Edinburgh Festival Fringe Program - august 13-29
CAST:
Chip - Christopher Patrick Mullen
Gus - John Ahlin
TIME:
The third Tuesday of an Autumn month
PLACE:
The backroom of a rundown sports bar in Upstate New York
chip
Christopher Patrick Mullen (Co-writer/Performer) recently appeared in the US premiere of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, NY, and Misery at Act II Playhouse. Other acting credits include: West Side Story (1st National Tour); The Runner Stumbles (Off-Broadway revival); The Pirates of Penzance (Quintessence Theatre Group); When You Comin Back, Red Ryder? (Retro Productions); Metamorphoses, A Little Night Music, Candide, Assassins, Macbeth, and The Stinky Cheeseman (Arden Theatre Co); 30+ productions with The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival including Shakespeare in Love, Sense and Sensibility, Pericles, Henry VIII, Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, Charley’s Aunt, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Macbeth; Amadeus, A Christmas Carol Comedy (Hedgerow Theatre); The Pavilion, Birds of North America (Chester Theatre Co); The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre). People’s Light credits include: The Winter’s Tale, Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Gossamer, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Splittin the Raft, The Crucible, The Miser, Sleeping Beauty, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, and Wind in the Willows. TV appearances include guest starring roles on Law and Order, and FBI. Chris is a graduate of DeSales University.
gus
John Ahlin (Co-writer/Performer) lives 27 stories above the New York Theatre District. Acting credits on Broadway include; Waiting for Godot, Journey’s End (2007 Tony Award Best Revival), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Voices in the Dark, One Mo’ Time, Whoopee! and Macbeth. Off-Broadway John portrayed Orson Welles in Orson’s Shadow at The Barrow Street Theatre. Regional credits: The Shakespeare Theatre in DC, The Guthrie, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Stage, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Old Globe Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Studio Arena, McCarter Theatre, Syracuse Stage, George Street Playhouse, and Goodspeed. John has appeared in over 60 Shakespeare productions, having portrayed Sir John Falstaff 16 times, and Sir John Fastolf once. TV credits include Law and Order: SVU, Late Night with David Letterman, Third Watch, The Education of Max Bickford, and the Coen Brothers’ movie Inside Llewyn Davis. As a playwright, John has had his award-winning play Gray Area, receive highly acclaimed productions in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Off-Broadway. His My Witch: The Margaret Hamilton Stories has had several highly acclaimed performances throughout the Northeast. And 2 new plays are in the docket: Charlotte Charke, and Mama Sapiens, about the mother of us all. John is Artistic Director of New York based Fat Knight Theatre.
FAT KNIGHT THEATRE
is here to create, discover and rediscover great characters in drama, history, literature and modern mythology. As Neil Simon says; “Plays are about people”, and our goal is to focus on breathing life into the larger-than-life characters that people humanity, and to celebrate, inspire and communicate, through theatre and other media, the potential in each of us.
STAFF
Artistic Director: John Ahlin
Managing Director: Jean Tafler
Associate Artistic Director: Charlotte Ahlin
board of directors
Charlotte Ahlin
John Ahlin
Danielle Cohn
Margaret Colin Erica Knight
Melanie Mitchell
Jean Tafler
David Topchik
Karen Wald