UNCLE PIRATE

Book by Ben H. Winters
Music and Lyrics by Drew Fornarola
Directed by Jeremy Dobrish
Based on the Book "Uncle Pirate" by Douglas Rees

January 16th - February 28th

Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 1pm

All Tickets $25.00

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Wilson is just your average kid. Then one day he finds out his uncle is a pirate… like, a REAL pirate! With help from Uncle Pirate and his faithful talking penguin, maybe, just maybe, Wilson can survive the fourth grade. Grab yer eye patches and pirate hats, mateys! The adventure begins now!

featuring: RONN BURTON, LAUREN KAMPF, BETH KUHN, JOSHUA NICHOLSON, STEVE TRZASKA and AMANDA YACHECHAK.


choreographed by Christine O’Grady
set design by Alexis Distler
lighting design by Michael Gottlieb
costume design by Bobby Pearce

Production Stage Managed by Nicholas Rainey

BEN H. WINTERS (Book) s a playwright and librettist whose work has been produced Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regionally and internationally. He wrote the book for Vital's A (TOOTH) FAIRY TALE, as well as book and lyrics for THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE (Theatreworks USA); both shows have been licensed by Samuel French. Ben is also an author, most recently of the New York Times bestseller SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS (Quirk Books). His next book is a novel for young adults called THE SECRET LIFE OF MS. FINKLEMAN, to be published by HarperCollins in fall of 2010. Ben lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Diana and their two awesome kids.

DREW FORNAROLA (Music and Lyrics) Credits include COLLEGE THE MUSICAL (NYMF Award for Excellence in Writing, Richard Rodgers Award finalist, published by Dramatic Publishing Company), THUCYDIDES (Off Off Broadway Festival winner, published by Samuel French), THE ADVENTURES OF CLAUDIO AND LUIS (opening July 2010, commissioned by the New Musical Development Fund), and VOTE FOR ME - A MUSICAL DEBATE (commissioned by Tony Award-winning producer, Robyn Goodman). Drew is a recent graduate of Princeton University and a member of the BMI Workshop. www.drewfornarola.com

JEREMY DOBRISH (Director) recently helmed JUDAS AND ME (NYMF), SPAIN (MCC) and ELECTION DAY (Second Stage). Regional credits include Barrington Stage, Goodspeed, Hangar, North Shore, NY Stage and Film, O'Neill, Village. For Theatreworks USA he wrote and directed CURIOUS GEORGE and directed PAUL REVERE. Festival credits include Fringe NYC, NYMF, SPF. Jeremy has served as an Artistic Associate at Second Stage, and was the Artistic Director of adobe theatre company for 13 years, for which he has written and/or directed over twenty plays. Jeremy's plays include NOTIONS IN MOTION, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN, BLINK OF AN EYE, SUPERPOWERS, ORPHEUS & EURYDICE (all adobe) and EIGHT DAYS (BACKWARDS) (Vineyard). He lives in Maplewood with his wife Beth and daughters Clea and Quinn. www.jeremydobrish.com

DOUGLAS REES (Author) is a librian, not a pirate, who has written Lightning Time, Smoking Mirror, The Janus Gate, and Vampire High for young adults, and Grandy Thaxter's Helper and Uncle Pirate for younger readers. He will have four books coming out next year, including the sequel to Uncle Pirate, Uncle Pirate to the Rescue, the sequel to Vampire High, Vampire High: Sophomore Year, Majix and Jeannette Claus's Christmas. He lives in San Jose with his wife, Jo, who is also a librarian, and too many cats. www.douglasrees.com