OUR BAR FOUNDERS:
Jessi is an actor/writer/bar goer from West Virginia. She dreamt up the idea for OUR BAR in the fall of 2009 and is consistently floored by the creativity that springs from the minds of her friends and colleagues. BA: Greensboro College. MFA: FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
Joe is the Artistic Director of Project: Theater and has been involved with OUR BAR since its inception. P:T credits include "My Custom Van", "Shel's Shorts", "Language of Angels", "The Great American Desert", & "Unity: 1918". On & Off Broadway, he performed in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Regional credits include Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's "Bright Star", "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County", "Assassins", "Siddhartha", "Floyd Collins", "Red Noses", "Midsummer...", and "Translations".
OUR BAR-TENDER:
Jen, our golden-haired queen of sass and purveyor of libations and whiskey, has been a part of Our Bar since the beginning and a part of NYC for far longer. She's a shoulder to lean on, a friend to laugh with, and if you need someone to help you bury a body she knows PRECISELY where to dig.
OUR BOARD:
Brendan is a writer, collector and student of myths and tall tales from around the world. He is a two-time finalist for Best Original Screenplay at the International Sci-Fi and Horror film Festival ("Bayou Dark" and "Brimstone"), does freelance script coverage for various groups, including "The Black List" and "Legendary Pictures", and is a contributing writer to "The Escapist". Currently, he commutes to work on a unicorn named “Sparkles.”
Allison is an actor/writer/director/teacher from Kansas City and loves country music and Jameson whiskey. Kansas City BBQ is the best BBQ in the country, and she doesn't want to fight about. She'd rather make out about it.
Jessi is an actor/writer/bar goer from West Virginia. She dreamt up the idea for OUR BAR in the fall of 2009 and is consistently floored by the creativity that springs from the minds of her friends and colleagues. BA: Greensboro College. MFA: FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
Marcus is a native of Atlanta. GA., a proud member of Actor's Equity, and has been with OUR BAR since day one! New York: Henry V (Gallery Players), The Tempest & Love's Labor's Lost (Hip to Hip Theatre), Much Ado (American Bard), Hamlet (TITAN Theatre). Regional: A Tale of Two Cities (Broadway Tryout), Equus. The Play's the Thing, To Kill a Mockingbird (Asolo Rep), The Wiz (True Colors Theatre). MFA from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Email: marcusdj@gmail.com
Joe is the Artistic Director of Project: Theater and has been involved with OUR BAR since its inception. P:T credits include "My Custom Van", "Shel's Shorts", "Language of Angels", "The Great American Desert", & "Unity: 1918". On & Off Broadway, he performed in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson". Regional credits include Steve Martin & Edie Brickell's "Bright Star", "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County", "Assassins", "Siddhartha", "Floyd Collins", "Red Noses", "Midsummer...", and "Translations".
"The Best Thing You Can Do In A Bar." - Theater in the Now
"The Best $10 you'll spend in New York" - Whoa Magazine
Using a different theme each month, Our Bar invites some of New York's finest theater artists to build roughly ten scenes that could legitimately happen in that bar, that night. Audience members grab a drink, find a seat and watch the stories unfold. With no “fourth wall,” OUR BAR is often described as a month’s worth of bar antics artfully shoved into one hour, and like any great night out on the town, each show is unique. As original theater for each thematic evening, the material you see at Our Bar lives and dies in one night.
The OUR BAR crew has offered up increasingly impressive shows since November 2009 thanks to the endless supply of stories from New York City’s ever amusing nightlife. Somehow the block of wood that resides between bartender and customer gives strangers permission to open up in surprising and incredible ways. It is this dynamic that is at the heart of every OUR BAR. Blending New Yorkers’ love of bar life, theater and tasty whiskeys, OUR BAR is carving out its own cult following.
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