 52 Man Pickup is a salacious
evening of storytelling and stand-up created and performed by acclaimed comedian, writer,
solo performer and New York Neo-Futurist Desiree
Burch. In
this 80-minute solo romp the New York Press calls “one of the
best shows at the NYC Fringe this year” (2008), the NYC-based alt-comedy diva masterfully deals
out card games, dirty stories, poetry and parting gifts, inviting audiences to “go
fish” through her deck of experience from the city that never sleeps with the same
person twice. The result is a touching,
titillating and terrifying evening of comedy that is “fast-paced, unrelentingly
funny and terribly honest.” (--L
Magazine)
The comedy Time Out NY gives four stars (August 2008)
and calls “Big-boned,” is presented by the Laughing Horse Free Fringe Festival and directed by Isaac Byrne with Jessica McVea and produced in association with Working
Man’s Clothes Productions.
 www.52manpickup.com
Desiree
Burch is a writer,
comedian, actress, former host/curator of the Smut Reading and Performance
series at Galapagos Artspace and New York Neo-Futurist (Too Much Light Makes the
Baby Go Blind). Her solo work has culminated in full-length solo pieces The
Sit-Down Show, Careless, Greatest Hits and
52 Man Pickup—which received rave reviews from Time Out NY, the NY
Press, and a feature in Backstage. Her
original works have been featured at Ars Nova, The Ohio Theater, P.S. 122, CenterStage NY,
Dixon Place, Seattle's Mae West Fest and the 2008 New York International Fringe
Festival.
Desiree’s
performance work has developed through a fusion of her theatrical, stand-up and writing
backgrounds. Her stand-up comedy has been featured at Carolines,
Comix, Gotham Comedy Club, NY Improv, New York Comedy Club, the Producer's Club, Joe’s
Pub, in the NYC Underground Comedy Festival the NY Fringe.
She has cultivated fans of her stand-up in cities like Cleveland,
Boston and  San Francisco, and has emceed for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and
Ra Ra Riot at Bowery Ballroom and for the 2008 Election at The New Museum in NYC. Her jokes have been featured in the New York
Post (“Killer Jokes,” April 6, 2008) along with the likes of Dave Attell,
Louis C.K., Marc Maron and Roseanne), and was deemed a rising comedy star in New York Magazine, as one of the 10 People That
Funny People Find Funny. She is the
Executive Producer of The Hysterical Festival for women in comedy, which debuted
October 2008.
Favorite
acting experiences include “Lu” in Rip Me
Open (co-written with OBIE Award-winning playwright, Kyle Jarrow), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Miriam), Othello
(Emelia), Romeo & Juliet (Nurse), An Ideal Husband (Mabel), The
Marriage of Bette & Boo (Soot), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow is Enuf (Lady in Red), and Steel Magnolias (Ouiser). She
has worked with Gorilla Rep, Playwrights Theater of New York, Moving Theater, Stages on
the Sound, Afrikan Women's Repertory, Columbia University School of Theater, NYU's E.T.W.
and the 24-Hour Plays. She is a graduate of
Yale University with a B.A. in Theater Studies and has contributed to VH1 and the
Huffington Post. |
