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CRACKED CLOWN by David A. Moss

The Marsh is proud to announce David A. Moss' CRACKED CLOWN as part of its Festival of New Voices

The two-week Festival is the culmination of The Marsh Performance Initiative, a nine-month model for performance development taking into account both the artistic development and the business aspects of developing new theater.

There will be six, new full-length solo works, all from up-and-coming performers, and 11 shorter works. Also, two established Marsh performers, Don Reed and Ann Randolph, have been invited to use the Festival as an impetus to start new work.

Each full-length piece will have four performances at the Festival. The shorter works will be performed twice each, preceding the full-length works.

Three years ago, Moss was standing onstage at a comedy club, watching people laugh while he sipped his 13th Long Island Iced Tea, fortifying himself for the trip into the jungle later, where he would buy crack. This was enough, complete strangers telling him through their laughter that he was okay. Cocaine kept the laughter going. After a few years that wasn't enough, so he started smoking it. He had a first class ticket on a Lear Jet to hell. Laughter is misleading.

After attending The School of Performing Arts in San Diego on a scholarship, Moss worked as a stand-up comic for several years, appearing on Showtime, HBO and opening for such luminaries as Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson. The San Francisco Chronicle said of him: "He has that marvelous ability to instantaneously assume a complete character that makes Richard Pryor and Lily Tomlin so electric in performance." Moss received a Critics Choice award for his role in the independent film "Street Music," is the recipient of a grant for 'Outstanding Solo Performance' from the Marin Arts Council and has appeared in a short film, "Shadows," which he wrote and directed.

Scheduled with the following shorter works:

STUCK by Mark McGoldrick: Friday, June 4

THE KIPLING HOTEL (excerpt) by Don Reed: Sunday, June 6

THE REAL MISS AMERICA (excerpt) by Ann Randolph: Thursday, June 10, Saturday June 12

For a complete schedule of the festival and descriptions of the shorter pieces, please visit our website: www.themarsh.org

Festival Passes are available for $42 and are good for all performances. These may be purchased by phone at 415-641-0235.