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THE DEEP END PRODUCTIONS AND
LITTLE JOHNNY KOERBER PRESENT
LIFE IN A MARITAL
INSTITUTION
(20 YEARS OF MONOGAMY
IN ONE TERRIFYING HOUR)
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY JAMES BRALY
DIRECTED BY HAL BROOKS
FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 16

THE DEEP END PRODUCTIONS AND LITTLE JOHNNY KOERBER PRESENT
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY JAMES BRALY
DIRECTED BY HAL BROOKS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LITTLE JOHNNY KOERBER
PRODUCER ANNA BECKER
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER JOEL BASSIN
STAGE MANAGER LAUREN McARTHUR
LIGHTING DESIGNER COLIN D. YOUNG
SET DESIGNER MICHAEL V. MOORE
GRAPHIC DESIGNER ANDY CHRISTIE
PRODUCTION COUNSEL BEN FELDMAN, ESQ.,
BEIGELMAN, FELDMAN & ASSOCIATES
The show runs for 70 minutes and is performed without an intermission.
Life In A Marital Institution began as a ten-minute story
performed on The Moth’s Mainstage.
Original Producer (UK) Louise Chantal
“THE FAMILY ALWAYS CREEPS BACK.”
MARGARET MEAD
JAMES BRALY
(Writer/Performer)
Life in a Marital Institution premiered at the 2007
Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Braly has performed other
autobiographical stories on NPR and at The Whitney
Museum, Long Wharf Theatre, Ars Nova, Dixon
Place, KGB, LIAR, Speakeasy, Beyond Words
and The Moth, where he was featured on the TNT
National Story Tour and is the only two-time winner
of their GrandSLAM storytelling competition. His
essays have appeared in New York Press and his
commentaries have been broadcast nationally on
Marketplace. Braly was for many years a corporate
speechwriter, often for pharmaceutical executives;
credits include co-writing the launch meetings for
both Viagra and Levitra, making him perhaps the
only expert on sexual dysfunction Off-Broadway.
Special Thanks to: Little Johnny Koerber, for telling
me to bite off less and go deeper and for giving me
the opportunity to do it; and, of course, to Susan.
Watch for the book version of Life in a Marital
Institution, to be published by Algonquin in 2009.
Please visit www.jamesbraly.com.
HAL BROOKS
(Director)
Directed No Child... by Nilaja Sun, which ran at
the Barrow Street Theatre for over 350 performances
and will be touring this year at Lookingglass
(Chicago), ART (Cambridge), Woolly Mammoth
(DC), Kirk Douglas (LA) and Berkeley Rep. He also
directed Will Eno's Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain (based
on nothing) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho
Theatre in London and DR2 in NYC. Recent projects:
Lee Blessing’s Lonesome Hollow (Contemporary
American Theater Festival), Athol Fugard’s Master
Harold…and the boys (Weston Playhouse), Jessica
Provenz's Better than Chocolate (Juilliard). NY
Credits include: Rinne Groff’s What Then (Clubbed
Thumb); Don DeLillo's Valparaiso (NY Times Top
Ten) and Will Eno's The Flu Season (Oppy winner).
Regional: Sharr White’s Six Years (Actors Theater
of Louisville - Humana Festival); Baby with the
Bathwater (American Conservatory Theater, MFA
program). A Drama League Fall Directing Fellow,
Hal is also a proud member of the Lincoln Center
Theater Directors Lab and SSDC and is a recipient
of the 2007-09 NEA TCG Career Development
Program for Directors.
LITTLE JOHNNY KOERBER
(Executive Producer)
Would like you to believe that he is both faster than
a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings
in a single bound. Alas. In reality, on weekday
mornings, he gets on a Metro-North train and
ventures out to the wilds of Connecticut where
he works at an investment firm. He co-produced Life
in a Marital Institution (20 years of monogamy
in one terrifying hour) at the 2007 Edinburgh
Festival Fringe. In addition, L JK is the Executive
Producer of Sky Blue by the Maria Schneider
Orchestra, which won the 2007 Village Voice
Jazz Poll as Record of the Year, and whose track
Cerulean Skies just won a Grammy for Best
Instrumental Composition. Enjoy the show.
ANNA BECKER
(Producer)
Founder, The Deep End Productions, whose Insights
& Revelations Performance Series is a recipient
of the Best of Westchester Award 2007. Presentations
have included The New Group’s A Spalding Gray
Matter, James Braly’s Life in a Marital Institution,
The Atlantic Theater Company’s The Pinter Plays
and Classic Stage Company’s open rehearsals
of The Merchant of Venice with Ron Leibman
and Richard III with Michael Cumpsty. Anna has
produced for theatre, film and television for more
than 20 years - independently for Andre Gregory,
Eve Ensler and others, and on staff at A Traveling
Jewish Theatre and Lucasfilm. Special projects include
The Race For The Arts (in collaboration with the
NYS Council on the Arts and the NY Road Runners
Club) and A Celebration of the Actor (for The
Spencer Cherashore Fund) at the Public Theater
with Kate Burton, Charles Busch, Charlayne
Woodard, John Seitz and Julie Halston performing
original works by Lee Blessing, Migdalia Cruz,
Jose Rivera and James Still.
www.TheDeepEndProductions.org.
JOEL BASSIN
(Associate Producer)
Has worked with The Wooster Group (Managing
Director), Mabou Mines (Company Manager),
Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Marketing/Tour Director),
Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Producing Director),
Women’s Interart Theatre (Company Manager),
Nexus Arts Center (Manager) and Colonnades
Theatre Lab (Manager), as well as serving as a
consultant for the New York State Council on the
Arts and General Manager for choreographers
Marlies Yearby, Anita Gonzalez and composer/
conductor Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris. Bassin has
also directed at theaters throughout the country.
He is currently an Assistant Professor and Production
Manager in the Department of Theatre at Hunter
College. He has an MFA in Directing from the
Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University
and a Ph.D. in Theatre from the Graduate Center
at City University of New York.
COLIN D. YOUNG
(Lighting Designer)
Off-Broadway: Primary Stages/Perry St. Theatre:
In the Continuum. Classical Theatre of Harlem:
The Blacks: A Clown Show, Crazy Locomotive
(2003 Audelco Award), Native Son and Ma
Rainey's Black Bottom. Signature: Talking Pictures
and Fragments by Edward Albee. Reverie
Productions: Widows, Rearviewmirror, Billboard,
Fatboy and American Ma(u)l, among many others.
Regional: Goodman, Guthrie, Yale Rep, Woolly
Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, CTG-Kirk Douglas,
Philadelphia Theatre Co. International: Traverse
and Assembly Theatres, Edinburgh; Market Theatre,
Johannesburg. Also at 59E59: The Jazz Age by
Allan Knee and Widows by Ariel Dorfman. Colin is
also the Producing Artistic Director and co-founder
of Reverie Productions.
MICHAEL V. MOORE
(Set Designer)
Is pleased to continue his collaborations with Hal
Brooks, which includes Keith Reddin's Almost Blue
and Michael John Garces' Caught. He is a New
York based designer whose works include: The Last
Word (Off-Broadway), West Bank, UK (La Mama
ETC), Cipher (Summer Play Festival), The Passion
of George W. Bush (NY Fringe), St. Crispin's Day
(Rattlestick Theatre), Phenomenon (Here Arts
Center), Full Bloom (Vital Theatre) and The Tempest
(Sonnet Repertory Theatre). Michael received his
MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
LAUREN McARTHUR
(Stage Manager)
NYC credits: Stage Manager, Savage in Limbo;
Assistant Stage Manager, Widows; Assistant Stage
Manager, The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now
What? (NY Musical Theatre Festival); Assistant
Stage Manager, The Program (NY International
Fringe Festival), and Production Designer for the
short film “Wunderkind”. Regional: Scenic Paint
Assistant for Sacramento Music Circus's 2006
season. Internship: B Street Theatre.
ANDY CHRISTIE
(Graphic Designer)
Is creative head of Slim Films, an illustration
and video animation studio whose clients include
Time Magazine, National Geographic, Forbes,
Sports Illustrated and WNET among others
(www.SlimFilms.com). He is a Moth GrandSLAM
storytelling champion, a featured performer
on The Moth main stage and creator and host
of the storytelling series “The Liar Show”
(www.TheLiarShow.com).
“IF SHE LOOKED FURTHER THAN THE WEDDING,
IT WAS TO SEE MARRIAGE AS THE BEGINNING OF INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE;
THE SKIRMISH WHERE ONE GAINED ONE’S SPURS,
FROM WHICH ONE SET OUT ON THE TRUE QUESTS OF LIFE.”
EVELYN WAUGH, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED