Billboard

Billboard is published by Samuel French

Andy, a recent college graduate weighed down by student loans, gets paid handsomely to get a corporate logo tattooed on his forehead. His girlfriend Katelyn sees his decision as an opportunity to make an artistic statement of her own. A comedy about corporate marketing, the nature of art, and that fifteen minutes of fame.

Andy painfully finds that the logo is more than just ink on his skin after seeing corporate logos where there are none, dreaming of giving birth to iPods, calling out company names instead of his girlfriend’s name while in the act, a series of imagined interviews, being pushed to blackmail, and contemplating one very unusual piece of art.

Katelyn sees a very unique artistic opportunity. She sees his body as a statement of the extent to which consumerism has infested our daily lives. When Andy decides to rip up the check and get the tattoo removed he finds that the check has been cashed, but not by him.

Winner:
~ 2006 Tim Robbins Playwriting Award for plays of Social Significance
~ 2006 Reverie Productions Next Generation Writing Competition
~ 2006 Dini Ostrov Award in Playwriting

Finalist:
~ 2006 Eugene O'Neil Playwriting Conference
~ 2005 Nancy Weil New Play Search

"Best New Play" -- Celebrity Sentry

Developed with Reverie Productions in New York and Moving Arts in Los Angeles

First produced off-Broadway by Reverie Productions and Overlap Production Jan. 12, 2007, directed by Tania Inessa Kirkman

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