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Are you ready for some hard-core, full-on, legislator-on-legislator wrestling action? Then get out to the San Francisco Bay Area this fall for the world premiere of AMERICAN WHUP-ASS by the Alternative Theater Ensemble of San Rafael, California. A winner of the Aurora Theater in Berkeley's 2007 Global Age Project, AMERICAN WHUP-ASS chronicles a Senate campaign that might just end in an actual wrestling match. Previews begin October 16!
biography
Justin Warner is a playwright/lyricist, improviser, and humorist, among other things. His plays have been produced in NYC, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, Toronto, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Florida, Kansas, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, and elsewhere. He is a Harrington Award winner (BMI Musical Theater Workshop), a Kennedy Center-ACTF winner, a Global Age Project winner, a Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition winner, a Sam French Fest Critic's Choice winner, a Princess Grace finalist, a Javits Fellowship finalist, an O'Neill semi-finalist, and a five-time Heideman Award finalist.
Justin was a founding member of Washington Improv Theater (WIT) and performed, taught, and directed with the group from 1996-2003. During his tenure with WIT he appeared at the Chicago Improv Festival, the Seattle Improv Festival, the Del Close Marathon at UCB in New York, and on countless DC-area stages.
His humor has appeared in McSweeney's, the Funny Times, the Big Jewel, and the HarperCollins anthology MAY CONTAIN NUTS, and he is currently an associate editor of The Big Jewel. Other credits include a Peabody Award for his work on a children's science/mystery/adventure radio show (really). Justin lives in New York City with his wife, Courtney Birch (a director and choral conductor), and son Benjamin Birch Warner (born July 2005). He is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild.
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