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GENRE: Dra ma/ Co me dy /Mu si c

LOGLINE: Two yo ung trumpet p layers revel in jazz , booze and women --

unt il a dark secret emerges that threatens the fate of their band a nd the

friend ship of a lifet ime.

SYNOPSIS: B ig band s are in full swi ng, smok ing tea is a ll the rage, and

young m usic ians are h itt ing the road in ho pes of becomi ng the next Benny

Goodman. We lcome to the su mmer of '39, when Te ddy Ar nol d and his B lue

Boys Dance Band j ourne y from their small Oh io tow n to the splash and

dash o f the Pal omar Ballroom. Mi ddle-aged Ted dy k now s he isn't gett ing

any yo unger, and Charl ie and Jack -- the hottest y ou ng trumpet player s in

the band - - are ju st what he nee ds to final ly h it the big-t ime. When a

smooth -talking p hotographer fr om Down Beat hits the road with them a

dangerous secret emerges that threatens the fate of the band an d ignites a

feud i n the dee pest o f frien dship s.

WRITER/PR ODU CER: Deb Have ner ( Stay C lean, T he Siber ian Exc han ge,

The Lo dge, Ha ppy En din g s, Rai nin g Cat s, Sc ared t o Death, Gr oo ve S hac k,

http:/ /ww w. im db.c om /na me/ nm 1422 935 /)

ACT OR/ PR ODU CER: No lan Gerar d Fu nk ( Spectac ular! , Br oadwa y’s Bye

Bye Bird ie , Al ien s i n A merica, Tr ip le Do g, The L Word, Bereavement,

http:/ /ww w. im db.c om /na me/ nm 1289 173 /)

We of fer yo u Midn ight Swi ng – replete wit h rich c haracters, excit ing dance

number s, bittersweet romance, and a dramatic su btext about co ming of

age during a t ime when A merica was abo ut to lo se its inn ocence.

We strive for a fi lm that move s, in spires and e ntertains. . . one that has all

the right ingredients to become a cla ssic.


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Producer/Writer

Deb Havener

Deb is currently in development/prep on a Russian thriller and a 1940s short musical . She is a 2009

Nicholl semi-finalist (www.oscars.org/awards/nicholl/fellows/finalists .html) and currently in the finals

for the Wri te Movies Int’l comp. Recently, Deb’s team placed in the Finals/Top 10 and won Best

Editing and Best Actor awards for the 2009 48-Hour Shootout Film Competition wi th the fantasy short

Happy Endings. Deb runs Pretty Egg Productions with her husband Neal in Columbus , Ohio.

Producer/Actor

Nolan Gerard Funk

With a Leo Award Nomination, a top 10 album, a #1 soundtrack on i tunes and an upcoming 4-episode

guest-s tarring role on SyFy’s hi t series Warehouse 13 Nolan is having a banner year. Recently, he

made his Broadway debut in the much-anticipated Bye Bye Birdie – a show that garnered an extended

run and one of the highest box office ticket sales in the his tory of the Roundabout Theater.

www.byebyebirdieonbroadway.com


DEB HAVENER

Writer/Producer

At the age of 13 Deb told her parents she had to stay after school for a detention, then cut

herself an audition at the Mansfield Playhouse where she was cast in her first musical … Carnival. After a severe dressing down from her parents they allowed her to stay in the show. For thirteen years she continued to perform in and choreograph various musicals for local and

collegiate theater productions. Among her favorites are Pirates of Penzance, Follies and Oliver! (for which she won a BOTL Award for horse-whipping her entire cast into learning a blend of Irish clogging and tapdancing on top of a dozen rolling barrels).

Her stage work took her to Los Angeles where she was cast in several less than stellar

productions, including the bumbling whack job of Noises Off with Nathaniel Productions and the El Camino version of Guys and Dolls.

Thank goodness she knew how to write. And wait tables. Deb’s current and upcoming projects include the feature The Siberian Exchange – a Russian

thriller with Cannes/Silver Lion award-winner James Brown attached to direct, the musical short Canaries and fantasy short Fantasy in C (which she is prepping for a May 2010 shoot). She is producing the hip-hop documentary The Groove Shack for Martin Jones Productions (San

Francisco, in post).

Deb runs Pretty Egg Productions, an independent production company in Columbus, Ohio that she co-founded with her husband Neal (imdb). Among their short films is Stay Clean, a musical stoner comedy that premiered at the Ohio Independent Film Festival. Their first short, Kill,

Ratboy, Kill, premiered in the Midwest and went on to several screenings that resulted in drunken campus riots, thus gaining the attention from Troma Films in NY.

Deb studied Dance and Theater at the Ohio State University/BFA Program before obtaining her BA in English/Creative Writing. She has taught screenwriting through the National Collegiate Arts

Program at the Ohio State University and other collegiate venues.

Deb works as a reference librarian for a five-star (ALA) public library.


NOLAN GERARD FUNK Actor/Producer

Recently, Nolan made his Broadway debut in the much-anticipated Bye Bye Birdie in

which he starred opposite John Stamos and Gina Gershon. Though the play received mixed reviews, the critics bestowed glowing praise upon Nolan for his fun, fresh portrayal of Conrad Birdie. Nolan's current projects include the upcoming dark teen comedy Triple

Dog and the thriller Bereavement – in which he stars opposite Michael Biehn and Alexandria Daddario (20th Century Fox’s Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief).

A former national gymnast and diver, Nolan began acting professionally at the age of fourteen when he was cast in Steven Spielberg's Sci-Fi mini-series Taken.

His starring role in Sony BMG/Nickelodeon's 2009 movie musical, Spectacular! was the perfect opportunity for him to showcase himself as a singer, actor and a dancer. With the

number one soundtrack and a top ten album on itunes, Nolan also had his first song on the billboard charts with "Break My Heart".

Nolan's heartfelt work on the televised youth series Renegadepress.com earned him critical praise and his first Leo Award nomination. His role as the Italian redneck, "Todd Palladino," (in CW's Aliens in America) was also well received by his peers and the media.

Nolan has guest-starred in dozens of hit series including Smallville, Killer Instinct, The L

Word, The Dead Zone and on the ABC series Castle. He also starred opposite Kim Delaney in the CBS pilot Practical Magic (produced by Sandra Bullock), and several Lifetime features, including My Name is Sarah, in which he starred opposite Jennifer Beals. He can

next be seen in the upcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Wilderness Family. For such a young age, he has played a myriad of diverse roles: A football hero turned

necrophiliac in the feature, Deadgirl, which recently screened at Toronto Film Festival; a rich high-school coke dealer in Class Savage; and a clinically depressed kid from the wrong side of the tracks in the upcoming film Bereavement. His upcoming TV work

includes a 4-episode guest role on the SyFy Channel’s hit series Warehouse 13.

Nolan is attached to play the role of “Jack DuPree” in Midnight Swing.


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• THE ADVISER

• SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, 7:56 P.M. ET

Hello, 'Birdie'

A rising young actor plays a teen idol in the coming Broadway musical revival

By ELLEN GAMERMAN

It's a case of life hoping to imitate art. "Bye Bye Birdie," a Broadway musical about a

teen idol, features an actor in the title role who's a rising young star himself.

Nolan Gerard Funk plays Conrad Birdie, a rocker modeled after Elvis Presley, in the

revival co-starring John Stamos and Gina Gershon. Since previews began this month,

hundreds of autograph-seekers have been waiting at the stage door for a glimpse of Mr.

Funk and the others.


"It's wild out there," says Todd Haimes, artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre

Company, the show's producer. He says advance ticket sales for "Birdie" are the largest

in the Roundabout's history. Some young fans come bearing DVD copies of

"Spectacular!," a 2009 Nickelodeon TV movie starring Mr. Funk as a hunk of rock 'n' roll

beefcake who joins the high-school show choir.

Mr. Funk, a 23-year-old Canadian, has friends that add to the pop allure of "Birdie":

Actress Amanda Bynes tweeted that she hopes to come opening night.

The under-18 crowd comprised 12.4% of the Broadway audience in the 2007-08 season,

the largest percentage of children and teens in the past 30 years, according to the

Broadway League, an industry trade group. "Spring Awakening," a Tony-winning rock

musical that ended its Broadway run in January, drew almost exclusively teens, tweens

and their parents (its current national tour is doing the same), and the show spun off

budding teen star Lea Michele from the Fox TV show "Glee."

Since "Spectacular!" Mr. Funk says young girls have started approaching him at

shopping malls, but he's not complaining. "There are times where people ask for a lock

of your hair, but the truth is I have a lot of gratitude for my fans," says the Vancouver

native.

The actor says he's not interested in becoming the next Jonas Brother, and notes that

his film work includes edgy fare. "I murdered a transsexual in a movie directed by

Agnieszka Holland, who is a brilliant Oscar-nominated director who did 'Europa Europa,'

" he says, referring to his role in "A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story" on Lifetime. "I

don't think anybody can mistake me for bubble gum."

Write to Ellen Gamerman at [email protected]


ReviewReviewReviewReviews …s …s …s …

"Co n rad ( the e xcel lent Nolan Ge ra rd Fu nk ) tu rns ou t to be a l ug wi th lo oks ." - - John Lah r,

The New Yo rke r

"Nolan Ge ra rd Fun k has the m o ves do wn .. . his n um be rs a re the hig hl igh t o f the sho w ." - -

R oma To rre , NY1

"The h ype o ve r BB B has been so aweso me – o ve r Nolan's pe rfo rman ce in pa rticular – gi rl s

ha ve bee n l inin g up a t the s ta ge doo r be fo re an d a f te r the sho w's p re vie w pe rfo rman ces fo r

au to g rap hs , o r jus t to ca tch a gl impse o f him ." - - De vra New be rge r, JS YK

"Mr. F un k see ms mo re at ease ons tage than an ybod y else . He s ings on ke y an d ap pea rs to

be en jo yin g himsel f . I t ’s ni ce to thin k that so mebo d y i s ." -- Be n B ran tle y, New Yo rk Tim es

"As Bi rdie , Nolan Ge ra rd Fu nk i s cu te , an d his Act I so ngs … "Hones tl y Sin ce re' ' and "One

Las t Kiss ' ' … a re highl ig h ts o f the sho w ." - - Bi l l Cana cci , Cen tra l Je rse y

"F unk (i s ) casua l ly unsani ta ry and e ffo rtless ly hi la rious as d raf te d fi f ties ro ck-id ol Bi rdie ." - -

S co tt B row n , NY Maga zine


"This p rod u ction i s a t i ts bes t when the kids a re cen te r s tage , espe cia l ly in "A Lo t of Li vin '

to D o ," led b y the hip -swi vel ing Fun k ." - - Joe Dzie mianowi cz , NY Dai l y Ne ws

"Nolan Ge ra rd Fun k has some lo unge -l i za rd ele ctri ci ty as Con rad Bi rdie , the ro cke r

ma nipula ted in to a las t p ubl i ci ty s tu n t befo re he g oes in to the a rm y." - - Linda Wine r,

Newsda y

“B u t the true ke y to this B irdie 's appeal i s

i ts you thful ense mble . Nolan Ge ra rd Fun k

i s a con vin cin gl y l ou tish Bi rdie ." - - El ysa

Ga rdne r, US A Toda y

"F unk .. . and his pel vis a t least a re ha vi ng

a go od time , and his in fe ctio us ro ckabi l l y

in tro , "Hones tl y Sin ce re ," i s one o f the

few n umbe rs co okin g on mo re than a lo w

fla me ." - - Da vid R oone y, Va rie ty

4 AM re he a rs al for Good Morn i ng Ame r ic a

"Nolan Ge ra rd Fun k , mean whi le, adds a bit of spice to B irdie , wh o ’s usua l l y a re mo te ,

va guel y d ra wn ro ck -and -rol l mena ce to de cen t so cie ty. Fun k makes him dis tin ctl y

u nappe tizi ng – wea rin g onl y Jo cke y sho rts , he g uzzles bee r tha t runs s lo bbi l y do wn

his bod y — hei gh tenin g the joke o f the mi ndless ado ra tion o f his you ng fans ." --

R obe rt Feldbe rg , No rth Je rse y

" In the mi ddle , of co u rse, i s the rebel l ious , so mew hat cyni ca l , ta len ted Bi rdie , pla yed

to the hi l t b y Nolan Ge ra rd Fun k w hose "A Lo t o f Li vi n' to Do " i s the e venin g 's bes t

n um be r." - - Da vid A. Rosenbe rg , Wi l to n Vi l lage r

"On the plus s ide i s an en thus iasti c pe rfo rma n ce b y Ni ckelodeo n s ta r Nolan Ge ra rd

F un k as tee n yb oppe r sensa tion Con rad Bi rdie. The ene rg y le vel at the ne wl y

re fu rbished Hen ry Mi l le r’s Theatre ri ses whene ve r ( he's ) a round ." -- R obe rt Cashi l l ,

Li ve Des ig n , Seen & Hea rd


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