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The Producers of the Festival of One: New York's Only One Show Summer
Festival. Featuring One Show! Paul Pierog's (not your president)
todo con nada
has been a force in the off-off Broadway
milieu since its inception on a $3500. credit card advance in 1988. The first todo con nada was located on
the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 167 Ludlow Street where it pioneered the 8PM, 10PM and Midnight shows. In 1993 under the
artistic direction of its executive director Aaron Beall the theater began producing festivals, launching the festival era
with a 31 production Hamlet Festival that spanned 90 days. The following year todo con nada produced
the 43 production Faust Festival garnering international press and an Obie award. Other festivals followed including the Complete
Works of Richard Foreman (over three seasons), and todo con nada's co-creation of the New York International
Fringe Festival which has become in its 9th year the largest festival of its kind in North America and changed the
summer cultural landscape in New York City. Theaters started or continued by todo con nada include The
Piano Store, House of Candles, The Pink Pony, The Tenement Theater, Nada 45, Todo con Nada Show World, and Todo
45. In recent seasons todo con nada has been delving deeply into the world of
Yiddish theater working with Caraid O'Brien's masterful translations of Yiddish Art Theater Classics such as Sholem Asch's
God of Vengeance, The Dead Man and this Fall (2005) the American premiere of Sholem Asch's psychological portrait of
the making of a gangster Motke Thief (motkethief.com) a co-production with University Settlemen. todo con nada returns to festival creation with
its first festival in many seasons the Festival of One: New York's Only One Show Summer Festival. Featuring One Show!
Paul Pierog's (not your president).
Medicine Show founded in 1970, (now entering its 36th season) the theater is a direct
decendent of the legendary Open Theater and was founded by Barbara Vann and the late James Barbrosa.and has an illustrious
off-off Broadway history including two Obie awards. In the past season Medicine Show staged Barbara Vann's
well recieved (by The New York Times) distillation of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in addittion to staging
a 35th Anniversary Retrospective Vaudeville which included samples of 35 years of ensemble work and the essentially comic
vision of Medicine Show featuring the works of Dario Fo and Franca Rama, William Shakespeare, e.e. cummings,
Leonard Cohen, Cole Porter, Kenneth Koch, Arnold Weinstein, and Frank O'Hara amongst
many writers world famous, known and working. An earlier show called Paul Pierog (not for president) first appeared
in Medicine Show's 21 year old Word/Play series in 2004.
Paul, Inc. is the collaboration of Paul Pierog
and Aaron Beall to create an empire of comedy/performance art/media commentary based around the writings and writing
techniques of Paul Pierog known as Paul Pierog (not your president) and Wordspace, respectively.
Los Burros Locos ran to get pizza to
better think up a bio for Los Burros Locos.
Paul Pierog is a graduate of the Yale School
of Drama and an Obie award winner himeself (he played Bigfoot in Ron Tavel's famed Theater Genesis production Bigfoot)
He has written over 25 plays including Why You Shouldn’t Go
Rabbit Hunting On Your Honeymoon,
and has invented a system for teaching and manipulating the English language both in a written and
spoken form called Wordspace. Paul Pierog (not your president) was written using Wordspace techniques.
Aaron Beall is a dramator, director, actor,
writer, theater critic, festival creator, and recently a web site designer. He is thrilled to be working on
a one show festival. "It's totally zen" he said.
Kip Patharas is an actor, film maker,
is proud not to be serving Paul Pierog (not your president).
Raphaele Shirley took the photo used on
the site. She is an artist living in Brooklyn.
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