Legs And All

HORSE TRADE
IN ASSOICATION WITH
SUMMER SHAPIRO & PETER MUSANTE
PRESENT

Summer Shapiro – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedienne
Summer Shapiro has written, performed and produced three original physical comedy shows, touring to San Francisco, Hawaii and New York since 2008 and will be attending the NY Clown Theatre Festival for the third time in a row. In San Francisco, she premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir sharing the bill with Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John Gilkey. The show continued on to headline at the San Francisco WOW Festival, in 2009. Shapiro’s PANTS! The Best Show Ever, sold out in the 2008 New York and San Francisco Clown Theater Festival’s in 2008 and she was in a trapeze clown duo in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles showcasing at the Magic Theater in October, 2007. Shapiro was an assistant director and performer with The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones in 2006. Summer has trained, performed and taught her craft in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ireland. She holds a B.A. in acting from UCLA’s School of Theater and has performed on the streets of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Berlin.

Peter Musante – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedian
Peter Musante is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician currently performing Off-Broadway in Blue Man Group. As a Blue Man, he’s worked in Chicago, Boston, Orlando, Bogotá, Colombia and can be seen in ad campaigns all over Las Vegas and Brazil. Out of blue, he has taught improvisation to kids, improvised in drag at Universal Studios Hollywood, crooned cowboy tunes in Tokyo, worked as a standardized patient for medical students and most recently, developed workshops for children with autism. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theater in 2005, he played Huck Finn in Big River at Vista, California’s Moonlight Amphitheater and won the San Diego Theater Critic’s Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Featuring:
	Summer Shapiro – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedienne Summer Shapiro has written, performed and produced three original physical comedy shows, touring to San Francisco, Hawaii and New York since 2008 and will be attending the NY Clown Theatre Festival for the third time in a row. In San Francisco, she premiered her original solo show In The Boudoir sharing the bill with Cirque Du Soleil veteran, John Gilkey. The show continued on to headline at the San Francisco WOW Festival, in 2009. Shapiro’s PANTS! The Best Show Ever, sold out in the 2008 New York and San Francisco Clown Theater Festival’s in 2008 and she was in a trapeze clown duo in Angry Gods and Lost Marbles showcasing at the Magic Theater in October, 2007. Shapiro was an assistant director and performer with The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones in 2006. Summer has trained, performed and taught her craft in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Ireland. She holds a B.A. in acting from UCLA’s School of Theater and has performed on the streets of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Berlin.
	Peter Musante – Creator/Performer – Physical Actor & Comedian Peter Musante is a Brooklyn-based actor/musician currently performing Off-Broadway in Blue Man Group. As a Blue Man, he’s worked in Chicago, Boston, Orlando, Bogotá, Colombia and can be seen in ad campaigns all over Las Vegas and Brazil. Out of blue, he has taught improvisation to kids, improvised in drag at Universal Studios Hollywood, crooned cowboy tunes in Tokyo, worked as a standardized patient for medical students and most recently, developed workshops for children with autism. After graduating from UCLA’s School of Theater in 2005, he played Huck Finn in Big River at Vista, California’s Moonlight Amphitheater and won the San Diego Theater Critic’s Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
COMPANY BACKGROUND Summer Shapiro and Peter Musante began their artistic collaborations together as fellow students at UCLA’s School of Theater. During this they began to uncover an uncanny chemistry and a world of play. Now after almost a decade apart the team has reunited, and since April 2009 have been traveling between New York and San Francisco for rehearsals, having script writing sessions on the telephone and even live Skype showings of new material while Peter gigs in Brazil for Blue Man Group. LEGS AND ALL is their first production together and the team is beginning to make plans for their next project in 2011.