Fri Jul 4 - Sun Aug 31 The Skittish Company presents Skittish Tel. 510.787.2206 Website

$15 - $20 Box Office: 510.787.2206

Description Skittish is six comedies each for two actors, two chairs, a table and a door. The show was written by The National Lampoon's Bruce Moody and directed by Alfredo Fidani. This world premier features local actors Ariana Hooper, Brandon Long, Candy Campbell, Joseph Rende, plus Joe Higgins and Kenna Hunt (who appear with the kind permission of Actors Equity). The Playwright When he was 60 years old, Bruce Moody lost a job and could not find another one. He had always worked, but to keep a roof over his head, he eventually had to go on the roadside and hold up sign and beg. That experience was excruciating - but also exquisite. And the book he wrote Will Work For Food Or $. eventually won prizes - but, for him, apart from the kindness of many strangers, what changed him there was a sign that he should return to the theatre - a calling which he had left many years before. And this he did. Since then he has appeared in many plays in the Bay Area, and now that his play Skittish! is being produced, he is grateful to the point of glee! Bruce Moody was a staff writer with The National Lampoon in its heyday. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Botteghe Oscure, Works, The Michigan Quarterly, and his columns ran in The National Review, Look, and The Greenwich Village News. Moody's memoir, Will Work For Food or $ won the AAAA as The Best American Memoir of The Year. It was runner up for the Indies in Biography and it won a Best of The Bay Award from The East Bay Express. Coward McCann published his novel The Decline and Fall of Daphne Finn, which was widely reviewed and generously praised. His poetry has won prizes and appeared in many publications. The Director Alfredo Fidani is the renowned Argentinean director who in America directed The Dario Fo Festival of plays on the occasion of that playwright winning the Nobel Prize. He has directed the One Act Play Festival, Julius Caesar, Endgame, Of Mice and Men, The Lesson, Don Perlimplin And Belisa In The Garden, and Inherent Vices. He was recently nominated Best Director for Give Us This Day: Loving Lotte Lenya. The Actors Kenna Hunt is one of the great senior actors of the Bay Area, appearing in over 100 productions. She has played with every major theatre company and has won four Drama-Logue awards, the most recent one as Grandma in Lost In Yonkers at The Willows. She is a graduate of The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she won the Flora Robson Shakespearean Competition. In San Francisco, she won the Bay Area Critics' Circle Award for Noises Off. Joe Higgins has played principal roles with SF Shakes in Comedy of Errors, in TheatreWorks' Night of the Iguana, in CenterRep's Mystery of Edwin Drood, in Magic Theatre's Nine Armenians, in Willows Theatre's Inherit the Wind, in Calaveras Rep's King Lear, Prelude to a Kiss, and The Importance of Being Earnest. His background includes television's Love of Life, voiceover, and film productions in the Bay Area and in New York, where he also taught acting for dancers to students from Harkness Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet. Joseph Rende recently knocked the socks off of Marin audiences as the ego-deranged TV star in the Ross Valley production of Brooklyn Boy. He has appeared in a diverse array of parts, among them Restoration Comedy at Stanford Summer Theatre, in Roulette at SF Playhouse, in Cartoon with Impact Theatre, in Gravediggers' Tango with Second Wind Productions, and in King Lear with Cal Shakes. Candy Campbell is happy to be back in Stage Werx, where she last appeared doing stand up comedy in James Judd's original productions of The Seven Sins. Her documentary film, Micropremature Babies: How Low Can You Go? won a Freddie Award. Candy has penned and performed two one-person shows, won a Drama Circle nomination as Mrs. Brice in Funny Girl with Broadway By the Bay, and is a founding member of The Barely Insane Players, an improv & stand-up comedy troupe. Brandon Long has had recent success in productions of Mrs. Warren's Profession and Sheherezade VIII, as well as with various voiceover projects. He continues to develop his acting skills through his day job, where Brandon acts like he still cares about his customers. Ariana Hooper performed as Princess Alais in The Lion In Winter in 2006, and was a student Director at College of Marin. Recently she performed as Glenda Mills in Patrice Daly's black comedy, A Charred Slipper, at The Throckmorton Theatre, Mill Valley. She trained extensively in England in drama and dance, and has been a woman of the theatre all her life.

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