Mike Daisey’s shows are unique experiences. From past observations, tell us how you view him as a performer or what you’re expecting to see. I’ve seen so many of Daisey’s past monologues at Woolly—The Last Cargo Cult, How Theater Failed America, The Orient Express (Or, the Value of Failure), The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve […]

The Heist is a dramatic improvised show about a 1970’s bank robbery gone wrong and I wrote it because I wanted more drama in my life. Pretty literally. I have been doing improvisational comedy for almost 20 years and I love it, it is really what I enjoy doing the most in the world. But […]

Intimate Dinner offers a comic look at fine dining. The solo show written and performed by Lauren French explores our unique and absurd experiences with food. The play takes place at a Pop Up Dinner in an exclusive restaurant in D.C. Where did you get the idea to write a show about the food and beverage […]

Lies?  Truth? It’s all up for grabs in A Gentleman & A Liar. Brian Curry and I have been performing our show, “The Magic Duel,” at The Mayflower Hotel for over five years.  During the lead up to the 2016 elections, there was a lot to joke about. We kept improving and polishing the show, […]

I never wanted Daddy Poo, my Catholic, conservative, Republican father down in Texas, to know about the priest, or the dwarf or the crack addict. But when you write a memoir about your alcoholism and your sexual peccadillos during those louche days, there’s a big chance he may find out. That’s the beginning of a […]

In 1937, the German playwright, activist Ernst Toller lived in Hollywood. He was public enemy number one of the Nazi regime, from which he was an exile. He was also one of the first German refugee writers to sign a contract to write for the movies. He worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Toller worked on two screenplays […]

Our work in DC and Baltimore started with Edgar Allan Poe. We partnered up with the Poe Society in Baltimore and we’re sort of living in this space of the darker side of human motivation and obsession. H. P. Lovecraft is widely considered to be an inheritor of a tradition that Poe started and so […]

Age 19. I was getting off the plane from Kenyon College to be home for Thanksgiving Break. My dad had colon cancer, but I didn’t think it was serious. My mom picked me up, and before I could talk to her about how finals were going, she said, “Your father is going to die within […]

A brief interview with NY-based Actor/Playwright Daniel Damiano regarding his acclaimed solo play, American Tranquility, coming to the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. What was the impetus for American Tranquility? The theme of division was the sort of driving force.  I was already seeing how divided the country was, specifically as it relates to ageism, immigration […]

Energie grew out of the two events I was thinking about over the last year or so. The first was Anthony Bordain’s suicide, and how he seemed to have touched so many people so deeply. He was unpretentious and had his faults and wrestled with his demons, which he fully acknowledged without apology. On one […]

I was on an airplane, flying back to the States from Heathrow.  I had stopped, as is my habit, at the National Theatre Bookstore before heading back, and purchased my weight in playscripts. The first one I decided to read was Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott.  The title intrigued me because I knew little of […]