PianoFight's Chardonnay Presents World Premiere of Musical Comedy THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE HARMONIZED

200 years in the future, the land is ruled by the mighty "Spotif-Eye", everyone is a freelancer with an inflexible work schedule, and the end of humankind draws near. The dystopian musical comedy George Orwell never wrote introduces us to three sisters, a hair-obsessed Lieutenant, a mysterious Elder who speaks in song lyrics, and the one algorithmically perfect song that rules them all. Will the sweet sounds of sisterhood ring out and save humanity? Will they ever taste fresh kale juice? Will the revolution, in fact, be harmonized?

Written by PianoFight's resident sketch comedy group, Chardonnay, and directed by Ellery Schaar, The Revolution Will Not Be Harmonized runs four weeks with shows Thur, Fri, Sat at 7pm February 2-25. Opening Night is Saturday, February 4th at 7:00pm. Performances happen at PianoFight's multi-stage, restaurant and bar venue at 144 Taylor Street in SF. Tickets are $20-40 and available at pianofight.com.

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3. a San Francisco-based female-led sketch comedy group that's been winning over audiences with it's variety-show sensibility, biting wit, and smooth, unoaked finish since 2009. Since that time, the group has premiered more than 17 and less than 321 original productions, has appeared in SF Improv Festival, SF SketchFest, and the Women in Comedy Festival, and won PianoFight's ShortLived short-play competition in 2015. As part of their mission to provide a platform for female artists, Chardonnay regularly casts all females with the exception of one male performer "mangenue" in their productions. Chardonnay is written and produced by Kate Jones, Jess Mele, Emma Shelton, Leah Shesky, MerEdith Terry, Rachel Rockwood, and Sarah Wright-Schreiberg.

Ellery Schaar is the Artistic Director of Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco. Her NY directing and producing credits include Most Massive Women Wins Access Theatre, Quickes 13th Street Repertory, In the Shadow of The Lighthouse Tomorrow's Gold New Work Series eyeBLINK productions, One Act Play Festival Keagan Theatre Company, Evolution of the Bitch Fresh Fruit Festival 08, They Call Me Q! NYC Fringe Festival 2013 *Encore NYC Fringe Series: Solo in the City! to it's Off Broadway run at ST. Luke's Theatre. Ellery associate produced the national collaboration Come As You Are! Celebrate Queer Sex! at Brava Theatre San Francisco in co-production with Boston's Theatre Offensive. Come As You Are was a national celebration of the riots at Stonewall and pieces were performed through the United States including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Seattle, Alaska and Portland. She has both produced and directed two world premieres: Drowning Ophelia by Rachel Luann Strayer '13 and The Horse's Ass and Friends by Megan Cohen '15 with her company Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco. Ellery holds a B.A. in theatre and dance from the University of California at San Diego.

The cast of The Revolution Will Not Be Harmonized features Cooper Carlson, Kate Jones, Giorgia Luisa, Jessica Mele, Kaeli Quick, Rachel Rockwood, Sharon Shao, Leah Shesky, MerEdith Terry, and Kitty Torres.

The creative team of The Revolution Will Not Be Harmonized includes musical composition by Matt Grandy, photography by Jon Ching, graphic design by Ariel Strong, set design by Devin Kasper, lighting design and stage management by Clint Winder, animation by Kendra Juul, videography by Daniel Burke, and prop and costume design by Hannah Bernard-Henke

PianoFight was formed by Rob Ready, Dan Williams and Kevin Fink in 2007. After completing a $1.2 million fundraising campaign, 10% of which was crowd-funded through the largest Theater Kickstarter for a New Live Performance Venue ever, PianoFight has completed its home at 144 Taylor Street in San Francisco. The venue contains three rehearsal spaces, two black box theaters (42-seater and a 92-seater), and a full restaurant and bar with a cabaret stage. Since its inception, PianoFight has successfully managed venues (Off-Market Theater Complex); created the largest audience-judged playwriting competition in the country (ShortLived); instigated a fully-scripted, choose-your-own-adventure play series (FORKING!); recklessly invited audiences to Throw Rotten Veggies at the Actors Nights; formed two critically acclaimed sketch comedy groups (Mission CTRL and Chardonnay); toured the coast of California (Endless Weekend Tour I & II); created a surf rock band (Das Haus Band) and a soul band (PianoFight Music Department); launched a film department that retains corporate and artistic clients; and built a three-man producing team into a 48-member company of artists while staying true to its mission of producing New Work by New Artists ™. We've also consumed vast oceans of beer and have had one hell of a time in the process. PianoFight is committed to making 144 Taylor St. San Francisco's next landmark entertainment venue.

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