| Audible Announces Faith Salie's APPROVAL JUNKIE, a New York Premiere Production at the Minetta Lane Theatre | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:28 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
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| Audible Announces the New York Premiere of Approval Junkie Starring Faith Salie From NPR's Wait Wait….Don't Tell Me! & CBS Sunday Morning Opening Wednesday, March 25 At the Minetta Lane Theatre Directed by Amanda Watkins Performance to be Released Globally by Audible NEWARK, N.J. - February 12, 2020 - Audible, the world's largest producer and seller of original spoken-word entertainment and audiobooks, is pleased to announce the New York premiere of Faith Salie's Approval Junkie, developed in collaboration with and directed by Amanda Watkins. Previews will begin Tuesday, March 17 ahead of a March 25 opening night at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible's creative home for live performances in New York. The limited engagement will run through Sunday, April 19. As with previous Audible Theater shows at the Minetta Lane, Approval Junkie will be released as an Audible Original later this year, extending its reach to millions of Audible listeners around the world. From winning her high school beauty pageant, to picking the perfect outfit to wear to her divorce, Faith Salie is the ultimate approval seeker. A comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist best known for her roles on NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! and CBS News Sunday Morning, Salie has adapted her story into the heartfelt (and disturbingly hilarious) one-woman show, Approval Junkie . Through her witty, candid, and sometimes heartbreaking recollections, Salie reflects on a lifetime of looking for validation in all the wrong places - and reveals how she finally won gold stars from her toughest critic…herself. The World Premiere of Approval Junkie was produced at The Alliance Theatre in 2019. "There are those brave artists who create art for art's sake, who generously share their voices with no need for applause. I am obviously not one of those," said Faith Salie. "I'm THRILLED and honored to bring Approval Junkie to Audible Theatre, to ask nakedly for applause and laughter, and to bring to its vast audience these stories which are mostly inappropriate for my children to hear." "I've been a Faith Salie fan for many years," said Kate Navin, Artistic Producer, Audible Theater. "It's a privilege to be able to bring her laugh-out-loud humor and wit to Audible's members and live audiences at the Minetta Lane." Tickets to Approval Junkie start at $45 and are available now at Ticketmaster.com. Additionally, a limited amount of rush tickets for Approval Junkie will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 10:00am the morning of each performance via TodayTix. Other upcoming events at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre include Dan Rather's "Stories Of A Lifetime" on Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at 7PM, In Love and Struggle from February 28 - March 1, and The Peculiar Patriot from March 5 - 7. Recent live events have included The Half-Life of Marie Curie, an Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund commission by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, and starring Kate Mulgrew and Francesca Faridany; and Common's "Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life." These and other award-winning and critically acclaimed Audible performances of captivating stage productions starring Billy Crudup, Judith Light, John Lithgow, Carey Mulligan, Aasif Mandvi, and more are available for pre-order or download at www.audible.com/theater. Additional events at the Minetta Lane Theatre will be announced in the coming months and Audible has also announced live performances in London and Los Angeles. Information about previous and future live programming produced by Audible is available here. With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can enjoy any one audiobook, including the audio performances of productions at the Minetta Lane Theatre, free. BIOGRAPHIES: FAITH SALIE (Writer and Performer) Faith Salie is a four-time Emmy-winning contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a regular on NPR's Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me! She's hosted five seasons of PBS's Science Goes to the Movies and is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 2.3 million times and included in The Moth's New York Times bestseller, Occasional Magic. Her favorite roles include Sally Bowles in Cabaret (American Repertory Theatre) Squeaky Fromme in Assassins (Oxford Playhouse, England), Svetlana in Chess (Edinburgh Fringe), and as part of the Los Angeles premiere of The Laramie Project. Faith's interviewed thousands of people as the host of eight podcasts and has been interviewed by Oprah, Anderson Cooper, and Bill O'Reilly (consensually). Bylines: Time, The New York Times, Slate, O,The Oprah Magazine, and McSweeneys. Recently she debuted her solo show, Approval Junkie, at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, based on her memoir of the same name. She's performed at Carnegie Hall, sung with the Boston Pops, and swum with the Weeki Wachee mermaids. Faith's a Rhodes scholar who received her MPhil in Literature from Oxford University, after which her cohort became things like 2020 presidential candidates and Pulitzer Prize winners, while she went to Hollywood and landed on a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine collectible trading card worth hundreds of cents. She lives in NYC with two kids and one husband. AMANDA WATKINS (Director, Collaborator) Amanda Watkins is the Associate Producer at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta GA., where she recently co-developed and directed Approval Junkie under the artistic director leadership of Susan V Booth. She served as Executive Vice President of Production and Development at The Araca Group for 8 years, producing and developing dozens of new plays and musicals. She was the Executive Producer of Broadway's Disgraced, the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama by Ayad Akhtar as well as the 2010 revival of Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor, directed by Stanley Tucci. From 2015-2019, Amanda was the General Manager of Broadway Dreams, a nonprofit dedicated to the training and mentoring of young adults in the theatre arts. She was an actor on and off Broadway and throughout the regions for 15 years. ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken audio content, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible content includes more than 500,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. |
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