My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m in Therapy!

Solomon has written two sequels to his original hit: My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m STILL in Therapy and his hilarious holiday show My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m Home for the Holidays!  All three are currently touring the United States starring either Solomon (who spends more than 40 weeks each year touring with his shows) or other actors he’s trained to keep up with demand. The original show has played almost 1,900 times since its inception, making it one of the longest running one man comedy shows on record.

PAUL KREPPEL – Paul Kreppel is thrilled to be making his Toronto acting debut in "Therapy" following his successful long run starring as Steve in My Mother’s Italian… in New York City. A Tony Award winner, Paul is best known to TV fans as lounge lizard Sonny Mann in the 80’s sitcom "It’s A Living." His hundreds of other TV appearances include everything from "Laverne & Shirley," "The Love Boat," and "$25,000 Pyramid" to "ER" and as Jackie’s Dad on "That 70’s Show!" The latter distinction meaning he married Brooke Shields and fathered Mila Kunis. Paul’s NY acting credits include appearances in Joseph Papp’s productions at the Public Theater, Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater and Shakespeare in the Park’s Delacorte Theater, working with the equally youthful Meryl Streep, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, and Linda Lavin among others. He also appeared in the original production of Godspell and the original casts of Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! – the Allan Sherman musical, The Proposition and the NY premiere of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. While appearing in "MMI," Mr. Kreppel and his partner Ms. Murphy Cross (WetRock Entertainment) were the recipients of the 2007 Tony Award for "Best Special Theatrical Event" for co-conceiving /directing/producing Broadway’s Jay Johnson: The Two and Only! They also produced off-Broadway’s award-winning musical The Big Voice: God or Merman? Paul and Murphy recently produced and directed a star-studded benefit for The Actors Fund entitled: Six Degrees of Marvin Hamlisch starring Marvin Hamlisch, Lucie Arnaz, Robert Klein, Victor Garber, Leslie Gore, among many others. They are currently developing several theatre projects including First Kids, a musical about the triumphant and tragic lives of the children of the U.S. presidents. Paul has appeared across the United States at The Williamstown and Berkshire Theater Festivals, Studio Arena, Los Angeles’ Reprise and Mark Taper Forum as well as starring from coast-to-coast in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. Paul’s stage directing credits also include Godspell, Hello Muddah, The All Night Strut, and TV directing credits include "Brotherly Love," "It’s A Living" and "Dave’s World." Want more? Visit: www.paulkreppel.com

STEVE SOLOMON – A native of Brooklyn, Steve grew up in the multi-ethnic neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay. This was the perfect training ground for a dialectician and comedian. Steve learned at an early age how to use his gift for imitating accents to his advantage. He also realized that he was a prolific writer of jokes and stories; real jokes. He submitted dozens of his stories to periodicals, friends & stand up comics he knew in the business. With the coming of the internet & e-mail, Steve now had an outlet for much of his comedy writings. One e-mail full of his jokes became ten, ten became hundreds, soon thou- sands of fellow e-mailers were enjoying Steve’s humor; and so it went for over twenty years. To this day, Steve receives e-mail versions of his own jokes from all over the world. So, if some of the hilarious stories you hear "ring" familiar; trust me, they’re probably Steve’s. Using humor, dialects & sound effects in teaching, Steve was real life version of Gabe Kaplan’s "Welcome Back Kotter." Eventually, Steve became a Physics teacher and a school administrator on Long Island, New York. He left his academic career behind and turned his attention to his latent love of making people laugh.