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Ten Min Workshop
(10/16/2010)
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written and performed by Rick Cleveland
Filled with his trademark blend of history and hilarity, Ricky and Dick details the tall tale of his epistolary childhood relationship with Richard M. Nixon. Ricky & Dick comes on the heels of My Buddy Bill, Mr. Cleveland’s Mark Twain-inspired account of his “friendship” with Bill Clinton and My Pal George, a yarn about his relationship with George W. Bush.
RICK CLEVELAND was a writer and Executive Producer for HBO's award-winning “Six Feet Under.” In 2000 he won an Emmy Award, a Writer's Guild Award, and The Humanitas Prize for his writing on “The West Wing.” His play “Jerry and Tom” was adapted as a screenplay and was an official selection at both the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals. He was a writer and consulting producer on the second season of “Mad Men” and is now a writer and consulting producer on Edie Falco’s new Showtime series “Nurse Jackie.” He received his MFA from the University of Iowa's Playwrights' Workshop in 1995 and is a Resident Playwright Alumnus with Chicago Dramatists, which produced his first play “Buffalo Boys” in 1983.
As a monologist, Rick Cleveland won the Jury Award for Outstanding Performance in a One Person Show at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 2006 for his Mark Twain-inspired monologue “My Buddy Bill,” a meta-tall-tale about his friendship with the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, and the President's dog, Buddy. He has toured the US performing “My Buddy Bill,” and a filmed version premiered on Comedy Central in 2008. Last summer, he premiered a follow-up monologue “My Pal George” (about the 44th President, George W. Bush) at the Berkshire Theatre Festival..
Featuring:
Former Resident Playwright Rick Cleveland
This evening is a benefit performance for Chicago Dramatists!
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Ricky & Dick
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