The Marsh Presents FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL, 4/19

The Marsh presents Charlie Varon & Jeri Lynn Cohen's FWD: Life Gone Viral, coming back April 19, 2012! FWD: LIFE GONE VIRAL is a comedy that skewers the brave new world of Internet exhibitionism. Cohen and Varon play an oncologist, her patient, their ex-spouses and an expert commentator each. Marriage, divorce, child-rearing, terminal illness, transmogrified flies and beef jerky all find their way into the play.

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Charlie Varon and David Ford, both artists-in-residence at The Marsh, have been collaborating for 20 years. Charlie's previous plays have enjoyed extended runs in San Francisco, toured, been released on CD, and won numerous awards. These shows include Rabbi Sam (2009), Rush Limbaugh in Night School (1994; revived 2004), Visiting Professor of Pessimism (2003), Ten Day Soup (2002), The People’s Violin (2000), and Ralph Nader Is Missing! (1997). Varon is the recipient of a SF Bay Guardian Goldie Award and the 1994 Will Glickman Award for best new play in San Francisco. He has collaborated on and directed Dan Hoyle’s shows Tings Dey Happen, which won the 2007 Will Glickman Award, and the runaway hit The Real Americans.

Along with his work with Varon, David Ford has been collaborating on new and unusual theatre including: Marilyn Pittman’s All the Rage, Cherry Terror’s Reading My Dad’s Porn, French kissing the Dog, and Not a Genuine Black Man with Brian Copeland, which performed more than 500 times in San Francisco, LA and New York. Other work of note includes, with storyteller-holy-man Ron Jones and Michael Rice, a mentally disabled performer, Say Ray. He also worked with Bill Talen on the original creation of Reverend Billy, the Obie award winning theatre piece/ political action. David’s work has been seen regionally at The Public Theatre, Second Stage, St. Clement’s, Dixon’s Place, One Dream Theatre and Theatre for the New City (NY), Highways (LA) and Woolly Mammoth (Washington DC) as well as at theatres around the Bay Area including the Magic Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. His play, The Interrogation of Nathan Hale, premiered at South Coast Rep.

Jeri Lynn Cohen is a charter member of Word for Word Performing Arts Company where she has originated roles in over a dozen shows including their critically acclaimed productions of Olive Kitteridge and More Stories by Tobias Wolff. She has appeared at ACT, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Campo Santo, Eureka Theatre, A Jewish Theatre, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, and she has toured nationally and internationally with both Word for Word and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Jeri Lynn is thrilled to be collaborating on a new piece of theatre with brothers Ford and Varon…two soulful, sensitive and very funny artists she has admired for many years.

 

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