CHANNELING KEVIN SPACEY Begins Off-Broadway, 4/17

The New York premiere of Elan Wolf Farbiarz and Cory Terry's Channeling Kevin Spacey will begin performances at Off Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre on Sunday, April 17, 2011 with an official opening scheduled for May 15. The comedy, a three-time Best of Fest winner at the Toronto, Edmonton and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals, stars Justin R. G. Holcomb and Jamil Chokachi.

The announcement was made today by Wolf & William Productions, producers of Channeling Kevin Spacey.

Meet film buff Charlie, a meek pushover in a dead end job and a loveless relationship who shuffles through life like a Kevin Spacey character, breathlessly defeated. After a particularly soul-squashing day at work, Charlie has an epiphany and resolves to change his life by morphing into the real-life version of Al Pacino's most famous characters, resulting in a series of devastating and hilarious confrontations that makes Channeling Kevin Spacey a must-see for movie-lovers of all types.

Called "Brilliant" by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and "A Must-See" by EYE Weekly, Channeling Kevin Spacey premiered at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival in July 2008, where it promptly sold out its run and garnered the prestigious Best of Fest award. Following its success in Winnipeg it played The Edmonton Fringe, the largest theater festival in North America, where it again won Best of Fest. Channeling Kevin Spacey won that same honor at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival and in 2010 the show was performed to rave reviews at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

Co-author and Director Elan Wolf Farbiarz has spent the last five years producing and directing shows across the United States and Canada, receiving top honors in Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Orlando. He has authored several comedies and appeared in and produced international tours of The Bible (abridged), The Movies (abridged) and Channeling Kevin Spacey. Drawing critical success and sold out audiences in every city he has produced in, Farbiarz has garnered several Best of Fest awards throughout the fringe festival theater circuit.

Co-author Cory Terry has contributed material to the fringe hit The Movies (abridged). He has received writing accolades and awards from foreign and national pres and his work has been praised in print by dailies like The Toronto Star and The Star Phoenix and across the blogosphere.

Justin R. G. Holcomb (Charlie) was most recently seen as Wray in Pan Asian Repertory's production of Monster. NYC credits include Katsaros, McCullough & Greer's Orphan Train (Patricia Birch, director), Henry VI part III (Wide Eyed Productions), 365 Days/365 Plays (The Public), Love in the Insecurity Zone, Dangerous Corner and King Lear (Boomerang Theatre Co.), A Brief History of Murder, Georges Bataille's Bathrobe, Spacemen From Space, Devils, Sacrificial Offerings and The Magnificent Ambersons (The Brick), The Delphinium Mansion by Libby Leonard (American Globe, Second Stage and the Samuel French Festival), As You Like It (Reduxion Theatre Co.), Young Zombies in Love (Jackson Gay, dir.), The Blue Balloon, Adam's Dream, The Ides of March and The Cherry Orchard (Columbia). Regional appearances include A Christmas Story (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Unnecessary Farce (Gulfshore Playhouse), Katsaros & Wilson's Great Expectations (Mill Mountain Theatre), Jekyll & Hyde and West Side Story (Gateway Playhouse). Film credits include M*O*A*B and Displacement.

Jamil Chokachi (Multiple Characters) recently returned from the national tour of Cabaret where he understudied the Emcee. Credits from LA and beyond include Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Arturo Ui in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Freddie the American in Chess, Dromio of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors and Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in Frankfurt, Germany. Directing credits include A Piece of My Heart, In the Heart of America and Marat/Sade.

Tickets for Channeling Kevin Spacey ($36.50-$59.50) are available by calling Telecharge at (212) 239-6200, via Telecharge.com, or by visiting the St. Luke's box office at 308 West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Performances are held Saturdays at 2pm and Sundays at 7pm.

For more information visit www.CKStheshow.com

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