Synopsis: In this world premiere of HERBIE, the award winning Playwright Adam Szymkowicz offers a raucous parody of Hamlet. The play, set when the west was still wild, tells how Herbie the poet plans revenge on his uncle Dead Eye Dan, who has murdered his father, married Herbie’s mother and taken over the family’s saloon. The play humorously follows the action of Herbie’s quest for revenge, his Uncle’s lust for power, and a posse of clowns including a blind gunslinger, a performing bear, a desperately ugly saloon girl and a lesbian cowgirl.

Featuring: Juan Carlos Sanchez, Christopher Herring, Branda Lock, Jim Epstein, Dave Bobb, Tammy Roberts, Madeline Russell, Bethany Hoffman, David Berkenbilt, Claire Myles

About the Playwright: ADAM SZYMKOWICZ is a graduate of The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. He holds a playwriting MFA from Columbia University (Dean’s Fellow). His work has been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania.   His plays have been presented or developed at MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, HotINK, Theatre of Note and Studio Dante among others. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group.  For more information, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Production Team:
Executive Producing Director: Claire Myles
Director: Cyana Cook
Stage Manager: Emma Strauss
Stage Combat Choreographers: Monalisa Arias and Casey Kaleba (blood effects)

Designers: Set and Properties: Marie-Audrey Desy; Costume: Allie Lidie; Lighting: Lindsey Suits; Sound: Ed Moser; Stage Armament: Brian J. Dettling

Photos by Michael Paolantonio