Murray Meyer’s new comedy IN MY DEFENCE will be in the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 15-24, 2018.
For tickets and more information see http://hff18.org/5157.
It’s the 80’s and Murray has just become a criminal defense lawyer. Suddenly, his ex-wife sends his two teenage boys to live with him. Murray lives in a Hollywood commune run by a pot selling nun. Over the years, Murray Meyer, Esq. has represented alleged murderers, pimps, prostitutes, cops, drug dealers, drug addicts, arsonists, robbers, and thieves but defending himself is his toughest case.
Murray Meyer is a practicing criminal defense attorney who has lived in Los Angeles for more than thirty years. Director/playwright Laurel Ollstein, who is married to Meyer, directs.
Kristen Larocque of the Montreal Mirror wrote about Meyer’s previous solo show Walking Back To Brooklyn. “Meyer’s transition from character to character and from past to present is seamless, funny and truly entertaining.”
And the Los Angeles Weekly noted after seeing It’s Criminal! The Comedy, “More lawyers should do one-person shows.”
Murray Meyer
MURRAY MEYER (Writer/Performer) is a criminal lawyer, comedian, story-teller and writer. He has practiced criminal defense law in Los Angeles for the last 30 years. During that time, he estimates his winning percentage at well over .400 which would put him in Cooperstown if law were baseball.
Meyer has also been a stand-up comic, playwright for Me and Errol and written and performed in three comedic one-man shows – It’s Criminal! The Comedy, Walking Back To Brooklyn and It’s Shameful! A Deadbeat Dad’s Story. His work has been produced at the San Francisco, Toronto and Seattle Fringe Festivals, New York Frigid Festival and in Los Angeles, New York and Montreal.
Meyer has been creating written and video legal comedy shorts on his website itscriminalthecomedy.com for the last decade.
“This is my take on the daily menu of mishegas I encounter in my job,”
— Murray Meyer
