Award-Winning Tracey Erin Smith stars in:

The Burning Bush!

Saving souls… one lap dance at a time.

Burning Bush Productions presents the award-winning theatre artist Tracey Erin Smith in The Burning Bush!, an hilarious and heart-warming theatrical extravaganza that combines her two irreverent hit solo shows The Burning Bush! and Two in the Bush! This audacious comedy – about a ‘stripping rabbi’ saving souls one lap dance at a time – NOVEMBER 16th - ONE-NIGHT ONLY - at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

It’s Yentl meets Showgirls in this one-woman road show about a female Rabbinical student who stumbles into a strip club and discovers her true calling: spreading Jewish wisdom with her posse of exotic-dancing back-up preachers! All goes smoothly until they take their ‘stripping-Rabbi’ show on the road to senior’s homes and are forced to run for it in their RV they call the Bush Mobile. This audacious heartfelt comedy has a genuine message of love and hope, served up with a generous dose of reverent irreverence.

Winner of the 2006 Best of the Toronto Fringe for the original one-act The Burning Bush! and 2007 Best of the Toronto Fringe for Two in the Bush!, Toronto native Tracey Erin Smith takes The Burning Bush! to Off-Broadway in the spring of 2010. When last performing in NYC at the Frigid Festival with the original one-act versions in 2007 and 2008, she won the Audience Choice Award for each play respectively.

As a young girl, Tracey Erin Smith dreamt of two things; being a performer and becoming a Rabbi. She fulfilled one dream by graduating from Vancouver’s prestigious Studio 58 Theatre School and by being nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for The One that Got Away. She was about to apply to rabbinical school when she met her idol, the legendary comedian Jackie Mason, a former Rabbi himself. He advised her to do her show; she did and, as they say, the rest is history. Smith is now on her way to fulfill her second dream: as of September 2008, she is a rabbinical student in the Rabbinical Seminary International in New York (and following in Mr. Mason’s footsteps towards becoming a Rabbi with a hit solo show on Broadway!).

The Creative Team

The Burning Bush! is directed by Anita La Selva (Two in the Bush! for Toronto Fringe/NYC Frigid Festival/Vancouver Chutzpah Festival; A Soldier’s Story for Summerworks 2008 – named one of NOW Magazine’s Best of the Fest for Outstanding Director and Production). Original music is composed by Drew Jurecka. He performs live on accordion with violinist Rebekah Wolkstein. Lighting design is by Dora Award-winner Trevor Schwellnus, costumes designed by Dora Award nominated Erika Connor. The stage manager is Michael Haltrecht.