A Busy Summer for Me

I was asked to put together a list of the various theater and spoken-word things I have going on this summer. It’s a pretty busy schedule for me, and I am pretty pleased.

American Underground:
Saturday, May 28th – 6pm to 8pm
Clubhouse Jager, 923 Washington Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401
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I will be on stage for 15 minutes, telling either an excerpt from my upcoming MNFringe show, or possibly a condensed version of the show, or maybe something else entirely.

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Gadfly’s Final Frontier Festival: Heroes and Villains:
June 3rd through June 12th – Times and Dates Below
Phoenix Theater, 2605 Hennepin Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
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This is the world premiere of my short play “At the Edge of Flight.” There are three performances as part of the festival. I plan to attend closing night, so June 11th at 7:00 pm. If you can’t go with me that night, please please go ahead and see the other performances. Go see the whole festival, in fact.

SET A:
At the Edge of Flight by Michael Merriam
Directed by: Cassandra Snow
The Further Adventures of… by Kathleen Warnock
Directed by: Meggie Grievell
Your Princess is in Another Lair by Eli Effinger-Weintraub
Directed by Denzel Belin

SET B:
Slut by Nicole Jost
Directed by: Shalee Coleman
The Amazing Cunt and Lil’ Bitch Take Minneapolis by Katy Koop
Directed by Megan Lembke

Performance Dates:
June 3rd, Set A, 7:30 P.M.
June 4th, Set B, 7:30 P.M.
June 5th, Set A, 3:00 P.M.
June 10th, Set B, 7:30 P.M.
June 11th, Set A, 7:30 P.M.
June 12th, Set B, 3:00 P.M.

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The Not-So Silent Planet:
Tuesday June 21st – 8pm to 10pm
Kieran’s Irish Pub
85 North 6th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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I will be the featured storyteller at this speculative fiction open mic event. I will be telling a new piece I am writing just for this show. Ghost Trains! Hover Buses! Colliding Timelines!

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Minnesota Fringe Festival:
Bryant-Lake Bowl
810 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55408
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I will be giving five performances of my newest one-person show “Unsafe at Any Speed.” This show offers tales of my adventures on public transit and take a cold, hard look at my checkered past as a driver, all filtered through the lens of living with a disability that forces you to turn in the key while dealing with America’s Car Culture.

Performance Schedule
8/4/2016 7:00 PM
8/6/2016 10:00 PM
8/7/2016 5:30 PM
8/11/2016 7:00 PM
8/14/2016 7:00 PM