 2013 Texas Medal of the Arts and has been inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame.

ABOUT Lauren Lane:
Lauren Lane's career spans stage, film, television and academia. For six seasons she played C.C. Babcock on the television show, THE NANNY. She also played the female lead, Chris Novak, on the detective show, HUNTER as well as a recurring role on L.A. LAW. She has worked regionally at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum, The American Conservatory Theatre and The Dallas Theatre Center among others. She worked for five years as a company member in Tim Robbins' award winning Los Angeles based Theatre Company; THE ACTORS GANG, where she won a Drama-Logue award for her work in Electra directed by Oskar Eustis. Lauren makes her home in Austin Texas where she was honored to be named "A Theatrical Wonder" by the Austin Chronicle and one of the top-ten 'theatrical events' of 2012. She was awarded both the Austin Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and the B. Iden Payne award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work as: Barbara Fordham in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Lane in CLEAN HOUSE and Becky in BECKY'S NEW CAR. Lauren graduated from the MFA program at The American Conservatory Theatre. She is currently Head of Acting at Texas State University and proud to have former students currently working on Broadway, off Broadway, in Film and Television and regional theatres all over the country, Lauren is thrilled to be a part of building a new generation of artists graduating from the performance programs at Texas State University. She is proud to balance life as a working Mother, and her favorite job has been mom to Kate.

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