Fogler, McCann, O’Hara, et al. to Participate in FringeNYC

Dan Fogler, Michael Holland, Christopher McCann, Robert O’Hara, Bert V. Royal, and Lynne Taylor-Corbett will be among the participants in the 11th annual New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC). Featuring 190 theater troupes and dance companies from all over the world, it is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, and will run August 10-26 at various venues in Manhattan.

Fogler, who won a Tony Award for his performance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, will write and direct Elephant in the Room, a comedy inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros.

Holland, a popular cabaret artist well known as half of the Gashole duo along with Karen Mack, will be the composer/lyricist for Kelly Kinsella Live! Under Broadway, a solo show about Kinsella’s life as a Broadway dresser. Holland previously participated in the Fringe in 2004 as songwriter for Believe in Me…A Bigfoot Musical.

O’Hara will direct Chad Beckim’s Lights Rise on Grace, which follows three desperate New Yorkers in an examination of race, sexuality, and family. O’Hara received a 2006 Obie Award for his direction of In the Continuum, and is a playwright whose credits include Insurrection: Holding History, American Ma(u)l, and Down Low.

McCann, who won an Obie for his performance in Howard Korder’s The Lights, will be among the cast members of Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich’s play …Double Vision, a dark romantic comedy about urban singles. Royal, whose play Dog Sees God was a hit of the 2004 FringeNYC and later transferred Off-Broadway, will direct I Dig Doug, about a teenager whose world is turned upside down when she discovers the presidential election is the ultimate reality television. Taylor-Corbett, a two-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Swing!, will direct Asking For It, a dark comedy with sex and music.

For more information visit www.FringeNYC.org.