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In Someone Else's Shoes

Slip-ons, stilettos, or sneakers, you'll enjoy the journey when you take a walk in someone else's shoes. Be a filmmaker in 1914, Lady Lawford for a day, Bobby Sands, Anita Bryant, or even Emperor Nero!


Ah Kua Show
Talk Sense Pte. Ltd.
Writer: Leona Lo
Director: Richard Chua
Definition: noun.& adj.: derog. 1)effeminate man 2)male transvestite. WRONG! Tender, raw, amusing, naughty, nice –the voice of Southeast Asia’s transgender women (formerly typecast as ladyboy showgirls) sets the record straight. We may be ladies - we are definitely not boys!
International   International, Singapore   Solo Show   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Overseas Adventure   
www.ahkuashow.wordpress.com   



Stripes: The Mystery Circus
Wayward Productions
Writer: Sarah Hayward, in collaboration with Marguerite Witvoet
Director: Johanna Mercer, Music Director: Marguerite Witvoet
Choreographer: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
People-pleasing Pollyhymnia will do anything to get into the circus. She brazenly reinvents eight iconic circus acts: The Two-Headed Lady, High-Wired Act... "The shows defining moment, which hangs like a suspended breath, is her juggler..." E.Clarke -See Magazine, Edmonton
International   Vancouver, B.C., Canada   Comedy   Solo Show   
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.sarahhayward.ca   



The Height of the Eiffel Tower
Rambunctious Productions
Writer: Morgana O'Reilly, Co-Creator Abigail Greenwood
Director: Abigail Greenwood
The Hulme Family, West Auckland, New Zealand. Nathan is thirteen, awkward, fixated with fish. Anna-Louise is sixteen pregnant and horrible. Katie's booked her first job as a hand model. But yea-no-yea Mum's got a life to live too.
International   Auckland, New Zealand   Solo Show   Comedy   
Staycation:Absurdly Surrealist Dream   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.rambunctious.co.nz   



A Gilgl Fun a Nigun (The Metamorphasis of a Melody)
Le Theatre en l'Air/Der LufTeater
Writer: I. L. Peretz
Director: Pascal Holtzer
A solo performance in Yiddish with English translation supertitles, based on the classic short story of a melody's journey from singer to singer, from folk song, to religious hymn to popular tune.
International   Strasbourg, France   Solo Show   Multi-Media   
Staycation:Literary Lane   In Someone Else's Shoes   
lufteater.com   



A PERSONAL WAR- STORIES OF THE MUMBAI TERROR ATTACKS
BALANCING ACT PRODUCTIONS
Writer: DIVYA PALAT
Director: DIVYA PALAT
On 26/11/08, a group of highly trained terrorists declared war on the city of Mumbai. Seven ordinary people find themselves trapped in the midst of bomb blasts and gunfire.A Personal War tells the extraordinary story of these survivors.
International   Mumbai, India   Drama   Multi-Media   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.divyapalat.net/personal_war/fringenyc.html   



Monetizing Emma
Thackeray Walsh LLC
Writer: Felipe Ossa
Director: Leah Bonvissuto
Monetizing Emma follows a 15-year old who’s annoyed by mom, tormented by bullies and enraptured by Jane Austen. But when bank Thackeray Walsh pulls Emma into their debut teenage-backed bond, she enters a world of exciting opportunities – and hidden dangers.
Local   Brooklyn, NYC   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:Wall Street Walking Tour   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.monetizingemma.com   



Shh!
New Exhibition Room
Writer: Created by the Ensemble, Theo Goodell, A. Nora Long and Dawn M. Simmons
Director: A. Nora Long
Psst! Shh! needs you to shout what you can’t say, think, or do in America and all the cheeky, contradictory, offensive and constitutionally questionable gore of censorship. Warning: contains nudity, violence, adult language and catchy tunes.
National   Boston, MA   Comedy   Improv/Sketch/Stand-up   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Fantasy Island Excursion   
www.newexhibitionroom.org   



When Lilacs Last
Writer: Tony Devaney Morinelli
Director: Tony Devaney Morinelli
A hard-hitting confrontation: two promising young men struggle with abusive fathers, sexual orientation, and bigotry while coming of age. Set against poetry of Walt Whitman: a searing experience of devastation--innocence and desire overwhelmed by ignorance and brutality.
National   Bryn Mawr, PA   Drama   FringeHIGH   
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.whenlilacslast.com   



American Gypsy
MagicMouth Theatre Company
Writer: Ben Whiting
Director: Two-Time Emmy Award Winner, Alexander "Sandy" Marshall
How do you build connection in an art-form based on deception? Theatre unites with sleight-of-hand magic as the greatest magician nobody’s ever heard of clashes with his teacher over the significance of a life on the street.
National   Chicago, IL   FringeHIGH   Vaudeville/Sideshow/Magic/Burlesque   
Staycation:Fantasy Island Excursion   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.magicmouth.org   



Jen and Liz in Love
BlondeBrunetteRedhead Productions
Writer: Jesse Weaver
Director: Lory Henning
It's closing time at the county fair. Jen discovers Liz, her childhood friend, trapped in the kissing booth. As they wait for rescue, their secrets are revealed, and we see Liz hasn't yet had her last kiss of the day.
Local   New York, NY   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   In Someone Else's Shoes   



Burning In China
Dark Light Theater
Writer: Gary Moore
Director: Caleb Deschanel
An American professor in China navigates comic culture collisions trying to get his students to express themselves openly and discovers the danger in their secret longings when he's drawn with them into the tragedy of Tiananmen Square.
National   Woobury, VT   Drama   Solo Show   
Staycation:Overseas Adventure   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.burninginchina.com   



(UN)Natural Disaster
The Lost Theatre
Writer: Created by the Ensemble, Conceived by Richard Hess
Director: Richard Hess
How do we respond to disaster? (UN)Natural Disaster is a plea for survivors to be heard- our damaged planet, our damaged politics, our damaged selves cry out for order in the chaos. Who is listening?
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Performance Art   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.un-naturaldisaster.com   



The Secretaries
TOSOS
Writer: The Five Lesbian Brothers--Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron
Director: Mark Finley
Choreographer: n/a
Join this cult of murderous Slim-Fast drinking, high-heel wearing, big-haired secretaries who work the desks of the Cooney Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon. It's just like your office, only with chainsaws.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Comedy   Comedy   
Staycation:Summer Camp(y)   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.tosos2.org   



Did You Do Your Homework?
Writer: Aaron Braxton, Performed by Aaron Braxton
The show spotlights the realities; comical, tragic,and inspiring of the Los Angeles public school system and one teacher's journey through the bureaucracy of an urban classroom. It recently won the Teatrul Bacovia International SoloWorks Festival in Bacau, Romania.
National   Los Angeles, CA   Solo Show   FringeHIGH   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.aaronbraxton.com   



Over and Over
NO HOPE Productions
Writer: Tim Aumiller
Director: Tim Aumiller
In a downtown Manhattan theatre --where relationships, both real and imagined, are forged and broken --Mitch and Jimmie meet. Two former Fordham roommates and best friends, they negotiate the complex and intimate terms of their sexual history.
Local   Brooklyn, NYC   Drama   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   My NYC Story   
www.nohopeproductions.com   



MASKS
MASKS Productions
Writer: Terryl Daluz and Mann Alfonso
Director: Terryl Daluz and Mann Alfonso
Winner of an NAACP Theatre Award for Best Playwright - Local. MASKS is a buddy dramedy about 2 men growing up in the juvenile justice system struggling to make it into manhood, battling with their past to shed their masks.
National   Los Angeles, CA   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:"Dude" Ranch   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.masksproductions.com   



The Morning After / The Night Before
Cracked Windshield Productions
Writer: Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jeff Bienstock
Director: Diana Glazer
Todd awakens after a wild party to discover best friend Cynthia in bed beside him. What exactly happened Saturday night--and why can't anybody remember anything Sunday morning? Secrets are unearthed and hangovers are nursed in this raunchy, rollicking musical comedy.
Local   Brooklyn, NYC   Musical   Comedy   
Staycation:Ride the Rollercoaster of Love   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.tmatnb.com   



Have a Nice Life
Nice People Theatre Company
Writer: Music and Lyrics by Conor Mitchell, Book by Matthew Hurt
Director: Bill Felty, Musical Director: Tom Brady
Choreographer: Nancy Berman Kantra
Direct from a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Have a Nice Life was hailed by Fringe Review as "a work of true brilliance." This sharp-witted, therapeutic musical from Philadelphia follows seven eccentric characters during their weekly group therapy session.
National   Philadelphia, PA   Musical   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Absurdly Surrealist Dream   
www.nicepeopletheatre.org   



DRIVING THE SAUDIS
Writer: Jayne Amelia Larson
Director: Charlie Stratton
Where does your GAS money really go? Larson’s grueling adventures as a chauffeur for Saudi Royals on a mega shopping/plastic surgery vacation in Beverly Hills explores cultural divides and common hypocrisies plus everything you wanted to know about ass implants.
National   Los Angeles, CA   Solo Show   FringeHIGH   
Staycation:Through Heaven & Hell   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.drivingthesaudis.info   



open heart
joes & co.
Writer: Joe Salvatore
Director: Joe Salvatore
What's it like in a gay relationship that allows for outside sexual partners? Find out through the actual words of men who shared their personal stories and thoughts on monogamy, fidelity, sex, and open relationships.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:"Dude" Ranch   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.openhearttheplay.com   



Our Condolences
Writer: Lauren Olson
Director: Rachel Hamilton
My mom died. Yours will too. Relax! We all say the wrong thing. The awkward, uncomfortable and unintentionally hilarious situations we're all faced with when someone we love dies. Come laugh. Because it feels so much better than crying.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Solo Show   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.ourcondolencestheshow.com   



Questions My Mother Can't Answer
Coyote REP Theatre Company
Writer: Andrea Caban
Director: Rachel Eckerling
Andrea’s on a mission: she interviews eight “women-of-a-certain-age” including a sexy Moroccan ballroom dancer, a donations-only prostitute, and her Aunt Shirley, about getting pregnant, staying married and finding a flow. What happens when this solo-artist learns she's not alone anymore?
Local   New York, NY   Solo Show   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Family Vacation   
www.questionsmymothercantanswer.com   



The Maid of Orleans
Demimonde Theatre & Opera
Writer: Friedrich Schiller, translated and adapted by Pamela Wilkinson
Director: Pamela Wilkinson
Johanna of Arc's miraculous victories last for as long as she keeps her vow never to let earthly love enter her heart. A chance encounter on the battlefield causes her to fall from grace in this romantic tragedy by the German Shakespeare.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Drama      
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Battleground Tour   
www.themaidoforleans.com   



Dear Harvey
Diversionary Theatre
Writer: Patricia Loughrey, Music by Thomas Hodges
Stories of Harvey Milk - the people he knew, the lives he changed. Intimate, surprising stories based on interviews with Harvey's nephew Stuart Milk, Harvey's campaign manager Anne Kronenberg, AIDS Quilt founder Cleve Jones and other friends and activists.
National   San Diego, CA   Drama   FringeHIGH   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Cross Country   
www.diversionary.org   



Lost and Found
Rogue Machine Theatre
Writer: John Pollono
Director: Andrew Block
A stranger appears on the Broncato's doorstep, unearthing buried secrets. Cultures clash and beliefs shatter, forcing this Boston cop family to grapple with love, grieving and homophobia in a darkly comic, emotionally violent saga of forgotten pasts and broken trust.
National   Los Angeles, CA, Manhattan, NYC   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:Family Vacation   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.RogueMachineTheatre.com/FringeNYC   



Abraham's Daughters
Danish Duck Productions
Writer: Elissa Lerner
Confronting a moral crisis that threatens both their newfound independence and their budding friendship, Ranya, Kate and Sarah, college freshmen far from home and family, race headlong on a collision course with the ancient faiths of their births.
Local   Queens, NYC   Drama      
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Spa Getaway (Mind & Body)   
www.abrahamsdaughterstheplay.com   



GirlPower: Survival of the Fittest
Project Girl Performance Collective and Co-Op Theatre East
Writer: The 2010 Project Girl Performance Collective
Director: Ashley Marinaccio, Elizabeth Koke and Jessica Greer Morris
In deeply personal material based on real interviews and experiences, twenty young women explore topics such as peer pressure, relationships, body image, being an outcast, different, flawed, and full of dreams for the future.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   FringeHIGH   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   
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www.projectgirlperformancecollective.org   



Rites of Privacy
Moving Parts Theater
Writer: David Rhodes
Director: Charles Loffredo
Direct from its acclaimed London production, American actor/writer David Rhodes’ bold and provocative solo show examines issues of privacy and authenticity. Rhodes portrays himself and five disparate characters, each with a weighty secret. “Extremely impressive” - TimeOut London CRITICS’ CHOICE
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Solo Show   Multi-Media   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.ritesofprivacy.com   



Cookie
61 Academy in Association with Partial Comfort Productions
Writer: Chad Beckim
Director: Janet Bobcean
A down-on-his-luck-writer’s notions of race and identity are turned upside down in this darkly comic examination of marriage for hire.
   New York, NY   Drama   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Absurdly Surrealist Dream   
www.cookietheplay.com   



Mobius
Emmett Productions
Writer: Michael Lopez-Saenz
Like a Mobius strip, this drama twists and turns. Montgomery struggles with the challenges of teen life: a dysfunctional family and his emerging sexuality. But beneath lies a secret that springs from the fragility of his genius.
Local   Brooklyn, NYC   Drama   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Through Heaven & Hell   
www.mobiustheplay.com   



Picking Palin
A Family Affair Films
Writer: Stephen Padilla
Director: Stephen Padilla
How did a certain first-term, little-known governor from Alaska become the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate? The better question is why. Find out in this FringeNYC World Premiere.
Local   Brooklyn, NY   Drama   Comedy   
Staycation:
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   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.pickingpalin.com   



Namely, Muscles
Claire Porter / PORTABLES
Writer: Claire Porter
Director: Claire Porter
Choreographer: Claire Porter
A rollicking ride through Dr. Nickie Nom's latest book of poems, NAMELY, MUSCLES. All the muscles of the body (and then some) are enacted by this award winning forensic-orthopedic-autopsy-muscular-anatomical-surgical-specialist.
Local   Teaneck, NJ   Spoken Word/Poetry   Dance   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Literary Lane   
www.cportables.com   
Sat 15 @ 9
Sun 16 @ 1:30
Sat 22 @ 11:45
Tue 25 @ 10
Fri 28 @ 6



A Raisin in the Salad: Black Plays for White People
Bryan E. Glover in association with P4:13, Inc.
Writer: Kevin R. Free
Director: Christopher Burris
What happens to a dream that's stirred (not shaken)? The answer lies in these revealing sketches, drawn with a pointy pencil. A dangerous comedy created for US, by US...and all about YOU (and us).
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Comedy   Improv/Sketch/Stand-up   
Staycation:
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   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.blackplaysforwhitepeople.com   



23 Feet in 12 Minutes: The Death and Rebirth of New Orleans
Word on the Street Productions
Writer: Mari Brown
Director: David Travis
On the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, meet six real-life New Orleans characters whose lives were irrevocably changed by the storm. Their raw, poignant, compelling stories are based on interviews conducted with over 60 Katrina survivors and New Orleans transplants.
National   Boulder, CO   Solo Show   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Down South & Out West   
www.wordonthestreetplays.org   



Letters to Clio- Part II, Margarita
LTC Productions
Writer: Jennifer S. Jones
Director: Jessica Lefkow
Argentina. 1976. A girl vanishes. A mother searches for truth. A country crumbles. Based on first hand interviews, this touching story follows one woman through the perils of brutal dictatorship as she discovers one voice truly can make a difference.
Local   Brooklyn, NYC   Solo Show   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Time Traveler   
www.letterstoclio.com   
Thu 20 @ 5:15
Sat 22 @ 2
Sun 23 @ 7:30
Thu 27 @ 7*
Fri 28 @ 4:45



Headscarf and the Angry Bitch
Zehra Fazal
Writer: Zehra Fazal
Join Zed Headscarf, 'The Muslim Weird Al,' on a folk-rock comedic exploration of faith, love, sex and what it means to grow up Muslim in America. This beef ain't halal! Winner of Best Solo-Show Award, 2009 Capital Fringe Festival.
National   Washington, DC   Solo Show   Comedy   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   Family Vacation   
www.zehrafazal.com   
Sat 15 @ 4:30
Tue 18 @ 10:15
Fri 21 @ 9
Mon 24 @ 5:15
Fri 28 @ 9:15



Happy Birthday, Mom
Teaspoon Productions
Writer: Meghan Gambling
Director: Meghan Gambling
Olivia flies home from college to surprise her mother on her 55th birthday, only to discover Mom, clad in leather, waiting for a ripped young man she met on Craigslist to come over for sex.
National   Los Angeles, CA   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:Family Vacation   In Someone Else's Shoes   
www.happybdaymom.biz   



Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto
Off-Chance Productions
Writer: Anna Khaja
Director: Heather De Michele
Award-winning writer and performer Anna Khaja depicts eight characters who illuminate the lives and historical forces surrounding slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto. These people form the prism through which we view this enigmatic international figure in her final moments.
National   Los Angeles, CA   Solo Show   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   
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www.shaheedtheplay.com   



RUNNING
The Journey Company
Writer: Arlene Hutton
His first Marathon just hours away, Stephen needs a good night's sleep. Then his wife's attractive former roommate shows up unexpectedly. Will he be running on empty? A new adult dramedy from the award-winning author of LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC.
Local   Manhattan, NYC   Comedy   Drama   
Staycation:In Someone Else's Shoes   My NYC Story   
www.arlenehutton.com/running