Andrea Martin to Make Art House Debut, 9/3-4

By: Aug. 12, 2011
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Andrea Martin is a two-time Emmy Award winner for the critically acclaimed sketch comedy series SCTV, and has received more Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations as Featured Actress in a Musical than any other actress, winning both awards for her role in My Favorite Year. She is widely known for her role in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding and was last seen on Broadway opposite Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon in Exit the King. Her one-woman show Final Days! Everything Must Go! featuring Seth Rudetsky makes its anticipated Provincetown debut at The Art House on September 3rd and 4th. For tickets please visit www.ptownarthouse.com or call 508-487-9222 .

As an original cast member of the television series SCTV, Andrea Martin performed alongside the all-star lineup of John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis and Joe Flaherty, after appearing with many of them onstage for several years in the Toronto branch of the improvisational comedy troupe The Second City. Her film work includes the newly released Breaking Upwards, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, All Over the Guy, and Wag the Dog. TV appearances include My Big Fat Greek Life, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Nurse Jackie, Ed, and lent her vocal talents to animated projects such as Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Simpsons, and Sesame Street for which she received a special Emmy Award.

In addition to her Tony, Drama Desk, and Theatre World Award winning performance in My Favorite Year, her Broadway credits include Tony nominations for Young Frankenstein, Oklahoma! and Candide. Just prior to joining the cast of SCTV, Martin appeared in another lineup now considered legendary - the original Toronto production of Godspell, co-starring Victor Garber, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Jayne Eastwood and music director Paul Schaffer. Her theatrical career has continued to thrive after her six seasons with SCTV. Martin's off-Broadway appearances include her one-woman show Nude, Nude, Totally Nude, for which she received another Drama Desk Award nomination, On the Town for City Center Encores!, The Exonerated, The Vagina Monologues, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Art House is thrilled to welcome this comedy superstar to Provincetown!



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