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SQUEAKY takes place in and around such iconic Baltimore settings as the Kibbitz Room at Attman’s Delicatessen, a Colts game at Memorial Stadium, driving up and down Ritchie Highway, Lexington Market, Atrium Village Druid Hill Park and Mondawmin Mall, all while referencing a who’s who of Baltimore – the Colts, the O’s, Earl Weaver, the Terps’ Lefty Driesell, Jack and Morty Pollack of the Trenton Democratic Club, convicted Governor Marvin Mandel, Spiro Agnew and many others.
Baltimore native and Friends School alum Jeff Cohen has penned SQUEAKY, an autobiographical comedy about fraternal strife with his libidinous brother Rob (a Gilman grad) and end-of-life issues with their dad, Stan “Squeaky” Cohen – the man who was banned from every Old Country Buffet in greater Baltimore. The play takes audiences on a poignant journey of caring for aging parents – a journey familiar to anyone who must make difficult decisions on their parents’ behalf.
The one-night-only staged reading on Saturday, February 28 at 7:30 pm features an all-star cast of:
- DB Sweeney (The Cutting Edge, Lonesome Dove, Eight Men Out)
- Tony Award Nominee Craig Bierko (The Music Man, Cinderella Man, Boston Legal)
- Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Nominee Richard Masur (One Day at a Time, Rhoda, Transparent)
- 2-time Obie Award winner Benja Kay Thomas (Broadway’s Fat Ham and Skeleton Crew, Off Broadway’s Booty Candy)
- Drama Desk, Theater World and Elliot Norton award winner Lizbeth MacKay (Crimes of the Heart, The Price).
Jeff Cohen was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from Friends School. He is the recipient of a special Drama Desk Award for the Tribeca Playhouse Stage Door Canteen, his internationally acclaimed artistic response to the attacks of 9/11. He has worked closely with a Who’s Who of artists, including Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss, 7-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner, 3-time Academy Award nominee, 5-time Tony Award nominee, and 4-time Emmy Award winner Laura Linney (stage debut), 3-time Emmy Award winner (7-time nominee) Jack Klugman, Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Melissa Leo, 4-time Emmy Award nominee Kathryn Hahn (also in her stage debut), 4-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, Tony Award and Obie Award winner Denis O’Hare, and 2-time Grammy Award winner Leann Rimes. Cohen’s work has won every theatrical award shy of the Tony, including Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Drama League, Obie and AUDELCO Awards. He was a founding member of the New Wave band Ernie & The Imports whose record (Made In America) was awarded Top Album Picks by Billboard Magazine.
