About

Two Girls For Five Bucks is…

Cathleen Carr and Daiva Deupree, a critically acclaimed and widely celebrated New York based two-woman sketch comedy burlesque that takes the audience on a hilarious romp of loneliness, insecurity, and desperation. The titular two have been featured at comedy festivals across the country, including the LA Comedy Fest and SketchFest NYC. Daiva and Cathleen have performed their anti-chick flick brand of humor at the Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles, Upright Citizens Brigade NYC, and Ars Nova Theater in New York. Carr and Deupree, with their provocative on-stage chemistry, are adept at portraying devastatingly comical ladies frantically trying to make their way through the world. Appealing for everyone, the Boston Metro says, “Unlike most of the female-oriented fare we’ve seen, this show is at least as much fun for men as it is for women.” And as Gotham Magazine says, “these gals always deliver.” “I’ve never seen The Vagina Monologues, but I’d imagine [Two Girls For Five Bucks] is what those monologists would sound like after swallowing a Xanax and a funny pill.”
-New York Press

In 2008, Daiva and Cathleen began dating Andy Donald who would go on to become their show boyfriend or as others might say, “director.”  Andy brought the ladies to a new level in March of 2009 with a three week run at New York’s Ars Nova.  Integrating a live band, (Justin Levine, Matt Stoulil, and Vinny Commisso) Two Girls For Five Bucks and the Ten Dollar Heartbreakers took off.  We’ll let you know the rest of the story when it happens…

Contact the girls at twogirlsforfivebucks [at] gmail [dot] com

History

Cathleen Carr met Daiva Deupree at the Improv Asylum in Boston. Night after night they would perform raw and raunchy improv and sketch comedy together. One night, while drinking a little too much red wine, and weeping a little too hard for their ex’s, Cathleen said, “maybe we should do a show together.” And so they did. In the process they learned that they had many similarities. Cathleen’s parents were former Catholic nun and priest. Daiva’s parent’s were former Buddhist nun and monk. Cathleen moved to Ireland at eighteen and became a dishwasher. Daiva moved to Paris and went to mime school. Cathleen was a very awkward adolescent as was Daiva. They channeled their quirky emotional turmoil into a hilariously truthful evening of comedy.   Then Cathleen accidentially got married and asked Daiva to be her bridesmaid.  She accepted and the show continued forward with one single lady and one married lady…

Getting to Know Team Two Girls…

Name: Daiva Jeanne Deupree

Daiva Deupree is the co-creator of the critically acclaimed two-woman comedy-burlesque show, “Two Girls For Five Bucks” which has performed in festivals and theaters across the country, including The Zipper Factory and Ars Nova in New York City. She was most recently seen as “Marge” (a role she helped create and develop) in “Pageant Play” at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. She performed improv and sketch comedy as a mainstage cast member at the Improv Asylum in Boston and studied mime at Marcel Marceau’s International School of Mime in Paris.

Name: Cathleen Patricia Carr

Cathleen is a seasoned improviser who spent several years at Improv Asylum in Boston (where she met Daiva) as well as WNEP Theater in Chicago. She is co-creator of the original comedy, Waiting for Ennis Cotter which toured comedy festivals all over the country. Cathleen was featured in the Eliot Norton Award winning production, P.S. Page Me Later as well as Strange Faculty, which won the 2008 NBC Diversity Comedy Short competition. She is currently working on the upcoming web series, Simpatico. Cathleen has a hippie degree from Goddard College and trained at Second City in Chicago.  Daiva and Cathleen are currently writing and performing with Naked Radio @ Naked Angels Theater Co.  Go here for more info http://www.nakedangels.com/development-programs/naked-radio/

Name: Andy Donald

Andy Donald  is the co-founder and artistic director of the Charlie B. Theater Company in Los Angeles. Directing credits include Two Girls for Five Bucks (Ars Nova, 2009), Movie Geek (Ars Nova residency, 2005 NY Fringe award, Outstanding Multimedia Production), LOST: How a Certain TV Mega-Hunk Stole My Identity (2007 FringeNYC, Cherry Lane; People’s Improv Theater residency), Glengarry Glen Ross, Marie and Bruce, Rats, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Baby with the Bathwater, and Blogtown: A Campaign Comedy.  As a producer, he co-curated and produced Armed and Naked in America for Naked Angels off-Broadway and has also worked as a producing associate at the Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre and for Michael Engler in television development at ABC and HBO.  Recent projects include an upcoming web series, “Insufficient Funds,” and a forthcoming New Orleans jazz musical with composer Patrice Rushen.  Education: BFA, NYU/Tisch; current MFA Producing candidate, Columbia University.