... featuring MARION GRODIN, STACEY PRUSSMAN & JACQUELINE BECKVERMIT.
MARION GRODIN: The Daughter of Charles Grodin, Marion Grodin can pretty much do it all…. Marion started out as a staff writer for the network sitcoms “It’s a Living” and “Princesses”, was put under contract to Twentieth Century Fox, and later went on to sell six screenplays. Marion has been one of the hottest comics in the country. She is a favorite at New York City’s top clubs, including Standup NY and Gotham Comedy Club, where she regularly headlines. Marion has also been seen on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and ABC’s The View. In addition, she worked as the Charles Grodin show’s comedy producer, making regular appearances on the MSNBC show, as well as conducting comedic celebrity interviews. Marion also hosted her own radio show for CBS, where her guests included friends, like Lisa Lampanelli, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Kyra Sedgewick, and Lewis Black. Marion's hilarious and heartbreaking book - "Standing Up - A Memoir Of A Funny (Not Always) Life" is published by Center Street, Hachette.
STACEY PRUSSMAN: Stacey Prussman is a national touring headlining stand-up comic, a radio host, actress, and a public speaker. Stacey has appeared numerous times on The Howard Stern Radio Show, has been a guest on several popular radio shows on the Sirius XM network such as: Race Wars, The Sam Roberts Show, The Bennington Show, and John Fugelsang’s show. She was a guest on Jay Mohr's top rated podcast, Mohr Stories, a regular on The Anthony Cumia Show, and is a guest host every Thursday on the ever popular Artie Lange/Artiequitter podcast.Prussman has been a guest on the TV show The Redeye with Tom Shillue on Fox News. She is also was one of the hosts on the Emmy Award winning show The Best Places to Live on PBS. As an actress, Stacey starred in the award winning film Glam-Trash directed by SNL producer Greg Scarnici. She had roles in the films Everything’s Jake, and Girl In The Park along side Sigourney Weaver. Stacey appears regularly on Lorne Michael’s network Above Average acting in comedic shorts. She joins the cast of the MONOLOGUES straight from NYC!
JACQUELINE BECKVERMIT: Budding starlet from Boca, 'Jackie' brings her hipster chic-Marilyn Monroe-like energy to the MONOLOGUES. An artist as well as actress, Jackie utilizes her versatile skill set to promote dicussions about the human condition as well as 'taboo' subjects of sexuality and feminine strength. Working to find new avenues to open these discussions, Jackie has worked to marry her visual art and acting to create performance art pieces that are unique and offer the community a new perspective on the world around them. Her artistic intent and trained acting chops make her the perfect millenial voice of the MONOLOGUES.
ABOUT THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES:
An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it."
Winner of the Obie Award. "If Ms. Ensler is the messiah heralding the second wave of feminism, and a lot of people think she is, it is partly because she's a brilliant comedian…The audience…was overwhelmingly adoring." —NY Times. "The most exhilarating part is, no kidding, her extremely virtuosic way with a series of orgasmic moans…Ensler, a writer-performer with a good-natured but seriously evangelical mission about this body part, must be enjoying her success in getting the word out on such a legendarily unmentionable, mythologized and misunderstood fact of life…" —NY Newsday. "Ensler breaks taboos by talking, talking and talking some more—stripping fear and shame from what she celebrates here. It makes for quite a party. Funny, outrageous, emotionally affecting, and occasionally angry…THE VAGINA MONOLGOUES confront words to demystify and disarm them. In so doing, Ensler disarms the audience too." —Associated Press.