SOLOCOM NYC’25: RODRIGUEZ/STEINGOLD/CERNIGLIA/DIEDERICH

laff n’ Dance 4 long life – PEACHES RODRIGUEZ

How i use laughter and dance in my career for l9ngevity!

Anchoress – ELYSE STEINGOLD

It’s 1385 and a woman could look forward to a life of plague, or worse, marriage (and if you survive either of those, you’ll probably die in childbirth). But Esther has found a way to cheat the system, deciding to become an “anchoress.” She is given funeral rites and bricked into a small cell on the side of the town church, as she is no longer a person but a “living saint.” Sure, she’s an intemperate, Jew-ish atheist who regularly breaks all 10 Commandments and all 7 deadly sins (not that she can name all of them). Nevertheless, Esther vows to live the rest of her life in solitude and “prayer,” but she’s not as alone as she wished. The cell has three windows: one into the chapel, one to get food and a fresh chamberpot, and one to the main street, through which townspeople seek counsel and guidance. Esther imagined this would be a sort of wellness-retreat-opportunity-to-detox-and-not-pay-for-food-or-rent-and-hopefully-lose-weight-and-start-writing-her-masterpiece moment, only to find out that even when you brick yourself into a cell, you can’t shut out the world. You can’t escape people. And perhaps scariest of all – you can’t escape yourself.

Living Situation – TIM CERNIGLIA

Tim Cerniglia’s (abbreviated) solo show living situation which features characters from a neglected house plant to the worst speaker at your corporate sales meeting. Tim sold out 4 shows with the hour long version of Living Situation at the annoyance theatre (Chicago) in March of 2024.

Welcome To New York – ERICA DIEDERICH

I love writing and performing characters! I have a handful of NYC based characters I’ve written, ex: The Single Piece Of Scotch Tape Holding NYC Together, Your New Roommate a NYC Radiator, and I want to put together a kind of love/hate letter to what we face being New Yorkers. We love this city. We hate this city. It’s all encompassing. Throughout the show between characters I want to play clips of like ‘On The Street’ type interviews asking people why they love the city, why they live here etc etc. And I’ll edit all of that to fit within the context of the characters I’m doing for the show. Will be just about 18 mins.

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.