NICK CEARLEY  is the co-creator of the critically acclaimed undie-rock duo known as The Skivvies (www.theskivviesnyc.com). Broadway/Tour: All Shook Up (dir. Chris Ashley), Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas (dir. Chris Gattelli). Regionally, Nick has performed the role of Alex More in Jon Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar more than any other actor after appearing in ten (!) regional premieres of the hit one person play.  Off Broadway: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Pageant (Cast Album on Jay Records), Golden Rainbow, Sex Tips…  Selected regional: Portland Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group, Bay Street Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Rubicon Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Pittsburgh’s City Theatre, A.C.T. of San Francisco. Find Nick’s music with The Skivvies and solo on all platforms where music is streamed. Instagram: @clearlycearley & @theskivviesnyc
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Lauren Molina is an award-winning Broadway actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. She made her mark on Broadway starring as the cello-playing Johanna in the critically acclaimed actor-musician revival of John Doyle’s Sweeney Todd starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris. She went on to originate the role of Regina in the hit 80′s rock musical Rock of Ages Off-Broadway, when it began at New World Stages and transferred with the production to Broadway.

She can often be found singing in New York City and across the country performing with her highly popular, comedic, “undie-rock” band, The Skivvies. Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “highly original…smart…sophisticated…ingenious”, The Skivvies have also been featured in People Magazine, NY Times, Out Magazine, NY1, Buzzfeed, Time Out NY, and Sports Illustrated. The Skivvies have shot pilots for A&E, Fox, and WE.

Lauren departed from Rock of Ages to play a dream role; Cunegonde in Candide, directed by Mary Zimmerman at the Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC and Huntington Theatre. Lauded as ”…a petite firecracker with comic brilliance and a soaring voice” by the Chicago Sun Times, Lauren received a 2011 Helen Hayes award for Best Actress, and a Irene nomination. She reunited with Zimmerman in 2016 to play Eileen in Wonderful Town at the Goodman Theatre.

Lauren was also a part of the Drama League Nominated, two person revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little with Jason Tam, Off-Broadway at the Clurman Theatre with Keen Company. The cast album was recorded by Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom and released November 2013.

In 2019, Lauren co-conceived a new actor-instrumental production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She also played the role of Lucy in the production.

In 2022, Lauren played the title role of Goldie, in the New York premiere of the play “Goldie, Max, and Milk.” She also was a part of the world premiere of Suzan Lori-Park’s “Plays for the Plague Year” at the Public Theatre.

Other favorite roles include: Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Bristol Riverside Theatre, Squeaky Fromme in Assassins at Yale Rep, Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music at The Huntington Theatre, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at the Cleveland Playhouse, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show at The Bucks County Playhouse, Sara in the first regional production of Murder Ballad at TUTS, Megan in the world premiere musical, Nobody Loves You at The Old Globe and Off-Broadway at Second Stage. Television includes The Good Wife and Light’s Out.

She originated Bella Rose in Desperate Measures off-Broadway at the York Theatre and transferred with the show to New World Stages. For this role she received award nominations including the 2018 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress.

Other original roles include, Miss Jones 1 in Ten Cents a Dance, with Donna McKechnie and Malcolm Gets at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (This original musical, created by John Doyle, utilized actor/singer/musicians, Lauren playing cello, bass, guitar, ukulele and saxophone, and expressed the story thru the music of Rodgers and Hart); Liza in The Fortress of Solitude at a workshop thru The Public Theatre. She has performed at the Bucks County Playhouse in Meet Me in St. Louis: A Radio Play (World Premiere), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play.

Erik is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles.  Growing up as a queer kid in Northern California's East Bay, he found refuge in music from an early age.  He made his Broadway debut in the 2013 revival of 'Pippin' and went on to tour with the show throughout the US and internationally in Tokyo and Amsterdam.  It was in those early New York days that Altemus began penning his own original tunes.  Inspired by the likes of James Blake, Frank Ocean and Robyn he set out to merge all the various threads of his artistry into something new and uniquely his own.  His debut visual EP 'Desideratum' included 5 original tracks and music videos and can be streamed here on YouTube.  Most recently as an actor he was seen as Jeremy in ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and Skip in Showtime's 'Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.'  He is currently working on new music, set to be released later this year.

Colleen is a local vocalist and performer. Her recent theatrical credits include Maureen in the Portland Player’s production of Rent, Sal’s Mom in the Maddy’s Theater production of Blueberries for Sal, and Bella Rose in Good Theater’s production of Desperate Measures. Colleen would like to give special thanks to her husband Joe Bearor for his ceaseless encouragement, to her kiddo August who inspires her daily, and to you dear readers for supporting the arts!

The Skivvies are Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, singer/actor/musicians performing stripped down arrangements of eclectic covers and eccentric originals. Not only is the music stripped down - cello, ukulele, glockenspiel, melodica - but the Skivvies literally strip down to their underwear to perform.

The Wall Street Journal calls them “smart, sophisticated…ingenious,” and Out Magazine says, “The Skivvies have managed to carve out a niche that we never knew needed to exist: part Weird Al- parody and part sexy burlesque…and unusual explosion of satire and sultry.”  People Magazine named The Skivvies “The Most Playful Performers” in The Most Talked about Bodies issue and Sports Illustrated named them "Favorite New Band".  The New York Times calls them “a hot musical comedy duo specializing in unexpected arrangements, incongruous mashups, and of course, highly toned displays of skin.” They were also nominated for a MAC award for show of the year.

Molina (Broadway's Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd, Mary Zimmerman's Candide - Helen Hayes Award, Marry Me A Little) and Cearley (Broadway First National All Shook Up, Pageant, Buyer & Cellar) met in 2003 performing in Theatreworks USA's  national tour of the "Just So Stories". Quickly becoming best friends and musical collaborators, they began performing together in the city, with clothes on. The Skivvies were born in 2012, when they became YouTube sensations with their unique covers of artists like Robyn, Carole King and Rihanna. The videos led to live shows, and now this “musically thrilling”, undie-rock, comedy-pop duo continues to perform to sold-out audiences in New York and beyond.

Previous venues include their residency at 54 Below, 42 West, The Highline Ballroom, Roseland Ballroom, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre, The Cutting Room, Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles, The Smith Center in Las Vegas, The Laguna Playhouse, The Purple Room Palm Springs, Tampa Theatre, Straz Centre for the Performing Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Bay Street Theatre, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Key West’s Red Barn Theatre, and The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA where they also starred as Brad and Janet in The Rocky Horror Show directed by Hunter Foster.  Internationally, they have performed in Puerto Vallarta, and for My Vacaya at the Unico resort in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. The Skivvies have performed at events such as Broadway Bares (raising money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS), A Tribute to Angela Lansbury with Tyne Daly and Christine Ebersole, Broadway for Obama, Human Rights Campaign benefit, Theatre C. They have made appearances on NBC, and filmed pilots for FOX, A&E, and WE. Their single, "Hardbody Hoedown" and music video directed by Augusten Burroughs, bestselling author of Running With Scissors.

Theatrically, Nick and Lauren are co-conceivers, as well as Linus and Lucy in a new actor-instrumental version of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown that debuted at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. They have also performed opposite each other in Broadway HD productions of It’s a Wonderful Life:  A Radio Play and The Importance of Being Earnest (for Laguna Playhouse), Sex Tips For Straight Women From A Gay Man (Off-Broadway), and as Brad and Janet in The Rocky Horror Show(Bucks County Playhouse), directed by Hunter Foster. This production was the launching point for their love of the score to The Rocky Horror Show which inspired Cearley and Molina to put their signature mash-up twist on the tunes to the cult classic.  This led to recording their debut album now available everywhere titled The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show.