The Cast and crew

Kurt Fitzpatrick (actor/writer)’s New York stage credits include the NY premiere of  TJ Dawe & Rita Bozi’s 52 Pick-Up, Come If You Dare 2, Hooray for Speech Therapy, Waiting for George, Psychopathia Sexualis, No Exitway (Part of Horse Trade’s Winter One Acts), The Littlest Mermaid, and St. George and the Dragon at Christmas Tide.  Improv and sketch comedy: Unusual Suspects, Klaatu, and the Tenderloins.  Touring: Rebel Without a Niche, Hooray for Speech Therapy and Louie Louie (National Theatre for Children).  Feature Films: Kin (also writer/director), Economics 101, and 100 Stories.  Kurt is a graduate of Temple University and trained at HB Studios, Second City, and Upright Citizens Brigade.  Kurt’s interests include cake

Gabe Hakvaag (director) Gabe is an eighteen-year veteran of independent theater and film productions. His regional credits include work with the Opera Company of Philadelphia with Luciano Pavarotti and the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre with Lauren Flanagan. In New York City he has worked with many off-off-Broadway shows, including the critically acclaimed Icarus & Aria at Club Cheetah. He directed Erin The Green Baron for the Manhattan Theatre Source, The Joy of Sketch with the Unusual Suspects improv troupe, and Psychopathia Sexualis for Blind Faith Productions. Gabe directed episode two of The Wearing of the Green, a live radio drama performed and recorded at the Museum of Television and Radio.

Gabe founded Fastbuck Films with Eric Maierson in 1996. Their first short, Pioneers, screened by the Reject Film Festival of Philadelphia and later at the New Orleans’ and Providence Film Festivals. Another short, The Mike Champaign Show, was seen at Dances With Films and the Annual Brainwash Film Festival.

What They say

Rebel Without a Niche
The Ottawa Citizen Review

Kurt Fitzpatrick is the kind of comedian who grows on you, so don't be disappointed if you don't laugh during the first few minutes of his one-hour, one-man show.
Believe me, after you have heard the story about the "stolen eye" and the delightfully disgusting anecdote about the jelly doughnuts, you will be ready to roll in the aisles.
Fitzpatrick morphs his body, his mannerisms and his voice into dozens of characters, all performed on a stage bare except for one chair.
But that chair is handy, especially for a naughty position best not tried at home with your loved one.
Rebel Without a Niche is the story of a man in New York, not unlike Fitzpatrick, who tries a number of poorly-paid, dead-end jobs and lives to tell the tale. It all adds up to some good belly laughs and a unique take on contemporary society. 

-- Paul Gessell, The Ottawa Citizen

Rebel Without a Niche
The Edmonton Sun Review

Kurt Fitzpatrick always wanted to be in the movies. So he moved to New York where he could pursue his dream.
As is always the case in these things, he had to take on a number of temporary jobs until he gets the call from Martin Scorsese. He was determined not to find a real job so he filled in with a series of temp positions while he “pursued my art.’’
Fitzpatrick has turned his adventurers into a one-man show, Rebel Without a Niche. As an actor he re-creates a series of colourful characters he encountered in these jobs. As anyone who has spent some time in the Big Apple knows, if you want to find unique human beings, that is the place to be.
Fitzpatrick features an entire company of misfits, madmen and just plain ordinary folk with shrewd observation, good comic timing, a developed sense of the bizarre and an uncanny ability to crawl into their skins by commandeering their accents and mannerisms. His stories are fun, even when they are not falling down funny. At one point he breaks into a classic Sam Spade private eye routine.
So we meets a minister with the flock of nine people part of a memorable group of workers on a night shift, and a creepy security guard who looks like Satan while flicking the jelly out of donuts with his tongue.
The most fun is when an entrepreneur employs him for a Halloween show at “Madison Scare Garden.’’ He has several adventurers playing the “mummy’’ and various others creatures of the undead and finally achieves fleeting fame as a performer wrapped in a sheet and scaring people waiting in line.
Fitzpatrick has a likeable, goofy personality and is always the underdog in his tales. The charm of his personality, his colourful stories and his impressive ability to play many characters make for a pleasant hour.

– Colin Maclean, The Edmonton Sun, Based on performance at the Saskatoon Fringe