Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Preview: CAROLE GREEP's HAPPY NEW YEAR (Meilleurs Voeux)


HAPPY NEW YEAR
by CAROLE GREEP
Directed by Mark Blum

Adapted (in English) and Performed by 
Constance Labbe and Christopher Heard

4TH STREET THEATER
83 EAST FOURTH STREET
MAY 27 TO JUNE 1


Constance Labbe and Christopher Heard have teamed up to bring a "very French" play by a very hot French playwright to New York in an English adaptation.

 
CAROLE GREEP
Carole Greep is one of Paris’ most successful playwrights. Her very first play, 'J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites' has been running in Paris uninterruptedly since 2003. Her next play, 'post-­‐it', was played over 500 times, including at the Palais des Glaces, one of Paris' most famous and popular theaters. Starting in 2008, her play "la Bombe" -­in which Constance Labbe played the title role-­was in production in Paris and on tour all over France for over two years.

Carole also writes for stand-­‐up comedians and has written short films and TV scripts.



CONSTANCE LABBE
Constance Labbé is an up-­and-­coming French actress and adopted New Yorker. Before moving to the US, Constance played the title role in Carole Greep’s ‘La Bombe’ in Paris and on tour all over France. Constance was recently featured in the “Women we love” edition of NY and Paris based Art magazine: CRUSH (www.crushfanzine.com), alongside Daryl Hannah, Chloe Sevigny and Beatrice Dalle, to name a few! (It's the Auxiliary Issue #3 "Women We Love" Collectors Issue)


CHRISTOPHER HEARD
Christopher Heard is originally from Southern California. He now resides in New York City where he has become a budding member of the theatre scene. Having started in stand-­up comedy, he then spent a year studying Uta Hagen's technique at HB Studio. Christopher played the title role in the feature film The Curse of Duncan Carbunkle and most recently starred in plays Balm in Gilead and Beach Trip, both directed by Amy Wright.


MARK BLUM
Mark Blum is a Broadway veteran. As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Lost In Yonkers, My Thing of Love, and The Merchant. Off-­‐Broadway, he won an Obie Award for his performance as Al in the Playwrights Horizons production of Albert Innaurato’s play Gus and Al. Mark has extensive credits in film and television.

He teaches at HB Studio in NY, and in the graduate training program at Brooklyn College. Mark also writes, directs and produces for the stage and the screen.



LINKS

CAROLE GREEP

CAROLE GREEP - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1955626/

MORE ABOUT CAROLE GREEP (in French)
http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/carole-greep-26896.php


LA BOMBE

LA BOMBE (also in French) INCLUDING A 'TRAILER' WITH CONSTANCE LABBE
http://www.placedesprods.com/productions/la-bombe


CONSTANCE LABBE

CONSTANCE LABBE - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3952521/


CHRISTOPHER HEARD

CHRISTOPHER HEARD - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1651089/


MARK BLUM

MARK BLUM - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089685/

MARK BLUM - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Blum



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