Show Up, Kids! A Show by You!

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Peter Michael Marino (CREATOR)

Pete is the host, writer, and director of a series of educational videos about opera for The Kennedy Center. He created the role of “Keeper” in MoonRise circus which played in Brooklyn and Times Square for over 2 years. Pete originated the role of bad guy Joules Volter in the immersive Off-Broadway hit Pip’s Island.

He’s the creator of SOLOCOM, which has launched over 600 world-premiere, international solo comedies at The People’s Improv Theater. His long-running solo comedy Desperately Seeking the Exit chronicled the unmaking of his West End musical Desperately Seeking Susan - receiving 5-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and Adelaide Fringe, and a London transfer. His 2015 solo chat show spoof, Late with Lance! played NYC, London, Buffalo, Orlando, Hollywood and the Edinburgh Fringe. Peter also appeared off-Broadway for five years in the percussion sensation STOMP. Pete’s production company PM2 Entertainment has presented the EdFringe debut of Jason Kravits' Off the Top, the NYC debut of Joe's NYC Bar, three encore performances of David Mills: Shame! at Pangea, LA comedy duo Moby Alpha, and the acclaimed solo show hit David Carl's Celebrity One-Man Hamlet in NYC, Edinburgh and Chicago. Peter is a former adjunct professor in sketch comedy at Pace University And William Paterson University.

www.petermmarino.com

Michole Biancosino (DIRECTOR)

Michole Biancosino is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of the award-winning Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C. and New York City over the past 17 years. She is also the Founder and producer of NY’s Women in Theatre Festival at the brand new ART/NY Theatres.

Directing work includes: Planet of the Grapes Live, Trump Lear (online and live), David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet, Connected (NYIT Award winner), LoveSick or THINGS THAT DON’T HAPPEN (NYIT Award winner), The Revival (NYIT Award winner), A User’s Guide to Hell featuring Bernard Madoff, Derby Day (Papermag #2 Show of the Year), Goodness, and Gidion’s Knot in NYC, and many others in NYC, Edinburgh, New Orleans, and Washington, DC. Producing: The Religion Thing (TimeOutNY Critics Pick), FUBAR, 3 years of New York New Playwright Festivals and NY’s Women in Theatre Festival (#WITFestival).

Michole has developed new work with playwrights at United Solo Festival (Award-winner, Best Variety Show), Underbelly, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Luna Stage, CrossRoads Theatre, 59E59 Theaters, Theatre Row, Atlantic Stage 2, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Charter Theatre, Brooklyn Generator, SOLOCOM, New Orleans Theatre Experiment, Rorhshach Theatre, Milesquare Theatre, Kennedy Center New Play Festival, Potomac Theatre Project, and Ars Nova.

www.micholebiancosino.com

Bebe Tabickman (PERFORMER)

A born and raised New Yorker, Bebe is a dynamic singer, dancer, actor, and improviser. Bebe is a dynamic singer, dancer, actor, and improviser. She is best known for originating the role of Dottie in the Off-Broadway immersive production “Pip’s Island.”

Her most recent project is "The Others Of Oz," a musical improv show at the Jerry Orbach Theater in Midtown. Bebe has trained in Improv and Musical Improv at the Magnet Theater, where she currently performs as a member of one of their Musical Improv House Teams. Instagram @bebebway. 

www.bebetabickman.com

Show Up, Kids! is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.

Prior development Support from Foundation for Fairer Capitalism