PianoFight Premieres ADVENTURES IN TECH (WITH PILLOW TALK ON THE SIDE) Tonight

Coming this summer, PianoFight Productions presents the world premiere of Stuart Bousel's long-awaited Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side).

Inspired by actual conversations Bousel had with his techie co-workers, his artist boyfriend, and the rest of the world, Adventures is a hilarious autobiographical chronicle of one Bay Area theater artist's life in the tech world and present day San Francisco. Bousel has publicly posted many of these aforementioned conversations to Facebook over the past 2 years and has gained a cult following already attached to each "character" in this very real adventure.

Directed by Killing My Lobster Artistic Director Allison Page, PianoFight's Adventures in Tech (with Pillow Talk on the Side) will run three weeks: June 23, 24, 25, July 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, with shows Thursday at 8pm, Friday at 8pm, and Saturday at 5pm and 8pm. Performances happen at PianoFight's multi-stage, restaurant and bar venue at 144 Taylor Street in SF. Tickets will cost $15-40 and will be available at www.pianofight.com.

Enmeshed in pop culture references and blithe social commentary, this 80 minute comedy of vignettes explores what it means to be an outsider, a San Franciscan, and a grown up in a place and industry where being a kid forever is will-fully encouraged, all the while asking the important questions: Can you really be friends with your co-workers? Is that 21-year old right when they say you're old? Does time actually pass if you're not doing very much with your life?

The talented cast includes Dan Kurtz, Casey Spiegel, Derek Jones, Cooper Carlson, Emily Keyishian, Kevin Glass, Amanda Rosenberg,and Adrianna Delgadillo. Adventures is co-produced by Kate Jones and Emma Rose Shelton of PianoFight's resident sketch comedy group, Chardonnay.

Stuart Bousel graduated from Reed College with a degree in English/Creative Writing. He has served as the artistic director of three theater companies: Quicksilver Productions and Horror Unspeakable Productions in Tucson, and No Nude Men Productions in San Francisco, where he is also the Executive Producer behind the SF Olympians Festival, and is a Founding Artistic Director/current Executive Director of the San Francisco Theater Pub. He has directed numerous classics and world premieres (including the SF premiere of Grey Gardens, The Musical, for which he was nominated for "Outstanding Direction of a Musical" at the 2015 TBA Awards), occasionally performs as an actor (he will be seen in Chess, this autumn, at the Custom Made Theatre Company), and his playwriting credits include Vincent of Gilgamesh (nominated for the MAC Award in 2001), Wild Blue Peaks (nominated for the Heideman Award in 2003), Mathew 33:6, (finalist for the Sky Cooper Award in 2007), Everybody Here Says Hello! (recipient of "Outstanding World Premiere" at the 2014 TBA Awards, and nominated for "Best Original Script" at the 2015 Bay Area Critics Circle Awards), Pastorella (nominated for "Outstanding World Premiere" at the 2015 TBA Awards), Housebroken, Brainkill, and Gone Dark. He co-wrote the Cosgrove winning short film Insomnia, the mocu-mercial Wish U Were Here for Hosteling International, and the novel Dry Country. He is the publicist for DIVAfest, the Director of New Work Development for Custom Made Theatre Company, and he was the chair of the Individual Services Committee and a Board Member for Theatre Bay Area in 2015.

Allison Page is a writer/actor/director and Co-Artistic Director of San Francisco sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster. As a director, she's helmed multiple KML shows including Lobster Jones' Diary, KML Takes It All Off, KML Keeps It All Off, KML at Sketchfest 2015 and 2016, and coming this May, Lifetime: Theatre for Women. Outside of KML, she has written multiple plays and other pieces of writing including Hilarity which premiered in 2015 at the EXIT Theatre as part of DIVAFest, and published by EXIT Press. Her letter Dear Philosopher can be read in the anthology Airmail: Women of Letters from Penguin Australia. Other writings have been featured in live events like Shipwreck, Write Club SF, Travel Tavern, and Women of Letters, and she wrote the 2015 Theatre Bay Area Awards Show script. She is currently working on a new full length commissioned play for DIVAFest 2017 called Kilgallen/Jones.

PIANOFIGHT LLC is a production and venue management company born and raised in San Francisco. PianoFight's venue is a full service restaurant and bar with a cabaret stage and two intimate theaters. The company presents New Work by New Artists , most of which is local. Anchored by a 55-member creative company of artists including two in-house sketch groups, a band and film department, and bolstered by a community of indie arts companies and individuals, PianoFight presents an eclectic mix of world premieres including plays, inventive sketch comedy, choose-your-own-ending plays, audience-judged theater competitions, improv, variety shows, dance, live podcasts, video game tournaments, game shows, immersive and interactive theater, film screenings and more. Plus there's usually a live band playing on the cabaret stage before and after shows. The beer is cold, the food is delicious and it's all affordable. PianoFight - no drink minimums, no ticket fees, hella awesome.

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