One person connecting with an audience is the most basic form of theatre. In a solo show having clarity on the story you want to tell is critical. Here are some ideas to begin generating material.
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Here is a list of solo shows to watch on streaming platforms. Remember we learn as much from shows that we don’t like as from those we love. Happy Watching. WRITE HARD!
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Playwriting, Acting & Teaching Artist Resume
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After years of living under the watchful eyes of Grandpa and Aunt Jane, my mother and father bought our new house the summer of 1963. Buying that house was a big deal for them because Mommy and Daddy were Deaf and after a lifetime of struggle and exclusion this house was a declaration of faith in themselves and more importantly their independence.
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I guarded the secret like it was a magician’s trick because crazy and unstable does not get to work at the Goodman Theater, does not get invited to fabulous parties. All that crazy and unstable get is judged.
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I am a bad person. Not a bad person in a deviant, psychotic kind of way, but a bad person in a disorganized, slovenly kind of way. It's the piles of papers to be filed, runaway shoes to capture, articles to read, drawers to sort out, Apple music to organize and RSVPs to be RSVPed that simply overrun my sanity and desire for a pristine, well-ordered life.
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I remember sitting in the back seat for the 3-hour drive to Alumni day at the New Jersey Residential School for the Deaf. I’m wearing a pale flowered shift made soft from afternoons of fluttering on the clothesline and I could see the anticipation in Mommy and Daddy’s hands as they talked about the day to come in sign language. They were Deaf, I was their hearing daughter and the signs that tumbled from their hands was my first language, my “native hand.”
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A decade ago I was diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety disorder. The shorter days of less sunlight in the winter months terrify me because of the reality that is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
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This is what we are reading in class: “The zipless fuck was more than a fuck. It was an ideal. Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like rose petals, underwear blew off in one breath like dandelion fluff. Tongues intertwined and turned liquid.”
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But you know what? In the end I know that people will do the right thing like they’ve done so many times before. So never-mind. Forget that I called. And remember that Karma’s a bigger bitch than all of you combined.
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CAST: Chaturbate Webcam Model- SMITTEN KITTEN
SETTING: Webcam model lays on the bed as they chat, dance, flirt, pout, poses, plays with underwear, does peek boo strip, etc. Vibe, dress and style is up to the actor.
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I’ve always prided myself on being a “happy, optimistic and motivated person.” I’ve even bragged about it but out of nowhere Depression just crept in through a basement window and I found him sitting there with his feet up on my nice, new mushroom colored couch and he decided to stay.
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Those of you who know me understand that fringe caftans are not my thing. I think that only place that fringe belongs is in a Rodeo but last winter my mother was getting cabin fever so Dan Clark took us to the Mall. And what Jersey girl doesn’t love a mall?
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Suicides of Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and Robin Williams generated negative and insensitive comments. TV personality Briana DeJesus, Actor Val Kilmer and Punk Rock icon, actor and writer Henry Rollins viciously criticized those who commit suicide after battles with depression. The follow up responses from these celebrities were varied and telling.
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I grew up in Paterson, NJ. It was a tough neighborhood where the second graders cursed, the nuns smoked and the dogs snarled. But the most feared group in all of Paterson… the ones who terrorized children… the ones who promised that retribution would be swift and merciless… was not the Jersey Mob but the Jersey Moms.
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And then it’s New Years Eve. A time when we atone for our sins, and start again. I think a lot about amends and resolutions and about the time when I will have to choose my ½ of the magnets.
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He’s the one whose smile is like looking into the heart of dream and he smells like an autumn afternoon. He’s that boyfriend, the one you wait for hoping that he’ll stop in even for just a moment.
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It was a splurge- over $3,200.00 and one that I allowed my husband to indulge me in. He’s terrific like that. We lived in a 2 room dorm apt at UCLA.
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I have said this before and I will say it again and probably a couple of times after that.
I am a woman who can say the least amount of information in the most amount of words.
Victory Gardens Biograph, Chicago, Illinois with Director Will Rogers
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