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DESPERATE WRITERS
A New Comedy
Arrives Off-Broadway

Previews begin Monday, May 16

Opening night scheduled for Monday, June 6

UNION SQUARE THEATER

(100 EAST 17TH STREET)

Desperate Writers, a new comedy, will make its East Coast premiere when it begins performances on Monday,
May 16 at the Union Square Theater (100 East 17th Street at Park Avenue South). Directed by Kay Cole,
Desperate Writers is written by Joshua Grenrock & Catherine Schreiber and starring Maddie Corman
(Broadway’s Next Fall) and Jim Stanek (current Off-Broadway revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Broadway’s
The Story of My Life, Lestat, …Forum) with Bob Ari, Angel Desai, Christopher Durham, Kelsey Nash, Susan
Louise O’Connor, Vayu O’Donnell, Catherine Schreiber and also starring Pauletta Washington (Off-
Broadway’s Love, Loss and What I Wore). The official opening for Desperate Writers is set for Monday, June 6.
For tickets, please visit www.Ticketmaster.com, or call (800) 982-2787 or visit the Union Square Theater box
office (beginning Friday, May 13) at 110 East 17th Street, at Park Avenue South, off Union Square.

A couple of desperate writers, with the baby clock ticking and their home about to be sold out from under them, are
driven to desperate measures to get their script read, bought and made in this hilarious, fast-paced, screwball
comedy, that pokes fun at the crazy film biz. Desperate Writers, an 80-minute laugh-out-loud riot, will have scenic
design by Lauren Helpern; costume design by Stephen Donovan; and lighting design by Jeremy Pivnick. It is
presented by Carnegie Hill Productions and James Spry.

Desperate Writers had its world premiere at Edgemar Theater (Santa Monica, California) in 2008.

THE CREATIVE TEAM

Joshua Grenrock (graduate of The Juilliard School) and Catherine Schreiber (Yale College, BA, Honors in
English, Phi Beta Kappa) met when they starred together in Sleeping Giants at the Front Row Theatre in LA. They
have been writing together ever since. Together and separately, they have completed over twelve feature scripts
and many TV treatments. Their scripts have been optioned/developed by Freddie Fields, Ian Sanders, Hunt Lowry
at Disney, David Ladd, Avenue Pictures, Kate Hudson's Cosmic Entertainment among others. They had a series in
development with Steve Cannell at CBS. Catherine wrote several produced “Divorce Courts” and had features in
development with Thom Mount and Rastar. She was a co-creator of the Stalin mini-series developed at CBS.
Financing is now being completed for their family feature, Hoppily Ever After. Finalists in the Chesterfield
Writer’s Competition for Hoppily Ever After and DNA Dad. Semi Finalists in the 2007 American Screenwriters
Association Competition and second round in the 2007 Slamdance Writers Competition for Desperate Writers.
Catherine and Joshua are both happily married (but not to each other) with two wonderful children, each.

Director Kay Cole originated the role of “Maggie” in A Chorus Line. Her directing credits include: Rose Bowl
Queens, The Dining Room, Ecstasy, The Flunky, American Tales, No Strings, World Goes ‘Round, Mommy
Mommy! BARK!, Nuncrackers, Judy’s Scary Little Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad, A Chorus Line, I’m
Getting My Act Together, The Robber Bridegroom, Grass Harp, She’s A Handful, Boulevard of Broken Dreams,
Sing, Country, Wild Women Blues, Sony Pictures Broadway. Her inventive choreography and staging credits
include: Broadway’s Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, London West End’s The Fantasticks, Snoopy, Blockheads.
Other favorites include Great Expectations, Assassins, Pirates Of Penzance, Cabaret, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
South Pacific, Triumph of Love, I Do! I Do! Pasadena Playhouse: Under One Umbrella, 110 in the Shade, Do I
Hear A Waltz. Hollywood Bowl: The Sound of Music, Bernsteins’ Mass, Mame, My Fair Lady, Music Man,
Camelot. Reprise! Broadway: The Three Penny Opera, Fiorello, City of Angels, Company, On The 20th Century,
Follies, Sweeney Todd. Geffen Playhouse: Nightmare Alley, Atlanta, Paint Your Wagon. She recently moved into
film and television, directing Country Rules, THQ, Waiting in Line, and choreographing Guidepost Junction, Ella,
Jekyll, Disney’s Santa Clause 3, Awakening of Spring. Cole is the proud recipient of the 2006 Playwrights Arena
Award for her outstanding contribution to Los Angeles Theatre. In 2009, she received a nomination for best
choreography from the NAACP theatre Awards for her work in ATLANTA, at the Geffen Playhouse.

Desperate Writers will be performed on the following schedule at Union Square Theater (100 East 17th Street at
Park Avenue South): Monday – Saturday at 8pm; Wednesday and Saturday at 3pm. Dark Sundays. All tickets are
$65 and can be purchased online at www.Ticketmaster.com, or by calling (800) 982-2787. The Union Square
Theater box office will open Friday, May 13 and is located at 110 East 17th Street, at Park Avenue South, off Union
Square. For more info, please visit www.DesperateWriters.com.

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