SOLOCOM NYC’25: DUNCAN/SCHROEDER/CISZEWSKI

Avatar Wig Store – SYDNEY DUNCAN

Sydney Duncan improvises characters with wigs!

Lights Camera Animal: The Denise Allen Wilcox Experience – JULIA SCHROEDER

Hi there how you doin. I’m Denise Allen Wilcox, the industry’s most renowned animal trainer/animal handler/animal wrangler. Join me in my exclusive tell-all and how-to and everything-you-do-and-don’t-want-to-know about the animal handling/animal wrangling/animal training industry. If the animal is famous, chances are I got em that way.

MICHAEL JOHN CISZEWSKI: THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION – MICHAEL JOHN CISZEWSKI

PIT favorite and NYC comedian Michael John Ciszewski (Edinburgh Fringe, Off-Broadway) returns to 29th Street after sell-out smash hits LOVEFOOL and IF MEMORY SERVES with a brand new collection of his greatest hits and new bits! His “Material Girl” is a tale of accidental car theft; his “Like A Prayer,” a surprising hookup with a radical leftist. His enlightened “Ray of Light?” An unhinged treatise on the blistering stupidity of falling in love again and again. He’s here, he’s queer, he’s got a gap between his front teeth just like Madonna, and he’s got an IMMACULATE COLLECTION of all-killer, no-filler GAY NONSENSE for SoloCom NYC 2025!

Ciszewski has been heralded as “a whip smart comic [who] holds the room like putty” (BingeFringe) and has earned accolades including a Queer Performer’s Award Nomination at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe—where his show was named the #50 Top Show out of 3600!—and raves from critics and audiences alike for his “perfectly pitched and highly personal standup, superbly written and immaculately performed” (EdFringe.com).

SOLOCOM NYC 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.)

SOLOCOM NYC is a festival of new solo work. All shows presented are 75% 100% new material, and are created specifically for the festival. SOLOCOMs goal is to push artists to create a show that is meaningful, personal and to follow the fear.