South by Northwest Reading

Tentative logo designed for the show. Drawn by Matt McRee; scanned and Photoshopped on pirated software by me, Chris Rebbert

I’m graduating from NYU Tisch Asia on May 13th, and this Monday, May 7th at 8pm, we will be holding a reading of the thesis project I wrote with my friend and classmate, Matt McRee. Our thesis is the first two episodes of a 1/2 comedy called South by Northwest. Here’s the logline:

“A single father who grew up in foster care tries to raise his eccentric, intelligent 10-year-old daughter while on the run from the FBI after robbing a bank with his estranged, screw-up older brother.”

The scripts, premise, title, and characters are all trade-marked already with the WGA, so don’t even think about stealing them shits.

If you’re in Singapore and want to join us for the reading, please come to 3 Kay Siang Road and have a seat in our comfortable Black Box theatre. It’s not comfortable at all, actually, I’m just being an ass. I think there are chairs manufactured as torture devices that are more comfortable than the benches in that damn room. But please don’t let that stop you from coming. Here’s the cast for Monday night’s reading:

Jonathan Greene…………..…….……Clayton Nance

Scott Dean……………….…..Desmond “Dez” Nance

Su Ching Teh……….………….………..Olivia Nance

Nambi E. Kelley……………………………Susan Carr

Olivia Briggs……..…………Agent Alejandra Zamora

Steven Koernig……….Kyle “Whitey” White & others

Lisa Louttit………….. Headmistress, Sandra & others

William Ledbetter….…..Peter File, Filmore & others

with Lydia Joy Cowdery reading across the page

A very talented group of people, I promise you, and it should be a lot of fun. Speaking of fun, here’s some dumb, fake, critics’ quotes that Matt and I put on the promotional posters that might make you chuckle:

“…funny…” – Matt’s Mom

“Smart, relevant and hilarious. The best new sitcom in years.” – Not Matt and Chris

“What the hell are you doing in my office with this crap? Get out.” – Mark Dickerman

That’s it. Come to the reading. It’ll be fun. Afterwards, depending on how good it went, I’ll post about it with some pictures.

Welp, see ya later!

-Chris

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