Tenderpits

ANIMAL PARTS
presents
TENDERPITS

SEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 8
8pm
$15

Tenderpits tells the completely 100% half-true story of a young wizard's immigration from the wilderness of Canada to New York City. It is a fast paced genre-destroying comedy possessed by bouts of unrestrained hopefulness and brutal intimacy.

ANTHONY JOHNSTON (writer/performer) is a New York City based actor and theatre maker, originally from Canada.

Anthony has worked across Canada, for some of the country's most important theatres. Credits include; Alan in the Canadian revival of EQUUS (Citadel), Billy in the first Canadian productions of Edward Albee's THE GOAT or, WHO IS SYLVIA? (Centaur, MTC), Brodie in Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING (MTC), Gary in the Western Canadian Premiere of SHOPPING & FUCKING (Pi) and Bill Mercer in the Dora-Award winning production of LEAVING HOME (Soulpepper).

In New York, Anthony has worked with NY Theatre Experiment, Stage Left Studio, the Ensemble Theatre Company's Youngblood, 13th St Theatre, the Management Theatre Co. and HorseTrade Theater Group.

His original one-man shows have been produced across Canada, in New York City and in New Jersey. ART'S HEART was awarded Outstanding Solo Show at the 2009 NY Fringe Festival and TENDERPITS was selected as Best Multi-Media Performance at NY's 2010 United Solo Festival at Theatre ROW.

Most recently Anthony participated in The Public Theater’s 2011 Shakespeare Lab, headed by Barry Edelstein.

He is represented by The Jim Flynn Agency, NYC.

NATHAN SCHWARTZ (co-creator/director) most recently directed Miranda Huba's Dirty Little Machine for AnimalParts. Past credits include: Ragnarok Out! for Nuit Blanche 2009 at The Theatre Centre (Toronto) as well as the HATCH 2009 hit, It Takes Two Men To Make A Brother at the Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), Art’s Heart at FringeNYC 2009 (awarded Outstanding Solo Show) and The Garage Theatre's SoloFest 2010 (Teaneck, NJ), Bass Bugs (Walking Fish Festival, Vancouver). Nathan has won 'Best Director’ two years
running at Ottawa's Youth Infringement Festival. Nathan wrote and performed And Now a Message From Mr. Mr. (Toronto Festival of Clowns 2009), and Messiah Ayeland (2005 Chutzpah Festival, Vancouver). He won the Jessie Richardson Award for 'Best Artistic Achievement' with the cast of The Big League (Carousel Theatre, Vancouver).