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A LITTLE ABOUT EARLIER PRODUCTIONS OF THE ORIGINAL PLAY BY ALEX McDONALD:

TRIUMPH Award winner and AUDELCO Award nominee.
      * "Edgy! Alex McDonald's ‘Prism’ zeros in on a hilariously chilling premise” - Village Voice
      * “You can go and watch a piece of theatrical magic by Alex McDonald.”
                  - Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival (Simon & Schuster) 
      * “A theatrical coup!” - Manhattan Spirit (Theatre Pick of the Week)
      * “Brilliamente!!” - Haiti Progress
      * “Magnificent! Everyone young and old should see this play.” - ‘Step Into Toledo’ WBET-TV
      * “Inventive and funny!” - citysearchnyc.com
      * “Invigorating - New York Amsterdam News
      * “He comes along following a season of Amiri Baraka plays - a tough act to follow - but McDonald is  
                  successful.”     - Daily Targum (Rutgers University)
       * “McDonalds's dialogue is persuasive and he has intelligent things to say.” - In Theatre

    Theatrical venues have included The Painted Bride Theatre, The Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe, Theater for the New City, South-Eastern Center for the Cultural Arts, The Clef Club, Riverside Church, WBAI, Harlem Arts Festival, Beachland Ballroom, The National Black Theatre Festival, Pro Arte Festival in Slovenia, and NYC Summerfest. Sponsors and presenters have included Cultural Odyssey of San Francisco, The University of Pennsylvania, The Frank Silveras Writers Workshop, The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, Toledo Edison, The Urban League and Brooklyn Arts Council.

     ALEX McDONALD has written several produced plays, including PRISM (Triumph Award winner, and AUDELCO Award nomination for Best Ensemble Acting), Getting The Song To Johnnie, Junior’s Box, Strange New Animal (a musical), Ducks (also a musical), and The Balloon of Hope. His Christmas story, “The Best Little Drummer Boy”, issued as part of Christine Lavin’s “Just One Angel 2.0” compilation is quickly becoming a holiday favorite. He earned his Bachelor of Philosophy from Miami University, Ohio and his MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, studying with Jack Gelber, F. Murray Abraham and Allen Ginsberg. He also completed the three-year scholarship program of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, having the honor of studying with the great man himself. He is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Playwriting Fellowship and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
     

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 A LITTLE ABOUT THE WRITER OF THE MUSICAL, AND THE PERFORMERS:
     Performing the role of Dr. Strum on this recording, PARANOID LARRY has been the Featured Artist in ASCAP Behind The Beat, as well as featured in Sing Out Magazine, The Jamestown Post- Journal, The NJ Star-Ledger, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, WNYC and WPLJ.  As Production Assistant to the late great Michael Kamen, he worked on the films "Alan Parker's Pink Floyd The Wall", Robert Duvall's "Angelo My Love" and "Tender Mercies", Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", and John Waters' "Polyester", and several songs including The Eurythmics "Here Comes The Rain", and Bryan Adams "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" among other projects. As an actor, he originated the role of Jocko in Ishmael Reed's "Mother Hubbard" at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, played Jeffrey in "Godspell", was a dancer and percussionist in Alan Paton and Roy Sargeant's "Cry, The Beloved Country", and is known for his exciting live music shows with his imaginary bandmates David Roche and David Kumin. His songs have been performed throughout the United States and Europe by a variety of artists including The Roches, Patti Rothberg, Syd Straw, The Bitchin’ Babes, Ilene Weiss, Pork Chop, 8th Period Daydream and Vonna Daydream. The Roches’ version of one of his songs is featured in Nicole Holofcener’s hit film “Please Give”, which played The Sundance, Berlin, and Tribeca Film Festivals and major cinemas worldwide, won the Independent Spirit Award for Ensemble Acting, and is a staple on broadcast television. The opening title sequence is
        “hilariously set to Paranoid Larry''s “No Shoes’ -- that not only proves comically rousing but also embodies  
         the film’s smartest attributes.” - Variety
       “Paranoid Larry: Brilliant!" - Rick Wakeman (keyboardist for YES)
       “Paranoid Larry and his imaginary band: Quite fun live. A clever collection.” - Village Voice (Voice Choices)
       “Wonderful songwriter.” Cleveland Plain Dealer
       “Very impressed. God Bless Paranoid Larry!” stateofemergency.uk
        “I heard some tunes by Paranoid Larry. Mindblowing! And what a band! What kick!” - Network Chicago  
         " Paranoid Larry is a Brooklyn-based songwriter whose songs combine political outrage with droll humor.”  
                     - Time Out New York
          “Quality material here among the musical merriness and mental monkeyshines. Paranoid Larry is one of  
                    America’s true musical pioneers.” - Pulse of the Twin Cities
          “CD recently hit our shelves and I have been spinning the disc with lots of calls.” - WPKN
          “Really love this CD! Can’t get the music out of my head. The words say it all. The beat is great. And best of  
                      all, you can dance to it.” - CDBaby Reviews
            (And our personal favorite:)
            “Excitingly analytically decomposing like a corpse found after decades of search.” - Phillip Weinstein 

                          *****                                            *****                                             *****

     Performing the role of Jameson, ANDRÉS ROBLEDO is an actor and treasure hunter out of Brooklyn. His dream is to show the world that it’s not broken, it’s actually utterly delicious, and worth savoring every moment. Past credits include puppeteering a raptor in Jurassic World Live, fight choreographing a new rendition of “The Hunchback...” performed in English and ASL by hearing and non-hearing actors, and a bunch of Shakespeare readings with like-minded miscreants. He’s really happy to be a part of this project, he thinks it’s tops, the writer’s a mad genius, and it’s a whole lotta fun for the whole dang family. He’d like to thank Portrait, Waylon, Paranoid Larry, Jen, Ryan, 68 Jay street Bar and, above all, his sweetheart Cait for helping make all this possible. Let’s rule the world, together. -- 
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