RANDY KOVITZ: About the Performer

Underneath The Lintel is a solo show, but it is hardly Kovitz’s first time alone on a stage. He created and performed the well-reviewed 2007 music and spoken word performance, Happy to Be Here and its 2009 follow up, Still Happy to Be Here performing both in Pittsburgh, PA, where he has made his home since 2005. In Los Angeles in the 1990s, he fronted the spoken word band, Lies Like Truth, a legacy of his earlier one-man show, Grizly Cargo.

Kovitz grew up in Claremont California and attended Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. After many years working in New York and Los Angeles, where he performed on and off Broadway, in regional theater, film, television, commercials and as a voice actor, he returned to Pittsburgh in 2005, working in over 20 local productions in his first three years there.

Recently he has been active in film and television, appearing on Parks and Recreation, Supah Ninjas, the soon-to-be-released film The Fault In Our Stars and a number of homegrown projects, including his own short film Lightweight, which has won awards at several film festivals.

As a fight director, Randy has staged violence for plays all over the country and in Canada, as well as for numerous film and TV productions. Randy also teaches acting at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

GLEN BERGER: About the Playwright

Glen Berger is a prolific, Emmy and Ovation award-winning playwright, known most notably as Julie Taymor’s co-writer for the Broadway Musical adaptation of Spiderman. Lately he has been in the news for his tell-all book The Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History.