Prodigal Son Returns to Dank!

Steve Yockey is a member of Atlanta's Out of Hand Theater. His projects with the company include HELP! (2 runs in Atlanta and a slot in the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival) and Cartoon (7 Stages, Atlanta, GA and Impact Theatre, Berkeley, CA). After a run at Vital Theatre Company in New York, Steve’s play Bright.Apple.Crush. won the 2007 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival and will be published in two forthcoming collections. He is a regular fixture at Dad's Garage Theatre Company in their annual 8 1/2 X 11 Festival series including: Stop Motion (2004), Swallow (2005), Snuff Film (2006) and Sucker Punch (2007). Dad's Garage also produced the World Premiere of Sleepy, a work commissioned to inaugurate their new Top Shelf Series in 2005, and the adults-only Skin, which closed a sold-out, extended run in March 2007 - both directed by Artistic Director and TCG Board Member Kate Warner. After a workshop in the Magic Theatre’s 2007 NEW VOICES WEST series, Actor’s Express in Atlanta, GA will present the World Premiere of Steve’s new full-length Octopus in Jan/Feb 2008 at the King Plow Arts Center. In addition to his work for stage, Steve also scripted the short films Medusa, Cake, Sucker Punch and the feature Salvage.

Steve is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Georgia. He is currently enrolled in the MFA Dramatic Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

This is his 3rd or 4th monologist appearance, come see why!

PushPush Theater.
10pm
5$
Wednesday.
The Doug Dank Project.