Potter Parody PUFFS to Apparate Off-Broadway This Fall

Tilted Windmill Theatricals will present PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic - the sold-out sensation running in New York since December 2015 - as it transfers Off-Broadway to The Elektra Theater (300 West 43rd Street).

PUFFS is written by Matt cox and directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker. The enhanced production will start previews on Thursday, September 29 with an official opening of Thursday, October 20 and a limited engagement running through Friday, December 30. The final performance at the show's current home at The Peoples Improv Theater will be on Thursday, August 4.

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.

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 cast features Langston Belton, Madeleine Bundy, Jessie Cannizzaro, Nick Carillo, AJ Ditty, Julie Ann Earls, Andy Miller, Zac Moon, Ellie Philips and Stephen Stout.

The show is produced by Tilted Windmills Theatricals. It was originally produced at The Peoples Improv Theater by Stephen Stout and Colin Waitt.

PUFFS or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic will be performed onThursdays at 7:30 PM, Fridays at 9:30 PM and Saturdays at 9:30 PM. Previews begin on Thursday, September 29; opening night is Thursday, October 20 and the limited engagement runs through Friday, December 30. The show is at The Elektra Theater (300 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036). Tickets to the Off-Broadway run will go on sale August 4 at www.PuffsthePlay.com for $40-$50 with $75 premium seats available.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Matt cox (Playwright) is a New York City-based playwright, actor, improviser, sometimes comic book retail associate, and probably/maybe one day, novelist. His plays include Puffs Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years At A Certain School Of Magic & Magic, Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Madness of Captain Dread, and the 3-part epicKapow-i GoGo. He 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. His acting credits include: Kapow-i GoGo (The PIT), Blogologues (Lively Productions),The Mysteries (Flea Theater), Sarah Flood in Salem Mass (Flea Theater), and Restoration Comedy (Flea Theater). Matt has studied at The Upright Citizens Brigade, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and Tarleton State University.

Kristin McCarthy Parker (Director) is a freelance director currently residing in New York City. Her recent projects include Matt cox's Puffs and Kapow-i GoGo, Three Day Hangover's Dracula, and the award-winning parodiesFly You Fools and Hold On To Your Butts (with her company, Recent Cutbacks). She has directed and developed work at Ma-Yi, 59E59, The Flea, HERE Arts, Dixon Place, The Peoples Improv Theater, FringeNYC, and others. She has also directed for the acting and playwriting programs at Atlantic Acting School, Columbia University, Rutgers University, and Fordham/Primary Stages. Kristin has assisted for Ed Iskandar, Michael Greif, Wendy Goldberg, and Trip Cullman.

TILTED WINDMILLS THEATRICALS (Producer) is a producing partnership between David Carpenter andJohn Arthur Pinckard. The company specializes in the development of new work for the American theater and is currently 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, forClybourne 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 sensationKapow-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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