| Faith Salie in Audible Theater's New York Premiere of "Approval Junkie", November 16 to December 12 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:22 pm EDT 09/28/21 | |
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| Audible Theater's New York Premiere of Approval Junkie Written and Performed by Faith Salie Directed by Amanda Watkins Performances Begin Tuesday, November 16 At the Minetta Lane Theatre Four Weeks Only! Tickets On Sale Now Performance to be Recorded Live and Released Globally on Audible NEWARK, N.J. and NEW YORK, N.Y. - SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 - The New York premiere of Faith Salie's Approval Junkie, developed in collaboration with and directed by Amanda Watkins, will finally make its New York premiere at Audible Theater's Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane, between MacDougal & 6th Avenue - one block south of W. 3rd Street), after original rehearsals were postponed in March 2020. Approval Junkie will begin performances Tuesday, November 16 and run for four weeks only, through Sunday, December 12. Tickets are on sale now at www.Audible.com/MinettaLane . Approval Junkie will also be recorded live as an Audible Original and released to a global audience. 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 Sunday Morning, Salie has adapted her story from her first book 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 originally produced by The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Approval Junkie's creative team includes Jack Magaw (scenic design), Ivan Ingermann (costume design), Amanda Zieve (lighting design), Brandon Bush (sound design), and Alex Basco Koch (projection design). Justin Scribner is the Production Stage Manager. Technical Supervision is by Hudson Theatrical Associates and General Management is by Baseline Theatrical (Andy Jones & Jonathan Whitton). Audible Theater is proud to collaborate with TodayTix to offer mobile Rush tickets beginning at 10am each performance day. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis exclusively through the TodayTix app. HEALTH & SAFETY INFORMATION Audible Theater's health and safety protocols are aligned with the rest of the New York theater community to keep cast, crew, and audience members safe. In order to safeguard the health of the entire community, Audible Theater will require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations for all employees and audiences at the theater moving forward. The audience policy requires complete COVID-19 vaccinations before the date of attendance, which is defined as fourteen days following a final dose of the Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, or Astra-Zeneca vaccine. Audible Theater will accept proof at the Minetta Lane Theatre via the Excelsior Pass, the NYC Covid Safe Pass for Android and iOS, a copy or photo of a CDC vaccination card, and/or a copy or photo of an official immunization record from outside the United States. Guests under the age of 12 or those with medical documentation who are approved for a reasonable accommodation due to a medical condition that prohibits them from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine should contact the box office for more information. Audible Theater will additionally require mask-wearing indoors at their theater for all audience members and staff until further notice. For more specific information, please visit www.audible.com/ep/theater . BIOGRAPHIES FAITH SALIE (Writer and Performer) is a five-time Emmy-winning contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a regular on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! She hosted five seasons of PBS's Science Goes to the Movies and is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 4 million times and included in The Moth's New York Times bestseller, Occasional Magic. Her favorite stage roles include playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret (American Repertory Theatre) Squeaky Fromme in Assassins (Oxford Playhouse, England), Svetlana in Chess (Edinburgh Fringe), and a member of the Los Angeles premiere of The Laramie Project. Faith's interviewed thousands of people as the host of a dozen podcasts and has been interviewed by Oprah, Anderson Cooper, and Bill O'Reilly (consensually). Her solo show Approval Junkie-based on her memoir of the same name-premiered to sold out audiences at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. 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 Manhattan with two kids and one husband. AMANDA WATKINS (Director, Collaborator) 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 THEATER Audible Theater makes outstanding performances and powerful storytelling available to millions of people all over the world. As part of this initiative, Audible has produced Girls & Boys with Carey Mulligan, The Half-Life of Marie Curie with Kate Mulgrew, Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup, Billy Crystal's Have A Nice Day with Annette Bening and Kevin Kline, the revival of Aasif Mandvi's Sakina's Restaurant, and many others at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. In May 2018, Audible announced that the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village will serve as its creative home for live performances in New York. Audible hosts and produces a wide variety of live performances at the Minetta Lane including dramatic plays, comedic shows, engaging panel discussions, and more, with Audible members receiving exclusive access to discounted tickets and related audio content. Audible was co-producer for the Broadway transfer of the Tony Award-nominated Latin History for Morons written by and starring John Leguizamo and for the Tony Award-nominated Sea Wall / A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. The initiative also saw the release of John Lithgow's Stories By Heart, Judith Light's All The Ways To Say I Love You, Sharon Washington's Feeding The Dragon , and more. Since June 2017, Audible has commissioned 40 theater playwrights to receive support from its $5 million Emerging Playwrights Fund dedicated to developing innovative English-language works from around the globe. The $5 million fund enables the creation of original plays driven by language and voice, keeping with Audible's core commitment to elevating listening experiences through powerful performances and extraordinary vocal storytelling. Since the Minetta Lane Theatre went dark in March 2020, Audible Theater has continued its commitment to work with exceptional artists and technicians, showcase extraordinary writing and storytelling, and break down traditional boundaries to make great theater available to all. Over the past 16 months, Audible Theater collaborated with over 300 artists and technicians, commissioned new works from more than 20 playwrights (including 10 new voices through the Audible Theater Emerging Playwrights Fund), and released more than 40 projects to a global audience featuring world premieres from award-winning playwrights and performances from world-famous talent, including a full seven-show season in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival. ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC. Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, offering customers a new way to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible content includes more than 600,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and business information providers. # # # # www.audible.com/theater |
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