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show graphic wake-up callAbout The Show “Wake-up Call”

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: www.JerryFranklinOnStage.com

“Wake-Up Call”

Date: May 11th, 2016

Time: 7:30 PM -8:45PM

Location: The Marsh Theatre

1062 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Contact: The Marsh

Phone: 415-641-0235
Email: marsh@themarsh.org

Tickets: $10-$15

Ticket link: bit.ly/JERRYFRANKLIN

About Playwright/Performer

bio photo JF from facebook shotJerry Franklin is a professional writer in high tech who possesses a wide range of professional performing credits as well. At various times he has been an off-off-Broadway actor, an improv comic, and an opera singer.

Nowadays Jerry feeds his soul by writing and performing this show, and feeds his mortgage by writing technical and marketing communications content for software companies.

This is his first play and his first solo stage performance.

How to describe the unimaginable circumstances in this play? 

“It’s rare, I think, to be able to point to a precise moment, a single second, on which your entire life – I mean, your entire life – pivots.”

Jerry Franklin: A Few Credits

  • Actor, Lion Theatre Company, New York City
  • Hysterium, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Altarena Playhouse, Alameda
  • Ace of Hobos, improvisational comedy, Oakland
  • Humorous Weapons and Tactics, improvisational comedy, Chicago
  • Quarterfinalist, Nicholls Fellowships in Screenwriting
  • Second Tenor, Chicago Symphony Chorus
  • Second Tenor, Oakland Symphony Chorus
  • Opera Midwest, Chicago, IL — chorus, comprimario roles
  • Light Opera Works, Evanston, IL — chorus, comprimario roles
  • Second Tenor, San Francisco Lyric Chorus

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“Emotionally turbulent, funny, and meaningful. What an incredible experience!” – Anna M.

Reviews

“I loved this show! It touched me deeply on all levels at once. I felt shock, sadness, arousal, frustration, humor. " – Debra Rose
“This show is moving, raw, and surprisingly funny. From the mundane to the absurd, it's a well told tale of love and life through the lens of death. ” – Cianna Stewart
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