Peter Peter Presents: “A SCHTICKY SITUATION” With your host: Sir Richard Castle.
Comedy you can't squeeze into a box! A cast of well seasoned, delicious oddballs yanked from the stages of burlesque nightclubs, international circus, and other planets, brought right to you. Fasten your seatbelt, it’s gonna be a weird and wonderfully funny ride!
AGES 21+
Bradford Scobie (Sir Richard Castle) is a comedic character actor who fell ass-backwards into the wacky and wonderful world of burlesque. (As a host. Not a stripper.) Hosting as a cavalcade of kooky characters: Mister Peaches, Johnny Rooster, Zombie Ralph, Pilgrim William, Doctor Donut, Ukulele Louie, Moisty the Snowman, and most prominently, that naughty English gentleman, Sir Richard Castle.
Sir Richard Castle’s burlesque/comedy show, “Sir Richard Castle’s Naughty Little Show” currently runs at the legendary Slipper Room Palace of Variety in NYC. Every year Sir Richard Castle hosts The New York Burlesque Festival’s prestigious “Golden Pastie Awards”. Sir Richard Castle is swollen with pride to be hosting “Schticky Situation” at the magnificent Catskills Comedy Festival.
Peter Daniel Straus
Peter's an unusual, versatile actor-comedian, whose has work spans TV, feature film, theater, nightclubs, and circus the world over. His career began by touring America as a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown. He's been a featured comedic performer at the Metropolitan Opera, and had several appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman. His physical abilities landed him as the season finale mystery man villain, a homicidal mechanical automaton, on ABC's Deception. Feature comedy films include playing a variety of weirdoes in Ballbuster with Jerry O'Connelland the cult comedy Hurriance Bianca: From Russia with Hate with Rachel Dratch. You can catch him doing as his comedy burlesque persona Peter Peter regularly at New York nightclubs like The Slipper Room and House of Yes. Even if you wanted to you probably couldn't have missed the commercial with him as
Amongst his various exploits, Peter is well known as his original creation "Pierre the Mime," infiltrating not one but TWO of TV's most popular Universes: Impractical Jokers and Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
He's also co-owner of Really Really Inc where he creates weird and wonderful content and brands. (www.reallyreallyinc.com) He is delighted to both produce and join the cast onstage in “A Schticky Situation” at The Catskills Comedy Festival.
Monkey (Adam Krandle) is an award-winning primate has pioneered a niche in the international circus/cabaret scene. He attended circus school, headlined festivals all over the world, staged 3 full-length theater shows including "All or Nothing" at Ars Nova , produced national tours, and won several awards including the Burlesque Hall of Fame King of Boylesque, Most Comedic, and Most Innovative. Additionally, Monkey is proud to say he was the first contestant “X’d” off America’s Got Talent Season 14!
In 2013, Monkey joined the cast of BRIEFS, an all male burlesque circus troupe from Australia. The company pays homage to the traditions of circus, the extremities of physical theatre, the artistry of drag, the guts of burlesque, the imagery of theatre, the debauchery of speakeasies and the showmanship of cabaret.
Monkey's original mix of circus skills, absurd humor and over-the-top personality has earned him a cultish following developed over the course of two decades. He’s sure to turn heads and make you question your next banana eating experience!
At home in New York City, Monkey is a late-night fixture everywhere from exclusive nightclubs to underground variety shows, regularly appearing at his favorite Lower East Side haunts, The Box or The Slipper Room. www.evilhatemonkey.com
Djahari Clark i is a "maker of dreams”. She has spent her life imagining other worlds, with a predilection for humanizing folklore, and blurring the lines between the beautiful and grotesque, she creates theater using a mix of dance, music, and puppetry. She has produced original full-length productions in both Los Angeles and NYC over the past two decades. She writes, “Much of my work personifies the struggle against boundaries, real and imagined. I've been doing this a long time. There is often darkness - I hope to laugh in it.”
Currently residing in the majestic Western Catskills, she is directs the artist organization Gloaming Project. www.djahari.com
Amy G (Amy Gordon)
Forged from vaudeville stock, classical training, and an endless international tour circuit, Amy G is a deluxe weirdo extraordinaire. She is an Olivier Award winning actor, comedian and singer who’s toured internationally for over 20 years and performed in more than 50 countries in 5 languages. Seen on Hulu, Apple TV, in Vegas, on Broadway, and London’s West End, she’s pleased to finally play here at home in the Hudson Valley. Catch her latest full show, Revenge of the Bond Girls in Kingston on 10/26 at The Power Station. @amygforce / The Amy G Show (FB) . For lots more Amy, check out www.amy-g.com
Zahra Hashemian works regularly with Djahari Clark’s "Desert Sin Dance Company". Zahra has performed as the lead solo dancer for the Metropolitan Opera, Merce Cunningham Theater, Webster Hall, club Element, The Knitting Factory, Club Sol, FIT Theater, The Zipper Factory Theater, Shanghai Mermaid’s Red Lotus Room, and Theatre de Menilmontant (Paris, France).