For Immediate Release
Contact: Ron Lasko
at Spin Cycle, 212-505-1700
or ron@spincyclenyc.com
“Best Unique Theatrical Experience” Nominee
Continues thru June 9 at Theatre Row
“An amusing, profanity-laden existential crisis… It’s easy to see why Randy Writes a Novel has been a hit on the Fringe circuit.” – Time Out
★★★★★ “Randy the literary puppet had his audience roaring with laughter from beginning to end. McIvor is clearly very intelligent and talented… unusual and very, very funny.” — Broadway Baby
He has headlined with Neil Patrick Harris in Montreal, won Outstanding Show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, starred on his own Netflix show in the UK, and been nominated (controversially) for the Australian equivalent of an Emmy. Now felt-faced performance sensation RANDY is conquering the US with the Off-Broadway premiere of RANDY WRITES A NOVEL. And the show has just been nominated as “Best Unique Theatrical Experience” by the Off Broadway Alliance. Written, performed and directed by Randy, performances continue through June 9 at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre.
Celebrated, occasionally sober entertainer RANDY has just written his first novel and he wants to share a staged reading of it with you. Cursed with stage fright, he begins rambling and ends up sharing a memorable – and very funny – discourse on everything from Buddhist thought to the wisdom of McDonald’s home delivery service to whether Hemingway’s artistic genius was enough to compensate for him being a terrible human being. Randy may share the complexion of Barney the Dinosaur, but RANDY WRITES A NOVEL promises to leave you questioning the meaning of life.
RANDY WRITES A NOVEL is produced by Emerging Artists Theater and Red Spear Productions. It features lighting by Roger Cooper and sound by Adam Weinstock.
In the past thirteen years Randy has given birth to half a dozen critically acclaimed solo shows. He has appeared at Fringe and Comedy festivals from Edinburgh to Hong Kong, Galway to Montreal, Singapore to Sydney and almost everywhere in between. He has hosted galas, recorded specials, performed a few times at The Sydney Opera House, released an album and a couple of DVDs, been nominated for two ARIAs (Australian Grammys) and featured on the Neil Patrick Harris Gala at the 2015 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival. In 2010 Randy joined forces with comedian Sammy J to create Ricketts Lane, which won Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and went on to become a television series of the same name, airing on ABC TV in Australia, Seeso in the US and Netflix in the UK. Randy’s role in Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane earned him an ACTAA (Australian Emmys) nomination for best performer in a comedy series in 2015. In 2016 Randy Writes a Novel was nominated for best comedy at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and went on to a season at the Soho Theatre in London as well as the 2017 Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, where Randy also appeared on the Jane Krakowski Television Gala.
RANDY WRITES A NOVEL runs April 18 – June 9 at
between 9th and 10th Avenues).
Performances are
Tuesday – Thursday at 7pm, Friday & Saturday at 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm.
Running time is 80 minutes.
Tickets are $81.25, available at 212-239-6200
or visit www.telecharge.com.
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