"Come to the Cabaret," Benefit for the Bloomington Playwrights Project in January

A Cabaret Performance, with dinner at the RISTORANTE DIVINO (254 North Walnut Street, Bloomington, IN - 812-334-1188) will be held on Sunday, January 19th at 5:30 pm to benefit the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Four local cabaret performers, Candace Decker, Krista Detor, Kris Lee and Carmen Meyers will entertain patrons at this benefit dinner. Each ticket will be $35 in advance; $40 at the door. That includes a four-course meal with an hour of cabaret. Reservations are highly recommended as seating is limited.

Candace Decker has worked regionally as an actress, a storyteller, an acting teacher and a cabaret artist. She was selected to attend the 2000 NYC Cabaret Symposium as a Cabaret Fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center performing with such artists as Sally Mayes, Julie Wilson and Margaret Whiting. While working as an actress in Chicago she received the 1996 After Dark Award for her performance in Bailiwick Repertory's production The Christmas Schooner reprising her role as Alma for three seasons. While in Bloomington, Candace is a familiar face at the Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) as their full-time Marketing Director as well as one of their School of Dramatic Arts (SODA) instructors. She created and is the producer of the BPP's "Cabaret Nouveau Series," bringing cabaret talent from Chicago, Washington, DC and elsewhere to the BPP. She has written and performed in her own cabarets such as "Candy for the Holidays," "Love Candy," "O'Candy!" and "Pieces of Candy." She most recently directed and produced two cabaret shows, "Slightly Deranged: A Thinking Woman's Tour D'Vorce" and "HOT WET FUN," appeared in "CANDY CANES AND DREIDELS: A HOLIDAY CABARET" and will be reprise "Love, Candy" on Valentine's Day and with a grant from the Indiana Arts Commission create and perform "CANDYLAND - A Kid's Cabaret" in May 2003.

Krista Detor is a musician, writer and restaurateur who began studying music at the age of 7 and entering the world of musical theatre by age 12. Despite obtaining the lead role in her high school production of "The Sound of Music," she spent most of her middle and high school years dedicated to the pursuit of rock and roll musician hood. She's played in several bands, continually composing along the way. Sometime in the 80s she published a theme song for a B-grade Italian Miniseries, got a manager, got a producer, got over it, and got a job. Shortly after that she completed a B.A. degree in Piano Performance from California State University, and took up musical direction in Northern California and later, South Korea. She's traveled extensively, accompanying, teaching, writing, singing and recording two CDs of her original compositions. In addition, she's played lots and lots of dinner music at lots and lots of weddings and bar mitzvahs, and opened a restaurant in the Florida Keys. She currently lives in Bloomington with her 7-year-old daughter. She most recently appeared in "SLIGHTLY DERANGED: A Thinking Woman's Tour D'Vorce" with the BPP's "Cabaret Nouveau Series."

Kris Lee will be appearing in the Bloomington Playwrights Project "Cabaret Nouveau Series," in "The Gospel According to KRIS LEE" in January and is a familiar face at the Bloomington Playwright Project having appeared on stage in "Scrooge Variations," "Kate Crackernuts" and "The Dianalogues" and behind the scenes as assistant director for the "Cabaret Nouveau Series" productions "Detour Ahead" and "Slightly Deranged." In October 2002, he appeared in Detour Production's "A Doll's House" at the John Waldron Arts Center. Previous theatrical experiences include "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," among others, as well as original debuts for "Where's Tony?," "The Right Box," and "C & J," throughout the Southeast United States. He has also begun work in film, with two films completed: "The Immaculate Reception" and "Wall-to-Wall," both are currently in festival circulations from Austin to Berlin.

Cabaret singer Carmen Meyers most recently appeared in the Bloomington Playwrights Project cabaret "HOT, WET, FUN" to sold out houses and is a second year MFA student in Acting at Indiana University. She has appeared in numerous readings at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and made her debut Cabaret appearance in the BPP's "PERFORMathon!" a fund-raising event for the theatre. Last season she appeared in a Dark Alley Series production of the new play "The Dream Journal" by John Drago. Meyers has been seen in "Cole" at Brown County Playhouse and Indiana University's productions, "Noises Off" and Death of A Salesman." She received her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2001. Meyers is a graduate of the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre Summer Conservatory in Washington D.C. as well as, the Southwest Shakespeare Conservatory in Phoenix, Arizona.

The BPP's 23rd season is full of exceptional theatre with seven main stage shows, the popular "Dark Alley" and "Cabaret Nouveau Series" plus the School Of Dramatic Arts (SODA) and Mini-Play Festival and more. All performances are at the BPP, 312 South Washington Street in Bloomington.

 

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