KURT ‘N’ PAT: SPIES 4 HIRE!!! is a whimsical and heartwarming new musical featuring dozens of characters played by only two actors. When Kurt and Patricia Mortensen are deemed unfit for a career on the Tri-City police force, their passion for the world of spies, detectives, and murder mysteries compels them take a DIY approach to crime solving. As a newly founded husband and wife private-investigating team—with the best intentions but the worst competence—they accidentally stumble into the middle of a major underground criminal conspiracy. In a world that can best be described as Mission Impossible and Sherlock Holmes meet Napoleon Dynamite and Fargo, KURT ‘N’ PAT: SPIES 4 HIRE!!! is, at its heart, a story about two unlikely heroes with a dream of making the world a better place… and somehow, in spite of themselves, they do! This is a workshop presentation of a musical in development.


A. J. Freeman (Book/Lyrics/Patricia Mortensen) is a writer, director, and performer originally from Los Angeles, now based in New York. She has worked for over 12 years in educational theatre, directing dozens of full scale productions, and running her own literacy-based musical theatre program for low income students. Though this nonprofit, The Troupe, thousands of children in schools across Los Angeles received free reading books. The Troupe’s free musical theatre workshops and assemblies inspired students from all backgrounds to use their gifts and talents through visual and performing arts. She is also a cabaret performer, championing brilliant but forgotten music of the 1920s and 30s, and is a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and at The 92Y.


Rick Rea (Book/Music/Kurt Mortensen) is an actor/director, vocal coach and writer of songs, scripts, scores and stories. Rick is a composer/lyricist in the Tony-Award Winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Stage writing credits include My Jo, First Freedom, (mis)Fitting in, May the Mouse Be With You and A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol. From 2012-17, he was the artistic director of Ziegfeld Theater Company and to date has directed or music directed over fifty musicals and plays.  Most recent regional performing credits include “Bobby” in Company and “The Monster” in Young Frankenstein. He lives in NYC with his husband and their two plants.



*Drinks Must be purchased In the Cabaret Theatre to count towards the Minimum.