Day Trader

Notorious for their original and boundary-defying projects, Bootleg Theater teams up with Small American Productions to launch Eric Rudnick’s new play DAY TRADER. The stellar cast will include Brighid Fleming (direct from her critically acclaimed run in Wait Until Dark at the Geffen Playhouse with Alison Pill, and The Nether - Kirk Douglas Theatre) and Tim Meinelschmidt (Tony Award nomination - Coastal Disturbances).

A comedy writer in a career freefall becomes convinced that he deserves more, and sets out to write his own Hollywood ending. Truth proves stranger than fiction as he implicates his family, his best friend, and a bewitching young woman to get what he thinks he’s got coming. Seduction, suspicion, and suspense become intertwined in a twisted tale of comic noir that leaves no one unscathed.

“There is a level of denial in Los Angeles that feeds on itself. Everyone knows a career in Hollywood is a gamble, and this play asks if people can ever come to grips with the fact that a large part of gambling is losing.” - Eric Rudnick; Playwright

DAY TRADER opens January 11th at 7pm and runs at 7pm Thursdays-Saturdays, and 2pm Sundays though February 16, 2014. The Bootleg Theater is located at 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90057. Tickets are $25. For more information call 213-389-3856 or http://www.bootlegtheater.org