FRIGID New York Presents I'M NOT SURE I LIKE THE WAY YOU LICKED ME, Opens 2/23

FRIGID New York presents A Bricken & Birch production" I'm Not Sure I Like the Way You Licked Me! a solo show written and performed by Bricken Sparacino and Directed by Lori Kee.

Performance Schedule
Wednesday, February 23 9:00 PM
Sunday, February 27 1:00 PM
Monday, February 28 9:00 PM
Thursday, March 3 7:30 PM
Saturday, March 5 8:30 PM

Ticket Price: $10, $8 Students and Seniors
Advance tickets available at smarttix.com

Where:The Under St. Marks Theater
94 St. Marks Place (between 1 Ave. and Avenue A)

About the show:
I'm Not Sure I Like the Way You Licked Me!
Through humor, story telling, honesty and a little bit of rock and roll, share with Bricken the battles she has fought, the mountains she has climbed, and the licks she has endured.

Bricken Sparacino is an award winning/nominated performer, director and writer. After directing 8 solo shows, she is turning the spotlight on herself. Her show focuses on the small meannesses of life. You pick yourself up and solider on. But why? Why don't we fight back? Bricken invites the audience to face the ugly and laugh at it all.

I'm Not Sure I Like the Way You Licked Me! " a very brave, honest, funny, endearing show." - Amy E. Witting, aWe Creative

 

Production History 

I'm Not Sure... comes to the Frigid from a December workshop production at the manhattantheatresource as part of their PlayGround workshop for new plays! Bricken selected the stories for this show by performing at many storytelling shows in New York including: Adam Wade's True Tales from College and Penny's Open Mic.

Who's Who

Bricken Sparacino (actor, writer)

Bricken is an award winning/nominated performer, writer and director. She was one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year ‘08. She is happy to be in the Frigid Festival for the third time!

Her performing credits include over 100 different characters as part of the sketch comedy groups The 10:17 Comedy Troupe and Comedy Period, both of which she directed and co-wrote. Bricken played 6 characters in MEDICATION for the NYC Fringe Festival which was selected by BACKSTAGE as a highlight for the theatre season.

She was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of her original comedy character Cherry On Top (Planet Connections).

Other highlights include: Crystal in Sock Puppets Showgirls!, Wonder Twin in Are We Freaks (Frigid Festival), Senior News Anchor in Weekly Review (Caroline's Comedy Club), Natalie in Lenny Bruce Lives Inside My Shirt (NJ REP), The Crossing Guard in Respect the Vest (24 hour PlayFun), Bridgeet Lolalolalo in American Treacle (MITF), Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tisbea in Don Juan, Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Maria Sortino in Ellis Island Stories, Silvia in Two Gentleman of Verona and Ilse in Ordinary Heroes. She has performed her comedy at Eating It, U.C.B., Caroline's, Comix, The P.I.T., The Zipper and The Belt, to name a few.

Bricken can be seen on the internet as part of the Key Of Awesome and AMCTV.com's Sci-fi department. She is particularly proud of the Ke$ha parody that has been viewed by over 59 million people! You might recognize her as "Ke$ha's Mom".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7n8GqewJ2M

Lori Kee (Director)
NYC: Tanforan by Christine Toy Johnson (TBG), I'm Not Sure I liked the Way You Licked Me by Bricken Sparacino (MTS), The Experiment by Bella Poynton (TBG), Why by Andrea Kuchlewska (TBG) , Old Places by Elisa Abatsis (Naked Stages ), Everything Will Be Alright by Tariq Hamami (BMCC) ; CJ Ehrlich's : Things They Don't Tell Us, Tuesdays in the Park (American Globe), Homespun Webs (WAHC); Are We Freaks w/ Bricken Sparacino (Kraine); Through the Hourglass (BMCC); Groove Mama (Gene Frankel) & Male Man* (Medicine Show).
Regional: As You Like It , Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Coastal Disturbances, Person I Once Was, Picnic, Colored Museum , Annie*.
Assistant Director: Much Ado About Nothing (with Tony Recipient Tony Tanner WCE) MFA Brooklyn College.
(* award)

Eric Chercover (Sound Design and Composer)
Eric Chercover has been working with Bricken for over 8 years now. Productions include: the long running The 10:17 Comedy Night, FringeNYC's Medication and American Treacle (MITF). Eric was also part of the band "The Mike Birch Caucasian Experience" and "The Spicy Meat Brothers. He just completed work on the live sound track for Michael Birch's One Man Hamlet directed by Bricken.

Bricken Sparacino and Michael Birch (Producers)
As a comedy producing powerhouse since 1999, Bricken and Michael have produced, and directed numerous original works including All About The Comedy (1 &2), Alien Sympathizer Henry Platt Is Missing, Medication for the NY Fringe Festival (Back Stage's "Theatre Gem" of the year), American Treacle for the Midtown Theater Festival as well as the wildly successful 10:17 Comedy Night, which ran every Saturday night for 3 years at the Gershwin Hotel.

Most recently they produced the sold out "Michael Birch's One Man Hamlet" which is now touring.

 

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