ANGEL DRAKE PRESENTS: SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL

Miss Angel Drake is known as "Songstress and Survivor of the Blues" and has been in show business since her youth in Augusta, Georgia, where her first brush with fame came with her first love, James Brown. "I used to carry him sweet potato pie when he was in jail the FIRST time. I was around fifteen then."

Her career went on to include being lead singer for the girl group she founded and gave her own name to, The Angels. With Miss Drake on lead vocals they had a hit with "My Boyfriend's Back" until her scandalous affair with a Washington Senator violated a morals clause in her record contract and she was unceremoniously dropped from the group. She found herself in jazz clubs in the New York's West Village and soon fell head over heels for the monologist, Lord Buckley. She still credits him with many of her ideas about life, love and the world we live in-though he broke her heart when he chose his wife over her.

Following a 20-year intermission during which she portrayed an editor at The New York Times, Susan Kirby returned to the stage last December as a 30++ chorus girl in Christmas Rappings at Judson Memorial Church. She studies singing with Woody Regan and sings in his workshop. She has studied acting at the University of Colorado, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and HB Studio, and with Gene Frankel, David Perry and Lenore Stefanik.
Susan has been appearing recently in a number of short independent and student films, including Love Under Glass, directed by Diane Ingino, and 69, a SUNY-Purchase student film directed by Mattson Tomlin.
Susan spent her college years in Boulder, Colorado, in the late 1960’s and early 70’s, and has had experience with all three of the topics of this evening’s program (an admission she makes thanks to the statute of limitations).
Susan and her alter egos appear on her Web site, www.pmsaga.com.

Tess Middlebrook (Jessie) began acting in NYC in 2007.  A character actress, she recently appeared in The Tie that Binds, which debuted at The Producers Club in May of this year. She has performed in film, television, webisodes and numerous Off Off Broadway productions.  Tess currently performs with her improv team 'Fat Computer' via the Upright Citizens Brigade and numerous other clubs around the city.  She also produces her own web-series about an actress trapped in a cooks body called “Cooking with Schizophrenia”, and is currently writing her own one woman show, entitled Different kinds of dumb, which she does over 7 different characters each with their own special type of ‘low IQ’.  A chef in her former life, you can see Tess on the Food Network on the Hit Series "CHOPPED".  The show premiers in October 2010 where she does all sorts of cooking and comedy for your entertainment.  Tess has trained at Stella Adler, The UCB Theater, and through private coaches such as Sybil Lines of the Royal Shakespeare Company In London, and Becky Drysdale of IO and Second City in Chicago.  She is thrilled to be working with such dedicated and talented people and is playing Jessie in this production of Personal Appearance at Wings Theater.