LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Austin Sky Parker is a playwright and performer in NYC. He's from Dallas, TX and is a team member at AMPD. See him in Happy Boring Life, an original musical featuring the music of The Shackletons at The Vino Theater March 1-6. Then catch him blaring Southern Grunge with The Richlands (@therichlandsband). Austin has loved Hand To God since he dragged his mom to it in 2016. It was really awkward to watch next to her. 

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Thanks, Mom, for taking me to this play (instead of Wicked all those years ago) and thank you, Genny for making this dream show happen. Oh, and thanks for writing it Robert Askins - you knocked that shit outta the park. @austinskyparker

Tyrone the Puppet got his start doing background work for Fraggle Rock and various Muppet sequels. His self-funded one man show, The Man Inside of Me; Being Seen While Being Felt was described as a tell-all on the entertainment industry ripe with humor and commentary on the struggles faced by puppets today.

Unfortunately it debuted the same week as another puppet focused play, the triple Tony Award winning Avenue Q .

The Man Inside of Me closed after half a week. It did not recoup it $245,000 budget.

A lesser puppet would've thrown it all away after such a knock down, but Tyrone untangled his legs and stood back up - returning to the stage in an All Puppet Production of King Lear described as, "having a distracting amount of strings."

He is proud to be performing at The Vino and dedicates this performance to Kermit.

Genny has loved theater since she was a child, and it's been a steady decline into madness ever since. Since 2014, they with Sour Grapes have produced 109 productions in New York, 90 of which they have directed and acted in, 65 of which have been originals that she has written). They're the creator and director of five monthly shows - SILENT BUT DEADLY: A Mime & Clown Experience (2019 - present), CHEMICAL X: The Powerpuff Girls Improv Show (2019 - present), The Addams Parody (2021 - present), Joke & Dagger Improv (2022 - present), and What We Improvise in the Shadows (2023 - present). They, alongside producing partner Chris Weigandt, opened The Vino Theater in 2021, with the aim to provide an affordable theater space for independent artists, as well as The Cork Studio in 2022 because they kept having to turn bookings away as TVT got too busy. Big huge thanks to Aussie - couldn't do any of it without you (well okay I could, but I don't want to). @gennydreadful on most things. 

Michael Newman is an NYC-based writer, performer, and software engineer who was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. He produced Destiny and Peter, a pilot of a web series that was screened at the 2018 Official Latino Film and Arts Festival (NYC and Coachella) and nominated for Best New Media.

Michael has written work for and performed on stage at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, the Peoples Improv Theater, the Magnet Theater, and the Atlantic Theater Company. He has produced, written, directed, and performed in over 200 live shows from sketch comedy and one-man performances to improv and drag shows. Michael graduated from New York University with a BFA in drama and a minor in studio art. Currently, he performs sketch comedy with the hit sketch comedy team, Cliff Hanger. Check out more of his work at therealmichaelnewman.com.