Kangagirl Productions Presents PIE-FACE! THE ADVENTURES OF ANITA BRYANT At FringeNYC 8/14 Thru 8/29

Kangagirl Productions Presents PIE-FACE! THE ADVENTURES OF ANITA BRYANT at the New York International Fringe Festival - FringeNYC as a production of The Present Company.

At the Actors Playhouse at 100 7th Ave South (between Bleecker and Christopher Streets).

FRI 8/14 @ 5:15pm
SAT 8/15 @ 10:45pm
WED 8/19 @ 3:45pm
SAT 8/22 @ 7:45pm
SAT 8/29 @ 2:15pm

Tickets cost $15. For more information, visit www.FringeNYC.org or call 866-468-7619.

A smash hit at the 2009 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival in May, Pie- Face! The Adventures of Anita Bryant will make its New York premiere at FringeNYC.

Before there was Sarah Palin or Miss California...there was Anita Bryant. Created from actual historical events and interviews, Pie Face! is a colorful one-man musical pastiche that exploits the misadventures of Anita Bryant-- the ex-beauty queen and Florida orange juice spokeswoman -- who launched her scandalous conservative "Save Our Children" campaign in 1977.

That anti-gay tirade might've won her some battles in Florida but it galvanized gay activists across the country, including leader Harvey Milk, and ultimately imploded her own entertainment career.

"I decided to write a performance piece about how the anti-gay adoption laws were set into place in the Sunshine State and discovered that most of the ground work was laid in the 70's by Anita Bryant", explains David Karl Lee, writer of Pie-Face! and who also portrays "Anita."

Florida remains the only state with a law prohibiting gay men and lesbian citizens, both couples and individuals, from adopting children.

"With the gay community still fighting this battle and with new anti-gay spokespersons like Miss California getting attention, I feel this play profoundly resonates," notes Kenny Howard, director of Pie-Face.

David Karl Lee (Writer, "Anita"). Recent Off-Broadway directorial credits include: Gem! The Truly Outrageous Parody for FringeNYC (08) and the premiere of Janet Allard's NASCAR play VROOM! for Summer Play Festival (07). His other original plays include JAWZ, The Musical, Nirvanov, Kafka's Shorts, and Hazel and the Bugman (1st Annual FringeNYC). He is the Associate Director of PLAYFEST at The Orlando Shakespeare Theater and Assistant Professor of Directing at Th e University of Central Florida. He received his BFA from The University of Miami (FL) and an MFA from The Yale School of Drama.

Kenny Howard (Director). New York credits include Ladies of Eola Heights for FringeNYC (07), My Pal Bette at the Producer's Club (09) and The Dragness of God and the Naked Holy Ghost (09), The Blue Lagoon: A Musical, and When Bimbos Attack for CringeFest (09.) Other credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Florida Premiere), The Lion Queen, When Pigs Fly, Monorail Inferno, Carolina Moon, Trailer Trash Christmas, Ladies of Eola Heights (I, II and III), Living on The Edge, and numerous other productions in the Orlando Area.

Kangagirl Productions/Margaret Nolan (Producer). For the Orlando International Fringe Festival: Pie-Face! The Adventures of Anita Brya nt (09), A Midnight Snack with Tom & Vincent (07), Coming In (07), Lilly and Lila's Lovely Lesbian Hour (06), and ME, ME, ME, ME (05). Other Orlando credits include: The New Century, The Little Dog Laughed, How I Learned to Drive. Produced workshop of Anne Nelson's Savages that premiered Off-Broadway (07) at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. Also co-produces the annual Gay Orlando Film Festival (GOFF).

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