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With the future of our nation hanging in the balance and revolution in the air, the need to respond to what is happening in our world RIGHT NOW is more urgent than ever. The Fast and the Furious is a call to arms for artists across all disciplines to make new work about news items and current events that have happened in the week prior.

This evening of performances created in just seven days will be the boldest, most contemporary, fastest and most furious artistic answers to the world we live in today.

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$15

When a middle school health teacher gets fired after talking about masturbation with her students, she creates a sex ed class for the repressed women of her town. Part play, part interactive experience, TELL ME WHAT I WANT creates a space to address the shame surrounding women's bodies.

Run Time: 80 min

GINA STEVENSEN (Playwright) is a playwright and dramaturg based in NYC. She was a 2019 nominee for the OBIE Award-winning Mentor Project at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her plays include THE COLONY (American Stage’s 21st Century Voices New Play Festival, Semifinalist: Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition & Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Off-Broadway Reading: Urban Stages, Finalist: The Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Workshop), CRUEL SISTER (Semi-Finalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), KIDS (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and BOOK OF ESTHER (Reading: Hartford Stage, Top Ten Finalist: Jewish Playwriting Contest, Semi-Finalist: Princess Grace Award). Gina has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Open Arts program and is an Affiliated Artist with The Hess Collective. She teaches playwriting at Tribeca Performing Arts Center’s annual Writers in Performance Workshop and through The Writer’s Rock. MFA Playwriting: Columbia University. www.ginastevensen.com

NANA DAKIN (Director) is a Thai-American director of new plays, classics and devised performance based in New York City. Her work pursues social equity by examining the way culture is constructed and unsettling dormant biases. She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), a core member of B-Floor Theatre, Thailand’s vanguard physical theatre company and the President of the Board of Directors of the Thai Theatre Foundation. As an Assistant Director she has worked on "Mary Jane" (NYTW), "The Bacchae" (Getty Villa, BAM Next Wave), "Wild Goose Dreams" (The Public Theater), and "Camelot" (Lincoln Center Theater). Recent directing credits include an all-female production of Shakespeare’s "Richard III" (Lenfest Center for the Arts) and the World Premiere of Anchuli Felicia King's "White Pearl" (The Royal Court). www.nanadakin.com

CAST:
Amara Brady
Alinca Hamilton*
Hannah McKechnie
Margarita Tavárez
Gabrielle Young

*Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

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A reimagining of Nabokov’s Lolita as a dark comedienne in charge of her own surreal narrative as an adult. Calling herself Dolly, she “resurrects” herself on stage, examines her life with skepticism and gallows humor, and works to puncture her documented legacy. Written by Iliria Osum.

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A reimagining of Nabokov’s Lolita as a dark comedienne in charge of her own surreal narrative as an adult. Calling herself Dolly, she “resurrects” herself on stage, examines her life with skepticism and gallows humor, and works to puncture her documented legacy. Written by Iliria Osum.

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devour.,
Written and Performed by Taji Senior

A warrior goddess created by the Black Mother Goddesses and adorned in glorious robes of divinity, the celestial Ishtar fiercely guards her temple until the moment a stranger appears and disrupts her sanctuary and her sense of self. Under the counsel of The Black Mother Goddesses, Ishtar flees from the stranger abandoning her home and her beloved companion, The Bull of Heaven. Overcome with loneliness and grief, Ishtar makes a damning choice that forces her to choose between her divinity and her desire.

devour., is a theatrical contemplation of the ways in which desire and desirability are further complicated by blackness. What does it mean to long for love while inhabiting a body you’ve taught to fear and hate? At its core, devour. is a synthesis of lived experiences, literature, academic research and activist movements that spans centuries and continents, from the study of the iconography of black bodies in nineteenth-century European art, such as Edwin Long’s The Babylonian Marriage Market and Édouard Manet’s Olympia to the contemplative examination of black womanhood in the poetry of June Jordan, Lucille Clifton and Pat Parker. devour., deeply excavates facets of the Black American female experience and returns to the surface through movement, poetry, myth and theatrical magic.

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How We Love/F*ck, a new play from powerhouse actor/writer Lillian Isabella, is a sex-positive theatre piece in response to the #MeToo movement where she looks to celebrate female sexuality, and how fun sex can be.

The play is inspired by documentary-style interviews with a tribe of 28 diverse female-identifying individuals, ranging from 25 to 89 years old. Through candid monologues created from the interviews, Lillian begins to discover her own sexual agency, the healing power of ecstatic experience, and the importance of sharing this new understanding with the world.

Brought to you by Three Rooms Press and Edge In Motion Productions, How We Love/F*ck is directed and executive produced by theatre vet Kat Georges, and produced by Lindsay-Elizabeth Hand.

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Three people play a game... in 2075.

In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?

Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide

No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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A storm of biblical proportions, and a woman who won't stop bleeding. GUSHER! is an unapologetic play about what happens when women are allowed to be messy.

Play by Jan Rosenberg
Directed by Jessica O'Hara-Baker

Cast:
JOSLYN DEFREECE*
MORGAN MCGUIRE
FLORENCIA LOZANO*
CAYLYN CREAGER

Stage directions: Grace Olson-Davidson

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When Cassie joins the all female exclusive social club, The Hive, shes ready for her boring female life to become way more glam and important! But in this new ultra hip feminist co-working space-things soon start to get weird!

Playwright: Catherine Weingarten
Director- Emily Penick

Production Manager- Natalie Osborne

Stage Manager- Anna Kovaks

Cast: Alycia Kunkle, Laura Ornella, Manning Jordan, Sara Turner, Gwendolyn Ellis and Glenna Brucken

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Anaïs Maviel, Megan Schubert, Gelsey Bell and Yoon Sun Choi perform vocal quartets "Be" and "Late Duck" written by Anaïs Maviel and Megan Schubert

Anaïs Maviel's "Be" investigates the co-existence of duality and unity in this world in transformation. You might hear all layered urban, natural, feminine, masculine references, negation that negates itself in a play with even and odd numbers - all invoking balancing with the repeated question: ¿Que estas haciendo? [What are you doing?] Portuguese, Spanish, French, Japanese and English are used in this version.

On Megan Schubert's "Late Duck": "Maybe I'm reaching for a non-binary utopia where bodies and emotional labor aren't taken for granted. Meanwhile, I've decided healing and repossession are possible for me. This piece, told through live and pre-recorded voices, video, and animation, is about my leaving indignation and shame behind, and baby steps towards facing a personal dragon that looms larger and larger the more I avoid it. Boarding that boat with chosen family."

The Surrogate is an all-female-identified play about a woman, Sophia, who wants a baby but can’t have one and the younger woman, Cece, who is going to carry it for her – for a price. As Sophia slowly becomes a surrogate Mother-figure to Cece herself, the blooming of this unexpected bond comes crashing down when there is a complication in the pregnancy, and Sophia has to make a choice that could cost her not only Cece’s trust, but her marriage to her wife, Kit.

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$10

Three people play a game... in 2075.

In a world where physical existence seems imminently impossible, a political exile, a former radical and a climate refugee go in search of the promised land; a virtual utopia. Alliances are made and broken as personal visions cross and collide in a social experiment that begins to chip away at individual identities. No Place examines the relationships between citizenship, nationhood and personhood and asks What happens to a person when they undertake an extreme journey of migration?

Written and Directed by Andrea Ang
Created by the company
Featuring Ana Cantorán Viramontes, Sarah McEneaney, and Juliana Suaide

No Place is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in
partnership with the City Council. Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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$15

In #MomVlogLyfe, the Mundanity of IRL Meets the Glamour of Celebrity

Rachael Murray, Tanya Chattman, and Naked Theatre Company present #MomVlogLyfe, a deep dive down the YouTube rabbit hole of mom vloggers. Follow a gaggle of mom vloggers in their quest to organize their households and entertain their adoring fans. The Mom Vlogger is a new kind of Mom: She brings home the bacon, fries it up in a pan, and then gets 100,000 viewers to watch that bacon fry. Between checking off items on her endless to-do list and creating high-quality content, she keeps all the plates spinning in style. It’s hard out here for a mom, so she might as well monetize, right? Grocery hauls, unboxings, collabs, sponsored content, and parenting too: This is #MomVlogLyfe.

Rachael Murray and Tanya Chattman are co-creators of the piece. Murray directs, and Chattman choreographs. CAST: Tanya Chattman, Ashley Marie Ortiz, Julia Sears, Samantha Simone, and Aleigha K. Spinks.

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Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die, and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand. In this hour-long musical storytelling show, indie rocker and Moth Mainstage storyteller Sam Shaber takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, tears, and catharsis, from her obsessive, starstruck adolescence to the sobering losses of adulthood, to a triumphant realization about the power of those we love.

Co-written and directed by award-winning writer/director/comedian Lynn Ferguson, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran garnered 5-star reviews and Pick of the Fringe at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice and a Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe. Sam is excited to celebrate the show's New York debut at The Tank during Ladyfest 2019.

***** ––British Theatre Guide
"A must-see." ––BBC Scotland
"A touching tale of love, loss and the power within ourselves." ––Broadway World
"The stories are heartfelt and her singing is stunning." ––Three Weeks

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$18

Ever watch the movie Minority Report and think you were going to stab your dad to death after so you told him to send you to your mom's house for the night?? Ever been afraid to use the word 'delectable' in a sentence after Jon Binay Ramsay said it the night before she was murdered in the Jon Binay Ramsay Lifetime Original Movie? Cuz I'm gonna be real-- if so, you probably have OCD. Like me! Hi, I'm Olivia Levine and I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We've all heard about the hand washing, the touching, the counting. But most of us haven't heard the rest of it-- the fear of accidentally causing violent harm to a loved one, the fear that using a particular word might result in the death of your best friend. Skid marks on your undies! Impregnating your mother! Accidentally encountering child pornography! THE LIST GOES ON FOLKS. So stop by my show Unstuck: A One Woman Show About Growing Up With OCD and hear all about how I worked through these fears and started getting the help I needed!

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$10

Created By: DEBY XIADANI, ALEC RING, LUKE KATLER 
Special Guest: MICHELE BUSTER! Creator of FOREVER CHEESE will teach us about the highest quality parmesans, Pecorino Romanos, and more! There will also be WINE and plenty of FUNNY!

This show is also ALL LADIES! LADY COMEDIANS, WRITERS, FOOD CREATORS

”GOOD COOKS" is where food and comedy meet! Think SNL, meets a Late Night Show, but entirely about food! Each month, we invite 1-2 amazing guests who work in the world of food and TASTINGS of their product are guaranteed every show! So come taste, laugh, and explore with us in our Comedy Kitchen!

Love your chefs,
Deby Xiadani, Alec Ring, Luke Katler

"GOOD COOKS" is a monthly sketch comedy show all about food. Each month, we invite two amazing guests who work in the world of food. We interview them about their passions and their work and help them plan audience tastings and demonstrations. Between interviews, original comedy sketches keep the atmosphere upbeat and energized. We've featured chefs, small business owners, social media influencers, publicists, sommeliers, and more. The show was born out of our shared love of food, comedy, and creating a sense of community for our audience.

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdrBkYv8I8fbSaiozj9jw6w
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GoodCooksComedy/

BIOS:

DEBY XIADANI (Director/Writer/Producer) is a human specializing in new work and dark comedy. She won the fictitious award for Most Likely To Make Friends on the Train. She was actually nominated Best Director 2018 for Leurana (by Enrique Huili). She has been asked back to Dartmouth College (her alma mater) seven times to direct, emcee, and produce live events because she is a great collaborator. Shes lived in Chicago and Mexico City (its safer now, Mom) and in her spare time she writes sketch at UCB and teaches fitness to active adults. (xiadani: shee-ah-daw-nee) @debursxgb

ALEC RING (Director/Writer/Producer)  is a director, writer, and producer with training at UCB and Improv Olympic based in New York. After living in Los Angeles, Alec moved to New York to begin working at Cinetic Media - a full service sales, finance, management, and production company in film and television. Most recently, he has assisted with the production of Ethan Hawkes BLAZE which premiered at Sundance 2018 and Peter Farrellys GREEN BOOK starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, released on November, 16th.

LUKE KATLER (Director/Writer/Producer) Hails from sunny south Florida where he spent his days staring longingly at the beach from a darkened room watching 90s comedies. Luke works at William Morris Endeavor as an assistant to a theatre agent, who represents Broadway-level choreographers, directors and playwrights. Luke has spent his young and adult life as a performer in everything ranging from Shakespeare, musical theatre, and improv at Chicagos Improv Olympic. Currently Luke is focusing his attention on helping usher NETWORK starring Bryan Cranston to the Broadway stage. On any given day or night you can likely find Luke at the theatre or huffing and puffing on a strained run along the Hudson.

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One woman’s dark comic journey to the other side of the overpass. Mary Goggin shares stories of sex, drugs, and Irish Catholicism, laced with characters based on her experiences as a former professional call girl. As a massive reaction to sexual repression, Mary takes us from the Irish famine to ’70s pimps to joy!

“Runaway Princess, a Hopeful tale of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness”
written and performed by Mary Goggin.

*Mary Goggin (writer, performer): AEA-DG-SAG/AFTRA,

Actor on stage and in film for 20 years. Favorite recent roles include, Ella O’Neill (wife of Eugene O’Neill) in Ann Hansen’s “Road to Babylon”, Broadway Bound Festival. A joy being directed Cyndy Marion in numerous Tennessee works including, Cavalier for M’Lady, Clothes For A Summer Hotel and A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot. Also PB & J for the NY Fringe Festival and Born to be Blue, winner, Samuel French festival Favorite TV Roles include; Broad City, Law and Order, Guiding Light, The Grind (Amazon). Favorite Film Roles include; Little Children, MAD (soon to be released), The Trouble with Bliss, Gasoline, Bronx Paradise. Nominated for best actor, by Freeway Films for her “Rose” in “Reservations”Check her out on IMDB!

Dan Ruth (Director). Dan is an award-winning solo artist for his play, A Life Behind Bars which has played to sell out crowds around the country, most recently at City Winery, NYC. He’s the winner of the 2016 United Solo Festival Award for “Best Autobiographical Show,” The 2018 Bistro Award winner for “Outstanding Solo Play,” MAC Award for “Best Spoken Word Artist” and the 2018 Producers Encore Award from the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Dan has directed both regionally and in NYC where he also served as a core director for The A-Train Plays at the Sanford Meisner Theatre.

Matthew WJ Mitchell (Tech) is an actor, writer, and improviser originally from the Chicago suburb of Naperville, IL. He currently lives in Weehawken, NJ and absolutely loves it there. Matt has light and sound designed at theaters all over NYC, including the PIT, 59E59th, Creek & The Cave, Clemente, and the past few years at United Solo. Hire him: mattmitch927@gmail.com.

My mission to heal thru my art has begun... So excited to be in the world…

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It’s heady times for the Slotted Spoons, a dance troupe of four middle-aged moms. The mayor’s retirement celebration will be the biggest show of their lives, but the moms need a new choreographer, and they need one fast. Fortune upon fortunes, their fearless leader, Jenny Hu, has secured the services of an exquisitely, hauntingly, unconventional young woman named India (no relation to the country) who soon has the Spoons whipped up into some kind of a… a… well, it’s not a dance, exactly? There’s a lot of soul-baring. Maybe too much. And a huge bag of what they’re told is just sweet, sweet, candy.

Cast: Noreen Farley, Vanessa Kai, Alice Kremelberg, Sheila Stasack

Directed by: Jessica O’Hara-Baker

Written by: Ying Ying Li

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There's only one thing Cameron wants more than to break into the New York comedy scene, and that's to win the heart of her newly-resurfaced, childhood friend Roxanne. But when Roxanne recruits Cameron's help to catch the eye of Midwestern, comedy newby (and boy!) Christian, Cam suddenly finds herself the orchestrator of their romance. Set in the early 2000s, this rom/com retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac explores gender & sexuality, artistic integrity, and what it really means to fall in love. Jordan Coats is honored to join LadyFest with this reading-style production of her new play.

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$20

Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die, and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand. In this hour-long musical storytelling show, indie rocker and Moth Mainstage storyteller Sam Shaber takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster of laughter, tears, and catharsis, from her obsessive, starstruck adolescence to the sobering losses of adulthood, to a triumphant realization about the power of those we love.

Co-written and directed by award-winning writer/director/comedian Lynn Ferguson, Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran garnered 5-star reviews and Pick of the Fringe at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice and a Hollywood Producers Encore Award at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe. Sam is excited to celebrate the show's New York debut at The Tank during Ladyfest 2019.

***** ––British Theatre Guide
"A must-see." ––BBC Scotland
"A touching tale of love, loss and the power within ourselves." ––Broadway World
"The stories are heartfelt and her singing is stunning." ––Three Weeks

www.samshaber.com/lifedeathduranduran

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$20

Smashworks Dance presents a work-in-progress excerpt from FEMPIRE — a utopian world run by unharnessed and uninhibited women. An evening length performance of episodic dances, FEMPIRE introduces various women characters of strength and uncensored expressions of truth, playfully pushing against gender normative stereotypes through feminist camp. Featuring choreography by Ashley McQueen in collaboration with Smashworks Dance, and introducing newest performer Hope Salas in collaboration with Justin Cimino, FEMPIRE fuses dance performance with prop-driven physical theatre to present a culmination of our current feminist fight — loud, uncensored, and unafraid.

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StartUp
A Staged Reading
Directed by Devon Caraway
Beth and Eva haven’t been in the professional world long but they already know that corporate life isn’t for them. When their crowdfunding campaign successfully reaches their financing goal, their dream of starting their own company becomes a reality. Gathering some of their other lady friends, they jump into the more unconventional life of running a startup, but they quickly discover that there is a steep learning curve to running your own business.

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$10

BEDTIME PLAYS
Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex
Written by Tatiana Kouguell-Hoell
Directed by Rakesh Palisetty
Sara wants to, she really does, but if only she could say what she’s thinking out loud. Everything We Need To Talk About Before We Talk About Sex asks the question: what do you have to overcome within yourself to be intimate with another person?
Teeth
Written by Ciara Ni Chuirc
Directed by Kelly O'Donnell
Aaron wants Colleen to tell him what she wants - but talking about it is the opposite of what she wants. Teeth is a darkly comedic play about the difficulties we encounter in talking about sex, and women's anxieties about asking for what they want in the bedroom.

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$15

An evening of short films by female forces of nature. Showcasing work by emerging NYC-based filmmakers, these short films are written, directed, and starring all women.

3 DAYS, by Julie Sharbutt
7 MINUTES, by Means of Productions
CEVICHE, by Doménica Garcia
EUDAEMONIA, by Julia Ngeow
GREATER GOOD, by Andrea Ashton
NAMES OF WOMEN, by Poppy Liu

SYNAPSE, by Lauren Kerr
TEETH, by Julia Price Baron
TINA, by Gayatri Bahl
WOMEN'S WORK, by Ja'Tovia Gary

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$18

Ever watch the movie Minority Report and think you were going to stab your dad to death after so you told him to send you to your mom's house for the night?? Ever been afraid to use the word 'delectable' in a sentence after Jon Binay Ramsay said it the night before she was murdered in the Jon Binay Ramsay Lifetime Original Movie? Cuz I'm gonna be real-- if so, you probably have OCD. Like me! Hi, I'm Olivia Levine and I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We've all heard about the hand washing, the touching, the counting. But most of us haven't heard the rest of it-- the fear of accidentally causing violent harm to a loved one, the fear that using a particular word might result in the death of your best friend. Skid marks on your undies! Impregnating your mother! Accidentally encountering child pornography! THE LIST GOES ON FOLKS. So stop by my show Unstuck: A One Woman Show About Growing Up With OCD and hear all about how I worked through these fears and started getting the help I needed!

“Not a Pipeline Problem: 6, 10-minute plays written and directed by badass womxn” is a celebration of femme creative power. Join these five playwrights for an afternoon of questioning... “What’s really the problem? Cause girl, it ain’t us”.

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$20

Smashworks Dance presents a work-in-progress excerpt from FEMPIRE — a utopian world run by unharnessed and uninhibited women. An evening length performance of episodic dances, FEMPIRE introduces various women characters of strength and uncensored expressions of truth, playfully pushing against gender normative stereotypes through feminist camp. Featuring choreography by Ashley McQueen in collaboration with Smashworks Dance, and introducing newest performer Hope Salas in collaboration with Justin Cimino, FEMPIRE fuses dance performance with prop-driven physical theatre to present a culmination of our current feminist fight — loud, uncensored, and unafraid.

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$15 General Admission, $10 Student Ticket

At 2am in a muggy laundromat, the Miller sisters find themselves alone besides the erratic muffles of a baby monitor. As the humidity rises, and the muffles become louder, Betty and Faith’s patience grows thin, spiraling them into ultimate sibling rivalry.

Cast
Betty Miller played by Maggie Flaugher
Faith Miller played by Faith Taylor

Creative Team
Written by Flynn Osman
Directed by Tessa Welsch
Stage Managed by Kelly McGuinness
Lighting designed by Ariana Finamore

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$7

The Mess with Jesse Roth is a solo variety show, the likes of which have never been seen before. It's like that metaphor, "throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks" but with comedy.

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In The Valkyries (by Jessica Owens) the tenuous strands of connection between three women in an all-female doomsday cult start to unravel—revealing how women deal with trauma, what lengths they are willing to go to, what traumas they’re willing to inflict on others, and what portion of their own autonomy they are willing to give up, to feel they’ve regained some semblance of power.