Funneman in Performance During Fringe Festival

(JEFFREY BENNETT AND JOSH FUNNEMAN)

Josh Funneman was cast as the lead, Denny, in Howard Korder's play "Fun" performed during the Fringe Festival in St. Louis, MO June 20-21.

The play follows the events in a day and night of two 15-year-old boys, Denny (Josh Funneman) and Casper (Jeffrey Bennett) who are average, lower-middle-class teenagers in the mid-1980s. They dabble in alcohol and drugs, but they're still just kids, condemned to hang out in malls and atop bridges over freeways, from which they hurl obscenities at the trash-spewing occupants of the cars below. While Casper worries about the future, whether to join the army or go to a trade school, Denny is all about the moment and he despises every one of those moments. His attitude is obviously a self-defense mechanism, but with it is a percolating rage that makes him interesting to watch.

Josh is the son of Todd and Tara Funneman and is a graduate of Teutopolis High School where he participated in theater throughout his high school years. He is a junior at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he is majoring in Theater Performance.

(PHOTOS COURTESY OF KIMBERLY N PHOTO, ST. LOUIS, MO)