WHAT

Removed from the glamour and glitz of Sex in the City there is Up Chick Creek - an evening of three original one-woman shows: Surviving Chrysalis by Barbara Cole, The Hard Way by Dinah Steward, and Crazy in a Good Way by Lizzie Czerner - three women searching for their own happily ever after in LA or at least a paddle to help with the journey up Chick Creek.

Surviving Chrysalis -  the story of a mom at mid life, attempting to set herself free from the PTA before she takes them all out.

Written and Directed by Barbara Cole. Cole wrote and performed her first one-woman show about becoming a new mother, The Rocking Chair Riddle, in 1995. Despite rave reviews, motherhood put an end to her acting career until a decade later, when she performed Surviving Chrysalis, the sequel to RCR, about the turmoil of mid-life. Chrysalis took "Best of Fest" at the San Diego Actors Festival. Most recently Barbara performed solo works in the Hollywood Fringe Festival and the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. LA stage credits include Sex, Love, Violence at The Whitefire Theatre, The Art of Being at ArtWorks Theatre, & Expressing Motherhood at The Electric Lodge.  

The Hard Way - a musical adventure along the path of most resistance.

Crazy In A Good Way - the story of Lizzie -- A kooky romantic -- as she faces the pitfalls and pratfalls of first-love at forty.

Written and Performed by Lizzie Czerner. Czerner studied theatre at Sarah Lawrence College and worked as an actress in New York City for many years before moving to LA, with several Off-Broadway credits to her name.  She was a member of the long-running sketch comedy group, 'Faulty Logic' (winner, HA! Comedy Festival 2003) and her most recent solo show, "Getting Naked" was an official jury selection of the 2009 NYC Fringe Festival.  She is also a voice-over artist and has recorded numerous commercials airing on Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.  LA stage credits include Sex, Love, Violence, (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Fairytales Some Assembly Required, Barely a Bear, Windows, Backstage Grease, and The Mackenzie Showcase’.  She also studies and performs improv at Bang! Improv.  Film credits include The Legacy of Walter Frumm, Annahme, and A Bad Situationist (starring Jeaneane Garofalo)

Directed by: David Coe

New Orleans born and bred, Coe attended Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of business before heading west to make movies. In Los Angeles, he has studied under Joshua Bitton, Stephen Gregory, Donovan Scott, and Carolyne Barry, and made his stage directorial debut as a member of the underground theater company. He plays a supporting role in National Lampoon's upcoming "dirty movie", along with numerous other film credits.

Produced by Chick Creek Productions

Santa Monica Playhouse
Main Stage

Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Admission: $15

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(All proceeds benefit the Save the
Santa Monica Playhouse Campaign)

Santa Monica Playhouse, a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 educational corporation founded in 1960, provides exciting and entertaining dramatic and comedic, classic and contemporary live theatrical productions, Family Theatre musicals, birthday and tea parties, year-round and summer theatre acting classes and educational programming for kids, teens and adults, create-a-play classes and Mommy and Me events for pre-schoolers, daytime and after school field trips,  enrichment classes and in-service in public and private schools, cultural exchange, international touring, and community outreach, as well as theatre rental space for productions, seminars, solo shows, concerts, recitals, lectures, meetings and more.