About this project
This funding is crucial to the re-imagining and re-building of THE WORD for touring in a TENT. I am collaborating with director Whit MacLaughlin (http://www.newparadiselaboratories.org/home.asp) to compact and streamline the narrative and theatrical conceit to fit into a TENT. With this funding in place, I will be able to answer invitations to perform THE WORD in New York, DC, Chicago, Minneapolis , Pittsburgh, Ausitn and LA.
THE WORD is a solo tragicomic musical loosly based on the life of child-preacher and B-movie actor Marjoe Gortner. It lives somewhere in between an Andy Kaufman and Eric Bogosian aesthetic—athletic and visceral but charmingly spiraling out of control for an intoxicating and hilarious rendering of character.
This highly entertaining work was originally conceived and directed by the uber-talented Suli Holum and presented by The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (2007). The piece is now making its way to an October run in Philadelphia that will launch touring dates through 2012.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on September 3, 2010.
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BRIAN OSBORNE is collaborative theater artist who makes highly interactive physical comedies inspired by real people. His work has been produced in New York by David Binder (Delicious Vaudeville) and in Philadelphia at The Live Arts Festival and NET Micro Festival (The Word). He is the Artistic Director of The Elastic Theater, for which has created and performed in 5 original works. Other recent collaborations include Thaddeus Phillips/Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental's WHALE OPTICS, Kate Watson Wallace's STORE and CAR, Pig Iron Theater Company’s THE LINCOLN PROJECT, and WIND-UP at Princeton's Atelier. Brian is a founding member of New York’s Cliplight Theater, for which he has appeared in 6 original productions. OFF BROADWAY he performed in the aerial smash hit DE LA GUARDA. Film & TV: SOPHOMORE (forthcoming), LAW & ORDER: SVU, DRIVERS WANTED, THREADBARE, SURE SHOT, and Harold Pinter's APPLICANT. He studied Theater at Marquette University, has trained with Alfred Molina, Ada Brown Mather (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), and Second City. He studied playwriting with Alvin Eng and received the 2007 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award for the development and production of THE WORD.
