Underdog

Partial Comfort Productions will present the 4th annual Battle Of The Bards on Friday February 20, 2009 at The Canal Room (285 West Broadway at Canal Street). Battle Of The Bards is a one-night-only theater competition pitting New York City's hottest emerging theater companies against each other in a stage-fight to the finish. With an audience of nearly 1000 last year, this benefit for Partial Comfort Productions has rapidly become Off-Off Broadway's biggest annual event. The panel of judges for the event include Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights David Auburn (Proof) and Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog), actors John Slattery (Mad Men) and Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me), casting director Marcia Debonis (Bride Wars) and theater journalist David Cote (Time Out New York). This year, seven theater companies will compete in Battle Of The Bards: Naked Angels, Ma-Yi, Est's Youngblood, The Fire Department, Electric Pear, Flux and Partial Comfort. Each company assembles its own artistic team consisting of playwright,

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Adam Rifkin is a writer/director/producer/actor/author whose eclectic career ranges from broad family comedies to cult classics to dark and gritty urban dramas. As a studio writer, Rifkin is known for tentpole hits such as “Underdog,” “Mousehunt” and “Zoom.” As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed cult hits like “The Dark Backward” and “Detroit Rock City.” In 2009 Boom Studios published “Shmobots,” a comedy about slacker robots, which is Rifkin's first foray into the world of writing graphic novels. Most recently he unleashed his critically acclaimed and multiaward-winning feature, “Look,” which will be released on DVD May 5, 2009.
Lew Harris

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Alright now I know there have been a lot of ridiculous licensed movies popping up in the trades lately; everything from board games to toys to Bazooka Joe [1]. Amazingly, these hare-brained ideas just keep multiplying, and this week The Hollywood Reporter [2] tells us that a Where's Waldo movie is being set up over at Universal. That's right, a movie based on the series of children's books with no story at all, just large illustrated scenes with a guy in a red and white striped shirt hidden somewhere in them. On the big screen. Sounds thrilling. The movie will be a live-action family adventure of sorts, with Waldo and his dog Woof stumbling across a malfunctioning travel machine. Eric Ellenbogen (Underdog) will executive produce through Christopher Meledandri's company Illumination Entertainment, who are also doing Ricky Gervais's Flanimals film [3]. Believe it or not, this project has been around for a few years now,
Sean

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