Film Independent Presents @ The Wallis
LIVE READ: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Jun 24, 2023
7:30 PM
Fire up your flux capacitor up to 1.21 gigawatts and floor it to 88mph because Film Independent is going Back to the Future! Beloved improvisor and actor Ben Schwartz (Sonic the Hedgehog, Renfield, "Parks and Recreation") will direct and star as Marty McFly in this wild ride from writer Bob Gale and writer/director Robert Zemeckis. Experience some of cinema’s most iconic characters— Marty McFly, Doc Brown, George McFly, Biff— reinvented by a cast of outstanding actors. Audiences are encouraged to show up in costume, either as a 1950s resident of Hill Valley or a 1980s-time traveler like Marty himself. The winner of the costume contest will receive a poster signed by the live read cast. When Marty McFly agrees to help his eccentric mad scientist friend, Emmett “Doc" Brown, with videotaping his newest experiment, he unexpectedly gets sent back 30 years to 1955. At first, he thinks his biggest problem is finding the plutonium necessary to power the DeLorean time machine back to his own life, but he soon learns that a chance encounter with his own mother, herself a teenager, may have set a series of events into motion that could lead to him never being born. This classic teen science-fiction adventure was the worldwide highest grossing movie of 1985, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, and was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2007.
CAST
Ben Schwartz
Quinta Brunson
Sam Richardson
Scott Aukerman
Bobby Moynihan
Drew Tarver
Tawny Newsome
Gil Ozeri
SOLD OUT
$30/person for Wallis Subscribers and Film Independent Members; Proof of Subscriber/Member status is required to reserve tickets at this price; limit two tickets per order.
$40/person for the general public
PRE-SHOW RECEPTION
Attending Arts Circle Members and Wallis Subscribers are invited to join us for an intimate pre-reception on The Wallis campus starting at 6:30 PM, prior to showtime.
BEN SCHWARTZ can be seen alongside Nic Cage, Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina in Universal Pictures’ Dracula reboot, Renfield. He starred in Lord & Miller’s AppleTV+ miniseries "The Afterparty," as well as Greg Daniels and Steve Carell’s Netflix series "Space Force." Ben is currently the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the Sonic films from Paramount. Other credits include the Showtime series "House of Lies" opposite Don Cheadle & Kristen Bell, "Park & Recreation" alongside Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, and Aubrey Plaza Ansari and This is Where I Leave You. He co-created and stars in three improv specials on Netflix entitled "Middleditch & Schwartz" and can currently be seen on tour with his improv group BEN SCHWARTZ & FRIENDS, which plays Radio City Music Hall later this year. He has lent his voice to various animated shows such as "Ducktales and Rise" of the TMNT. As a writer, Ben has published four books and written television shows and movies for many major studios. For more information go to RejectedJokes.com
BEN SCHWARTZ can be seen alongside Nic Cage, Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina in Universal Pictures’ Dracula reboot, Renfield. He starred in Lord & Miller’s AppleTV+ miniseries "The Afterparty," as well as Greg Daniels and Steve Carell’s Netflix series "Space Force." Ben is currently the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the Sonic films from Paramount. Other credits include the Showtime series "House of Lies" opposite Don Cheadle & Kristen Bell, "Park & Recreation" alongside Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, and Aubrey Plaza Ansari and This is Where I Leave You. He co-created and stars in three improv specials on Netflix entitled "Middleditch & Schwartz" and can currently be seen on tour with his improv group BEN SCHWARTZ & FRIENDS, which plays Radio City Music Hall later this year. He has lent his voice to various animated shows such as "Ducktales and Rise" of the TMNT. As a writer, Ben has published four books and written television shows and movies for many major studios. For more information go to RejectedJokes.com
ACCESSIBILITY
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