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Comedian Gabe Mollica (This American Life, "Solo" Off-Broadway) is panicked about the trajectory of his life. No house, no kids, and he hasn't been on a third date in 5 years. (He'll explain!) But as it stands, he's freaked out! Has he fallen behind? Is it too late? Instead of future tripping, Gabe attempts to zoom out, look back, and hopefully find...The Big Picture.
Wild Project
After the pandemic, Brad and his wife decide to venture out into the world with a trip to Paris, This is a gift to themselves for the 13th wedding anniversary and (in Brad's mind) for how well they handled the global catastrophe of Covid 19. The only problem being that when Brad is forced to confront the actual definition of global and he has a total melt down in the most beautiful city in the world. Turns out, he's not the only one to do that. They have a name for the phenomenon, it's called Paris Syndrome.
Wild Project
Food is so meaningful in our lives. Food is love; food is culture; food is family; food is comfort. We celebrate with food, and we mourn with food. We go to great lengths to find, buy, and create the very best food experiences for ourselves and our loved ones. And food brings us so many stories. Joins us as some of NYC’s best storytellers weave seamlessly through their fantastic tales of food.
Under St Marks
There's nothing like experiencing music live. Attending a concert is exhausting, enchanting, and exciting. Each show is a moment in time that cannot be captured again Some of NYC's best Storytellers will delight you with stories about their first concerts, their best concerts, and their worst concerts.
Under St Marks
Created and Performed by Mike Daisey “The master storyteller” (The New York Times) returns with a story that must be told. As he did a decade ago in The Trump Card, which predicted the world we live in now, Daisey tells a searing story of resistance: political, personal, and spiritual. With dark humor he digs deeply into who we are becoming, in both fear and hope, within this unbearable moment. What price will we pay to survive, and what will it mean to live through this if we do?
Wild Project
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!
Wild Project
Ivan Dalia, pianist and entertainer, sets the stage on alight with his show “Culture is an infinite receptacle with no borders”. An ironic ethno-historical journey through Italian melody. Humans need to express themselves, through tradition, ritual and art. The artist weaves a colorful tapestry of Italian music through anecdotes and stories.
Under St Marks
Fresh off its sold out debut at The Second City in Chicago, Ballet Flats for Dinner is an autobiographical solo comedy show written and performed by Bridget McGuire. A mix of stand-up and storytelling, Ballet Flats tells the story of McGuire's life growing up with intrusive thoughts with harm, a form of OCD. From thinking she was pregnant at age 11, to wondering if she killed her friend's boyfriend at 25, to finally getting help at the ripe old age of 38, Ballet Flats will have you laughing the entire time and perhaps you'll walk away wondering, "Do I have OCD too?" (Don't worry, you probably don't.) Sizzle Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKylGQaos5Q Bio: Bridget McGuire is a storyteller and stand-up comedian based in New York. Her self-deprecating and conversational humor revolves around her life: anxiety, family, and dating - all said in her hot Midwest accent. In addition to being a co-producer of All That Good Stuff, a stand-up comedy show, she works in advertising and has written for Women's Health and Prevention about her life with OCD.
Under St Marks
David Lawson’s one-man show about corporate welfare, “sportswashing,” eminent domain, racist team names, and all the other things that get in the way of a community-oriented, cheer-filled, barrier-breaking good night out at the game.
Under St Marks
The NY Neo-Futurists bring their signature storytelling chaos to the Gotham Storytelling Festival with The Infinite Wrench! Two weekends only, we’re taking our weekly late-night experiment and blowing it wide open. The Infinite Wrench is our theatrical mechanism for unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of two-minute plays. Each play offers something different—funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or even a song. Together, they create a kaleidoscope of stories that all tackle the here-and-now, drawn directly from the lived experiences of the performers. In just sixty minutes, the ensemble races to share thirty original plays, colliding comedy with honesty, playfulness with sincerity, and spectacle with truth. It’s the NY Neos ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance, now part of New York’s biggest celebration of live storytelling.
Wild Project
After a sold out run at NYC Fringe in April, EMOJI is back! Part love letter, part stand-up set, and part iPhone commercial (jk), EMOJI takes us on a road trip through space and time to explore whether emoji are a uniquely universal form of communication—or a crutch in a fractured society clinging to digital crumbs of human connection. It’ll have you like :D but also like :`( In this hilarious, ADHD-friendly, and "unexpectedly moving" show, Aarushi Agni—known for her work across comedy, storytelling, and music—blends her passions to share a philosophical and emotional understanding of the world, love, friendship, community, and the supermoon through a chaotic TED Talk-meets-cabaret format.
Wild Project
Is This Normal? tells the true story of a woman who believed the lie that she could be the funny fat friend, but never the main character—until she started asking questions that unraveled everything. At a time when conversations around shame, identity, and self-definition are reshaping our culture, Is This Normal? feels both timely and universal.
Under St Marks
Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story of his work, going through the plays and the people that changed his life and guided him to this amazing feat; but as he recounts it all, he learns that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great loss. Come and listen as Michael proceeds to tell his story... Shakespeare style!
Wild Project
Michele Carlo and Rhonda Hansome take you on an hour-long ride telling truths, exposing lies, and sharing scenes from well-lived lives. Plus, it's funny!
Under St Marks
On the eve of marriage—an institution Jamie resisted for 30 years—he replays his sex life, which gives new meaning to the term parks and recreation. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and a hysterical romp” through Jamie’s amorous adventures in bathrooms, beaches, bookstores, and appallingly decorated apartments “delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic.” Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, this 6-time Moth champion’s darkly comic stories of his sybaritic journey reveal his struggle to shed shame and guilt and reach self-acceptance before finally tying the knot. Award-winning writer and storyteller Jamie Brickhouse has recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead, appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage and The Moth Podcast, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over 6 million views, one million likes, and 75 thousand followers. He’s the creator of the memoirs and solo shows Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies, and The Brothers Orphan. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and camp. . .hugely enjoyable and hysterical romp. . .delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic. . .Brickhouse brings each character to life and makes each encounter real and immediate, with a wild sense of wordplay, as he navigates the lure of getting laid and the longing to be in love.” —London Theatre's LouReviews
Wild Project
On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Ella’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Ella takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. Content Warning: This show contains dark humor. This show is not recommended for children. The cast will feature Ella Veres and her companion dog, Pandele, who said she's in it not for fame, but to pay her vet bills. Rosamunda, her cat, was asked to perform but declined. She’d rather lounge under the sofa than be in the limelight. “Being from Transylvania, is expected of me to be creepy, so I oblige, from time to time, albeit not in Hollywood style,” said Ella Veres, lead performer and director of On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations. “The war in Ukraine riled my memories up, and urged me to point out how much there is to lose.” The performance will run approximately one hour. Each show is a different iteration. Ella Veres is an independent performer and writer 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, Chashama, and her present incubator, Fountain House Gallery. For several years she focused on her visual art, but in 2022, serendipity made her act in Stories From My Mother at the Theater for the New City, and thus reminded her how lovely it is to be in front of a live audience. Her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, was shaped during her 2023 Fountain House Gallery summer residency on Governors Island and in Adam Wade’s Magnet Theater Solo Workshop, and premiered successfully at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival.
Under St Marks
How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Through fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories, Vianna Isbister’s show, Leaking, explores how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. Topics in this solo show include generational trauma, sexual assault (non-graphic), and things your therapist might say that you shouldn’t listen to. This show is 18+
Under St Marks
In this critically acclaimed solo-show, monologist, writer, and English teacher Becky Bondurant threads her coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Penis Envy is the culmination of more than three years of study under New York City’s master monologist Mike Daisey who has described Becky as "a cross between Sylvia Plath and Mary Katherine Gallagher." Informed by her experiences as a parent, a teacher, a queer, a student of literature, and a former Catholic, Becky’s stories unravel extemporaneously to undress taboo topics like sex, age, weight, othering, power, ritual, and death in a style that is raunchy, irreverent, and sharply philosophical. The 46 paintings that appear as the backdrop of Penis Envy were created in a collaboration between Becky and her two children, ages 7 and 9, over the course of three weeks leading up to the show’s premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival 2024 in Washington, D.C. The show was named "Best of Fringe" by DC Theater Arts in 2024 and praised by critics such as Chris Klimek who wrote in The Washington Post, “I loved ‘Penis Envy,’” and described the show as “vulnerable and true to her, funny and inviting.” Penis Envy ran as part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was described in The Broad Street Review as “the best kind of monologue show: finely crafted and intimately inhabited... funny, bold, poignant, sad, and transformative.”
Wild Project
GIMME A SIGN! is an autobiographical comedy written and performed by Bailey Swilley, based on a family tragedy and the strange but funny antics that ensued after. The solo show combines standup and storytelling and explores the stages of grief and the search for signs from above. Come for the ghost tour with anecdotes about haunted tampons and annoying boyfriends, stay for the life lessons on self-acceptance and growing up.
Under St Marks
Ever wanted to sit in on someone’s therapy session? This unafraid one-woman musical starts as a hilarious, all-too-relatable plunge into the horrors of modern dating. But when our protagonist finally dares to ask, “What’s wrong with me?!” she’s forced to navigate messy situationships, brutal screenshots, and unfiltered vulnerability—with the audience as her therapist and raw laughter as her lifeline.
Under St Marks
No hokey gimmicks. No dumb themes – For the past 12 years, TALE brings you the best in NYC’s storytelling! Past storytellers include Roy Wood Jr (Daily Show), Jena Friedman (Borat), and Anthony Haden-Guest (Vanity Fair), as well as writers/performers for Conan, The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight – and beyond! Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, 99 % Invisible, Edinburgh Festival)
Under St Marks
with Pedro Carmo Your life is a story. How do you want to tell it? Storytelling is both ritual and play - an art as old as humanity itself. In this three-hour Master Class, actor and theatre artist Pedro Carmo leads a creative journey to awaken imagination and explore the rhythms, gestures, and images that shape your unique way of telling a story. This is not about chasing perfection. It’s about opening a space to tell your story, your way - and rediscovering storytelling as a living, communal ritual.
Wild Project
After a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chloe Radcliffe brings her gutsy, divisive solo show to NYC for one night only. The show is about Chloe's history of cheating, the guilty secret that most would keep forever. (FYI: Coming to the show doesn’t make you a cheater… actually, avoiding it seems way more suspicious…) Chloe has written on and starred in Command Z from Steven Soderbergh, has been seen on Comedy Central, and was a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Under St Marks
A twisted storyteling musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen corpse, cosmic country music, and one seriously botched cremation. In 1973, Gram Parsons made a pact with his tour manager, Phil Kaufman- whoever dies first, the other would cremate their body at Joshua Tree. Gram died first. Phil stole his body. It all didn't turn out as planned… Gram Parsons: Tim HasslerPhil Kaufman: Harmon LeonMusic: Max Newland Written/Directed: Harmon Leon (This American Life)
Under St Marks
Comedian Gabe Mollica (This American Life, "Solo" Off-Broadway) is panicked about the trajectory of his life. No house, no kids, and he hasn't been on a third date in 5 years. (He'll explain!) But as it stands, he's freaked out! Has he fallen behind? Is it too late? Instead of future tripping, Gabe attempts to zoom out, look back, and hopefully find...The Big Picture.
Wild Project
After the pandemic, Brad and his wife decide to venture out into the world with a trip to Paris, This is a gift to themselves for the 13th wedding anniversary and (in Brad's mind) for how well they handled the global catastrophe of Covid 19. The only problem being that when Brad is forced to confront the actual definition of global and he has a total melt down in the most beautiful city in the world. Turns out, he's not the only one to do that. They have a name for the phenomenon, it's called Paris Syndrome.
Wild Project
Food is so meaningful in our lives. Food is love; food is culture; food is family; food is comfort. We celebrate with food, and we mourn with food. We go to great lengths to find, buy, and create the very best food experiences for ourselves and our loved ones. And food brings us so many stories. Joins us as some of NYC’s best storytellers weave seamlessly through their fantastic tales of food.
Under St Marks
There's nothing like experiencing music live. Attending a concert is exhausting, enchanting, and exciting. Each show is a moment in time that cannot be captured again Some of NYC's best Storytellers will delight you with stories about their first concerts, their best concerts, and their worst concerts.
Under St Marks
Created and Performed by Mike Daisey “The master storyteller” (The New York Times) returns with a story that must be told. As he did a decade ago in The Trump Card, which predicted the world we live in now, Daisey tells a searing story of resistance: political, personal, and spiritual. With dark humor he digs deeply into who we are becoming, in both fear and hope, within this unbearable moment. What price will we pay to survive, and what will it mean to live through this if we do?
Wild Project
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!
Wild Project
Ivan Dalia, pianist and entertainer, sets the stage on alight with his show “Culture is an infinite receptacle with no borders”. An ironic ethno-historical journey through Italian melody. Humans need to express themselves, through tradition, ritual and art. The artist weaves a colorful tapestry of Italian music through anecdotes and stories.
Under St Marks
Fresh off its sold out debut at The Second City in Chicago, Ballet Flats for Dinner is an autobiographical solo comedy show written and performed by Bridget McGuire. A mix of stand-up and storytelling, Ballet Flats tells the story of McGuire's life growing up with intrusive thoughts with harm, a form of OCD. From thinking she was pregnant at age 11, to wondering if she killed her friend's boyfriend at 25, to finally getting help at the ripe old age of 38, Ballet Flats will have you laughing the entire time and perhaps you'll walk away wondering, "Do I have OCD too?" (Don't worry, you probably don't.) Sizzle Reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKylGQaos5Q Bio: Bridget McGuire is a storyteller and stand-up comedian based in New York. Her self-deprecating and conversational humor revolves around her life: anxiety, family, and dating - all said in her hot Midwest accent. In addition to being a co-producer of All That Good Stuff, a stand-up comedy show, she works in advertising and has written for Women's Health and Prevention about her life with OCD.
Under St Marks
David Lawson’s one-man show about corporate welfare, “sportswashing,” eminent domain, racist team names, and all the other things that get in the way of a community-oriented, cheer-filled, barrier-breaking good night out at the game.
Under St Marks
The NY Neo-Futurists bring their signature storytelling chaos to the Gotham Storytelling Festival with The Infinite Wrench! Two weekends only, we’re taking our weekly late-night experiment and blowing it wide open. The Infinite Wrench is our theatrical mechanism for unleashing a rapid-fire barrage of two-minute plays. Each play offers something different—funny, profound, elegant, disgusting, topical, irrelevant, terrifying, or even a song. Together, they create a kaleidoscope of stories that all tackle the here-and-now, drawn directly from the lived experiences of the performers. In just sixty minutes, the ensemble races to share thirty original plays, colliding comedy with honesty, playfulness with sincerity, and spectacle with truth. It’s the NY Neos ongoing and ever-changing attempt to shift the conventions of live performance, now part of New York’s biggest celebration of live storytelling.
Wild Project
After a sold out run at NYC Fringe in April, EMOJI is back! Part love letter, part stand-up set, and part iPhone commercial (jk), EMOJI takes us on a road trip through space and time to explore whether emoji are a uniquely universal form of communication—or a crutch in a fractured society clinging to digital crumbs of human connection. It’ll have you like :D but also like :`( In this hilarious, ADHD-friendly, and "unexpectedly moving" show, Aarushi Agni—known for her work across comedy, storytelling, and music—blends her passions to share a philosophical and emotional understanding of the world, love, friendship, community, and the supermoon through a chaotic TED Talk-meets-cabaret format.
Wild Project
Is This Normal? tells the true story of a woman who believed the lie that she could be the funny fat friend, but never the main character—until she started asking questions that unraveled everything. At a time when conversations around shame, identity, and self-definition are reshaping our culture, Is This Normal? feels both timely and universal.
Under St Marks
Michael Hagins may be the only African-American artist to ever take part in every play of William Shakespeare’s complete Canon. He tells the story of his work, going through the plays and the people that changed his life and guided him to this amazing feat; but as he recounts it all, he learns that with every great achievement and life changing moment, comes a great loss. Come and listen as Michael proceeds to tell his story... Shakespeare style!
Wild Project
Michele Carlo and Rhonda Hansome take you on an hour-long ride telling truths, exposing lies, and sharing scenes from well-lived lives. Plus, it's funny!
Under St Marks
On the eve of marriage—an institution Jamie resisted for 30 years—he replays his sex life, which gives new meaning to the term parks and recreation. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and a hysterical romp” through Jamie’s amorous adventures in bathrooms, beaches, bookstores, and appallingly decorated apartments “delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic.” Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, this 6-time Moth champion’s darkly comic stories of his sybaritic journey reveal his struggle to shed shame and guilt and reach self-acceptance before finally tying the knot. Award-winning writer and storyteller Jamie Brickhouse has recorded voices on Beavis and Butthead, appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage and The Moth Podcast, and his daily #storiesinheels TikTok videos have over 6 million views, one million likes, and 75 thousand followers. He’s the creator of the memoirs and solo shows Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex, and My Mother, I Favor My Daddy: A Tale of Two Sissies, and The Brothers Orphan. “Pearl Necklace is funny, sharp, and camp. . .hugely enjoyable and hysterical romp. . .delivered with a bawdy panache and a naughty sense of the comic. . .Brickhouse brings each character to life and makes each encounter real and immediate, with a wild sense of wordplay, as he navigates the lure of getting laid and the longing to be in love.” —London Theatre's LouReviews
Wild Project
On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations wraps big ideas in focused stories about Ella’s pets, offering glimpses of her human family and life in her place of birth, Transylvania, Romania. With her dark humor and heart, Ella takes audiences from her childhood under communist rule, to her present quirky experiences in East Harlem, using her dog and cat as reference points. Content Warning: This show contains dark humor. This show is not recommended for children. The cast will feature Ella Veres and her companion dog, Pandele, who said she's in it not for fame, but to pay her vet bills. Rosamunda, her cat, was asked to perform but declined. She’d rather lounge under the sofa than be in the limelight. “Being from Transylvania, is expected of me to be creepy, so I oblige, from time to time, albeit not in Hollywood style,” said Ella Veres, lead performer and director of On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations. “The war in Ukraine riled my memories up, and urged me to point out how much there is to lose.” The performance will run approximately one hour. Each show is a different iteration. Ella Veres is an independent performer and writer 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, Chashama, and her present incubator, Fountain House Gallery. For several years she focused on her visual art, but in 2022, serendipity made her act in Stories From My Mother at the Theater for the New City, and thus reminded her how lovely it is to be in front of a live audience. Her current solo storytelling show, On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations, was shaped during her 2023 Fountain House Gallery summer residency on Governors Island and in Adam Wade’s Magnet Theater Solo Workshop, and premiered successfully at the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival.
Under St Marks
How do we write an ending to a story that isn’t finished? Through fractured fairy tales and crafted personal stories, Vianna Isbister’s show, Leaking, explores how trauma leaks into our interactions, perceptions, and futures. Topics in this solo show include generational trauma, sexual assault (non-graphic), and things your therapist might say that you shouldn’t listen to. This show is 18+
Under St Marks
In this critically acclaimed solo-show, monologist, writer, and English teacher Becky Bondurant threads her coming-of-age narrative through a Freudian needle, weaving from eating disorders and female orgasms to circumcision and breastfeeding against a backdrop of political crisis. Penis Envy is the culmination of more than three years of study under New York City’s master monologist Mike Daisey who has described Becky as "a cross between Sylvia Plath and Mary Katherine Gallagher." Informed by her experiences as a parent, a teacher, a queer, a student of literature, and a former Catholic, Becky’s stories unravel extemporaneously to undress taboo topics like sex, age, weight, othering, power, ritual, and death in a style that is raunchy, irreverent, and sharply philosophical. The 46 paintings that appear as the backdrop of Penis Envy were created in a collaboration between Becky and her two children, ages 7 and 9, over the course of three weeks leading up to the show’s premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival 2024 in Washington, D.C. The show was named "Best of Fringe" by DC Theater Arts in 2024 and praised by critics such as Chris Klimek who wrote in The Washington Post, “I loved ‘Penis Envy,’” and described the show as “vulnerable and true to her, funny and inviting.” Penis Envy ran as part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was described in The Broad Street Review as “the best kind of monologue show: finely crafted and intimately inhabited... funny, bold, poignant, sad, and transformative.”
Wild Project
GIMME A SIGN! is an autobiographical comedy written and performed by Bailey Swilley, based on a family tragedy and the strange but funny antics that ensued after. The solo show combines standup and storytelling and explores the stages of grief and the search for signs from above. Come for the ghost tour with anecdotes about haunted tampons and annoying boyfriends, stay for the life lessons on self-acceptance and growing up.
Under St Marks
Ever wanted to sit in on someone’s therapy session? This unafraid one-woman musical starts as a hilarious, all-too-relatable plunge into the horrors of modern dating. But when our protagonist finally dares to ask, “What’s wrong with me?!” she’s forced to navigate messy situationships, brutal screenshots, and unfiltered vulnerability—with the audience as her therapist and raw laughter as her lifeline.
Under St Marks
No hokey gimmicks. No dumb themes – For the past 12 years, TALE brings you the best in NYC’s storytelling! Past storytellers include Roy Wood Jr (Daily Show), Jena Friedman (Borat), and Anthony Haden-Guest (Vanity Fair), as well as writers/performers for Conan, The Daily Show, HBO, Last Week Tonight – and beyond! Hosted by Harmon Leon (This American Life, 99 % Invisible, Edinburgh Festival)
Under St Marks
with Pedro Carmo Your life is a story. How do you want to tell it? Storytelling is both ritual and play - an art as old as humanity itself. In this three-hour Master Class, actor and theatre artist Pedro Carmo leads a creative journey to awaken imagination and explore the rhythms, gestures, and images that shape your unique way of telling a story. This is not about chasing perfection. It’s about opening a space to tell your story, your way - and rediscovering storytelling as a living, communal ritual.
Wild Project
After a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chloe Radcliffe brings her gutsy, divisive solo show to NYC for one night only. The show is about Chloe's history of cheating, the guilty secret that most would keep forever. (FYI: Coming to the show doesn’t make you a cheater… actually, avoiding it seems way more suspicious…) Chloe has written on and starred in Command Z from Steven Soderbergh, has been seen on Comedy Central, and was a writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Under St Marks
A twisted storyteling musical dark comedy featuring the music of Gram Parsons - the godfather of alt-rock country - and one of the most gloriously messed-up, debauched rock ‘n roll stories of all-time. A stolen corpse, cosmic country music, and one seriously botched cremation. In 1973, Gram Parsons made a pact with his tour manager, Phil Kaufman- whoever dies first, the other would cremate their body at Joshua Tree. Gram died first. Phil stole his body. It all didn't turn out as planned… Gram Parsons: Tim HasslerPhil Kaufman: Harmon LeonMusic: Max Newland Written/Directed: Harmon Leon (This American Life)
Under St Marks
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