Peter Peter Presents:
“A SCHTICKY SITUATION”
Comedy you can’t squeeze into a box! Our 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!
Hosted by Sir Richard Castle, and staring Andy Sapora, Muffy Styler, Miss Saturn & your impresario Peter Peter!
AGES 21+
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.
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.
Miss Saturn
One of the pioneers of the NYC neoburlesque scene-storyteller, physical comedian, and hula hoop artist, Jenny McGowan aka Miss Saturn has left people in laughter and awe across the globe from Coney Island to New Zealand. She has graced the stages of La Soiree, The VA VA Voom Room, The Slipper Room, The Famous Speigel Tent, The Box, PS 122, and the Bergen Music Festival. She also has toured extensively with the Bindlestiff Family Circus and The World, Famous Pontani Sisters. You may have seen her hula hooping in the HBO series “Bored to Death”.
The afternoon's highlight…her performance had the hard-to-impress crowd on its feet."--Village Voice
“Miss Saturn has one of the most expressive faces in burlesque, and if you can manage to take your eyes off the spinning hypnotic hoops—or her undulating, hypnotic bod—for half a second, she is pure physical comic genius in the Tina Fey stratosphere.”-Cultural Capital
"Actress, comedienne, dancer, and clown, she hula-hoops her way through New York- always leaving a dash of…mayhem in her wake." --Pepper of the Earth Blog
Andy Sapora has been a Flying Karamazov Brother, a hospital clown and has taken a principal bow at the metropolitan opera for a non-singing role. He teaches clown and improv in the NYC area. He lives atop a mountain and heats his house with wood.
Jenny Lee Mitchell was born in New York City and studied at the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU. She spent many years performing in musicals all across Europe. Theater Credits include: Off Bway: Outside Inn at 59East59, Sleep No More. NY Theater: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the Gallery Players, Much Ado About Nothing directed by The Ridiculous Theater’s Everett Quinton, Iphigenia in Aulis and When Clowns Play Hamlet at LaMama, Chuck Mee’s Fire Island and Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig at 3 Legged Dog. Europe/Regional: Dance of the Vampires, Jekyll and Hyde, Falsettos, Hair, Wonderland and The Rocky Horror Show. Back in New York city Jenny wrote and produced the German/English solo show Love Und Greed with features political songs of the Weimar Republic and which the NYTimes called "Smart and theater savvy". Jenny's alter ego is Muffy Styler a jazz singer and variety show/burlesque emcee at The Slipper Room. Jenny studies voice voice with Barbara Maier Gustern. Jenny's jazz gigs: singing with famed guitarist Joe Cohn upon the Shearwater Classic Schooner and with fellow vaudevillian and jazz singer Matt Roper as Lost Vegas Jazz. Jenny can be seen in commercials for TJMax, and La Esquina Salsa and Chips.