The Peoples Improv Theater proudly announces the 10TH ANNUAL SOLOCOM!
SOLOCOMNYC has launched over 400 new solo comedies that have gone on to longer runs, tours and festivals around the world (including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.)
SOLOCOMNYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% – 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOM’s goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.
Leaving the house is hard. Especially when, it seems, you always seem to end every social engagement in disaster. Stacey Axler will recount recent party fouls in a never-ending odyssey to reconnect with the world.
Blair Dawson/ Now or Never
Stand-up comedian Blair Dawson has 30 minutes of break up material. If she doesn’t perform it now, she will move on, fall in love again, have babies, live happily ever after, and will never ever relate to this material again. Come bare witness in, “Now or Never
Holly Souchack/ The Prettiest Girl at Fat Camp
How do you figure out how to love yourself? Meditation? Yoga? A 4 week summer at fat camp where you learned what love handles are at the ripe age of 12? Let’s find the answer together!
Ricky Sim/ Corporate Gaysian
In “Corporate Gaysian,” Ricky shares a comedic story about his first job right after graduating during the 2008 Financial Crisis, where he realizes that as an ESL Gaysian, the only way up the corporate ladder is by breaking the rainbow-bamboo ceiling and getting ahead of his office nemesis – the tallest straight white man who everyone in his office favors. Until one day, he found out…
