The Marsh Presents Ann Randolphs SQUEEZE BOX January 23, 2008

"When I first saw [Squeeze Box], I was deeply moved. Ann Randolph's amazing work, both as a writer and fellow performer, touched my heart and my mind so profoundly that I felt it belonged on the New York stage."
Anne Bancroft
"She goes in and out of these characters. She's a bit of a genius. I've been around, and I haven't seen so much talent in one person since I married Anne Bancroft. I've got to say that these are two great Anns, and I am glad that they hooked up together."
Mel Brooks
With pathos and humor, Randolph skillfully weaves together stories about working in a women's homeless shelter and the pursuit of true love. Her painfully funny portraits of the shelter's residents, and hilarious account of her hiking trip with Harold, the accordionist of her dreams, are beautifully drawn in this poignant tale about finding dignity and grace in unusual places.
Randolph, who has been compared to the late Gilda Radner, uses her elastic face, acrobatic voice, and attuned body language to play male and female, young and old characters. With just a chair, banjo, guitar and lights, she brings to immediate, pulsing life her tragicomic journey of discovery and self-acceptance with remarkable freshness and vibrancy.
Randolph began working with the chronic mentally ill while attending college, where she received room and board from a state mental hospital in exchange for writing original comedies with schizophrenics. She wrote Squeeze Box while working the graveyard shift at a homeless shelter for mentally ill women where she's worked for the past ten years.
She recently performed excerpts of Squeeze Box on NPRs new program Public Radio Weekend and on PBS. Brooksfilms (Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft) have optioned the show for a feature film. In addition, Lifetime Television has bought the rights to the show and Randolph is currently writing the screenplay which will be called, "Gimme Shelter."
Squeeze Box has just finished a smashingly successful Off-Broadway run and is now touring North America


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