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...they took the art into their own hands In NEON DREAM the Vigilantes play more than 20 different (and we do mean different) characters searching for love and adventure in and around a fictional truck stop in the Rocky Mountain west. Quarreling honeymooners are helped to reconcile by a singing janitor and a traveling actor playing Cyrano de Bergerac. An earnest young writer is besieged by bluegrass singing zombies. Romance blossoms between a short-order cook and a Ukrainian mail-order bride during a meeting of their poetry discussion group. And a small-town guy tries to prevent his girlfriend from leaving for the big city by dressing up in a gorilla suit and singing her the love theme from "King Kong! The Musical." These charmingly eccentric characters and the others who romp through this high-octane comedy are the creation of award-winning Bozeman-based playwright Greg Owens, whose national work has earned him mention as "an exciting new voice in the American theatre." In comic master and lyricist extraordinaire Greg Keeler, Owens has found the ideal collaborator to turn contemporary Americana on its ear. With the multi-talented Vigilante ensemble to bring their wonderfully absurd vision to the Bozeman stage, NEON DREAM promises to be one of the most exciting local theatre experiences of recent memory. Known for his satiric and flat-out funny poems and songs, Greg Keeler has written such past Vigilante favorites as THE CLARK AND LEWIS SHOW, REWINDING MONTANA, and WUF!. His poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR's Writers' Almanac and he has performed his songs on PBS and ESPN. Keeler received the Governor's Award in the Humanities in 2001 from the Montana Committee for the Humanities. His memoir, Waltzing With the Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan was recently published by Limberlost Press. Greg Owens' plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and around the country. His play THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TULSA LOVECHILD was called "the best play of the year" by the Chicago Tribune in 2001 and is being published this spring by Broadway Play Publishing in New York. He has also written for the irreverent computer games You Don't Know Jack and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, as well as for the CBC television program Shift TV in Toronto. For bookings or further information please contact us: Vigilante Theatre Company 111 South Grand Ave. Suite 201 Bozeman, Montana 59715 406-586-3897 office@vigilantetheatrecompany.com