Dan Ruth to Bring One-Man Show A LIFE BEHIND BARS to Whitefire SoloFest 2018

Award-winning Brooklyn actor-writer, Dan Ruth, brings his tour-de-force black comedy, A Life Behind Bars (Winner United Solo 2016, Best Autobiographical Show) to Los Angeles for two performances in association with Whitefire SoloFest 2018.

Fermented in over two decades of booze, bars and gentrification on both sides of the East River, A Life Behind Bars is an unapologetic and hilarious look at what can happen when you reach for the stars but grab for the bottle instead. Through gritty storytelling, Ruth shares dark comic monologues, interwoven with characters he's encountered while working and drinking in the bars and dives of pre-Rudy Giuliani NYC.

A Life Behind Bars is directed by performer-producer-director, Tanya Moberly, a recipient of multiple awards from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs as well as a Bistro Award winner.

A Life Behind Bars plays January 22nd and January 29th at 8pm at 13500 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks, ZIP 91423. Tickets may be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3178156.

Working with long-time friend and collaborator, Tanya Moberly, Ruth performed A Life Behind Bars to a single sold-out audience on December 19th, 2015 at Dixon Place in their main stage theatre and later went on to mount sold-out performances at both The Gutter Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and at Theatre Lab in Richmond, Virginia in April and May of 2016 before bringing the show to The United Solo. In 2017, Ruth was critically lauded in two runs at The Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd Street. Sober for 11 years, Ruth had a lot of practice reaching for bottles, working as a bartender in New York City for over two decades.

Dan Ruth has performed throughout New York City at The Courtyard Playhouse, The Hamlet of Bank Street, The West Bank Café (Laurie Beechman), The Duplex and Don't Tell Mama. Ruth served as core Director for multiple installations of The A-Train Plays at the Sanford Meisner Theatre and as both Director and Performer for the queer comedy troupe Planet Q, with their productions of Yabba Dabba Q and The History of the World Part Q. Original solo shows include White Noise and Once a Catholic at The Duplex, where he also staged a radio Foley-drama entitled Lights Out, based on the work of horror radio master, Arch Oboler. Regionally, Ruth has starred in productions of Brooklyn Boy, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Laughing Wild and Sex Drugs Rock & Roll. Ruth is a member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA and he holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He's the Artistic Director of ANTICCS Theatre Company (Alternative New Theatre In Club/Cabaret Spaces) in New York City.

The Whitefire SoloFest, in its 6th year, runs from January 6th to March 3rd 2018, and is produced by Bryan Rasmussen, Jessica Lynn Johnson and Nancy Santiago.

Find Dan Ruth online at www.danruthbkny.com/about, and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/danruthbkny, Twitter: @danruthbkny and Instagram: #danruthbkny.

Photo Credit: Kyle Rucker

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