The Junket

by Mike Albo

Directed by David Schweizer;
• Lynne Redgrave Theater, at Culture Project NY, NY, (off-Broadway)
• Dixon Place, NY, NY

Writer / performer / comedian Mike Albo presents his newest solo show The Junket, about what happens when your freelance job turns out to be your worst enemy. In this hilarious, harrowing, thinly-veiled tale, Mike gets a freelance gig to pen a column for the country’s most influential newspaper. It’s a dream come true, and after years of low pay, Albo thinks he may finally be able to afford NYC’s new luxury loft lifestyle (he even gets a new stylish boyfriend). But after he goes on an over­-the-top, ill-fated press junket, he becomes a gossip item on the city’s snarkiest, meanest blog, and is thrown into an acrimonious war between old and new media. The Junket is a much ­needed investigation into the compromised state of modern journalism, provoking questions about how we get our news and who gives it to us.
-- Culture Project

The projection design was developed over two years, including a residency at the New York Theater Workshop's Summer Residency Program at Adelphi University in the summer of 2013.

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Mike Albo in The Junket @ Dixon Place, NY
Mike Albo in The Junket @ Dixon Place, NY
Mike Albo in The Junket @ Dixon Place, NY
Mike Albo in The Junket @ Dixon Place, NY
Mike Albo in The Junket @ Dixon Place, NY
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