THE SCREENWRITER DIES OF HIS OWN FREE WILL
| Open: 08/20/15 Close: 08/29/15
A new metafictional comedy on the art of the deal by FringeNYC veteran Jim Shankman. Craig J. George directs a cast of two including Jim Shankman* (Winner, Best Actor – United Solo 2013) and Steven Mark Friedman*. *Member, AEA.
Willy Shotz is a heavyweight screenwriter. Producers kill for his stylish violence and gritty sci-fi. But Willy is facing the big deadline in the sky, which has given him a new vision of art and cinema and a new screenplay to go with it. Can he overcome the indignities of his illness to pitch his craftiest foe? Can he talk art like a man with his boyhood friend and sell this script before his expiration date? The Screenwriter Dies Of His Own Free Will is a two character metafictional comedy on the art of the deal.
Come Thick Night
| Open: 08/19/14 Close: 08/24/14
A young woman wakes from a nightmare about killing her father - only to find she's still in it. MAUS Theater of Berlin presents John Crutchfield's "gruselkabinett," a darkly hilarious mash-up of Ingmar Bergman, Elvis, and the Scottish play. 1h 15m International Berlin, GERMANY
Drama Comedy
Fuck You! You Fucking Perv!
| Open: 08/19/14 Close: 08/24/14
This solo performance is a schizophrenic immersion into psychological damage caused by pre-mature sexualisation, a sensory bombardment of weird and sometimes shocking imagery, tap dancing and tasteless jokes.
“ brilliant, dark and disturbing,” THE GAZETTE
“ tout bonnement brillante." LA VOIR
0h 50m International Montreal, CANADA
Drama Performance Art
SAMIRA
| Open: 08/12/14 Close: 08/24/14
Both startling and deeply moving, Samira received 4 stars from The Scotsman at the Edinburgh Festival. This rare and suspenseful, 60-minute, multi-media drama from Israel delivers a fascinating insight into the mind of a female terrorist.1h 0m International Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
Multi-Media Drama
Fearless
| Open: 08/09/14 Close: 08/23/14
“Fearless” is the story of one man's broken engagement (not his fault), failed suicide attempt (definitely his fault), the relationships that followed (probably his fault) and the misguided attempts to teach his students how to take risks and become fearless.1h 0m Local Queens, NY
Solo Show Comedy
Xavier Toby - Mining My Own Business
| Open: 08/09/14 Close: 08/23/14
What’s life really like on a mining site in Australia?
Where everything’s huge, highly explosive or high-visibility, expletives are punctuation, and $50 is loose change.
It’s Australia’s Wild West.
???? SG-Fringe, Edinburgh
????? Yelp.com1h 0m International Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Comedy Improv/Sketch/Stand-up
The Apple Tree, or Penis no. 7
| Open: 08/12/14 Close: 08/22/14
A Dr. Seuss meets poetry slam exploration of a young woman's wild and hilarious ride through the mystifying world of the penis, asking "Why is it that once I put your dick in my mouth we don't talk anymore?"0h 30m Local Queens, NY
Solo Show Spoken Word/Poetry
Chemistry
| Open: 08/09/14 Close: 08/22/14
Steph is a recovering depressive. Jamie overachieved himself off the deep end. When they meet in their psychiatrist's office, they can't deny their chemistry, but can they survive it? A pitch black and piercingly insightful comedy about being crazy in love.1h 20m Local Manhattan, NY
Comedy Drama
Kiss Your Brutal Hands
| Open: 08/08/14 Close: 08/22/14
Danny lives in Tompkins Square Park on the border of reality and reality TV. Barry’s got a corner office in TriBeCa where the pressure is unreal. Some are destroyed by God. Some are destroyed without Him.1h 30m Local Manhattan, NY
Solo Show Drama
Switch Back
| Open: 08/12/14 Close: 08/22/14
A feisty 20 year old woman from Baltimore thinks she can adapt to living on an isolated mountain top with a charismatic cowboy. A real life fairy tale becomes a fight for her life when dark secrets are revealed.
1h 20m National Berkeley, CA
Solo Show Drama
HOAXOCAUST! Written and performed by Barry Levey, with the generous assistance of the Institute for
| Open: 08/15/14 Close: 08/21/14
THE APPLE TREE, OR PENIS NO. 7, is a one woman Dr. Seuss meets penis poetry slam that raises the question, "Why is it that once I put your dick in my mouth we don't talk anymore?" With original music on the ukelele featuring "The Horny Song."
0h 30m Local Kerhonkson, NY 
Relax, it's not THAT hard to understand. Adam Harvey, "a New Mexico actor with an incredible memory" (NYTimes), shares his knowledge par excellence of James Joyce's cryptic masterwork in this thoroughly engaging and accessible one-man tour de force.