GREETINGS FROM UNITED SOLO

Dear Friends, Welcome to the world of theatre; where a diverse body of artists brings innovative interpretations of the shared currency of human life! Entering its sixth year, United Solo has come to represent a unique landmark on the New York City theatrical map by offering a selection of one hundred fifty productions from six continents, staged over the course of ten weeks. We unite renowned artists and emerging talents, curate collections of scripts at Indie Theater Now, present an international showcase overseas, fundraise for the Actors Fund, and feature companies returning by popular demand in our special Encore category. United Solo thrives as the world’s largest solo theatre festival thanks to the commitment of a global family of patrons, artists, business associates, and supporters. I am deeply grateful to them for making it possible again this year! This Festival guide is an open invitation to a world of exciting stories. Enjoy this world through United Solo.

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Omar Sangare, Ph.D. Artistic Director UNITED SOLO

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the world’s largest solo theatre festival OMAR SANGARE MICHAEL MILLER Artistic Director Literary Advisor 150 productions from 6 continents [email protected] [email protected] September 17 – November 22, 2015

ILYA KHODOSH MARCIN LIPINSKI PERFORMANCES AT TICKETS THROUGH Associate Artistic Director General Manager [email protected] [email protected]

JULIA KWINTO TERRY TAMM 410 WEST 42nd STREET www.telecharge.com Creative Director Dramaturg [email protected] NEW YORK CITY 212-239-6200 [email protected]

SPECIAL THANKS TO ANDREA DUQUETTE DIANE R. HUBER Designer House Manager Christina Augello John Guare [email protected] [email protected] Jakub Biegaj Chasmin Hallyburton Krzysztof Haranczyk Bill Bowers THEATRE ROW STAFF LIST Christine Butler Cherry Jones Tomasz Kammel Katie Chai Erika Feldman Managing Director Tadeusz Kuncy Shawn Murphy Associate Managing Director Allan Corduner Wojciech Malajkat Keith Adams Technical Director Luke Crowe Geoffrey Bryant Assistant Technical Director Marsha Mason Scott DelaCruz Assistant Technical Director Martin Denton Sarah Paulson Keaton Grant Assistant Technical Director Rochelle Denton Agata Reed Andre Sguerra Assistant Technical Director Sarah Underwood Box Office Manager Michael Druker Bartek Remisko Drew Overcash Assistant Box Office Manger Olympia Dukakis Ryan Remstad Jerrod Bogard Box Office Staff Eric & Eliza Roberts Amanda Finch Box Office Staff David Engelman Nigel Harsch Box Office Staff Clyde William Engle, Jr. Fiona Shaw Margarita Javier Box Office Staff Keaton Simons Andrew Joy Box Office Staff Urszula Gacek Karon Karr Box Office Staff Kamila Slawinski Mark Gindick Jack Donoghue House Manager Teatr Syrena Scott Pegg Studio Manager Joanna & Jaroslaw Golaszewski Alicja Tunk Kimberly Golding Deborah Warner FESTIVAL PARTNERS Sarah Elizabeth Greer Williams College David Grossman William Zito Michael Growler Anatoliy Zymnin

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2015 UNITED SOLO SPECIAL AWARD

United Solo is proud to present the annual United Solo Special Award, which honors outstanding solo performers. These are artists who create captivating performances outside the Festival. They remind us of the immense power of a singular performer and the possibilities of solo storytelling. This year’s list of nominees for the United Solo Special Award includes: Tom Dugan, Cush Jumbo, James Lecesne, Benjamin Scheuer, and Wanda Sykes.

Previous recipients include: Anna Deavere Smith, Patti LuPone, John Leguizamo, Fiona Shaw, and Billy Crystal. The winner of the 2015 United Solo Special Award will be announced at the Festival’s Closing Gala on November 22, 2015, held at Theatre Row in New York. More details about the nominees can be found at www.unitedsolo.org/us/uaward-2015. • Winners are selected by an independent panel of over seventy theatre professionals. • Nominees have been recommended by the United Solo Academy as well as independent theatregoers.

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WITHOUT SUPPORTERS United Solo, a New York-based festival, brings its most intriguing shows to an overseas THERE IS NO THEATRE showcase at Teatr Syrena, a premier theatre in downtown Warsaw, Poland. United Solo Europe has featured a solo musical produced by Emmy winner Paul Miller and performed by five-time Grammy nominee LynnMarie Rink; a solo piece written by Pedro Almodóvar; a show directed by Austin Pendleton; and a performance created by Regina Advento, a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In this international program, performers present their works on stage, and host a variety of workshops for theatre enthusiasts. In 2014, Fiona Shaw, the recipient of the Order of the British Empire and two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner, opened United Solo Europe with Support us at remarks on solo theatre and issued an invitation to the United Solo Festival in New York, unitedsolo.org/usupport which she called “the center mecca of solo shows in the world.” Today, we welcome you to the 6th annual United Solo Theatre Festival, an international event that connects people from around the globe.

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Thu, Sept 17 Fri, Sept 18 Sat, Sept 19 Sun, Sept 20 7:30 Butoh Medea 6:00 An Evening with 2:00 It’s About Time 2:00 Jellybean 9:00 THE WONDER Aunt Nona 4:00 Daddy 4:00 YEAH, THAT… WEEK 1 7:30 Jazz and Cocktails 7:30 The Telegram 6:00 WHAT WILL 9:00 Oh My Goddess! 9:00 Behind the Random PEOPLE THINK? 2015 SCHEDULE Denominator 7:30 Mark Twain Turns 70 Mon, Sept 21 Tue, Sept 22 Wed, Sept 23 Thu, Sept 24 Fri, Sept 25 Sat, Sept 26 Sun, Sept 27 7:30 The Biscuiteater 9:00 The Particulars 3:30 I am Hope 7:30 In the Storm of 6:00 Becoming Harriet 2:00 Stuff 2:00 Angry Conversations… 7:30 Broadway Confidential! Pleasure Tubman 4:00 WALKING TOWARD… 4:00 A Resume For… WEEK 2 9:00 WALKING TOWARD… 7:30 All Aboard 9:00 3: Black Girl Blues 6:00 LOUISE IN… 6:00 TALES FROM… 7:30 Perch 7:30 WALKING TOWARD… 9:00 One Funny Mother Mon, Sept 28 Tue, Sept 29 Wed, Sept 30 Thu, Oct 1 Fri, Oct 2 Sat, Oct 3 Sun, Oct 4 6:00 Perch 7:30 2 Ruby Knockers, 3:30 oranges 6:00 She Gon’ Learn 6:00 The Presentation 2:00 Mud Blood Baby 2:00 Sanctuary WEEK 3 7:30 YEAH, THAT 1 Jaded Dick 7:30 Gravity: A Tragedy 7:30 WHAT WILL 7:30 Race Free 4:00 Marilyn-After 4:00 Fragmented HAPPENED. 9:00 I AM THE GENTRY 9:00 Angry Conversations… PEOPLE THINK? 6:00 A Revolution… 6:00 La Voix Perdue 9:00 Doris Day: What 9:00 WALKING TOWARD… 7:30 50 Shades of DAY! 7:30 Oh Sarah! Will Be Mon, Oct 5 Tue, Oct 6 Wed, Oct 7 Thu, Oct 8 Fri, Oct 9 Sat, Oct 10 Sun, Oct 11 7:30 YEAH, THAT 7:30 Do You Know Me? 3:30 Upstream Swimming 7:30 Sweatshop Boogie 6:00 I’mma Do Me 4:00 Heroine 2:00 The Heart of a Gypsy WEEK 4 HAPPENED. 7:30 It’s Magic Time! 9:00 Daddy 7:30 Man’s Dominion 7:30 Ways We Disappoint 4:00 YoungGiftedandFAT 9:00 Beyond Words 9:00 Rhonda Badonda Our Parents 6:00 Love in Action 9:00 Uncle Philip’s Coat 7:30 He Left in the Middle

Mon, Oct 12 Tue, Oct 13 Wed, Oct 14 Thu, Oct 15 Fri, Oct 16 Sat, Oct 17 Sun, Oct 18 6:00 America’s Next Top 7:30 THE COCKWHISPERER 3:30 FOOD 7:30 Do You Know Me? 6:00 Upstream Swimming 2:00 Letters to Zoey 2:00 How to Draw… 7:30 Upstream Swimming 9:00 Funnel Cake Flowers 7:30 PANSY 9:00 Some of the Side Effects 7:30 Chasing Ballerinas 4:00 WALKING TOWARD… 4:00 Worst.Boyfriend.Ever. WEEK 5 6:00 Schachner Vs. Schachner & The Urban Chameleons 9:00 I AM ENOUGH 9:00 Smoker 6:00 Rite to Exist 7:30 Inheritance 7:30 Clipping In 9:00 Hank Leaves Home Mon, Oct 19 Tue, Oct 20 Wed, Oct 21 Thu, Oct 22 Fri, Oct 23 Sat, Oct 24 Sun, Oct 25 7:30 Move on the Cha-Cha’s 7:30 Recollection of 3:30 Work is the Curse of 7:30 Clipping In 6:00 #Adaire 2:00 Typhoon of Tenderness 2:00 That’s What She… WEEK 6 Innocence the Drinking Classes 9:00 BIG DUMMY 9:00 The Miracle of Long 4:00 Kaspar Hauser 4:00 Diary of a Madman 9:00 God Is in My 7:30 Jeremiah’s Tuesday Johns 7:30 The last call. 6:00 YESNOMAYBE Typewriter 9:00 From a Yardie to… 7:30 Move on the Cha-Cha’s

Mon, Oct 26 Tue, Oct 27 Wed, Oct 28 Thu, Oct 29 Fri, Oct 30 Sat, Oct 31 Sun, Nov 1 6:00 Move on the Cha-Cha’s 7:30 Clytemnestra or 3:30 Born MYdentity 9:00 Rhonda Badonda 6:00 ROGER 2:00 That Wonder Boy 4:00 Northern Daughter WEEK 7 7:30 Clipping In the Crime 7:30 Generic Magic Realism 7:30 Pieces of Me 6:00 La Adelita Americana 6:00 Finding the Light 9:00 The Woman Who 9:00 Catalpa 9:00 Erect but Unstable 9:00 That Wonder Boy 7:30 In My Own X-Rated… 7:30 Groundwork Was Me 9:00 NO VACANCY

Mon, Nov 2 Tue, Nov 3 Wed, Nov 4 Thu, Nov 5 Fri, Nov 6 Sat, Nov 7 Sun, Nov 8 6:00 In My Own X-Rated… 7:30 Me, Myself, and Rita 3:30 3 MEN 7:30 Beneath My Fathers’ Sky 6:00 Daggers MacKenzie 2:00 DORA AND ME 2:00 Marília WEEK 8 7:30 It’s Later Than I Think 9:00 The Good Adoptee 7:30 Houdini 9:00 Marília 7:30 The Legend of 4:00 It’s Later Than I Think 4:00 Out of Focus 9:00 The Kreutzer Sonata Sleepy Hollow 6:00 SCREAME 6:00 Susan Tierney 9:00 VIE 7:30 The Buffalo 7:30 Wolf Red 9:00 Tiananmen Annie Mon, Nov 9 Tue, Nov 10 Wed, Nov 11 Thu, Nov 12 Fri, Nov 13 Sat, Nov 14 Sun, Nov 15 9:00 Burnt at the Steak 7:30 The Day the Sky 3:30 Panther Hollow 7:30 The Day the Sky 6:00 RED FLAGS 6:00 A Championship Life 2:00 DIXIE BOY WEEK 9 Turned Black 7:30 Waiting for What? Turned Black 7:30 The Unofficial Guide 4:00 Mimi’s Suitcase 9:00 Namely Muscles 9:00 BRIGHT SWORDS 9:00 My Insane 9:00 How I Brought Peace 6:00 The Wedding Warrior Shakespeare to the Middle East 7:30 RACHEL CALOF

Mon, Nov 16 Tue, Nov 17 Wed, Nov 18 Thu, Nov 19 Fri, Nov 20 Sat, Nov 21 Sun, Nov 22 7:30 MOTSWANA 7:30 Suburban Showgirl 3:30 The Mermaid Who 7:30 The Man Inside 7:30 How to Be a Good 2:00 RACHEL CALOF 2:00 Daddy 9:00 RACHEL CALOF 9:00 A Little Drama Learned How to Fly 9:00 Auditions, Zoe’s Mom… WEEK 10 Auditions 7:30 Love With Leila 9:00 RACHEL CALOF

#Adaire 3 MEN Fri., Oct. 23 at 6:00pm Wed., Nov. 4 at 3:30pm

Written and Performed by Adaire Kamen, Texas. Performed by Mike Folie, New York. About: About: Dysfunctional. Awkward. Addicted to Playwright/speechwriter Mike Folie inhabits two the internet. This semi-autobiographical play worlds: the theatre, and the high-powered world of invites you into the world of a semi-neurotic girl as corporate CEOs. Is he a playwright pretending to be we meet her and characters like “creepy little girl,” a businessman, or a businessman pretending to be “The Stalker,” and “Myspace girl.” Follow #Adaire a playwright? His encounters with three charismatic, through the web of adolescence as she gains successful men show him there are many paths to confidence, learns to be liked, meets a few boyz a successful life. Director: Frank Licato.* Photo by (finally), and finds her voice. Photo by Keenan Yvonne Marchese. (75 min.) Storytelling. Hurley and Garrett Kim. (60 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre Recommended for: all audiences. community, lawyers, NYC magazine industry.

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2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded Dick: 50 Shades of DAY! A Dirk Darrow Investigation Sat., Oct. 3 at 7:30pm Tue., Sep. 29 at 7:30pm

Performed by Tim Motley, Australia. About: Written and Performed by Sylvia Day, Winner of 5 Best of Fest Awards. ****&1/2 Switzerland. About: We’re all addicted to “A tour de force” – London Free Press. ****&1/2 something – drugs, work, technology, sex. Sylvia “An excellent show” – Edmonton Journal. More Day brings her many shades to the stage in this murder! More explosions! More hyperbole! More hilarious, thought-provoking look at the crazy times punctuation!!!!!! It’s Australia’s favorite bumbling we live in. A variety show of songs, improv, and psychic detective. Comedy, mindreading, sketch comedy featuring celebrity impersonations storytelling, and gritty 1930s noir. Think and original characters. See why Second City calls Boardwalk Empire meets Naked Gun meets Penn Sylvia “one talented lady”! Director: Sylvia Day. & Teller. Based on a story by Dashiell Hammett. Photo by Howard Brundrett. (60 min.) Comedy. Playwright: Tim Motley. Photo by James Pendlidis. Recommended for: all audiences. (60 min.) Comedy, storytelling, stand-up, magic. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, noir or FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO magic fans. TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO

3: Black Girl Blues All Aboard Wed., Sep. 23 at 9:00pm Fri., Sep. 25 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by Danielle Mone` Written and Performed by Tulis McCall,* New Truitt,* California. About: Danielle Mone` Truitt York. About: “All Aboard - A Woman of a Certain takes us on an ironic, funny, painful and realistic Age Sticks Her Finger Into the Light Socket of journey through the lives of three women filled the Universe and Invites You to Hold Hands.” with complex growth and heart shattering change. Tulis McCall is a Woman of a Certain Age. She is Meet Keisha, Jill, and Stephanie. Old friends with a wizard who believes in laughing loud and crying new lives that find each other again and discover louder. In this extraordinary evening, you will step the secrets and deception they have hidden from on board McCall’s private touring coach for a new one another…and worst of all, from themselves. point of view. From the Grand Canyon to the most Playwright & Director: Anthony D`Juan.* private of matters. McCall’s range is vast, and her Photo by Lewis Payton. (75 min.) Drama, comedy, aim is true. Photo by Colman Domingo. (40 min.) storytelling, movement, music. Recommended Drama, comedy, stand-up. Recommended for: for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. LGBTQ community, women of a certain age. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (23) America’s Next Top Becoming Harriet Mon., Oct. 12 at 6:00pm Tubman Fri., Sep. 25 at 6:00pm

Performed by Julie Novak, New York. About: Written and Performed by Natalie Daise, “America’s Next Top: One Top’s Hysterical Take South Carolina. About: The coming-of-age of on Life Love Tools and Boxes.” A hilarious, little Araminta Ross as she becomes the iconic groundbreaking show that celebrates gender heroine Harriet Tubman. Five characters variance and offers keen insight into the politics depict the events that shaped Harriet into of queerness and everything in between. Julie the woman she became. Coded message songs Novak celebrates coming to terms with being and a haunting melody by Kim and Reggie a “sir, ma’am, sir,” showcasing her skills as Harris add texture to her unique and uplifting a comedian, singer, impersonator, and all-around story. Director: JW Rone. Guitarist: Denise dynamic performer. Laugh-out-loud funny – Rice. Composer: Kim & Reggie Harris. Photo by a magnetic, comedic powerhouse. Director: Eva Bob Sofaly. (60 min.) Storytelling. Recommended Tenuto. Playwrights: Julie Novak and Eva for: all audiences. Tenuto. Stage Manager: Erica Pivko. Sound: Becca Clinger. Slides: Sarah Taylor. Lights: Eric Kwak. Behind the Random (55 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community. Denominator Sat., Sep. 19 at 9:00pm WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Written and Performed by Mart Sander, Estonia. About: A nerve-racking horror story, which uses Angry Conversations minimalist means to draw the viewer deeper into the maze of fear and mistakes with every With God unexpected twist. An alcoholic writer is beginning Sun., Sep. 27 at 2:00pm to receive bizarre phone calls on a stormy night. Wed., Sep. 30 at 9:00pm Is the player being played — but by whom? Performed by Susan E Isaacs, California. About: Director: Mart Sander. (75 min.) Drama, multi- When Susan finds herself jobless, loveless, and 40, media, horror. Recommended for: all audiences. a “churchy” friend tells her God is her husband. So Susan takes God to marriage counseling. Casting God as a deadbeat spouse and recounting her crazy ride on the Jesus Bus, she discovers that the god in FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO her head is an impostor. Will she stay, for better or worse? Director: Matthew Corozine. (80 min.) TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO Comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, YOUTUBE.COM/UNITEDSOLO ex‑churched. Auditions, Zoe’s Auditions Thu., Nov. 19 at 9:00pm Beneath My Fathers’ Sky Thu., Nov. 5 at 7:30pm

Performed by Suzanna Geraghty,* Ireland. About: Featured on the BBC. The auditioning adventures of loveable underdog Zoe, who dreams Performed by Zara Phillips, United Kingdom. of landing an acting job. Her over-the-hill agent About: After her adoptive mother dies and leaves sends her on a spree of odd auditions ranging her to care for an adoptive father who was never from Riverdance to Spiderman to being shot out there for her, Zara takes a dreamlike journey that of a cannon in a touring circus. Getting farther brings her face-to-face with the biological father from her dream, Zoe just might be getting closer she’s always longed to know and the sister who to herself…An uplifting tale of self-realization. was never born. Zara’s music moves the story along To quote Oscar Wilde, “Be yourself, everyone else in this poignant and funny piece. Best Direction is taken.” Acting Coach: Stephen Jobes. Movement Award, United Solo 2013. Directors: Eliza Consultant: Andy Crook. Photo by Ros Roberts and Eric Roberts. (60 min.) Drama, Kavanagh. (70 min.) Drama, comedy, movement. comedy, storytelling, music, performance art. Recommended for: all audiences. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (25) Beyond Words Born MYdentity Mon., Oct. 5 at 9:00pm Wed., Oct. 28 at 3:30pm

Performed by Bill Bowers,* New York. About: Written and Performed by Mary Jo Verruto An award-winning combination of Mime, Music, McBride, New York. About: A one-woman show/ and Monologue that takes us on the journey from identity crisis about the protective parts of one’s Boyhood to Manhood, set against the back drop personality that conceal the true self behind other of small town America. Bill Bowers continues his personae to survive trauma. Part storytelling, part ongoing investigation of Silence in our Culture. solo performance, part cabaret, part confessional, “Bowers effortlessly brings us to laughter and tears, and entirely endearing. Director: Jennifer often at the same time.” – New York Post. Developed Tuttle.* Stage Manager: Natalie Marmol. with & Directed by: Scott Illingworth. Sound (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, music. Design: David Margolin Lawson. Costume Recommended for: adults. Design: Michael Growler. Production Coordinator: Laura Lindsay.* Photo by Benjamin Heller. (70 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, movement, mime. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community, mime and physical theatre, gender studies. CHECK UNITEDSOLO.ORG BIG DUMMY FOR SHOW DATES Thu., Oct. 22 at 9:00pm ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND

Performed by Mary Dimino, New York. About: Bright child. Simple father. Best friends until she outgrows him by age eleven. Realizing Dad’s brilliant. As is. Come, simplify yourself! FringeNYC BRIGHT SWORDS Outstanding Solo Show Award Winner, Mary Wed., Nov. 11 at 9:00pm Dimino. “Excellent!” –nyheatre.com. “Among the best–written, most humane shows. Perfect script, an extraordinary achievement.” – Hy Bender. “Remarkable” – PXP Magazine. “Exceptional” – Performed by Ryan Vincent Anderson,* New Theatre Reviews Limited. “Dimino is a natural.” York. About: The inspiring true story of an African- –Wall Street Journal. Director: Christine American actor who left New York in the 1820s to Renee Miller. (77 min.) Comedy, storytelling. escape racial hatred, and became the first black man Recommended for: all audiences. ever to play Othello in London. He became famous throughout Europe for playing Shakespeare’s greatest roles, black or white. Director: Jeffrey FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO Wienckowski. Playwright: Rick Creese. (65 min.) Drama, storytelling. Recommended for: theatre community, ethnic community (African The Biscuiteater American). Mon., Sep. 21 at 7:30pm Broadway Confidential! Wed., Sep. 23 at 7:30pm Written and Performed by Jim Loucks, California. About: Jim Loucks returns to United Solo with his new rollicking, heartfelt solo Written and Performed by Jack Mauro, New performance based loosely on his childhood, in his York. About: One man’s smoldering account of Southern storytelling style with songs and humor. boyishly stumbling through a world long gone. Granddaddy was his hero, a big man with a bigger 1970s New York City, just as seedy and fascinating personality, haunted by demons from his days as as the legends hold, is revived through the brave– Chief of Police. A moving tribute to an imperfect or exhibitionistic—recreation of his experience hero. Director: Lisa Chess. Producer: Deb Loucks. as a dreamer, a fool, a busboy, and a stripper. Photo by Kenneth Gall. (65 min.) Drama, comedy, Sort of. (45 min.) Storytelling, performance art. storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (27) The Buffalo Catalpa Sat., Nov. 7 at 7:30pm Tue., Oct. 27 at 9:00pm

Written and Performed by Anthony Sneed, Performed by Joseph Freeman, Georgia. About: New York. About: Based on a true story. After After bombing his first Hollywood pitch, moving for the sixth time, Anthony is desperate an aspiring screenwriter returns to his apartment to fit in at his new school. So he does what any defeated. In a final act of desperation, he reenacts 14-year-old boy would do: he brings in a gun. Sent his entire screenplay to an empty room. It’s to live with his born-again uncle in Missouri, he an 18th century prison break spanning two realizes that fitting in could mean joining a cult. continents and an ocean, featuring dozens of Director: Armando Merlo. (60 min.) Drama, characters (and wildlife). The story of a young comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: adults, artist fighting to keep his voice. Playwright: Donal elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, O’Kelly. Director: Alexander Neher. Stage ethnic community (Cherokee). Manager: Emily Scott Simpson. Composer: Patrick Greeley. Producer: Nate Kamiya. (75 min.) FIND ADDED SHOW DATES AT Drama, comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, film WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG enthusiasts.

Burnt at the Steak Chasing Ballerinas: Mon., Nov. 9 at 9:00pm A Coming of Gay Story Fri., Oct. 16 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by Carolann Valentino, Performed by Quinn Marcus, California. About: New York. About: 10-time award winning After sold-out runs in Boston and New Orleans, one‑woman musical. 18 hilarious characters MTV’s Quinn Marcus brings her hilariously portrayed through song, dance, comedy, and heartfelt monologue about coming out as audience improv. Her sizzling stories of managing gay to NYC. Don’t miss the host of MTVU’s a multimillion-dollar steakhouse in NYC will leave Quinnterviews and the only gay comedienne you inspired and hungry for more! 2014 United of MTV’s hit show, Girl Code bring her unique Solo sold–out hit! “Hysterical” – Broadway World. voice to the stage. Director: Alex Ates. Photo by “Example of how great a solo show can truly be!” Tripp Clemens. (50 min.) Comedy, storytelling, –Denver Post. *****–Vue Weekly. *****–Calgary stand‑up. Recommended for: all audiences. Sun. ****–The Herald. (90 min.) Comedy, storytelling, musical. Recommended for: adults. FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO Butoh Medea TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO Thu., Sep. 17 at 7:30pm YOUTUBE.COM/UNITEDSOLO

Performed by Yokko, Japan. About: Using A Championship Life the Japanese dance form Butoh and an adapted Sat., Nov. 14 at 6:00pm text, Yokko brings the spirit of Medea to life. This fusion of Eastern dance and Western drama puts the audience inside Medea’s dark and desperate struggle. Trapped in the underworld, she is Written and Performed by Stephen Bastien, forever cursed to relive her tragic journey through Rhode Island. About: Inspired by a song of love, hate, and ultimate loss. Director: Brian reconciliation he wrote for his mother and based Rhinehart.*/** Text & Adaptation: Sean on actual events from being institutionalized at 11, Michael Welch. Lighting Design: Derek expelled from school at 16 for refusing to let a priest Van Heel. Costume Design: Deepsikha molest him, then kicked out of his home one week Chatterjee. Co‑Choreographer: Jordan Rosin. later, Stephen combines original songs, humor Photo by Vanessa Teran. (60 min.) Drama, and his inner voice to overcome all obstacles, tragedy, storytelling, dance, movement, classic. except one: Pride. Director: Mary Renard Liss. Recommended for: theatre community, butoh (65 min.) Drama, comedy, tragedy, storytelling. community, ethnic community (Japanese). Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (29) Clipping In Daddy Sun., Oct. 18 at 7:30pm Sat., Sep. 19 at 4:00pm Thu., Oct. 22 at 7:30pm Thu., Oct. 8 at 9:00pm Mon., Oct. 26 at 7:30pm Performed by Terrence S. Gray, New York. About: Written and Performed by Joe Gulla, New York. An improbable, sometimes difficult, and altogether About: In the tradition of legendary monologist hilarious journey about self-discovery and finding Spalding Gray, Actor/Playwright Joe Gulla sits community in the format of a 60-minute group alone at a table…notebook and bottle of water exercise class. After getting fired from Wall Street, at the ready! “Daddy” is the final part of Joe Gulla’s our hero finds a new home and community, while popular “Bronx Queen Trilogy.” Gulla’s latest picks losing weight and inhibitions, and finding a little up where “The Bronx Queen” (United Solo Festival rhythm along the way. The story is performed while Winner: Best Comedic Script 2012, Most Popular doing Zumba moves and riding a Soul Cycle bike. Show 2013) and “Faggy at 50” (United Solo Festival (60 min.) Comedy, storytelling, movement, music. Winner: Best One Man Show 2014) left off. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, Director: Brian Rardin. (75 min.) Drama, comedy, LGBTQ community. storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. THE COCKWHISPERER… Daggers MacKenzie A Love Story Fri., Nov. 6 at 6:00pm Tue., Oct. 13 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by Colette Kendall, Written and Performed by Melissa A. Kaplan, Canada. About: “Get past the title, this show California. About: Knife juggler Emma “Daggers” should not be missed!” – Theatre in London. 3-time MacKenzie is on the lam. Blowing her cover, she Canadian Comedy Award-nominated performer. shares the story of how she became an infamous The story of one woman’s quest to find the love performer, and why she ran away from the circus and the penis of her dreams. A phallic journey both she called home. A musical featuring carnival humorous and dark. ***** Edmonton Sun. 4/4 – thrills, a wildly seductive madam, and a lot of The Beat. “Hilarious and haunting” – Edmonton dangerous things in the air. Director: Stephanie Journal. “Both funny and striking” – The Vue. Abrams. Recording & Mixing: Michael Eisenstein. Stage Manager: Keith Toms. Photo by Kevin Photo by Ana Yazdi and Dante Silliman. (50 min.) Thom. (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling. Musical, performance art. Recommended for: Recommended for: adults, theatre community, adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community. LGBTQ community. ADDED SHOW DATES ARE LISTED AT WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG

Clytemnestra or The Day the Sky Turned Black the Crime Tue., Nov. 10 at 7:30pm Tue., Oct. 27 at 7:30pm Thu., Nov. 12 at 7:30pm

Performed by Martha Tompoulidou, Greece. Written and Performed by Ali Kennedy Scott, About: “Of all our games, love’s play is the only one Australia. About: Black Saturday 2009. Australia which threatens to unsettle the soul…” The play is ravaged by firestorms releasing the energy of is a modern adaptation of the classical myth of 1500 atomic bombs. Five characters tell their Clytemnestra. It is her apology in front of the jury, poignant stories of survival and begin the journey after she committed the murder of her husband, to rebuild their lives. Inspired by interviews with Agamemnon. Clytemnestra is staged as a woman survivors, journalists, and arson experts. A story in love who was betrayed. Her story is developed of courage, humor amidst adversity, and hope. in a non-linear narration with theatrical and “Enthralling” THE NEW YORK TIMES. cinematic effects. Director: Christos Godas. Light WINNER: Sydney Fringe People’s Choice. Operator: Theodoros Lygidakis. (45 min.) Drama, www.thedaytheskyturnedblack.com Original storytelling, music, multi-media. Recommended production director: Adrian Barnes. Photo by for: adults, theatre community. Michael Corridore. (55 min.) Drama. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (31) Diary of a Madman Don’t Cry for Me Banks of Sun., Oct. 25 at 4:00pm Wall Street Fri., Nov. 20 at 9:00pm

Performed by Ilia Volok, California. About: Written and Performed by Clyde Engle, Hawaii. A story of a low-ranking civil servant, who yearns About: Don’t Cry for Me Banks of Wall Street is to be noticed by a beautiful woman, with whom the story of an ambitious, young college student he has fallen in love. As his madness deepens, he whose heart and mind tell him different things. begins to believe himself to be the heir to the throne He interns at a major NYC investment bank of Spain… “a performance by Volok that is so and quickly realizes he must be an actor. Sound riveting that as his insanity escalates, he maintains Design & Set Design: Robert Hefferon. Lighting a powerful core that never dissipates!”—Examiner. Design: Kimberly Golding. Creative Consultant com. “Remarkable!”—LA Weekly. Best Solo & Collaborator: Fatima Anaza. (60 min.) Comedy, Performance, 2013 LA Weekly Theater Awards. musical. Recommended for: all audiences. Director: Eugene Lazarev. Photo by Rochelle Perry. (70 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: DORA AND ME/ YO SOY teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. DORA Sat., Nov. 7 at 2:00pm FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO Performed by Amy Urbina,* California. About: Dora Valverde is a screwball Los Angelina actress trying to tell the true story of the great 18th century comedienne Dora Jordan, but she can’t DIXIE BOY FIREWORKS help digressing to her own outlandish experiences. Sun., Nov. 15 at 2:00pm Luckily, the spirit of Ms. Jordan appears onstage to help her focus. Their stories are the same: for women, comedy is freedom. Director: Lexi Performed by Byron Loyd,* Tennessee. About: Lee. Playwright: Rick Creese. (70 min.) Comedy. Alabama/Tennessee state line in the mid-1960s, Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, right when the draft was reinstated for the Vietnam theatre community, ethnic community (Hispanic). War. Dennis Massey, a self-appointed multi-tasker and cultural maven, introduces us to characters as diverse as a flamboyant draft dodger to a belligerent CHECK UNITEDSOLO.ORG (though hapless) Klansman. Act One culminates in a disastrous (and fiery) wedding. In Act Two FOR SHOW DATES the townsmen are swept up in preparations for ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND a backwoods production of Puccini’s “Turandot” which despite kind words from a visiting national celebrity can only be seen as an operatic fiasco al fresco. Playwrights: Byron Loyd and Doris Day: What Will Be Susan Morse. Director: Mark Finley.* Sound Mon., Sep. 28 at 9:00pm Design: Morry Campbell. (80 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: all audiences.

Do You Know Me? Performed by Arielle Haller-Silverstone, New Tue., Oct. 6 at 7:30pm York. About: A new version is here! It’s 1960, Thu., Oct. 15 at 7:30pm and Doris Day rushes home to Beverly Hills to prepare a dinner party. With Rock Hudson to lend moral support, and legendary guests en route, Written and Performed by Mina Samuels, New everything goes as planned until the plan unravels. York. About: “Life without memory is no life at Have a seat at the dinner table and uncover all…our memory is our coherence, our reason, the secrets and scandals behind America’s favorite our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are bubbly, blue-eyed sweetheart. Director: David nothing” —Luis Buñuel. A woman is trying to take Wells. Stage Manager: Ian Kevin Scott.* Assistant her daughter to school, but she has lost her short- Stage Manager: Sheree Abate. Producer: Gabrielle term memory. Mired in the past, she struggles Berberich. Script Consultant: Jessica Corn. to recall who she is. Director: Lisa Chess.* (65 min.) Photo by John Johnson. (75 min.) Drama, comedy, Drama. Recommended for: all audiences. music. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (33) Erect but Unstable FOOD Wed., Oct. 28 at 9:00pm Wed., Oct. 14 at 3:30pm

Written and Performed by John Arthur Sweet, Written and Performed by Rhonda Khan, New Canada. About: A comedic monologue about gay York. About: A rhythmic tale of one woman’s love and relationships. A hit at the 2014 Prague addiction to food amidst societal pressures to be Fringe. A journey through Montreal’s Gay Village, thin. Family, therapists, healers and gurus weigh in with detours into science, religion and psychiatry, and diagnose her as she spits her truth about weight in search of illumination about sex and attraction. loss, gain, and healing. Hip-hop lyrics, monologue, “Sweet’s ability to let us experience some of his spoken word and storytelling take audiences on uncomfortable situations through an absurdist one delicious journey. Photo by Zubaer Khan. perspective is wonderful” – Prague Post. Photo by (40 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, poetry, Nora Grace. (65 min.) Comedy, storytelling. music. Recommended for: ethnic community Recommended for: adults, LGBTQ community. (African American). An Evening with Aunt Nona Fri., Sep. 18 at 6:00pm ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES LISTED ONLINE AT Performed by Anna Carol, Florida. About: WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Share a dressing room with Aunt Nona before she makes her Midwestern debut on the Great White Way…in Fargo, North Dakota. Through standup, improv, and storytelling, she joyfully recounts her idiosyncratic world of true fears, jingle writing, Fragmented cookies and bars, gay nephews, drag queens, meat Sun., Oct. 4 at 4:00pm raffles, and lady locker rooms. Director: Joshua Chase Gold. Stage Manager: Karlyn Muzik. (60 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, Written and Performed by Jack Sundmacher,* adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ California. About: On his way to the fertility community. clinic, Jack stops at Starbucks where he has a heart to heart with his sperm about whether he wants FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO to be a father. He talks about Scientology, internet TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO dating, his desire to live in the “now,” how to YOUTUBE.COM/UNITEDSOLO properly pick up poop, and most importantly, his profound fear of taking caring of someone. Producer: Dee Ann Newkirk.* (60 min.) Comedy, Finding the Light storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. Sun., Nov. 1 at 6:00pm From a Yardie to a Yankee Written and Performed by Lisa Hayes,*/*** Wed., Oct. 21 at 9:00pm Maryland. About: With a family history haunted by the Holocaust, Pulitzer-Prize winning Written and Performed by Sardia Robinson, photographer Marissa Roth traveled the world Jamaica. About: One young Jamaican girl’s documenting the impact of war on women from compelling story of growing up in a crime ridden Cambodia to Bosnia, Vietnam to Germany. war torn neighborhood where she literally had to Using photographs from Roth’s exhibit “One step over dead bodies and live with the fear of being Person Crying: Women and War,” Lisa Hayes raped on her way to school everyday. The story portrays Roth, sharing stories of the courage of how she survived, and emigrated to America and resilience of ordinary women surviving is inspiring. From a Yardie to a Yankee is a tale extraordinary challenges. Director: Kathryn Chase everyone can identify with. Director: Gregory Bryer.* Technical Design: Theodore L. Manekin. Marquette.*** (60 min.) Drama, comedy, (50 min.) Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, storytelling. Recommended for: adults, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ elderly, theatre community, ethnic community community. (Caribbean). unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (35) Funnel Cake Flowers & The Good Adoptee The Urban Chameleons Tue., Nov. 3 at 9:00pm Tue., Oct. 13 at 9:00pm

Written and Performed by HaJ, Georgia. About: Performed by Anna Bridgforth, New York. About: A multimedia, interactive, live stage show that Award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner’s satirically unveils how people of color chameleon lifelong search for the truth of her origins. Once she between white corporate America and their kinky opens Pandora’s Box, can she find a way to integrate hair handling, curry spice eating, hip gyrating her dual identities and still remain the Good and sometimes even tip-toeing up the courthouse Adoptee? Broadway World raved about Bachner steps in Manolo Blahniks to bail cousin Pookie & Bridgforth’s past collaboration: “A roller-coaster out of jail. America…because it’s complicated! ride…superb…deft and fearless…the future Director: Ayoka Chenzira. Photo by Fabian of theatre!” Playwright & Director: Suzanne Williams. (90 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: Bachner.*** Dramaturg: Bob Brader.*** Graphic all audiences. Design: Michael Koch. (90 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: adults, Jewish Generic Magic Realism Community, Theatre Community, Adoption Wed., Oct. 28 at 7:30pm Community. WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG FOR ADDED SHOW DATES Performed by Nat Cassidy,* New York. About: What happens when the magical world of an average South American is transplanted to the less magical Gravity: A Tragedy north? Join Octavio as he discovers poetry, satire, Wed., Sep. 30 at 7:30pm love, birds, chocolate, hippies, and explosives on his journey from the Andes to San Francisco during the fragrant 1960s. A loving tribute to a literary genre. Director: DeLisa White. Playwright: Ed Performed by Chilko Tivy, Canada. About: Malin. Stage Manager: Lauren Arneson. Photo by The Queen of the Universe is in love with Gravity Kristina Leath-Malin. (60 min.) Drama. – but it keeps bringing her down… to Earth. Her Recommended for: adults, theatre community, hopes of restoring Paradise are dashed as Gravity LGBTQ community. pulls her down, through levels of society, into the gutter and the abusive depths of an inescapable God Is in My Typewriter attraction. Rhapsodic, daring musical with humor, Tue., Oct. 20 at 9:00pm antics, and attitude all the way down. Director: Jesse Stong. Set Design & Project Manager: Adam Polstein. Design: Anais West. Photo by Krysteena Demarco. (55 min.) Musical. Recommended for: Performed by Anna-Mari Laulumaa, Finland. teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. About: Based on Anne Sexton’s poems, letters and life story. “Sexton’s poetry is notoriously Groundwork confessional; she wrote about her personal life with Sun., Nov. 1 at 7:30pm brutal, heartfelt honesty. Laulumaa does the same, giving a highly physical performance straight from the gut. Inspired by Butoh dance, she alternates agonizing stillness with raw, primal energy. Performed by Mike Ostroski,* California. About: Through movement, we witness Sexton’s inner self: “Grow a garden.” The idea hits Paul like a meteor a scared, fragile child encountering womanhood – and he’s off! He reads the books, sows the seeds, with confusion and bravery.” **** – Broadwaybaby. and before his first tomatoes ripen, embarks “I think you get to the heart of my mother. She on a crusade to save the planet, one precious would be very happy could she see the way that you seedling at a time. Saving himself, however, will are carrying on her work.” – Linda Gray Sexton. prove the harder battle. Co-Playwrights: Derek Director: Anna-Mari Laulumaa. Co‑director Davidson* and Mike Ostroski.* Director: Derek and Butoh coach: Vangeline. Original text: Anne Davidson.* Stage Manager: Erin Mizer. Sound Sexton. Adaptation: Anna-Mari Laulumaa. Stage Design: Matthew Nielson. Producer: Karen Manager: Jeff Davolt. Photo by Guido Sabo.* Photo by David Zaugh. (65 min.) Drama, Venitucci. (65 min.) Drama, tragedy, movement. comedy. Recommended for: theatre community, Recommended for: adults. environmentalists, gardeners. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (37) Hank Leaves Home Heroine Sat., Oct. 17 at 9:00pm Sat., Oct. 10 at 4:00pm

Written and Performed by Erik Heger,* New Performed by Mary Jane Wells, United Kingdom. York. About: Hank is a homeless, harp-playing About: It takes grit to be the only woman in tramp obsessed with Shahrukh Khan, spaghetti the entire platoon. It takes courage to lead your westerns, and the lady in the front row. Featuring squad into combat, when your assailant is within. harp music and physical comedy, it’s the most And it takes heroism to finally talk about it. important theatrical event to take place on planet Speaking out for the first time feels like the most earth since October 28th, 1958. It will change your dangerous way to come home. Based on a true life... mostly for the better. Director: Leslie Felbain. story. This show contains triggers. Director: Susan (90 min.) Comedy, tragedy, storytelling, improv, Worsfold. Story: Danna Davis. Photo by Hayley music, concert, multi-media. Recommended for: Williams and Karen Kiefer. (100 min.) Drama, all audiences. storytelling, puppetry. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community. FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO Houdini Wed., Nov. 4 at 7:30pm He Left in the Middle of the Night Written and Performed by Tom Frueh***, New Sun., Oct. 11 at 7:30pm York. About: Follow the legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini as he embarks on his Performed by Sandy Simona, New York. About: farewell tour, unnerved by a premonition that Misha Levitan was taken away in the middle of he may never return home. Time–travel to some the night from his home in Lvov, Ukraine. He, like of the momentous events in his life, including many citizens, was sent to a jail-like camp, prison his “naked escape” from a Washington, D.C. time sentence was unknown, in an undisclosed jail, his painful confrontation with spiritualism territory. Leaving his twenty-eight year old wife, – and the greatest challenge he would ever face. Lina, behind — with two sons for what would Music Director & Accompanist: Christopher be most of her life. Misha is a grandfather I never Piro. Photo by Johan Renvall. (60 min.) Musical. met. He is from the history blood pool that created Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, me. A mysterious man, in photographs, with kind, theatre community, LGBTQ community. dark eyes, beaming from his soul. Secret, hidden, unknown. Director: Marina McClure. Lighting ADDED SHOW DATES Design: Shelly Rodriguez. Photo by Sandy Simona. (60 min.) Drama, comedy, tragedy, storytelling, LISTED AT dance, movement, poetry, music, puppetry, magic, WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG multi-media. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, Eastern Europeans, Latino/ Hispanic, Jewish, immigrant community. How I Brought Peace to the Middle East: A tragicomedy The Heart of a Gypsy Fri., Nov. 13 at 9:00pm Troubadour Sun., Oct. 11 at 2:00pm Written and Performed by David Kaye, Vermont. About: David Kaye is a man on a mission. In Performed by Richard Byford, United Kingdom. 2011 he packed up his wife and two young About: Richard Byford, actor, singer, and daughters and headed to Israel intent on achieving songwriter has distilled his many adventures across the unachievable: Peace in the Middle East. With Europe and America, his battle with cancer, and rockets flying and his family kvetching, you will the motley crew of characters he has encountered see the true story of a man’s optimism put to over the years into a solo performance like no the ultimate test. Kaye will take you along his many other. His original songs are a highlight of this misadventures from Vermont to the Holy Land. heartfelt and very personal look at a life well-lived. Director: Jeffery Kinghorn.* Producer: Stephanie Director: Lindsay Wagner. (78 min.) Storytelling, Nuggent.* (90 min.) Comedy. Recommended poetry, music. Recommended for: all audiences. for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (39) How to Be a Good Mom…When I am Hope You’ve Got a Schizophrenic Wed., Sep. 23 at 3:30pm Mother for a Role Model Fri., Nov. 20 at 7:30pm Written and Performed by Pamela Meek, Written and Performed by Mia Raye Smith, Maryland. About: In this witty, funny and New York. About: Mia can be anybody she wants dramatic tale, Pamela Meek provides answers: Will to be without a drink in her hand. Her soul is as she be schizo like her Mom? Yikes! Marry and have old as Detroit’s Motown records. Mia was revving a child? If she did, would she do unto her kid as was up to travel the world, until it became the size done unto her? What if her child becomes schizo? of her studio apartment. Can she overcome her Whoa! Can she forgive her mother? “Riveting,” biggest fear that grandpa can’t help her shake? “Powerful, “A story of courage, persistence, strength Director: Mary Catherine Donnelly.* (60 min.) and love.” Director: Lynnie Raybuck.* (47 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, Comedy, tragedy, storytelling, performance art. adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ Recommended for: adults, theatre community, community, mental health community. parents, mental health professionals. I AM THE GENTRY ADDED SHOW DATES AT Tue., Sep. 29 at 9:00pm WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG

How to Draw a Nekkid Man Written and Performed by Cara Gabriel, Sun., Oct. 18 at 2:00pm Maryland. About: A witty, unabashedly honest performance that traces one woman’s life as she recognizes her role in the gentrification of her Washington, D.C. neighborhood. A hilarious, Written and Performed by Tricia Rose Burt, provocative deconstruction of racial and New Hampshire. About: Burt – a frequent socioeconomic stereotypes that shrewdly explores guest storyteller with The Moth – chronicles her the nature of community in a transitional bumpy, fascinating trip from Southern belle to neighborhood. Cara Gabriel implicates herself contemporary artist, while battling social propriety as an agent of change, for better or worse. and corporate America. Along the way she captures Director: Katie Ryan. Associate Director: Chelsea a nekkid man’s essence, finds compassion for Thaler. (90 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling. a homewrecker named Pigface, and is stalked by Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, God. (2011 FringeNYC Encore Series as I Will theatre community, LGBTQ community ethnic Be Good.) Director: Mia Rovegno. Photo by Liz community (African American, Hispanic). Linder. (85 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO LGBTQ community, Southerners, women, artists. I AM ENOUGH I’mma Do Me Wed., Oct. 14 at 9:00pm Fri., Oct. 9 at 6:00pm

Performed by Pandora Scooter, New Jersey. Written and Performed by April Dae Rochon, About: Come see what thousands of youth Michigan. About: It’s big, it’s bad, it’s ugly, and across the nation have been lucky enough to see, it’s generally ignored – poverty in America. This an honest, unsentimental, powerful look at suicide. comedic drama follows one girl on her rise from “I AM ENOUGH” written and performed by poverty, confronting her self-preservation mentality spoken word rock star Pandora Scooter follows along the way. With colorful characters and lively the story of Pan as she struggles with rejection dialogue, it explores the humor, heartache, and from her parents and friends for being different just who’s responsible for addressing America’s and being gay. Eventually attempting suicide and social crisis. Technical Director: Lumumba ending up in a mental hospital, where she figures Reynolds. Stage Manager: Olivia out she wants to live, thrive, and that she is enough. Hartle. Production Manager: Stephen Director: Cedric Hill.** Stage Manager: Danielle Sawyers. Marketing Director: Christen Rochon. Cooper. (70 min.) Poetry. Recommended for: Photo by Samir Abady. (47 min.) Drama, comedy, teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, storytelling, improv, musical, multi-media. LGBTQ community. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (41) In My Own X-Rated It’s About Time Words Sat., Sep. 19 at 2:00pm Sat., Oct. 31 at 7:30pm Mon., Nov. 2 at 6:00pm Performed by Pam Levin, California. About: Written and Performed by Steve Belanger, New Think Sarah Silverman mixed with Chelsea York. About: From his ill-timed birth, through Handler and a splash of Andrew Dice Clay. his awkward adolescent phase, to a series of Coming from a SOLD OUT 10 week run in disastrous jobs, Steve has survived decades of bad Los Angeles. Pam Levin performs Fredde Duke’s timing. He even endured a comically calamitous hilariously raunchy, autobiographical story that career at the world’s most notorious magazine. recounts her sexual escapades in the 1970s. From Despite a lifetime of miserable miscues, this tale her public lawn schtup, to being totally desensitized has a happy ending. Director: Richard Kline.* by the overuse of her Hitachi vibrator. Playwright Photo by Timothy Devine. (75 min.) Comedy, & Director: Fredrica Duke. (65 min.) Comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: adults. storytelling. Recommended for: adults, theatre community. In the Storm of Pleasure Thu., Sep. 24 at 7:30pm FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO YOUTUBE.COM/UNITEDSOLO Performed by Daniel Benhamu, New York. About: An autobiographical solo performance that tells the story of an uncomfortable journey to emotional awakening through a lifetime of unfortunate sexual experiences. Director: Zisan Ugurlu. Stage Manager: Lisa Brenner. (45 min.) It’s Later Than I Think Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Storytelling, Movement. Mon., Nov. 2 at 7:30pm Recommended for: ethnic community (Hispanic). Sat., Nov. 7 at 4:00pm

Written and Performed by Shaun O’Hagan, New York. About: A story about a good son giving up a great parking spot to drive to an event in ADDED SHOW DATES Brooklyn for his father. Along the way he meets an ex‑girlfriend, a former bully and five NYC Mayors. ARE LISTED AT He also discovers the meaning of life, unlocks WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG the secrets of the universe and beer! Lighting Design: Graig Guggenheim. Photo by Kevin Parise. (50 min.) Storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. It’s Magic Time! Wed., Oct. 7 at 7:30pm Inheritance Sat., Oct. 17 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by Andrew Trimmer, Ohio. About: Come take a journey and experience Written and Performed by Jessica Wanamaker, amazement, wonder, excitement… and spaghetti New York. About: An exploration of four and meatballs that are truly to die for. Oh, generations of women and how each generation’s and there’ll be some magic tri… illusions too! choices impact the next. One woman’s choices Explore the story of a young, hopeful magician repeat in the life of her great granddaughter — and his struggle with balancing the dream of how does she break the cycle? Director: Brad becoming the best illusionist since Jean Provost Raimondo. Stage Manager: Thomas Preece. and brutal realities of life. Director: Shilarna (45 min.) Drama, storytelling. Recommended Stokes. Movement Specialist: Jeanine Thompson. for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, (30 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, magic. ethnic community (Irish), women. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (43) Jazz and Cocktails Kaspar Hauser: The Open Fri., Sep. 18 at 7:30pm Secret of the Foundling Prince Sat., Oct. 24 at 4:00pm

Written and Performed by Kristin Roderick, Performed by Glen Williamson,* New York. New York. About: Through alcohol-themed jazz About: A boy, locked in the dark alone for years, standards, we chronicle the romantic highs and appeared on the streets of Nuremburg in 1828, lows of our writer/performer. Boozy jazz songs, barely able to stand, walk or speak. A true story stories of creepy Casanovas and drunken mishaps and a supernatural journey through darkness to converge for the perfect cocktail of comedy and light. “An enchanting tale… no one could escape cabaret. Come join us for a night that will leave you the intensity of this performance.” – Frankische shaken and stirred with laughter. Director: Justin Landeszeitung. Playwright: Glen Williamson. Stoney.* (60 min.) Musical. Recommended for: Photo by Robb Creese. (120 min.) Drama, teenagers, adults, theatre community, LGBTQ storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. community.

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Jellybean The Kreutzer Sonata Sun., Sep. 20 at 2:00pm Wed., Nov. 4 at 9:00pm

Performed by Lee Harrington,* Arkansas. Performed by Robert Scott Smith,* Utah. About: About: Please join Lee as she chronicles her time A cautionary tale of rage, revenge and remorse. growing up in and around the Natural State of A new adaptation of Tolstoy’s harrowing exploration Arkansas as she explored sewing machines, flutes, of the mind of a murderer, a man driven mad cancer treatment centers, Bill Clinton, and doggie by Beethoven. From Plan-B Theatre Company doors. Through a learned sense of humor, she in Salt Lake City, UT, winner of Best Drama at recounts the hilarious, bizarre and sometimes United Solo in 2013 for ERIC(A). Director: Jerry painful memories of what it was like growing up Rapier.** Playwright: Eric Samuelsen.*** with Jellybean. Director: Daniel Jenkins.* Stage (40 min.) Drama, tragedy, storytelling, music. Manager: Dylan Wallach.* Photo by Dirty Sugar Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, Photography. (75 min.) Comedy, storytelling. theatre community, LGBTQ community, classical Recommended for: all audiences. music lovers. La Adelita Americana FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO Sat., Oct. 31 at 6:00pm TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO

Jeremiah’s Tuesday Performed by Amanda Arbues, California. About: Wed., Oct. 21 at 7:30pm Antonio Gomez, a fourteen-year-old Mexican- American boy is arrested in Thorndale, TX in 1911. His sister, Adelita, fiercely fights to free him. But will she free him before it’s too late? And what Performed by Steven Kennedy, Australia. About: happens to this Hispanic icon when a modern Power corrupts. This postmodern, poetic, black society gets a hold of her? Will she remain grotesque monodrama explores dictatorship with the symbol of motivation, hope, and women metaphysical satire. Creator of his own political, fighting for their rights? Director: Katherine social, military and religious system, Jeremiah’s Hoevers. Scenic Design: Amy Ramirez. Lighting international “totalitarian democracy” has crumbled Design: Jayne Dutra. Projections Design: Dayne and he is in hiding, post-revolution. He patiently Donnell & Katherine Hoevers. Sound Design: Iris awaits his executioners as the entire planet floods. Zacarias. Stage Manager: Trixie Eunhae Hong. Director & Playwright: Stefan Mrowinski. Sound (60 min.) Drama, tragedy, storytelling, multi- Design: Matt Blackwell. (60 min.) Drama, tragedy. media. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, community, LGBTQ community. ethnic community (Hispanic). unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (45) La Voix Perdue Letters to Zoey Sun., Oct. 4 at 6:00pm Sat., Oct. 17 at 2:00pm

Performed by Bridget Hogan, Canada. Written and Performed by Garrett Buhl About: Our soprano reminisces about poverty, Robinson, New York. About: In the middle of dysfunction, and the great artistic heights where the night, Weldon Keyes jumps on a coal train and she performed on glamorous world stages with leaps into his rite of passage. Wandering through resounding orchestras, sumptuous theatrical sets, the country, he composes letters and songs to his and tales of love, triumph, tragedy, and poignant friend Zoey. Through his travels, he realizes what he deaths. Later, she backpacked solo across India felt was lacking in his life and what he desperately to Calcutta’s House of the Dying. Now her voice seeks to find, is what he left behind. (75 min.) falters. She lives the irony of her own muted Musical. Recommended for: all audiences. tragedy. Director: Peter Skoggard. Conductor & Pianist: Charles Prestinari. Stage Manager: Jenny A Little Drama Lazer. Videographer: Trish Dalton. (49 min.) Tue., Nov. 17 at 9:00pm Music, classic. Recommended for: opera affectionados, human rights intersts, musical theater lovers, women’s right issues. Performed by Gaya Traub, Israel. About: A family’s FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO conflicts and moments of grace. An adolescent girl in a world of love, faith, dreams of happiness, and loneliness. Based on the author’s memories. First The last call. A micro-play prize at the Israel Monodrama Festival. Playwright from a story by Jean Cocteau & Director: Ron Ninio. (70 min.) Drama, Sat., Oct. 24 at 7:30pm storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences.

Performed by Alfredo Tauste, Spain. About: A victim of love waits for the call that will both give him life and take it away from him. The wait and hope, filled with desperation. (In)communication, the solitude of big cities, the option of living a lie, and the addictions that create emotional ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES dependency. One everyday phone call in which LISTED ONLINE AT what isn’t said is as important as what you hear. A tribute to everyone who is alone in NYC. WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Director: Rafael Abolafia. (45 min.) Drama, movement, performance art. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – retold by Jonathan Kruk LOUISE IN Fri., Nov. 6 at 7:30pm CHARLESTOWN Sat., Sep. 26 at 6:00pm Performed by Jonathan Kruk, New York. About: An energetic retelling of Washington Irving’s classic by the story’s living master. The characters Performed by Mary Monahan, New York. About: are boldly portrayed with distinctive gestures, local A drama about racism and forgiveness in Boston accents, a touch of humor, and are accompanied during the turbulent era of forced integration. by a 19th century pump organ. This signature Twelve-year-old Patty, an Irish-American girl, performance embodies the author’s original gothic has a new best friend, Louise from Jamaica. Patty spirit and eloquent wit. The storyteller’s poetic adores Louise and ignores her family’s warnings persona and garb give this version of ‘The Legend’ against their friendship. Inevitably, violence occurs, a romantic edge. Director: Andrea Sadler. Musical and Patty must grapple with the aftermath decades Director: Jim Keyes. Set Design: Chris later. Director: Joan Kane.** Playwright: Penny Novak. (55 min.) Drama, storytelling, classic. Jackson.*** Stage Manager: Rae Rossi. (30 min.) Recommended for: all audiences. Drama. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (47) Love in Action Man’s Dominion Sun., Oct. 11 at 6:00pm Fri., Oct. 9 at 7:30pm

Performed by Pippa White,* Nebraska. About: Performed by Tim Powell, California. About: Three women decided healthcare wasn’t good In September 1916, the good people of Erwin, enough, so they took matters into their own hands TN lynched a circus elephant named Mary. and revolutionized the field. Florence Nightingale, The witnesses and participants of that sad event, Lillian Wald, and Margaret Sanger went into including Mary herself, provide food and fuel for the sweatshops, the tenements, the battlefields. the better angels of our nature. Director: Dennis This show explores what led them to their callings, Neal. Playwright: David Castro. Composer: Jim how they accomplished what they did in an era Furmston. Tech: Paul Major. (60 min.) Drama, unfriendly to women, and their incredible legacies. storytelling. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, (52 min.) Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, ethnic community (Jewish), nurses, health care workers, family planning.

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Written and Performed by Izad Etemadi, Canada. About: The agonizing tale of a Persian woman with unwanted facial hair and a larger-than-life nose searching for a Prince to sweep her away from her plastic surgery-obsessed parents. WARNING: Marília this show contains nuts! Photo by BeattyOei Thu., Nov. 5 at 9:00pm Photography. (60 min.) Comedy. Recommended Sun., Nov. 8 at 2:00pm for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, ethnic community (Middle Eastern). Written and Performed by Rogério M. Pinto, New York. About: Brazil, Carnaval. Three-year‑old Marília dies in an accident. Her ten-month-old brother Rogério lies unaware. As Rogério grows FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO up, Marília haunts him. Is he her replacement? TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO Was that why his father couldn’t tell if he was a boy or a girl? Today, Rogério will open Marília’s YOUTUBE.COM/UNITEDSOLO grave. What remains will be disinterred, along with feelings and secrets the family has buried for decades. (80 min.) Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, LGBTQ community, ethnic The Man Inside community (Brazilian). Thu., Nov. 19 at 7:30pm Marilyn-After Sat., Oct. 3 at 4:00pm Written and Performed by Patrick Wiabel, Colorado. About: Ransom a born n’ bred criminal turned dancer considers the possibility of Written and Performed by Nonnie Griffin, martyrdom as means of escaping his future of death Canada. About: Marilyn Monroe comes back from in vain. Trapped by his brother’s plot to frame him the dead as an octogenarian to tell us about her for the murder of his best friend, Ransom holds off life, her loves and her untimely death. Performed familiar foes with memories of events past, hopes by 81-year-old Canadian iconic actress Nonnie of a savior, and optimistic dreams of a life without Griffin. Director: Peggy Mahon. Producer: Darren rivalry. (35 min.) Drama, tragedy, movement, Stewart-Jones. Photo by Yuri Dojc. (90 min.) poetry, performance art. Recommended for: Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community. elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (49) Mark Twain Turns 70, Mimi’s Suitcase Words & Songs Sun., Nov. 15 at 4:00pm Sun., Sep. 20 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by Rod Rawlings, Performed by Ana Bayat, California. About: Florida. About: Morose over reaching his 70th A universal story of displacement, resilience and birthday in 1905, the most conspicuous person on humanity. Raw, authentic and vibrant, the story the planet thinks he’ll hide away with a good book. centers around life in Iran, Spain and England, But his daughters arrange a surprise party. Finding making it a one-of-a-kind show performed in more his parlor full of friends, Twain quickly decides to than three languages. Director: Alfonso Lopez entertain as a way to cast off his gloom. Through Urbina. Stage Manager: Ivette Carolina Agudelo. story and song, he explores a reconciliation to (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, movement, old age. Director: Robert D’Angelo. (70 min.) multi-media. Recommended for: teenagers, Comedy, storytelling, music. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ all audiences. community, ethnic community (Iranian, Persian, Spanish-speaking, British), anyone interested in Me, Myself, and Rita languages, cultures and immigration. Tue., Nov. 3 at 7:30pm WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG

Written and Performed by Almog Pail, Israel. About: An unconventional dialogue about The Miracle Hollywood glamour girl Rita Hayworth’s life and struggle with Alzheimer’s. A demented diva’s of Long Johns post-stardom life confronts her on-screen image. Fri., Oct. 23 at 9:00pm Characters from her past come to life…dance partner Fred Astaire, scandalous lover Orson Written and Performed by David Lefkowitz, Welles, and most importantly – herself. She Colorado. About: “Half of my life I have spent recruits the audience to help patch her puzzled as a New York City theater critic. Yes, I’ve had memory. (50 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, nights of magic. Yes, I’ve had nights of agony. movement, music, multi-media. Recommended And most of all, thousands of nights in between. for: all audiences. But I’d like to share the details of one particular evening: the most embarrassing, uncomfortable, humiliating night of my life. And that’s saying something.” Director: David Lefkowitz. Photo by ADDED DATES LISTED ONLINE J. Weil. (75 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (Jewish), people who love theater, people who hate critics. The Mermaid Who Learned How to Fly MOTSWANA: Wed., Nov. 18 at 3:30pm Africa Dream Again. Mon., Nov. 16 at 7:30pm Written and Performed by Kyla Garcia,* New Jersey. About: Part personal story/part fairytale, Performed by Donald Molosi, Botswana. this piece is a deep exploration of what happens About: MOTSWANA simply means “citizen when we allow romantic love to be the ground of Botswana.” The Republic of Botswana is one we stand upon instead of our dreams. Caught of Africa’s wealthiest countries. This intimate between two lovers like a mermaid torn between mutilingual show satirically questions who exactly land & sea, Victoria’s journey will take you into can claim to be a Motswana. What unexpected the depths of forgetting who you are & the heights revelations pring up once we acknowledge that of remembering. Director: Jessica Lynn African borders were drawn as a fiction fabricated Johnson. Producer: Alex Perez.* Tech: Peter King to serve European greed? Is “Motswana” perhaps and Anthony Gusevich. Photo by Casey Leigh. a misnomer given the migratory nature of African (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, dance, peoples before borders? Photo by Yobe Shonga poetry. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, & Oarabile Tome. (30 min.) Drama, comedy, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. Storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (51) Move on the Cha-Cha’s Namely Muscles Mon., Oct. 19 at 7:30pm Tue., Nov. 10 at 9:00pm Sun., Oct. 25 at 7:30pm Mon., Oct. 26 at 6:00pm Written and Performed by Diane Ripstein, Written and Performed by Claire Porter, New Massachusetts. About: From ballet to bop, with Jersey. About: A zany tribute to all the muscles of a dash of midlife salsa dating, this poignant show the body and then some. Dr. Nickie Nom, acclaimed depicts a life lived and danced. Love, loss, and anatomical forensic surgical specialist and poet, gives laughter intermingle on the journey from age a reading from her book of poems, Namely Muscles. 5 to 55. Our intrepid host and guide, The Bubbe, The reading goes hilariously awry as Dr. Nom finds leads a parade of unique characters as she reveals the herself entangled by “Psoas, The Tender Bender,” secret to aging gracefully: you gotta keep moving. “Gluteus to My Ears,” “Just the Meat,” and many To life! Director: Meghan Mueller. (50 min.) more. Playwright: Claire Porter. Photo by Eleanora Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, Alberto. (65 min.) Comedy, Dance, Movement, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community Poetry, Performance Art. Recommended for: (Jewish), dance community, singles community. adults, theatre community, yoga lovers.

Mud Blood Baby NO VACANCY Sat., Oct. 3 at 2:00pm Sat., Oct. 31 at 9:00pm

Written and Performed by Joel Richards,* North Written and Performed by Clea Straus Rivera,* Carolina. About: A pitiable outcast, too unloved to New York. About: Betty Lou Gerber, eccentric even be given a name, is seduced by an unexpected proprietress of the Weeping Willow Inn, sashays evil. Trapped by love, she pays the ultimate price through her fantasies, while living a lonely reality. to keep her baby alive. As the child grows, she See the puzzle pieces of her life, her memories, and shields him from the world, but can she hide what the dreams that allow her to survive and ultimately she has become? If he discovers the truth, can triumph over her limitations in a small Southern they both be redeemed? (70 min.) Storytelling. town that doesn’t understand her. Director: Sara Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre Berg.* Stage Manager: Paul Kim. Photo by Bruce community. Fuller. (75 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, theatre community.

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My Insane Shakespeare Thu., Nov. 12 at 9:00pm Written and Performed by Donna Creighton, Canada. About: Northern Daughter: Canadiana drama that delivers an emotional wallop; you’ll laugh, then find yourself on the edge of tears. Written and Performed by Arthur Elbakyan, Creighton brilliantly and powerfully portrays California. About: After finding himself in rough-around-the-edges bushmen, genteel and a mental hospital against his will, an actor, explores wise women, and a child on the edge of innocence. life, love, hatred and betrayal, and realizes that This one-woman show is riveting. The original the line between insanity and sanity has long been songs accompanied by guitar are a real treat. Enjoy erased. By drawing parallels between modern–day this deeply moving and entertaining experience. life and the days of Shakespeare, he discovers that Director & Co-Playwright: Louise Fagan. Stage relationships and values haven’t changed at all. Manager: Krisanne Nunes. Technical Director Director: Arthur Elbakyan. Producer: Arthur and Sound Design: Andrew Mawdsley. Lighting Elbakyan. Stage Design: Arthur Elbakyan. Co- Design: Karen Crichton. Set Design: Eric Producer: Meri Elbakyan. Translator: Meri Bunnell. Costume Design: Julie McGill Elbakyan. (90 min.) Drama, comedy, tragedy, MacArthur. Photo by Tina Capalbo & Cairenn storytelling, stand-up, improv, poetry, music, Russelo. (60 min.) Drama, music. Recommended classic. Recommended for: all audiences. for: adults, theatre community. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (53) Oh My Goddess! A Comedy oranges of Biblical Proportions Wed., Sep. 30 at 3:30pm Fri., Sep. 18 at 9:00pm

Written and Performed by Sherry Glaser,* New Written and Performed by Catherine Dupont,* York. About: Miguel De Cervantes laments his California. About: A young woman finds identity servile position in life only to be chosen as the vessel through faith, love, passion, and what she knows. for the Second coming of the Great Jewish Mother Inspired by the questions she grapples with of us all, Ma. Miguel shares his comic adventures daily, she contemplates human desires through with psychics, colon hydrotherapy, and falling in her struggle to find raw and ultimate presence. love with himself preparing for Ma’s arrival. Ma Photo by Chandler Grills. (45 min.) Drama, returns to earth to tell her side of the creation story. comedy, tragedy, storytelling. Recommended for: Photo by Sherri Carroll. (105 min.) Comedy. teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, ethnic Out of Focus community (Jewish, Hispanic). Sun., Nov. 8 at 4:00pm

CHECK WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Written and Performed by Geralyn Cassidy, New York. About: A New York actor works the background and speaks without speaking. Oh Sarah! This clever, understated comedy takes us on Sun., Oct. 4 at 7:30pm a personalized tour through the world of film and television from the perspective of Happy Ness, an intelligent, slightly neurotic woman who tries to make sense of her role as an extra. Director: George Performed by Edith Acker, Canada. About: Based Bartenieff.* Art Director: Nikolai Shorr. Stage on the life of Sarah Bernhardt, the great French Manager: Yangdi Li. (80 min.) Comedy. actress of the late 19th/early 20th century. In Recommended for: all audiences. the solitude of her Paris apartment, during her final days, she relives the private and public moments of her life by writing her memoirs. Through Sarah’s eyes, we see the Paris of her childhood, her ADDITIONAL DATES triumphs, her loves, her secret vulnerabilities. We glimpse the human being who rose to international FOR SOLD-OUT SHOWS fame and became a goddess – the immortal ARE LISTED ONLINE Sarah Bernhardt. Director: Mario Tenorio. Stage Manager: Nadia Tenorio. (60 min.) Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. PANSY One Funny Mother: Wed., Oct. 14 at 7:30pm I’m Not Crazy!! Sat., Sep. 26 at 9:00pm Performed by Evan Lewis Johnson, California. Written and Performed by Dena Blizzard, New About: Michael Darling discovers a time capsule Jersey. About: A comedy about “losing it” after in his basement containing VHS tapes, clothes, having kids. Most women want to hide their “crazy” and old party fliers. As Michael digs through from the world. This show encourages women the ephemera, parallels begin to emerge between to share their stories so the rest of us feel normal! his life and that of the box’s owner, 90’s gay club Through stories, videos and standup, you’ll laugh kid Peter Pansy. PANSY builds a bridge between your way through the true story of Dena Blizzard’s today’s young, queer San Franciscans and the AIDS journey from Miss America to Motherhood. crisis years. Director: Ben Randle. Production (90 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: adults, Manager: Megan Murray. Photo by Cabure theatre community, LGBTQ community, ethnic Bonugli. (60 min.) Drama, multi-media, community (Italian), parents, grandparents, and performance art. Recommended for: teenagers, people who like wine. adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (55) Panther Hollow Pieces of Me Wed., Nov. 11 at 3:30pm Fri., Oct. 30 at 7:30pm

Written and Performed by David Lee White,*/*** Written and Performed by Mykel,* New Jersey. New Jersey. About: David Lee White found a dead About: A musical journey of “oh shit” moments, guy hanging from a tree in Panther Hollow when and how one man powerfully dealt with what life he was 25. He spent the next year finding solace in threw his way – 35 different roommates in a one- therapists, psychiatrists, psychotropic drugs, Tom bedroom railroad apartment, and an assault that Stoppard, skinheads, Satanists, Elizabeth Wurtzel, nearly killed him. A story of laughter, life and and a CD of Nordic death metal. Also, there was ultimate triumph. Director: Robert Micheli. a second dead guy. (80 min.) Comedy, storytelling. (55 min.) Comedy, tragedy, storytelling, music. Recommended for: teenagers, adults. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community.

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Performed by Robert Pemberton,* Massachusetts. About: Ever wonder what is running through the mind of that lecturer as you sit in the audience? The Particulars A middle-aged man steps back from the podium Tue., Sep. 22 at 9:00pm to describe his recent breakdown and relentless search for “the girl with the vacant eyes.” A story of a romantic quest, madness, and redemption. (20 min.) Drama. Recommended for: adults. Performed by Simon Bracken, Canada. About: One insomniac’s struggle to maintain a daily routine born of emotional denial in the face of a home invasion. By day, Gordon forges systematically ahead, assiduously in control of every aspect of his life. But by night, the scratching which he has begun to hear in his walls is unravelling ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES him, driving Gordon to the edge of cosmic desperation. Playwright & Director: Matthew LISTED ONLINE AT MacKenzie. Choreographer: Monica Dottor. WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Photo by Jonathan Bartlett. (75 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: adults.

Perch Sat., Sep. 26 at 7:30pm Mon., Sep. 28 at 6:00pm Race Free Fri., Oct. 2 at 7:30pm Performed by Brian Carbee, Australia. About: A strange man in an owl costume watches over a sleeping woman. As the night unfolds, his imagination launches into wild flight, revealing Written and Performed by Maria Mukuka, a shared past and an old betrayal. Was their first date Zambia. About: A candid tale of living life “in- many years ago just a disaster or did something more between.” Providing us with glimpses into her sinister occur? Perch is psychologically thrilling, fantastical childhood somewhere in Sub-Saharan darkly humorous, and poignant. Director: Sarah Africa, Maria explores her bi-racial, bi-cultural Carradine. Playwrights: Sarah Carradine & Brian identity in the context of New York’s seemingly Carbee. Design: Julie Nelson. Composer: Lachlan pluralistic culture. Director: Zishan Ugurlu. Bostock. Photo by Katie Sorenson. (50 min.) Photo by Pia Gromotka & Sophia Jose. (40 min.) Movement. Recommended for: adults, LGBTQ Drama, storytelling. Recommended for: all community. audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (57) RACHEL CALOF: A MEMOIR WITH MUSIC A Resume For Sun., Nov. 15 at 7:30pm Mon., Nov. 16 at 9:00pm Immortality Wed., Nov. 18 at 9:00pm Sun., Sep. 27 at 4:00pm Sat., Nov. 21 at 2:00pm Performed by Kate Fuglei,* California. About: Written and Performed by Gary Ketzenbarger, North Dakota, 1894. A 12 X 14 foot shack Colorado. About: Everyone has heard at the edge of the prairie. The true story of the expression, “A river runs through it.” In Rachel Calof, a mail order bride from Russia, “A Resume for Immortality” it’s Taiji that runs who forged a life through bitter winters and through it: Taiji as an embodiment of Taoism in glorious summers. Funny, touching, and filled action, which is celebrated in this piece as a way of with a soaring original score, RACHEL CALOF life. Of course, the actual life depicted is the author’s takes us into a world populated by intense own, but that’s only to illustrate the redemptive challenges and sparkling delights. Director: Ellen value of Taiji itself. Director: Brad Moore. Photo by S. Pressman. Adaptation: Ken LaZebnik. Music Joseph Gamble. (90 min.) Storytelling, movement. and Lyrics: Leslie Steinweiss. Pianist: Ross Kalling. Recommended for: all audiences. (75 min.) Drama, musical. Recommended for: all audiences. Recollection of Innocence CHECK Tue., Oct. 20 at 7:30pm WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG FOR ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES Written and Performed by Guy Kaplunik, Israel. About: My training began before I knew it. I’ve been cultivating the soldier in me from early childhood until eventually I served as a military officer. Awakened, I am now forced to confront moral questions while dealing with A Revolution of Her Own! extreme military experiences engraved on my soul. Deborah Samson Gannett (60 min.) Drama. Recommended for: adults, Sat., Oct. 3 at 6:00pm elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community. Written and Performed by Judith Kalaora, Massachusetts. About: The captivating story of the first woman to fight in the American Military. FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO In 1782, Deborah bound her chest, tied back her hair, and enlisted in the Continental Army. TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO Experience her arduous upbringing, active combat, and success as the first female professional soldier. Deborah’s passion takes you back in time! Photo by NewTV’s The Folklorist. (45 min.) Drama. Recommended for: all audiences. RED FLAGS Fri., Nov. 13 at 6:00pm Rhonda Badonda Wed., Oct. 7 at 9:00pm Thu., Oct. 29 at 9:00pm Written and Performed by Susan Gordon-Clark,* Mississippi. About: A hair-raising true story that Performed by Rhonda Musak,* Illinois. About: helps us understand why and how Susan fell in love “Rhonda Badonda: The Adventures of a Girl with and married an abusive man. From Aunt Bette, a Pain in Her Brain.” She squeaks by with self-help officer Rodriguez, to members of her support books and coaches. Is she dumb? Why can’t she group, we learn why she believed his lies, doubted function normally in the world? When a mysterious herself, eroded self-esteem, gave up control of her pain dismantles her coping strategies, Rhonda life, alienated friends and family, then eventually Badonda embarks on a journey that leads her to lost her dream of perfect love. Director: Gretchen the Paris Opera, Mozart, and the ultimate face- Cryer.* (65 min.) Drama. Recommended for: off… with her brain. Director: Gareth Hendee. adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ (75 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: community. adults. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (59) Rite to Exist Schachner Vs. Schachner Sun., Oct. 18 at 6:00pm Sat., Oct. 17 at 6:00pm

Written and Performed by Roni Alperin, Israel. Written and Performed by Abby Schachner, About: The play portrays the transmission of the California. About: You want a “sophisticated” Holocaust trauma into Roni’s family and follows black comedy with themes of family, identity, his journey to liberate himself from his internal and attempted homicide? Come see why Auschwitz and reclaim his right to exist. This this was the #1 audience-reviewed show gripping and inspirational drama courageously at the 2014 Hollywood Fringe. Tragic. Hilarious. delivers the story of “third generation trauma”— Heartbreaking. Feel the love! 87% Not Boring. the toxic effects of historical trauma on the family’s Director: Abby Schachner and J Warner. Technical legacy—while also delivering a universal message of Director: J Warner. (55 min.) Comedy, tragedy, healing and hope. Director: Armand Volkas. Stage storytelling, performance art. Recommended for: Manager: Jessica Engle. (45 min.) Drama. all audiences, ethnic community (Jewish). Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ Community, ethnic community (Jewish). ROGER (not his real name) ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES Fri., Oct. 30 at 6:00pm ARE LISTED ONLINE AT WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG Written and Performed by Matthew Vaky,* District of Columbia. About: A homeless man’s House of Cards, this show exposes a dangerously hilarious conspiracy that dates back to Columbus. Learn the truth behind the Hubble Telescope, the NSA, George Washington’s wooden teeth, and the real reason Dan Snyder won’t SCREAME change the name of the Redskins. Is Roger Sat., Nov. 7 at 6:00pm crazy or does he know something you don’t? Director: Gillian Drake. Stage Manager: Nathanael Vaky. Producer: Laura Kelsey Rhodes. (60 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: teenagers, Written and Performed by Nate A Speare, New adults, theatre community, political junkies, York. About: A NYC coming-of-age odyssey full mental healthcare workers, homeless advocates. of nostalgia, melancholy and humor. The city’s new monologist relives the story of working at FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO an Upper West Side gelato shop and questions the need to build a thicker skin in a world melting TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO with vulnerability. Director: Ana Cantoran. (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, stand­‑up. Sanctuary Recommended for: all audiences. Sun., Oct. 4 at 2:00pm She Gon’ Learn Thu., Oct. 1 at 6:00pm

Written and Performed by Susanne Sulby,* Pennsylvania. About: With writings ranging from Rumi’s poetry to a soldier’s email, this play tracks Written and Performed by Lisa Strum,* New the intransigence of war through history. One war is Jersey. About: With old school wisdom, her like another. Is it possible to stop the cycle? To find childhood, a string of bad dates, and a one night Sanctuary? “A powerful one-woman show… stand gone wrong with a smooth talking would be Sulby transported the audience.” – GoMagazine. ex-boyfriend, Lisa navigates her personal mishaps (70 min.) Drama, storytelling, movement, poetry, with poetry, comedy and poignancy on her journey multi-media, performance art. Recommended to discover self-love. Director: Ngozi Anyanwu.* for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, (40 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, poetry. veterans. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (61) Smoker Suburban Showgirl Fri., Oct. 16 at 9:00pm Tue., Nov. 17 at 7:30pm

Performed by Bob Brader,*** New York. Written and Performed by Palmer Davis,* About: From the creative team of “Spitting California. About: Locked in a bathroom In The Face Of The Devil” (United Solo Best 5 minutes before curtain, Wendy Walker asks Script 2010, Best Encore 2014) comes the world herself “How did I get here?” Fired from her dream premiere of award-winning monologist Bob job, a husband in jail, and a young daughter who Brader’s new solo show. “Smoker” is about Bob’s continues to confound her, drives this showgirl 28‑year love affair with smoking, his fear of to discover the magic to make “the show go on!” being without cigarettes and losing himself, and 20 colorful characters dance their way into your the love that got him to try to quit. Director and heart in this theatrical tour-de-force. Director: Cate Developer: Suzanne Bachner.*** Photography Caplin. Composer/Music Director/Pianist: Ross & Graphic Design: Michael Koch. Photo by Taylor Kalling. Stage Manager/Dramaturg: Gregory Hooper. (90 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling. Fuller. Lighting Design: Steven Pope. Photo by Recommended for: adults, theatre community, Marge Palmer. (65 min.) Comedy, dance, musical. smokers. Recommended for: all audiences.

Some of the Side Effects Susan Tierney Thu., Oct. 15 at 9:00pm Sun., Nov. 8 at 6:00pm

Performed by David Shaw, New York. About: Performed by Susan Tierney,* New York. About: This memory play and dark comedy is told from There were falls. Her father fell from the roof, she a 30-year-old’s perspective on his 16-year-old self fell in love, and there was the skydiving accident. — struggling to understand his depression, his She fell down an elevator shaft, fell from grace, parents’ divorce, and his time in a mental health the twin towers fell. With humor and candor, facility. Best Premiere at United Solo in 2014. Susan Tierney winds through her past. Despite all Director and Editor: Emily Lyon. (75 min.) that is crashing down, life matters. Director: Robert Drama, comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: Cucuzza.* (48 min.) Storytelling. Recommended teenagers, adults, theatre community. for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community.

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Stuff Performed by Willard Morgan,* New York. Sat., Sep. 26 at 2:00pm About: Willard Morgan, an incurable dandy, takes us on a musically comic journey through space, time, and his closet, as we see fashion as a weapon, a shield, a seduction, and finally, as an Written and Performed by John Feffer, Maryland. addiction to cheap rags that enslaves the Third About: A mother gives away her most cherished World and imperils the planet with lethal labor possessions and reveals her most closely guarded practices, just so we can all feel fabulous… secrets. Other real-life characters describe their Playwright & Composer: Willard Morgan. Art own stuff: a filled-to-bursting storage unit of train Direction & Costume Design: Uta Bekaia. Musical memorabilia, an art collection lost to the wrecking Arranger: John Sully. Videoscapes: Ayakamay ball, a Moscow meeting with Paul Robeson, Komatsu. Stage Manager: Berta Jottar. Production and a long-lost file box of knowledge. “Feffer is Assistant: Marie van Eersel. (45 min.) Comedy, a brilliant writer and performer” – Washington storytelling, dance, movement, music, musical, City Paper. Director: Natalia Gleason. Photo by concert, multi-media, performance art. Adwoa Masozi. (90 min.) Drama. Recommended Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, theatre community, LGBTQ community, garment LGBTQ community, ethnic community (Jewish). workers and fashionistas. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (63) TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK That’s What She Didn’t Say – On the Verge of Extinction Sun., Oct. 25 at 2:00pm Sun., Sep. 27 at 6:00pm

Written and Performed by Verna Gillis, New Written and Performed by Bonnie Joy Sludikoff, York. About: Best Comedic Script – 2014 California. About: “That’s What She Didn’t Say: United Solo, written and performed by Verna A True Story of Taboo, Redemption, & Musical Gillis, 73. A poignant, uproarious look at family, Theatre.” In musicals, “When emotions are too big relationships, addiction, peeing, aging, cancer, and to speak, you sing.” But what if you don’t think scones – as she takes audiences on a journey into you’re allowed to have feelings? TWSDS shares “Older!” Seventy is the new 70, and still sconed the journey of a girl with too many secrets to carry after all these years! Director: Eva Tenuto. Photo by in her purse, a desire to be free, and the tendency Ilene Cutler. (60 min.) Comedy. Recommended to say too much. Will she find the courage to say for: adults, elderly, theatre community. what matters? Director: Jessica Lynn Johnson. (75 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, poetry, musical, puppetry. Recommended for: anyone over 14 years old.

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Performed by Ann Starbuck,* California. About: A hilarious and heartbreaking true coming-of-age tale about living as a university student in China The Telegram in 1988-1989 and working for CNN during Sat., Sep. 19 at 7:30pm the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The story of China on the brink of change, from the voice of an old woman with bound feet to a heroic hunger striker. Today in China, there is an entire generation Performed by Ioan Ardelean, Romania. About: in the dark about the events of June 4, 1989 – it is An unemployed actor reconnects with an old forbidden to discuss. With the current Umbrella friend who is about to direct a major movie. Revolution in Hong Kong, this is as poignant a story The director tells him to go home and wait for today as it was 26 years ago. Director: Richard a telegram with travel instructions. An exploration Embardo. Producer: Julie Lawrence. Sound of the dreams of an unknown artist. Director: Joan Design: Jeff Gardner.* (75 min.) Drama, comedy, Kane.** Dramaturg & Stage Manager: Bruce A! storytelling. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, Kraemer. Composer: Cornel Sorian. (60 min.) elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ community, Drama, comedy. Recommended for: all audiences. ethnic community (Chinese).

That Wonder Boy Typhoon of Tenderness Fri., Oct. 30 at 9:00pm Sat., Oct. 24 at 2:00pm Sat., Oct. 31 at 2:00pm

Written and Performed by Bob Stromberg, Performed by Dennis McSorley, Vermont. About: Minnesota. About: An exploration of life and art Storyteller Dennis McSorley returns to United through the eyes of a youngster who “overcame Solo with his new work. After his debut work a happy childhood to become a comedic artist.” “Who Made Me” premiered here in 2013 and This captivating tale begins with a flying baby received audience acclaim, now he adds to his story. and soars on a creative flight of laughter, joy “Typhoon” traces a life from brightness and success and wonder. Stromberg has been called “a cross to despair and darkness. Dennis will take you on between Bob Newhart and Garrison Keillor.” a journey he knows all too well. Musician John Laugh-out-loud funny and moving. Director: Risa Gagne adds a sound score to the work adding his Brainin.** (100 min.) Comedy. Recommended talent to the mood and emotions traced. (70 min.) for: all audiences. Drama, storytelling, music. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (65) Uncle Philip’s Coat VIE Sat., Oct. 10 at 9:00pm Fri., Nov. 6 at 9:00pm

Performed by Matty Selman, New York. About: Performed by Michael Capozzi, Italy. About: A young man inherits a tattered coat from his Are you witnessing your life or living it? A silent Uncle Philip, a Coney Island peddler who survived comedy show, which will make you laugh and a pogrom. What begins as the young man’s journey reflect on the beauty of imperfection. Tragedy, to rid himself of the decrepit garment ends up in comedy…a silent elegy of 75 minutes to life and revelations about his family’s history. He finds new laugh with the versatile italian actor Michael Capozzi. meaning in his own life as the old coat becomes Director: Milo&Olivia. Playwright: Michael the sacred coat of dreamers. Director: David Capozzi and Milo Scotton. Photo by Luca Ortolani. Spital. Lighting Design: Mike Wood. Photo by (75 min.) Drama, multi-media. Recommended David Spital. (75 min.) Drama. Recommended for: all audiences. for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, ethnic community (Jewish). Waiting for What? Wed., Nov. 11 at 7:30pm The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance Performed by Joosje Duk, The Netherlands. Fri., Nov. 13 at 7:30pm About: A little girl finds herself stuck in an Written and Performed by Raphael Xavier, indefinable space, somewhere in the waiting room Delaware. About: A strange mix of smartly employed between life and death, waiting for her film of life theatrical gimmicks, casual street dancing, modern to begin. While waiting, she looks back on her life dance sentimentality, and a more formal iteration experiences and realizes she doesn’t need to hold of hip-hop. It’s a fusion of vocal and visual cues back on any thoughts or mind spins anymore, that are more complex than at first they seem with and although those thoughts might be somewhat bold and sophisticated choices. The chaos is utterly controversial and ‘not done,’ they are mostly just controlled. Photo by Steven Gunther. (30 min.) revealing and recognizable. Director: Lily van Comedy, dance, movement, poetry. Recommended Leeuwen. (15 min.) Comedy. Recommended for: for: teenagers, adults, theatre community. all audiences.

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Upstream Swimming WALKING TOWARD AMERICA Wed., Oct. 7 at 3:30pm Thu., Sep. 24 at 9:00pm Sat., Sep. 26 at 4:00pm Mon., Oct. 12 at 7:30pm Sun., Sep. 27 at 7:30pm Fri., Oct. 16 at 6:00pm Thu., Oct. 1 at 9:00pm Sat., Oct. 17 at 4:00pm Written and Performed by Lindsey Steinert, Performed by Annie Montgomery,* New York. New York. About: A lighthearted, thought- About: This true story of courage, loss, provoking comedy that explores same-sex and triumph—witnessed by a 10-year-old parenting through the unique perspective child—chronicles an ordinary Latvian family’s of a girl who just happens to have two extraordinary World War II experiences enduring gay dads. Join Lindsey as she recounts her a labor camp, a 500-mile trek across Germany in unconventional upbringing, and the events that the dead of winter, and a storm-plagued voyage shaped her into a freethinking (and speaking!), to the USA in search of safety and freedom. highly opinionated young woman, navigating Director: David Montgomery. Playwright: Sandra sometimes-choppy waters. Director: Paul Fenichel Asher.*** Stage Manager: Logan Morris. Associate Director: Cassandra Kovach.* Photo by Kate Burton. (75 min.) Lewis. (60 min.) Comedy, storytelling. Drama. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, elderly, ethnic community (Latvian), immigrants, theatre community, LGBTQ community. Holocaust survivors, scholars. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (67) Ways We Disappoint Wolf Red Our Parents Sun., Nov. 8 at 7:30pm Sat., Oct. 10 at 7:30pm

Performed by Ann Marie Yoo, New York. Performed by Elinor Randle, United Kingdom. About: Ann Marie and Katherine hold degrees About: Deep in the woods, a woman is held from prestigious universities yet both have failed prisoner. But is her captor a predator of her body or at medical school. They’re trying this comedy thing her mind? Fairytale and reality blur in this menacing, and thus have sorely disappointed their parents entertaining exploration of the dark side of human — watch how! Playwright: Katherine Knowles. nature. A quirky and disturbing show from one Photo by Jon Roberts. (45 min.) Comedy, of the UK’s leading physical theatre companies. storytelling, music, puppetry, multi-media. Director: Yorgos Karamalegos. Playwright: Chris Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, Fittock. Dramaturg: Lorna Marshall. Design: Lois theatre community, ethnic community (Asian). Maskell. Composer: Meike Holzmann. (55 min.) Drama, movement. Recommended for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, LGBTQ The Wedding Warrior community. Sun., Nov. 15 at 6:00pm

ADDITIONAL SHOW DATES Written and Performed by Casey Dressler, ARE LISTED ONLINE AT Florida. About: Casey, a single, 30-something WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG wedding coordinator in small town Key Largo proves that love truly is a battlefield. Join her as she combats her way through the mayhem and mishaps that lead up to matrimony. Better The Woman Who Was off wed? That’s just one question Casey poses in Me this charming, comedic peek into the chaos that Mon., Oct. 26 at 9:00pm ensues before the vows are taken. Director: Kim St. Leon. Sound Design: David Hart. Photo by Duv Wolff. (45 min.) Comedy. Recommended Performed by Liz Stanton,* Colorado. About: for: teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community, “There is a kiss we want with our whole lives,” LGBTQ community. writes Rumi. Lanie is kissed by a stranger in a garden. This kiss arouses Lanie’s desire to confront who she is and what is most dear to her. This magical play reveals what we are willing to sacrifice FACEBOOK.COM/UNITEDSOLO to live authentically, and how the choices we make TWITTER.COM/UNITEDSOLO transform us in unimaginable ways. (80 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, movement, poetry, performance art. Recommended for: all audiences. WHAT WILL PEOPLE THE WONDER THINK? Thu., Sep. 17 at 9:00pm Sun., Sep. 20 at 6:00pm Thu., Oct. 1 at 7:30pm Written and Performed by Anthoula Written and Performed by Susan Ferrara,*/*** Katsimatides,* New York. About: Life, death, love New York. About: THE WONDER follows (please?), guilt, hiding, politics, gilligan’s island, a New Yorker through the city on an ordinary dirty laundry! Oh yeah, and family…oy. Elektra’s Tuesday morning in September. The ordinary got nothin’ on me! A modern day greek dramedy. people we meet, the ordinary things we see, One woman’s journey to freedom while wrestling on an extraordinary day in a time marked old-world views. Growing up with the mantra forever. A true story about the morning of 9/11. “What will people think?” controlling her every The neighborhood. The people. And one diabetic move, Anthoula navigates through personal cat. Best Production Award, United Solo 2014. turmoil and loss to find happiness. A testament Co-Directors: Julie Ann Emery* and Kevin to the human spirit. Director: Evan Pappas.* Earley.* Lighting Design: Dan O’Brien. Photo by (60 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling, multi- Mina Widmer. (60 min.) Drama, storytelling. media. Recommended for: all audiences. Recommended for: all audiences. unitedsolo.org THE WORLD’S LARGEST SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (69) Work is the Curse of the YESNOMAYBE: Drinking Classes THE DOPPELGANGER Wed., Oct. 21 at 3:30pm AND THE PROFESSOR Sun., Oct. 25 at 6:00pm Performed by Johnson Flucker, Pennsylvania. Written and Performed by Deborah Colleen About: Johnson Flucker plays Oscar Wilde: White,* South Carolina. About: YESNOMAYBE: poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and truth- THE DOPPELGANGER AND THE teller who – penniless and near friendless – sits PROFESSOR is the story of a former NYC actress in a Parisian cafe in August 1898, contemplating turned theatre professor whose dream of being on his past, present, and prospects for a not-too- Broadway and working in NYC theatre has never promising future. (75 min.) Drama, comedy, been extinguished. Realities of life – a job, children, tragedy. Recommended for: adults, elderly, theatre a husband’s career – have put her dream on hold. community, LGBTQ community. After 20 years, the spark of hope is ignited as she returns to NYC to find that world she thought she Worst.Boyfriend.Ever. knew has changed dramatically. Director: Alicia Sun., Oct. 18 at 4:00pm Corts. Technical Director/Lighting Designer: Cara Wood. (50 min.) Drama, comedy, storytelling. Recommended for: all audiences.

Written and Performed by Julia Jackson, YoungGiftedandFAT Wisconsin. About: Can a bad boyfriend make Sun., Oct. 11 at 4:00pm you gay? No, just miserable. Trust Julia, she should know. What she doesn’t know is why she stayed. As her 50th birthday creeps closer and closer, questions exceed answers. Maybe beer-drinking, Written and Performed by Sharrell D. Luckett, Camaro-driving boyfriends are the skeletons in California. About: Once 100 pounds heavier, any good lesbian’s closet. Or maybe she just cooked Sharrell serves up insights about her emotional with too much aluminum. Photo by Aaron Ruby. struggle to adjust to life after her major weight (90 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: loss. Though she’s gained a newly slender body, she adults, LGBTQ community, ethnic community has trouble letting go of her status as a morbidly (African American). obese person. Interwoven with music and dance, this show explores the prejudices and limitations placed upon the overweight. Co-Directors: Sharrell YEAH, THAT HAPPENED. D. Luckett, Guy Thorne, and Rahbi Hines. Music Sun., Sep. 20 at 4:00pm Director & Lyricist: Rahbi Hines. Choreography Mon., Sep. 28 at 7:30pm and Media Design: Guy Thorne. Music: Osbaldo Mon., Oct. 5 at 7:30pm Maravilla. Artistic Management: Juel D. Lane, Written and Performed by Nick Rafello*/***, New Audrey Edwards, and Megan J. Stewart. Photo by York. About: A hilarious and heartfelt show about Nate Lubben. (75 min.) Drama, storytelling, a little boy that believed he could fly, was as creative poetry, musical, multi-media. Recommended for: as he ever wanted to be, and yes, was the gayest little teenagers, adults, elderly, theatre community. boy in the neighborhood – only he was the last to know. Watch him fly through love, abandonment, and “hom-o-wnership.” Director: Sam ADDED DATES LISTED AT Viverito.** Stage Manager: Ellen Rosenberg. WWW.UNITEDSOLO.ORG (60 min.) Drama, comedy. Recommended for: adults, theatre community, LGBTQ community.

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The United Solo Academy takes an influential part in building our theatre community and projects. Membership in the Academy is by invitation of United Solo and is limit- ed to those who have been awarded and/or are inspiring and supportive at the United Solo Theatre Festival. The Academy members are encouraged to discover new talents, recommend solo shows, suggest nominees and vote for winners each year. The list of United Solo Academy members includes: Hal Ackerman Sarah Elizabeth Greer Brian Luna Eric Roberts Ana Asensio Michael Growler Marsha Mason José Roldan Jr. Suzanne Bachner Joe Gulla Haley McGee Antonio Sacre Sivan Hadari Malgorzata Bogdanska Helyn Rain Messenger Mina Samuels Maura Halloran Michael Bongar Michael Miller Sebastien Heins Omar Sangare Bill Bowers Paul Miller Billy Hipkins Rory Lance Schwartz Bob Brader Steve Mize Anita Hollander Donald Molosi Fiona Shaw Paloma Bravo Diane R. Huber Ann Morrison Sandy Simona David Bridel Frank Ingrasciotta Herb Newsome Anna Deavere Smith Coby Chasman-Beck Lee Kaplan Anthony Nikolchev Terry Tamm Slash Coleman John Paul Karliak Marissa Elaine Parkes Danusia Trevino Tim Collins Sarah Kay Austin Pendleton Allan Corduner Trent Armand Kendall Rebecca VerNooy Ilya Khodosh Eric-Dominique Pérez Rick Creese Tina Volz-Bongar Grace Kiley Zara Phillips Olympia Dukakis Michael Thomas Walker Wioleta Komar Marilyn Pittman Blake Walton Andressa Furletti Marek Koterski Nancy Redman Suzanna Geraghty Julia Kwinto Jane Ridley Glen Williamson Mark Gindick Aurora Lagattuta LynnMarie Rink Annie Worden Julian Goldhagen Marcin Lipinski Eliza Roberts Yokko

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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