DAVID AND KATIE GET RE-MARRIED to be Presented at New Brooklyn Theater Super Secret Arts
Performances begin May 26 at Super Secret Arts (400 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn), with an opening set for Saturday, May 28, for a limited run through June 18.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz May. 06, 2022
Super Secret Arts, a newly opened theater in Brooklyn, will present David and Katie Get Re-Married, a dark comedy about the world's worst couple getting married... again. Written and performed by real-life couple David Carl (Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet, Trump Lear, The Tender Bar) and Katie Hartman (Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting, Netflix's The Week Of), David and Katie Get Re-Married is a real time sweet and sour wedding betwixt a star-crossed couple who has broken up and reunited more frequently than Spiderman has been rebooted. Performances begin May 26 at Super Secret Arts (400 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn), with an opening set for Saturday, May 28, for a limited run through June 18.
Directed by Michole Biancosino of Project Y Theatre Company, David and Katie Get Re-Married is a dark comedy about the worst couple in the world on the second happiest day of their lives after the first happiest day of their lives just didn't work out. Family and friends of the couple, who no longer believe in their love, are nowhere to be found. So, the audience is the main guest at the second wedding of David and Katie. This confidently codependent couple will teach everyone how to love correctly through original music, exotic rituals, and a unity volcano. This time it'll stick! For real!
Audiences are encouraged to stick around after the ceremony for a reception complete with dancing and free cake.
David and Katie Get Re-Married is part of Super Secret Arts' inaugural season of programming which is built upon a groundbreaking membership model that seeks to change the economic paradigm surrounding theater making. For $25 a month, audiences receive unlimited access to all performances at Super Secret Arts, averaging 25 shows per month. With a refreshing mix of theater, cabaret, comedy, and music, Super Secret Arts aims to disrupt the theater industry while supporting the next generation of innovative artists.
Founding Artistic Director Toby Singer says: "David and Katie Get Re-Married manages to achieve a delicate balance between subversiveness and genuine heart, a truly rare thing. Also, it's hilarious."
In addition to David and Katie Get Re-Married, Super Secret Arts will feature a refreshing mix of theater, cabaret, comedy, and music throughout the months of May and June. Highlights include Injured List, a storytelling show about music, sports and refusing to be benched, experimental music showcase Sunday Social, and the monthly Sing Through The Signs, an astrology-themed cabaret game show complete with a panel of New York City astrologers.
Twelve performances of David and Katie Get Re-Married will take place May 26-June 18, 2022, at Super Secret Arts, located at 400 3rd Avenue in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. The performance schedule is Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm. Critics are welcome as of the first performance, May 26, which also serves as the official opening.
About the Artists
David Carl (writer and performer) is a New York actor, writer, improviser, impressionist, solo artist and comedian from Dallas, TX. He created Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet (As performed by David Carl) with Michole Biancosino, (director and co-creator) which received an award for "Overall Excellence in Solo Performance" and an extended run at FringeNYC 2014, and went on to Edinburgh 2015 and national touring dates including Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2016. In 2016, he received a nomination for Best Solo Show at the NYIT Awards. Trump Lear ran for 14 months at Under St. Marks, which also went to Edinburgh in 2018/2019 and has toured to Texas and Colorado. In 2017, David was a finalist with Trump Lear for the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Other credits include: George Clooney's The Tender Bar, The Awesome 80s Prom (Ken Davenport; NYC), Things That Don't Happen (Project Y; NYC), The 365 Plays (The Public Theater NYC), Missed Connections (Neighborhood Playhouse), UCBHK Maude Night, The Power of Me (The PIT NYC), 200 Impressions in 60 Minutes (Asylum NYC), The Truth About Santa (Theater of the Apes), Divorce (HBO), Mr. Robot (USA), The Enemy Within (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), Montauk Same Boat, Guiding Light, All My Children, and dozens of voice-overs for radio, TV, and the Internet. www.davidcarlonline.com
Katie Hartman (writer and performer) is an actor, writer, and comedian in NYC. She can be seen in High Maintenance (HBO), Younger (TV Land), Search Party (TBS) and in the Netflix/Adam Sandler film, The Week Of. In July 2018, Katie was selected as a New Face of Comedy for the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. She was a staff writer and performer on the WGA nominated Paid Off with Michael Torpey on truTV. Her web series Made to Order was listed as one of "6 Brilliant Web Series" by Marie Claire and her sketch duo Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting was hailed by Complex Magazine as "One of the Twenty-five Funny People That Should Have Their Own TV Show." In 2012, SBJM's long form sketch show The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino was a critical hit at both the DC and NYC Fringe festivals giving it "Critics Pick" from Time Out New York and The Washington Post. Other theater: The Pumpkin Pie Show (Under St. Marks), Flanagan's Wake (Off Broadway), South by South Death (National Sawdust). www.katiehartman.rocks
Michole Biancosino (director) is a co-founding Artistic Director of the award-winning Project Y Theatre Company. Recent directing credits include Gary Busey's One-Man Hamlet and Trump Lear with David Carl, Lee Blessing's User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff with Project Y at Atlantic Stage 2, The Revival by Samuel Brett Williams at Theatre Row/The Lion, and the musical LoveSick or THINGS THAT DON'T HAPPEN by Lia Romeo at 59E59 Theaters. Her work has been nominated for and won numerous NYIT Awards. She was the recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council's SPARC Award and SDC Gielgud Fellowship in classical directing.
Project Y was founded in 1999 in Washington D.C., by co- Artistic Directors, Michole Biancosino and Andrew Smith. Between 1999 and 2004, they produced 14 shows, including four world premieres. The company's mission is to forge collaborations with playwrights whose work is relevant and resonant to a modern audience, and to developing their work through a reading series, workshop productions, and ultimately: a fully realized production. Since 2008 in New York productions have included the NY premiere of Fubar by KARL GAJDUSEK (writer of Showtime's Dead Like Me and ABC's Last Resort), the world premieres of The Revival (nominated for seven NYIT awards, winner of two) by Samuel Brett Williams and LoveSick or THINGS THAT DON'T HAPPEN (nominated for three NYIT awards including Outstanding Production of a Musical) by Lia Romeo with music by Tony Biancosino and the world premiere of A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff by Lee Blessing. www.projectytheatre.org
About Super Secret Arts
Super Secret Arts is a theater and live arts company located in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. It originates and produces live and digital performances and installations that audiences can experience in-person and online through a number of virtual modalities.
Super Secret Arts seek to change the economic paradigm around theater making, by eschewing traditional forms of funding in favor of a membership model granting unlimited access to all of their performances, for one reasonable monthly fee. It hopes to use this new economic paradigm to do its part in repairing the toxic, broken economic reality of making theater, for artists, creatives, crew, and staff.
Essentially, Super Secret Arts is our answer to the question: if theater was invented today, what would a modern theater company look like?
Super Secret Arts intends to create and produce art that is full of the seriousness, the meaningless, and the preciousness of life, all at once. It believes that theater can mean music, comedy, improv, dance, cabaret, drag, inscrutable stuff, singalongs, immersive experiences, and yes, Theater. While Super Secret Arts stands for joyful art, it stands even more for joyful art-making. It sees genre as a hat to wear - and one should own a number of hats. Finally, Super Secret Arts is driven by a responsibility to make art that shines a flashlight on a troubled, badly broken world, even if we don't understand if or how our contribution helps. We must do our part, even though that is almost certainly not enough.
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