if you need to take a break from the madness of the marathon, I'd love for you to come watch the preview show of my one-man sketch/theatre piece, Dear Frailty, Friday at 8! The show starts its run on July 10, but I'd love to have a crowd of friends so I can figure out where all the goddamn laughs are!
Arthur Simone’s One-Man Show
DEAR FRAILTY…
Fridays in July and August at ColdTowne Theater w/Special Preview Performance June 26th at 8pm
Arthur Simone, best known as one third of Austin comedy powerhouse ColdTowne (three time winner of “Best Comedy Group” in Austin), presents his one man show, Dear Frailty, Fridays in July and August at 9pm (beginning July 10th), with a special FREE media preview Friday, June 26th at 8pm.
Written over a five-year span of artistic wandering, Dear Frailty is a mix of darkly comedic character monologues and absurdist performance pieces. Sifting through his own thoughts and the lives of personalities that “may as well exist out there,” Simone revels in the utter failure to find any degree of meaning in the predictability of human nature. Material ranges from his own perverse vision of what the future holds for capitalism as well as a pyromaniac grocery store clerk with a profound dislike of the elderly.
Arthur Simone is an improvisational actor, abstract expressionist artist and advocate of the culture of spontaneity. His artwork has been shown at
galleries such as Chicago's Echo Gallery and art festivals such as Around the Coyote and the East Austin Studio Tour. Arthur's artwork has been twice a nominated finalist for the prestigious Hunting Art Prize. A graduate of Oberlin College and a veteran of the Chicago stage with Suspicious Clowns and Moving Dock Theatre, he is a co-founder of Austin's ColdTowne Theater, where he teaches sketch, improv, and acting. On the screen, Arthur has starred in Jigsaw, The Evil One, A&E's Faith of My Fathers, Big Momma's House 2, and has been featured on the series Friday Night Lights. In 2007, he won the O'Henry Pun-Off World Championships (left), Austin's regional Air Guitar Championship, and most recently the Alamo Drafthouse's Air Sex World Championship.
ColdTowne Theater is Austin’s main stage for alternative comedy, with improv, sketch and stand up comedy shows Thursday through Monday nights. Advance tickets and our full line up can be found online at coldtownetheater.com.
Here’s What People Have to Say About Arthur:
“A very seasoned professional, very emotive.” - Tim League, Alamo Drafthouse
“The most eccentric and perhaps funniest of [ColdTowne]!” - Austin American-Statesman
“Has earned kudos in a wild variety of pursuits.” -Austin Monthly
