Andrew Goffman, writer/actor
Charles Messina, director
David Gibbs, press agent
Charles Messina, director
David Gibbs, press agent
One of the hottest new faces on the stand up comedy club circuit, Andrew Goffman is winning over audiences with his astute comic observations on marriage, parenting and adolescent fantasies. Goffman has been racking up road mileage since 1997, performing at over 150 comedy clubs including; Carolines, Catch A Rising Star, The Comic Strip, Rascals and across the boarder in Canada’s popular Yuk Yuks. He has also been well received on the college circuit performing at many east coast schools.
In-between comedy club appearances, Goffman has been busy honing his acting skills with film appearances including the independent comedy “The Stand In”. He was also seen helping Goldie Hawn move in and out of apartments in the hit “First Wives Club". On stage, Andy was seen for nearly a year at New York’s Soho Playhouse in the Off-Broadway hit “Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral”.
Before discovering his love for performing, Goffman spent a year in Italy teaching English and hitting on women. Now married with a child the athletic Goffman enjoys football, baseball, weightlifting and standing in long movie lines with his hands down his pants.
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Writer/Director Charles Messina is a native New Yorker and a graduate of New York University. Messina is probably best known for directing Cirque Jacqueline, the critically acclaimed one-woman show about the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, starring Andrea Reese. The Boston Globe called the show, “Memorable...An absorbing and dignified one woman show.” Backstage hailed Cirque Jacqueline as “Magnifique!” Messina also wrote and directed the off-Broadway hit monodrama Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God, about the life of rocker Freddie Mercury, which The New Yorker called “Powerful!” and Backstage praised as “A powerhouse of emotional and sexual energy.” Other noteworthy stage credits include directing Richard Vetere's Rockaway Boulevard and Johnny on the Pony (starring Dan Lauria), and Art Metrano's Accidental Comedy. In 2006, Messina will direct Vincent Pastore in the powerful new drama, Homeland. In addition, Messina is set to direct the musical Be My Love, about the tragic life of legendary tenor Mario Lanza. The show is being produced by Sonny Grosso and Phil Ramone.
As screenwriter, Messina has written the feature film Spy, starring Vincent Pastore, Frank Vincent and Ben Curtis, which is now in post production for a 2006 release, as well as the upcoming feature They're Just My Friends, starring Malik Yoba, Al Snow, and Bruce Altman, which will be released theatrically in Spring 2006.
Messina is co-founder of NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions, Inc. The unique company name comes from the phrase uttered by legendary tough guy Robert DeNiro to Messina when the young writer tried to hand a script to the actor outside his downtown home. Cindy Adams of The NY Post jokingly wrote, “NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions is going to need the widest stationery in captivity.”
To find out more about Charles Messina, please log on to www.nahproductions.com OR www.jackieoshow.com.
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Press Agent: David Gibbs, DARR Publicity Group
David is thrilled to be working The Accidental Pervert. He is the publicist for the critically acclaimed one-woman show Cirque Jacqueline: Behind The Façade of Jackie O. He has handled publicity for The Flea Theater, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, Theatre Row Theater Complex, The Queen’s Company, Paul Boocock of Elevator Repair Service, White Horse Theater Company, Bank Street Theater, Double Helix Theater Company, TKO Entertainment, Crossroads Theater, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the highly acclaimed one-man show Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God. Contact: 212-502-0845.
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