Kearns Artist Services

Kearns Artist Services produced theater projects in collaboration with TWEED TheaterWorks. Responsibilities included securing performance opportunities for projects, selecting venues, and managing all aspects of the performances including planning production details, determining marketing strategies and driving ticket sales.

PAVED PARADISE REDUX: The Art of Joni Mitchell

The extraordinary Obie Award winning artist John Kelly reworked his legendary theatrical homage to the music and words of Joni Mitchell, which Kearns Artist Services produced in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, and Seattle. The project won the 2010 Austin Critic's Table Award for Best Touring Show. In Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell, Kelly's musicianship is at it finest. At once haunting and hilarious, this work satisfies even the most hardened Joni-phile; the arrangements are utterly intact, and Kelly's spot-on recreation of the vocals is uncanny. In keeping with the TWEED tradition, this is no ordinary theatrical performance. The New York Times said: "There's drag, and then there's transformation through spiritual osmosis, and that's what John Kelly accomplishes with this tribute to the queen of the singer-songwriters. . . Magnificent."

FOLLY: The Grand Street Follies: Vaudeville for a New Depression

TWEED Theaterworks and Kearns Artist Services produced a fundraiser for God's Love We Deliver and TWEED Theaterworks. Inspired by the follies of the 20's, FOLLY will be an 'old school' vaudeville show featuring live acts: comedy, intriguing skits, unusual musical numbers, spectacle extravaganzas and more than a few surprises. Artists including Rufus Wainwright, Lypsinka, Caroline Rhea, Jackie Hoffman, Lady Bunny, Julie Halston, Robert La Fosse, Kristine Zbornik, Frank DeCaro, Flotilla DeBarge, Brenda Bergman and the Bodacious TaTas, Sweetie, David Ilku, The Dueling Bankheads, Carol Lipnik, The Butoh Rockettes, Wallace Shawn & Deborah Eisenberg, Dirty Martini, The Flute Friends, Wallie Wolfgruber Dance, Gina Vetro's Flopera!, Joseph Keckler, Todd Almond, Ken Bullock, Poor Baby Bree, Jim David, Stine Moen, Hooba Bjornevold, with Tony Conniff & The Grand St Follies Band. Direct by Kevin Malony.

Canned Ham

Kearns Artist Services co-produced "Canned Ham", a show written and performed by Broadway actor Tom Judson, with TWEED TheaterWorks. In "Canned Ham", Tom recalls working with show business greats Rob Marshall (director of Chicago), Ann Magnuson, Teri Hatcher, and many others. In this moving and hilarious show, Judson accompanies himself on the accordion, trumpet and piano while revealing what it's really like on the set of a porn movie (and explaining that being a male escort can have some surprisingly touching moments...). The show contains graphic language and adult themes, but no nudity - much to the disappointment of the audiences.

Posteriors

We produced a fully staged performance of Posteriors, a send-up of Woody Allen's 1978 drama "Interiors," which centers on three sisters, their suicidal interior decorator mother, and the men in their lives. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it has been said that Allen utilized film trademarks of late director Ingmar Bergman on "Interiors." The cast included Broadway's Julie Halston, Tony nominee Peter Frechette, David Rakoff, Steve Hayes, Brenda Bergman, David Ilku, Jodi Lennon, Maria Thayer and Lennon Parham. Kevin Malony directs.

Extra-Ordinary People

Produced in Association with TWEED Fractured Classicks and Jodi Lennon, we took on the 80's with a fully staged reading of the classic Robert Redford film about an upper middle class mid-western family's struggle to come to terms with the accidental drowning their prize son. The cast included Broadway actress and TV star Julie Halston (The Class), Jon Glaser (Late Night), Broadway's Seth Rudetsky, Upright Citizens Brigade's Jon Daly and Miriam Tolan join drag legend Sweetie and downtown's hilarious comic's David Ilku and Jodi Lennon to bring you a story of ordinary people: EXTRA Ordinary people. Directed by TWEED's Kevin Malony.