When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

1994.  TALKING LOUD!

Talking Loud! was a show I put together that showcased solo artists.  We all did original material.

Talking Loud! was a monthly event at Surf Reality on the lower east side in NYC.

TALKING LOUD! c. 1994.

TALKING LOUD! c. 1994.

c. 1994

c. 1994

1995.  CALLING ON GOD

Surf Reality

This was my first full-length solo play.

CALLING ON GOD c. 1995

c. 1995

1996.  EVEN SUPERMODELS GET THE BLUES

Dixon Place

1997.  EVEN SUPERMODELS GET THE BLUES

WOMENKIND VII

1997.  I ALWAYS CRY AT WEDDINGS

New York International Fringe Festival

Womenkind’s Women on the Fringe

Finally, Jill Dalton’s “I Always Cry at Weddings” was a wickedly arch comedy with women’s sometimes pathological cattiness as its target. As an attendee of a friend’s nuptials, Dalton’s unceasing snipes a the figures, fortunes, and futures reaches the shrill at times, but it never off-putting. Her point about an inherent self-loathing at the root of it is always clear. And as a performer, Dalton was a cyclone of neurotic tics, all of them quite funny.

John Michael  Koroly, OOBR

(Top LtoR). Marcy Lovitch, Emma Palzere, Passion, Bridget Killeen Brown, & Gayle Stahlhuth. (Bottom LtoR) Jacqueline Wade and Jill Dalton c. 1997

And these short works gave way to my full-length solo plays, CALLING ON GOD, MY LIFE IN THE TRENCHES, and LIZZIE BORDEN LIVE! (See other highlights)