Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat

Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat gathers monologue-stories, some soulful, some naughty. They are stand alone golden nuggets from the many writings accrued by Vermillion along her graphomaniac years. You'll hear the voices of real Transylvanian people and their rich history they entrusted to Vermillion to tell. You'll also hear of sticky situations that Vermillion and her friends have been through and the spunky solutions they came up with. 

Repeat attendance is advised since the performances will present two different clusters of stories.

These pieces are presented publicly in the hopes of her gaining the momentum necessary to finalize her books one by one since alas they are only ⅔ shaped and ⅓ still unformed, similar to a peacock with its tail feathers trailing all over the garden, or a porcupine with unsightly grown quills in need of heavy trimming. 

We're excited by her effort. It's an honor and a responsibility to have you as an audience.

Vermillion is an independent performer, writer, and artist born in Transylvania who has been active in the New York City cultural community since 2001. Her work has been presented at the Immigrant Theater Festival, Galapagos Art Space, Manhattan Theater Source, IWAS, The Field, Theater for the New City, The Moth, Stage Left, Bowery Poetry Club, and Chashama. For several years she focused on her visual art, exhibiting work at the Outsider Art Fair, showing in galleries, publicly buried herself in bottles during her residency on Governors Island, curating internationally The Mushroom Show in 2023 and the 2026 upcoming Coming Out Of Isolation in NYC and London.

Her return to the theater has been a serendipitous process, with her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, successfully premiered at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival. Its various iterations are monthly performed at Under St Marks Theater. 

As part of Under St Marks Theater revival of the vibrant improvisation programming that existed before Covid, Vermillion and her Lovely Shoes improv team host the monthly Side-Coached show on third Tuesdays.

During the first part of her residency, she will develop an evening of inventive monologues, some soulful, some naughty, under the working title Book Spines Broken By My Purring Cat.

Vermillion is honored to be the new resident of this OBIE award-winning theater, and she will give her all "boot camp" style and hopefully manifest another OBIE!

• $25.00 + $2.50 fee
• 6-November 15, 2025
• 60 minutes
• Wild Project
• 195 E 3rd St, New York, NY 10009