UNCLE PIRATE

September 24th - November 14th

Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 1pm

Holiday Shows Oct. 10, Nov. 8 & 11

All Tickets Start at $25.00

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!

Performances run 1 hour and are appropriate for children between 2 and 10 years old.

All children over 1 year must have a ticket.

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

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

MARSHALL PAILET (Director) – Who's Your Baghdaddy or How I Started the Iraq War (Best Musical, DC Fringe '11), Jurassic Parq: The Broadway Musical (Best Musical, FringeNYC '10), Super Claudio Bros. (Best Musical, DC Fringe '11), Stuck (Clurman Theater), The 49 Project (FringeNYC '09), Thursday (World Premiere), With Kings in the Back (World Premiere), The 70 Scenes of Halloween, The Darq Knight (World Premiere), Bat Boy, Escape Artists (World Premiere) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Recipient of the V. Browne Irish Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, and John Thoroun Fellowship for Special Study at Cambridge University. Yale University graduate.

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