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August 14 @ 7:45 PM | August 18 @ 9:15 PM | August 20 @ 5:30 PM
August 21@10:00 PM | August 23 @ 3:00 PM
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May 25, 2008 NEW YORK Punk theater prodigies Working Man's Clothes Productions are proud to present the newest innovation in sex and solo performance: the truth. The company will partner with acclaimed comedian, writer and solo performer Desiree Burch to present, "52 Man Pickup" a scintillating evening of stories and stand up in The 12th annual New York International Fringe Festival-FringeNYC. Directed by WMC Artistic Director Isaac Byrne, and starring Burch-as well as a number of ready and willing audience members-'52 Man Pickup' will play at The Jazz Gallery, 8/14 @ 7:45, 8/18 @ 9:15, 8/20 @ 5:30, 8/21@10 and 8/23@3.
New York's favorite alt-comedy diva Desiree Burch has managed to bring in the freshest catch of New York's most eligible; firemen, construction workers, editors, rockers, schoolteachers, bartenders and male cheerleaders, and invites the FringeNYC goers to help 'go fish' through her deck of hilariously true, unadulterated adult stories in "52 Man Pickup," a card-shark's guide to sex in the city that never sleeps with the same person twice.
ABOUT THE PERFORMER
Candid to the core, "hilarious" (NY Daily News) and "vibrant" (Gothamist) writer/comedian Desiree Burch 'stands out... taking on a variety of subjects and fancies.' (Drama Review) This salacious evening of storytelling with combines her work of "tremendous spunk and honesty" (San Francisco Bay Times) with the New York Neo-Futurists in "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind" and as host/curator for the series NC-17-Rated Lit series, "Smut." Burch also has local renown as star and co-writer for "Rip Me Open," a play created with OBIE-Award winning playwright Kyle Jarrow, as a host for the VH1 podcast "Best Night Ever," and a blogger for 23/6.com. She is a B.A. Theater graduate from Yale University, and her stand-up and solo performance have appeared at Ars Nova, The Midtown International Theatre Festival, The Mae West Festival, Caroline's, Gotham Comedy Club, Joe's Pub, P.S. 122 and the Ohio Theater.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
"52 Man Pickup" is Executive Produced by Jared Culverhouse, the Executive Director of the New York Innovative Theater Award-winning ensemble, Working Man's Clothes, and directed by its Artistic Director, Isaac Byrne. Working Man's Clothes Productions is a pan-stylistic theater company dedicated to producing excellent, top shelf theater and developing new works and new talent in order to build a community of artists, working, evolving, and making things happen. The company's ethics and aesthetics combine theatre arts with the spirit of American entrepreneurship. For more information visit www.workingmansclothes.com
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Press about Desiree Burch
"As Murakami does with his characters, Burch makes Lucinda, who might have come off as just an oddball loser, into a vibrant, sympathetic figure."
--Mallory Jensen, Gothamist, April 9. 2006
"Desiree Burch has tremendous spunk and honesty,"
--Jay Marcus, San Francisco Bay Times, Sept. 21, 2006
"Pretty damn funny and pretty damn good."
--Emma Snyder, Yale Herald, March 23, 2001
"Burch stands out... taking on a variety of subjects and fancies." --Cindy Pierre, Drama Review
"Desiree Burch, an alt-comedy diva"
--Jesse Serwer, Time Out New York, Feb 27�Mar 4, 2008
"...surprisingly meaty..."
--Doug Strassler, Off-Off Online, January 21, 2005
Desiree's jokes were listed amongst 50 comedians, including Roseanne, Jackie Mason, Emo Phillips, Lisa Lampanelli, Marc Maron and Louis C.K. in the New York Post's "Killer Jokes" piece from April 6, 2008.
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outdoor photos copyyright 2008 Sarah Slobodaperformance photos copyright 2008 Christian Kelly