CAST AND LOOSE LIVE! to Host 'Back To School Night' at Joe's Pub, 10/27

Cast And Loose Live! returns to present Back To School Night on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 9:30pm at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, and are available at http://joespub.publictheater.org/reserve/index.aspx?performanceNumber=26087.

Cast And Loose Live!isbased on the Tumblr page created and maintained by actress and writer Lynne Marie Rosenberg (High Maintenance); castandloose.tumblr.com offers "your daily dose of show business misogyny, racism and general absurdity," through a collection of the worst casting notices the internet has to offer. In Cast And Loose Live!, the actors bring to life some of the hilarious and stereotypical breakdowns featured on the blog: a hilarious mix of stereotypes, pigeon-holing and requests for tasteful, non-union nudity.

"Seeking 20s/30s - An Asian woman who doesn't have the hard features of most other Asian females - she is more elegant and sophisticated and knows it."

"[LEROY] African American. A young LeVar Burton at heart, aware he's the token black friend but totally cool with it."

"[BRYCE] Witty, tough, stoic. He's a stereotypical gruff cop, but he doesn't know he's blind. And neither do those around him!"

Lynne Marie Rosenberg will perform with guest artists Lauren Blumenfeld (The Assembled Parties), Emilio Delgado ("Sesame Street"), Amber Gray (Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812), Nick Westrate (Casa Valentina), Ching Valdes-Aran (Sex and the City Movie, Across the Universe), and will be directed by Jenn Haltman.

As the academic year gets into full October swing, Cast & Loose Live! will take wayward breakdown authors - student and professional alike - back to school; a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Reading Rainbow Adopt-a-Classroom project.

Lauren Blumenfeld was recently voted one of Backstage magazine's top 30 actors to watch in 2013. Last spring, Lauren made her Broadway debut in the Tony nominated, critically acclaimed world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Assembled Parties, at the Friedman Theatre. And just last fall, she was seen in Jackie Sibblies Drury's critically acclaimed and twice extended production of We Are Proud To Present . . . at Soho Rep.

Emilio Delgado is an actor and singer, best known as "Luis" the Fix-it Shop owner from Sesame Street. He was born in Calexico, California and spent the early part of his childhood living across the border in Mexicali, Mexico in an extended family household that included grandparents, mother, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. He started working at an early age in Mexicali shining shoes and working in his uncle's bicycle repair shop. During this time, Emilio, a native born American citizen, crossed the border into the United States to attend school in Calexico, California, where he began performing in school plays and musicals. As a teenager he moved with his immediate family to Los Angeles and graduated from Glendale High School, where his interest and passion for theater, acting and music intensified. The summer following high school graduation, he received a scholarship to study acting in Hollywood with the famed Russian actress Eugenie Leontovich. He continued his theater studies at Glendale College and California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), and performed as a singer and guitarist in many folk groups and Mexican romantic trios.

Amber Gray Theatre: An Octoroon (Soho Rep), Natasha Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Kazino and Ars Nova), The TEAM's Mission Drift (London's National Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, New York COIL, Salzburger Festspiele, Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, Universide de Coimbra, Lisbon's Culturgest, and ArtsEmerson), The World is Round (Ripe Time), We Play for the Gods (Women's Project), All Hands (Hoi Polloi), Eager to Lose (Ars Nova), Banished Children of Eve (Irish Rep), The Octoroon (P.S.122), and ongoing shows with Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping (upcoming at Joe's Pub). Regional: Williamstown, Huntington, Connecticut Rep, and Aspen Theatre Masters. TV/Film: The Burg, Law and Order: SVU, Roger the Chicken, Herkimer Dufrayne, Sissypants, The Weekend, and What Would Jesus Buy? Training: MFA NYU Graduate Acting.

Nick Westrate Broadway: Casa Valentina, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Off-Broadway: Loot, (Red Bull Theater), Tribes (Barrow Street), Galileo (CSC), Love's Labour's Lost (Public Theater; St. Clair Bayfield Award), Unnatural Acts (CSC), The Little Foxes (NYTW), The Boys in the Band (Transport Group; Drama Desk nomination for featured actor), Persona (HERE), Terre Haute, The Vietnamization of New Jersey. Regional: Good People (Huntington), The Whipping Man (Barrington), Tartuffe (Yale Rep/McCarter Theatre), The Merchant of Venice (CalShakes). Film: CARE, Beach Pillows. Television: Series regular on "Hatfields & McCoys" (NBC), guest star credits include "Blue Bloods" (CBS), "New Amsterdam" (FOX), "Mildred Pierce" (HBO). Training: Juilliard. NYTW Usual Suspect, where he founded and curates the Process in Performance series. Nick won a Special Drama Desk Award for his versatility in the 2011-12 season in New York.

Ching Valdes-Aran is an actor/director. She received an OBIE award for her performance in the MA-YI production of R. Pena's Flipzoids directed by Loy Arcenas and a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Featured Actress in J. Hagedorn's Dogeaters directed by Michael Grief produced at the Public Theater. She has performed nationwide and internationally. She most recently portrayed a 100 year old Chinese general, Yeh-Yeh, in Alice Tuan's Last of the Suns directed by Chay Yew, also a MA-YI production. She has produced, directed, choreographed and conceived original theatre pieces throughout her career. She is currently appearing in The Tempest at La Mama. Other awards include: Rockefeller MAP grant with The Foundry, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, MA-YI's Artistic Achievement Award, and The Spenser Cherashore Fund. Her other passion is painting. Some of her work was shown in a group show at the ORENSANTZ FOUNDATION in June 2004.

Jenn Haltman is a freelance theatre and film casting director working with companies such as Axial, LabRats, Boomerang, and Columbia Stages. Film and Webseries work includes: Boy Meets Girl, There There Was, Muckland and Good Medicine. Previously, she was the Casting Associate at New York Theatre Workshop (shows include Peter and the Starcatcher, Little Foxes, Aftermath, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter) and has also worked with Page 73 Productions, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Long Wharf, Soho Rep, and cast the flash mob series Break Out In Song. Recent directing work includes The Understudy at The Secret Theatre and the amazingly successful first installment of CastAndLoose Live! at Joe's Pub.

About Cast And Loose - Your daily dose of show business misogyny, racism and general absurdity. Created and maintained by Brooklyn-based actor/writer Lynne Marie Rosenberg.

About Lynne Marie Rosenberg - Off-Broadway: Naked in a Fishbowl (Soho Playhouse). Regional: A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre); I Love You, You're Perfect..., Rumors (Cape Fear Regional Theater); You're Welcome (The Debate Society/Bowdoin College); Idols of the King (Foothills Theatre). Recent NY Theater: theMumblings (FringeNYC 2013); Love Machine (The Incubator & 3LD); AMC Upfronts, 2013 & 2014; The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Web: High Maintenance. Writing: One For The Table, The Huffington Post, Backstage.com, Pet360's webseries, "The Pawffice". Training: Vassar College. www.LynneMarieRosenberg.com

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