PUFFS Potter Play Badgers Its Way to An Off-Broadway Extension

PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic, the new Off-Broadway hit that recently opened to rave reviews, had added shows to their weekly schedule due to popular demand at The Elektra Theater (300 West 43rd Street). Starting on November 27, there will be a Sunday matinee performance at 3:00 PM.

PUFFS - presented by TILTED WINDMILLS THEATRICALS - takes a second look at everyone's favorite world of wizards through the eyes of the Puffs, a lovable group of magical misfits. The sold-out sensation ran at New York's Peoples Improv Theater from December 2015 through August 2016 and was called "a fast paced romp" by The New York Times. PUFFS is written by Matt cox and directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker. Tickets, on sale through January 1, are now available at www.PuffsthePlay.com.

Some people are born with the capacity to do great things. Some people change the world. Some people rise from humble beginnings to defeat the forces of darkness in the face of insurmountable odds. PUFFS is the story of the people who sit in class next to those people. Meet Wayne, a very average boy from New Mexico, who finds out he is a wizard... also, wizards are real. Join him and his new friends as they try to keep their heads down and get a basic wizarding education while a certain other famous boy with a very peculiarly shaped scar on his forehead sets out to make life at school increasingly... eventful.

When PUFFS debuted at The Peoples Improv Theater last season, it was celebrated as "a tremendous comedic feast" by The New York Theatre Review. On Stage Blog hailed the show "the best comedy in town, as funny as any of the biggest comedies on Broadway" and Theater is Easy calls it "blissfully hysterical."

The full company features Langston Belton, Madeleine Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Nick Carrillo, Anna Dart, A.J. Ditty, Julie Ann Earls, James Fouhey, Andy Miller, Zac Moon, Eleanor Philips and Stephen Stout. PUFFS has production design by Liz Blessing and Madeleine Bundy, lighting design by Michelle Kelleher, costume design by Madeleine Bundy, sound design by Matt cox and original music by Brian Hoes. Jumpstart Entertainment serves as general manager.

The show is produced by Tilted Windmills Theatricals, Stamatios Tom Hiotis, John Paterakis, George Stephanopoulos and Jonathan Feinsilver, in association with GG Entertainment, Invisible Wall Productions and Eric Kelhoffer, and Stephen Stout and Colin Waitt. It was originally produced at The Peoples Improv Theater by Stephen Stout and Colin Waitt and was developed in part during a residency with the University of Florida, School of Theatre + Dance, Jerry Dickey, School Director.

PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic will be performed on Thursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays at 9:30 PM (7:30 PM starting on November 11) and Saturdays at 9:30 PM. Starting on November 27, there will be a Sunday matinee performance at 3:00 PM. The show, on sale through January 1, is at The Elektra Theater (300 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036). Tickets, which are available at www.PuffsthePlay.com, are $40-$50 with $75 premium seats available.

Matt cox (Playwright) is a playwright, actor, and improviser based in New York City. His plays include Puffs Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years At A Certain School Of Magic & Magic; Cool Chefs Jr.; Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles; The Madness of Captain Dread; and the three-part epic Kapow-i GoGo (Time Out New York "Critics' Pick," Theatre Is Easy "Best Bet"). He also authored the radio play El Hombre Bovino for WNYC's The Greene Space, and contributed to The Flea Theater's The Mysteries. His work has been produced at The Peoples Improv Theater, The Tank, and The Flea Theater, among other places. Matt has studied at The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Tarleton State University, and is a member of The Story Pirates. He is currently working on a book about an Orc. www.MattCoxLand.com

Kristin McCarthy Parker (Director) is an NYC-based director and founding member of Recent Cutbacks. Recent projects: Matt cox's Puffs and Kapow-i GoGo, Recent Cutbacks' Hold On To Your Butts and Fly, You Fools!, Monsoon Season (Sam French OOB Festival Finalist), Ship of Clowns (Fordham/Primary Stages), Franny's Way (Rutgers University), and Dracula (Three Day Hangover). She has also directed and developed work at Ma-Yi, 59E59, The Flea, HERE Arts, Dixon Place, Columbia University, and the University of Florida, among others. Assistantships include Ed Iskandar, Michael Greif, Wendy Goldberg, and Trip Cullman.

TILTED WINDMILLS THEATRICALS (Producer) is a producing partnership between David Carpenter and John Arthur Pinckard. The company specializes in the development of new work for the American theater and is focused on producing artistically and commercially successful entertainment for under-served markets across North America. David Carpenter's Broadway career has taken him from industry powerhouse Dodgers Theatricals (Jersey Boys, Matilda) to DreamWorks Theatricals and most recently to Dede Harris Productions, where he supervised creative development, finances, and day-to-day operations for a 6 Time Tony-Award winning producer. John Arthur Pinckard's producing career began over a decade ago with the cult festival hit Silence! the Musical. Soon he won the prestigious T. Edward Hambleton Fellowship for Creative Producers from Hal Prince, the 21-time Tony Award winning producer and director whose 60 years of hits range from Fiddler on the Roof to Phantom of the Opera. John's work as an independent producer has garnered him four Tony Award nominations and two wins, for Clybourne Park and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder.

Stephen Stout (Original Producer) is an actor, producer and Artistic Director of The Peoples Improv Theater. He co-produced the original sold-out run of Puffs at The PIT as well as the geek theater epic Kapow-i GoGo. He co-created and produced the sold-out, late night hit SERIALS at the Flea Theater from 2011 to 2014. He also ran the New YorK Wing of The Old Vic Theatre's Old Vic New Voices and produced programming at 3LD, Soho House, The Vineyard, The Public and The Old Vic itself.

Colin Waitt (Original Producer) co-produced the original sold-out run of Puffs at The Peoples Improv Theater. He produces SERIALS, the Flea Theater's late night short play competition. Additional credits include cult sensation Kapow-i GoGo (The PIT), I Want To Be Your Man (Feinstein's/54 Below), and Our House in Concert (Associate Producer, The Savoy Theater in London's West End).

JUMPSTART ENTERTAINMENT (General Manager: Roy Gabay & Daniel Kuney) general manages Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions. Built by industry veterans, Roy Gabay and Daniel Kuney, who have more than thirty years of combined experience on Broadway, Jumpstart productions have won thirteen Tony Awards, 14 Drama Desk Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes. Past productions include Rock of Ages, The 39 Steps, Honeymoon in Vegas, Heathers, Fela!, Metamorphoses, The Last Five Years, Wit, The Laramie Project and How I Learned to Drive. www.letsjumpstart.com

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