FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fran Kirmser and Christopher Burney present:
AMERICAN SCOREBOARD: The Trump Administration
Performance of The Wells Fargo Hearings Panel 1, Jan. 24 at 4pm at the
Bank Street Theater
New York, NY —
AMERICAN SCOREBOARD is a series of readings that reflect the issues that President Elect Donald Trump faces when he steps into office. Conceived and produced by Fran Kirmser and Christopher Burney, AMERICAN SCOREBOARD are verbatim readings of Senate and Congressional hearing transcripts presented without interpretation or slant.
The first reading, on Jan 24, 2017 will focus on the topic of corporate fraud with The Wells Fargo Hearing Panel 1. The cast includes Quincy Dunn Baker, Bill Dawes, Constantine Maroulis, Sapna Parikh, Katharine Powell, Adeola Role, Peter Scolari, Tracy Shayne, Asa Somers, and James Yaegashi and Saundra Santiago.
On September 20 2016, CEO of Wells Fargo John Stumpf appeared in front of the Senate Banking Committee after the conclusion that thousands of Wells Fargo employees opened more than 2 million accounts that may not have been authorized. The Wall Street Journal dubbed actions at Wells Fargo “The Scandal of the Year.” The cast will read the verbatim transcript of hearing panel 1.
How can we trust what we are told? At a time when many news outlets seek the sensational angle and the sources of information are questioned, this reading series offers information without editorial slant in an effort to share facts and provoke all people to ask the tough questions and inspire action.
Future topics include, but are not limited to, immigration, the economy, international relations, racism, LGBTQ and gender equality, the homeless crisis, national security, healthcare, and education. This pop up reading series intends to follow the administration through the next four years addressing issues as they arise.
The reading is free and open to the public. Reservations required by calling 212-554-3431.
Location: AMERICAN SCOREBOARD will have a reading at The Bank Street Theater at HB Studios, 124 Bank Street, NYC.
Running Time: Approximately 80 minutes no intermission.
Tickets: Free, reservations required by calling 212-554-3431
FRAN KIRMSER
Fran Kirmser is a two time Tony Award winning producer whose credits include; Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award 2013), Hair (Tony Award 2009), Glengarry Glen Ross, Lombardi, and August Wilson’s Radio Golf. In 2008 off the heels of the financial crisis Kirmser conceived and produced a sports series for stage to explore leadership, competition, teamwork and resilience beginning with first Lombardi now a film in development with Legendary Pictures.
CHRISTOPHER BURNEY
Christopher Burney is the Associate Artistic Director of Second Stage Theatre where he has worked since 1996. Previously, he worked at Lincoln Center Theater as the Assistant to the Director of Musical Theatre. He teaches creative producing and New York theatre history at Columbia University in the Graduate School of the Arts.
ABOUT HB STUDIOS
HB was founded in 1945 by the Broadway actor and director Herbert Berghof. Berghof, born in
Austria, was a protégé of the German realist director Max Reinhardt. A refugee from Adolf
Hitler’s Nazi regime, Berghof came to New York in 1939, where he joined a community of
immigrant artists interested in bringing the classical training of the European theatrical tradition
into practice in the still-young American theatre and created a studio for this work and practice. Berghof met the celebrated actress Uta Hagen in 1945 and invited her to join him in teaching at the Studio. Together, Hagen and Berghof trained some of the most noted actors of the American theatre. Their students, colleagues, and a new generation of accomplished artists continue that tradition today.
All Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association.