“Wake-up Call to Shock Audiences May 11th at Marsh Rising Series”
Based on real life shocking experience of Playwright/Performer, Jerry Franklin, Wake-up Call is an emotionally turbulent, meaningful and surprisingly funny love story – an unusual variation on “boy meets girl, boy loses girl”. This Solo Performance plays one night only – on May 11, 2016 – at 7:30pm at The Marsh Theatre, a breeding ground for new performances, in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Fate is clearly at work when happenstance connects Jerry and his future wife Kate at a dog park in Los Angeles. She had asked the universe to send her a Jew and the universe delivered. Though they have about as much in common as a chrysanthemum and a kitchen mop – Jerry would be the mop in this analogy – they stay together. And then fate intervenes again.
Jerry Franklin has been a writer all his adult life, and a performer even longer. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist, a recovering screenwriter, a nascent playwright, and entering his third decade writing for software companies (English – not code). He also possesses a range of professional performing credits in music, theatre, and improv comedy, and earned a standing ovation at a recent Bawdy Storytelling show.
Jerry is a native of Brooklyn, currently resides in Alameda with his two dogs, and has never stopped searching for good pastrami. Details, photos and video clips: https://www.JerryFranklinOnStage.com .
This show is directed by David Ford. Mr. Ford’s work has been performed in theaters nationally and around the Bay Area including The Berkeley Rep, the Magic Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. He’s had play readings at The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep., Magic Theatre, Theatreworks (Palo Alto), and Bay area Playwrights Festival.
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Based on real life shocking experience of Playwright/Performer, Jerry Franklin, Wake-up Call is an emotionally turbulent, meaningful and surprisingly funny love story – an unusual variation on “boy meets girl, boy loses girl”. This Solo Performance plays one night only – on May 11, 2016 – at 7:30pm at The Marsh Theatre, a breeding ground for new performances, in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Fate is clearly at work when happenstance connects Jerry and his future wife Kate at a dog park in Los Angeles. She had asked the universe to send her a Jew and the universe delivered. Though they have about as much in common as a chrysanthemum and a kitchen mop – Jerry would be the mop in this analogy – they stay together. And then fate intervenes again.
Jerry Franklin has been a writer all his adult life, and a performer even longer. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist, a recovering screenwriter, a nascent playwright, and entering his third decade writing for software companies (English – not code). He also possesses a range of professional performing credits in music, theatre, and improv comedy, and earned a standing ovation at a recent Bawdy Storytelling show.
Jerry is a native of Brooklyn, currently resides in Alameda with his two dogs, and has never stopped searching for good pastrami. Details, photos and video clips: https://www.JerryFranklinOnStage.com .
This show is directed by David Ford. Mr. Ford’s work has been performed in theaters nationally and around the Bay Area including The Berkeley Rep, the Magic Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. He’s had play readings at The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep., Magic Theatre, Theatreworks (Palo Alto), and Bay area Playwrights Festival.
“Wake-up Call to Shock Audiences May 11th at Marsh Rising Series”
Based on real life shocking experience of Playwright/Performer, Jerry Franklin, Wake-up Call is an emotionally turbulent, meaningful and surprisingly funny love story – an unusual variation on “boy meets girl, boy loses girl”. This Solo Performance plays one night only – on May 11, 2016 – at 7:30pm at The Marsh Theatre, a breeding ground for new performances, in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Fate is clearly at work when happenstance connects Jerry and his future wife Kate at a dog park in Los Angeles. She had asked the universe to send her a Jew and the universe delivered. Though they have about as much in common as a chrysanthemum and a kitchen mop – Jerry would be the mop in this analogy – they stay together. And then fate intervenes again.
Jerry Franklin has been a writer all his adult life, and a performer even longer. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist, a recovering screenwriter, a nascent playwright, and entering his third decade writing for software companies (English – not code). He also possesses a range of professional performing credits in music, theatre, and improv comedy, and earned a standing ovation at a recent Bawdy Storytelling show.
Jerry is a native of Brooklyn, currently resides in Alameda with his two dogs, and has never stopped searching for good pastrami. Details, photos and video clips: https://www.JerryFranklinOnStage.com .
This show is directed by David Ford. Mr. Ford’s work has been performed in theaters nationally and around the Bay Area including The Berkeley Rep, the Magic Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. He’s had play readings at The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep., Magic Theatre, Theatreworks (Palo Alto), and Bay area Playwrights Festival.
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Based on real life shocking experience of Playwright/Performer, Jerry Franklin, Wake-up Call is an emotionally turbulent, meaningful and surprisingly funny love story – an unusual variation on “boy meets girl, boy loses girl”. This Solo Performance plays one night only – on May 11, 2016 – at 7:30pm at The Marsh Theatre, a breeding ground for new performances, in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Fate is clearly at work when happenstance connects Jerry and his future wife Kate at a dog park in Los Angeles. She had asked the universe to send her a Jew and the universe delivered. Though they have about as much in common as a chrysanthemum and a kitchen mop – Jerry would be the mop in this analogy – they stay together. And then fate intervenes again.
Jerry Franklin has been a writer all his adult life, and a performer even longer. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist, a recovering screenwriter, a nascent playwright, and entering his third decade writing for software companies (English – not code). He also possesses a range of professional performing credits in music, theatre, and improv comedy, and earned a standing ovation at a recent Bawdy Storytelling show.
Jerry is a native of Brooklyn, currently resides in Alameda with his two dogs, and has never stopped searching for good pastrami. Details, photos and video clips: https://www.JerryFranklinOnStage.com .
This show is directed by David Ford. Mr. Ford’s work has been performed in theaters nationally and around the Bay Area including The Berkeley Rep, the Magic Theatre and Marin Theatre Company. He’s had play readings at The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep., Magic Theatre, Theatreworks (Palo Alto), and Bay area Playwrights Festival.
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