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Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest

By: Feb. 17, 2013
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The Drama Desk Award-winning Celebrity Autobiography performed in San Francisco on February 9 and 10 at Marines' Memorial Theatre as part of SF Sketchfest. For the show's fifth visit to SF Sketchfest, co-creators Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel were joined by Maria Bamford (Comedians of Comedy) (Sunday only), Roger Bart ("Desperate Housewives"), Jennifer Coolidge (Best in Show) (Saturday only), Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live"), Janeane Garafalo ("The Ben Stiller Show"), Andy Kindler (Sunday only), Laraine Newman ("Saturday Night Live"), Maya Rudolph ("Up All Night") (Saturday only) and Fred Willard (Waiting For Guffman).

Check out photos from the performances below!

Celebrity Autobiography features selections from books by Justin Bieber, "The Situation," Madonna, Tiger Woods, Susan Lucci, David Hasselhoff, Geraldo Rivera, Melissa Gilbert, Patti LuPone, Kenny Loggins, Destiny's Child, The Jonas Brothers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Diana Ross, David Cassidy, Britney Spears, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eminem, and VAnna White.

Celebrity Autobiography also includes special 'celebrity mash-ups'-Cher, Barbra Streisand, Neil Sedaka, Dolly Parton, and Celine Dion all expressing their passion for food; Sylvester Stallone and Tommy Lee on working out and working 'it' out; LL Cool J, Miley Cyrus, and Ricky Martin addressing who they "really are;" Tallulah Bankhead, Kathleen Turner, and Ethel Merman sharing the secrets of 'diva-dom;" and Lauren Bacall and Carol Channing recreating the suspense of Tony night.

No version of Celebrity Autobiography would be complete without some returning classics, including the infamous memoirs of Elizabeth Taylor, Eddie Fisher, and Debbie Reynolds, which are edited together to create a Rashomon-esque playlet, and the hilarious Burt Reynolds-Loni Anderson he said/she said saga.

Celebrity Autobiography created by Eugene Pack and developed by Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel, feature a line-up of rotating performers who read-in both solo and ensemble pieces- the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous in their autobiographies.

Celebrity Autobiography has recently toured nationally and internationally with acclaimed performances in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Francisco, Chicago, Arizona, Austin, Miami, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Sydney Opera House, as well as an ongoing production at Los Angeles's Broad Stage. The show also plays at London's Leicester Square Theatre to critical and popular acclaim.

Celebrity Autobiography has played to sell-out audiences and rave reviews in New York since its opening in September 2008. The show has been featured by numerous media outlets, including ABC's "The View" and "Nightline," NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly," CBS's "Sunday Morning," NPR's "Morning Edition," CNN'S "American Morning," New York 1, WNBC'S "News for New York" at 11pm, and Bravo's "A-List Awards."

For more information, visit www.celebrityautobiography.com or www.sfsketchfest.com.

Photo Credit: Tibrina Hobson

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Eugene Pack, Janeane Garofalo and Jennifer Coolidge

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Laraine Newman , Maya Rudolph and Eugene Pack

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Maya Rudolph, Laraine Newman, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, Dayle Reyfel, Roger Bart, Janeane Garofalo and Eugene Pack

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Eugene Pack and Maya Rudolph

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Fred Willard

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Roger Bart

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Janeane Garofalo

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Rachel Dratch

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Jennifer Coolidge

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Maya Rudolph

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image
Maya Rudolph, Jennifer Coolidge and Laraine Newman

Photo Flash: Roger Bart, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and More in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at SF Sketchfest  Image



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