Katselas Theatre Company to Present BEAUTIFIED, Opening 5/25

Katselas Theatre Company will present Tony Abatemarco's BEAUTIFIED, described as "a riotous new romp through four decades in a Massachusetts beauty parlor.  It's Spring 1969, and hairdresser Mike's opening day gets off to an unexpected start when a beautiful but dour young Republican, Candy, stumbles in looking for anything but a change of hairdo.  But change it he does, and the subsequent years of loyal trips back to Mike's chair prove that a professional relationship such as these two share goes way beyond curing split ends.  True friends emerge in a most unlikely place, with the sights and sounds of the last forty years as backdrop to their bonding."

 Jenny Sullivan (Director) recently directed Nazi Hunter-Simon Wiesenthal (LADCC Award, 3 Ovation  Nominations).  Other credits include work at Rubicon Theatre:  Steel Magnolias, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Tea at Five with Stephanie Zimbalist , Doubt, Trying, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Indie Award) with Joe Spanoand Karyl Lynn Burns; Spit Like A Big Girl; You Can't Take It With You; Hamlet (Indie Award) with Joseph Fuqua; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Tuesdays with Morrie with Harold Gould; Defying Gravity; Happy Days; Art; Dancing at Lughnasa (Indie Award); and Love Letters with Jack Lemmon and Felicia Farr. Jenny helmed The Dresser with Len Cariou and Granville Van Dusen and the West Coast premiere of Jane Martin’s Flags.  She was director of the Geffen Production of Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss and What I Wore and the long running Los Angeles production of The Vagina Monologues; Her world premiere of Jane Anderson’s The Baby Dance began at Pasadena Playhouse, moved to Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre (CT Critics’ Directing Award) and the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off-Broadway. Film credits include Access All Areas andThe Next Best Thing. Jenny is most proud of the world premiere of her play J for J with Jeff Koberand the late great John Ritter. 

Tony Abatemarco (Playwright) is a multi-award winning writer, actor, and director. He is the author of ten  Rob Brownstein in BEAUTIFIED" width="300" height="200" align="right" /> plays, two of which (co-authored Brain Hoteland Sir Vival Sweepstakes) have been produced at theOlympics Arts Festival and Mark Taper Forumrespectively.  In 2011 his most recent short story, Schwinn, was published in the international journal, Boneshaker.  Tony directed Julie Harris in Lucifer’s Child (Broadway and A&E TV), Robyn Peterson’s Catwalk Confidential, (The Arts Theatre in London’s West End & Miami), as well as projects at Pasadena Playhouse, The Taper, Santa Fe Stages, La Mama ETC, and Theatre Grévin in Paris.  A graduate of Juilliard, he has won top honors for his lead performances in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Bach at Leipzig, La Bete, Slow Motion and Four Fathers.  Tony recently starred as “Dr. Rank” in A Doll House opposite Calista Flockhart for LA TheatreWorks, ‘Salieri’ in the acclaimEd Pittsburgh Public Theatre production of Amadeus and ‘Polonius’ in Hamlet at A Noise Within.

BEAUTIFIED opens MAY 25^th and runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2pm through July 1, 2012.  The Skylight Theatre is located at 1816 N. Vermont, LA, 90027.  Tickets are $ 29 ($17.50 - student/senior RUSH discount). Reservations: 702 KTC-TKTS (702-582-8587) or online at http://www.ktctickets.com

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