"ranney"

"ranney" performed in The Bomb-itty of Errors productions in St. Pete (2002 & 2005), Chicago, Dublin, London's West End, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Stage Award for Best Ensemble). Notable Tampa Bay performances include Lucien in Jobsite's The Boys Next Door, Toledo in the USF production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Boy Willie in Center Theatre Company's The Piano Lesson. As a director-choreographer, "ranney" has successfully mounted challenging original work including Avant-Bard (Acrosstown Repertory Theater), MAXWELL - The New Rock Musical (Jobsite Theater), and The Birds, A Musical Adaptation (PCC Players). He is developing the one man show, Unsuitable: The Dark and Honest Comedy of Bill Hicks (starring David M. Jenkins) as a Jobsite Job-side project. "ranney" was the premier comedian at Laff Tuesdays at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in the 90's, has shared billing with such talents as Paul Mooney, Bill Bellamy, Ricky Harris and Martin Lawrence, and was chosen as one of the few comedians for the Apollo tribute to the late great Robin Harris. "ranney" has featured all over the East Coast, including Ybor City's The Improv, Coconuts Comedy Club, and Side Splitters, and he has headlined Greenbelt's The Comedy Connection, Dublin's The Comedy Cellar, London's The Comedy Store and Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms and Gilded Balloon Nightclub. "ranney" won the Universal Poets competition of Florida in 2000 and was nominated Best International Poet 2003 by the Farrago Poetry Group of London. He has returned to full time stand-up comedy and in 2005 opened for REO Speedwagon, Disco Inferno (Thelma Houston, Peaches & Herb, and The Sugar Hill Gang), and Eddie Griffin. "ranney's" debut spoken word & stand-up comedy CD, Rubbin' Two Sticks Together, will be released this spring. "ranney" is the stand-up comedy, spoken word, and hip-hop instructor for Patel Conservatory. He has presented eight one-man shows in the last seven years, including A Freakin' American, The Break of Dawn: Tracing the Origins of Speech, And the Horse You Rode In On, and Incendiary. The latest, Cufflinks and Jolly Ranchers for Dummies, is coming soon. Stay up @ itsranney.com.