American Badass
(or 12 Characters In Search of a National Identity)

Written and Performed by Chris Harcum

One of downtown NYC's favorite solo performers returns with this multiple-character examination of the state of the world as we head into another round of election hijinks. Harcum's emotionally driven, virtuosic, and irreverent signature style is deployed in this battle to figure out who the hell we are in the current ape-shit whirlwind of madness.

A high-octane and high-glucose ride though the world of non-partisan political satire, as seen by “stand-up performance artist” Jonathan Pereira. American Cake is a startlingly refreshing blend of personal and political comedy that not only entertains, but makes you think. It’s Red, Blue, and Green friendly… and free cake at every show!

Tickets: $12

Antonin...mon Artaud

created, written and directed by Roi “Bubi” Escudero

An irreverent performance-art-psychodrama uncovers Artaud’s passionate, daring truth and exposes him naked with his pain…"the pain of the world. " A visual-dynamic spectacle with a touch of absurd and unpredictable humor that fuses magic realism and the shocking awareness of the Theatre of Cruelty to unravel Artaud’s brilliant, lucid madness.

Tickets: $15

Clinical Depression
(the funny kind)

Written and Performed by Drew Winniger

Twelve years of therapy, meds, and a surprising amount of hilarity. It¹s a fearlessly honest and funny glimpse into one man's experience with depression. You¹ll laugh, you¹ll cry, and learn more about this guy than you ever wanted to.

Tickets: $ 12

Diversey Harbor
Don't Eat the Pictures Productions

Tickets: $15

Great Hymn of Thanksgiving/Conversation Storm

The Nonsense Company

Around a dinner table, three actor / musicians sing, pray, beat forks, deliver the news, and snap between scenes in mid-sentence in this brutal but timely deconstruction of War-on-Terror-speak by internationally-known avant-garde composer Rick Burkhardt.  Torture, ticking time bombs, faux-Middle-Eastern folk tales, broken clocks, unreliable waiters.

Tickets:$ 10

Speedo & the Straight Man

A man's struggle with self discovery.

Tickets: $10

Rising Sun Performance Company

Sporknotes is a 45 Minute set of Intellectual mockery and Literary blasphemy, set in motion by audience suggestions of both Classic & Obscure Literature, the troupe of improvisers and actors bring the stories to life with little to no knowledge of the story line, guided only by online student study guides!

Tickets: $12

STUCK!
Written and Performed by Jennie Franks

Has there ever been anyone who can honestly say the've never felt stuck? STUCK! Is having its world- wide premiere at this yea's Frigid Festival. Jennie Franks, actor, playwright, devised this one- woman show about being locked in a bathroom, in the bowels of a Starbucks somewhere. Or is she?

TELEGRAMS
from the New Canadian Cinema

TELEGRAMS is a new forum for cinema distribution—Canada’s finest young film artists are travelling with their own projection gear and a dangerous repertoire of new work from award winning Canadian directors. Like a band of rogue troubadours singing to let their hearts out, TELEGRAMS filmmakers will present the best new Canadian cinema in a unique and exciting way.

Tickets: $10

Elisa DeCarlo (star of 2007's Pointless Rebellion) is the Mad Fashionista, the plus size Internet diva feared throughout the world of style. Helped by her browbeaten assistant (Shannon Sutherland) this larger-than-life Goddess of Chic dishes on the famous men and women she’s bedded, celebrity secrets, and dear, eccentric Mama in this farcical couture comedy, based on the popular comic blog.

Tickets: $ 12

Gestalt Entertainment

Tickets: $15

Caught in a lie because the people he lies to are caught in a lie and facing 225 years in Federal prison, the world's greatest vacuum cleaner salesman, represents himself at trial where he learns everyone's selling a vacuum cleaner. Winner, 2007 D.C. and Iowa Fringe.

Sapling Players
TIckets: $15

Her Majesty

EXIT Theatre

When queens of every kind collide in this breakneck farce-for-two, quick-changes and theatrical follies soon give way to the folly of theatre. If you can't follow the plot, no worries-- neither can playwright Sean Owens and his diva, Christina Augello! Question their sanity... but never HER MAJESTY. A fun-filled flurry of people, places and plots by 2007 FRIGID Audience Choice Award winner Sean Owens.

Tickets: $15

The Secret Show

Tickets: $15

Leaving Normal
Written and Performed by Melissa McNamara

“Have you ever tried to fit your life into a suitcase?...Your actual life – memories, regrets, feelings, loves, hatreds, heartache?” Join Eileen on this journey as she searches for acceptance, solitude and the cure to a genetically inherited broken heart. A one-woman comedy incorporating improvisation and movement, Leaving Normal is a bus ride of hope, fear and self-perception that explores the geography of pain. Come for the ride or come for the twizzlers!

parts is parts
the real kim harmon

vision, blood, and the lovely type of hope that only blossoms out of political, spiritual, and personal despair, parts is parts: spirals soaring original music with implements of death, baked goods, and intense doses of ridiculous sincerity to beg the dangerous and sometimes terrifying question: how does it all fit together?

“Who would put a hex on me?” is the question Bob Brader tries to answer in his new dark comedic monologue from the creative team who brought you Spitting In The Face Of The Devil.  It’s about hemorrhoids, fear, obsession and finding the love of your life

The John Montgomery
Theatre Company

Tickets: $10

Rebel Without a Niche
Written and Performed by Kurt Fitzpatrick

Tickets: $15

The most awkward dead-end jobs anyone's ever worked, injected with a high-octane cocktail of drollness!  We’ve all been there.  We’ve met waves of creepy/doldrums/smiles-too-much types of people.  Kurt roasts them all in an hour, along with a killer bit with a jelly donut.

the international BTC

What now? She’s obsessive. He’s gay. The faucet’s still leaking. And baby makes three. Oh. And they’re 9. See what happens when these two youngsters play a twisted game of house in Working it Out.

Tickets: $7

The tale of a sentimental bomb-maker's tangled relations with the calculating denizens of his desperate hometown.

Tickets: $15

Boom

Written and Performed by Andrew Connor

What if Hillary talked to angels? Well, then she'd be Bernie.
Growing up in middle America, Bernie always knew she was meant for something.
Then one day, an angel told her what it was. She's going to be the leader of the world,
free or otherwise. Why? Because it's what God wants.

ExcesSecret Circus:
“¿Guess What ‘It’s’ About?”
Theatre Reverb

Olga and Björn host this entirely unpredictable (yet lovingly delightful) production that features audience tampering, two wildly comic ExcessoMimes (Gluttony and Lust), an outlandish game of Operation (you're the doctor!™), video and audio montage, tap dancing, outrageous fun and mild nudity.

Tickets: $10

The story of a painfully shy young man and his compulsively destructive robot

Tickets: $12

Tickets: $15

Modern Medieval
David Tyson's Weaver of Tales Theatre

A contemporary jester takes us back to the past to better help us learn about the present. Social and political satire abound as we see that the world still needs it's fools to show us how to stand up to the giants,demons,and kings, that surround us. The Dark Ages never had so much light!

NewFormat Improvsation

Tickets: $6

An extraordinary piece of improvisational theatre that explores the the connections. shared behaviors, and stories of five random New Yorkers on the morning subway commute. No two shows are the same; each performance remains unique to itself!

Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface!
Written and Performed by Dan Bernitt

Tickets: $10

Two in the Bush!

Tracey Erin Smith & Burning Bush Productions

A female Rabbinical student teams up with exotic dancers, taking their show on the road to senior's homes. 
Audience Choice Award ~ Frigid NYC 2007
Best of the Toronto Fringe 2006/07

Tickets: $15

Whence Came Ye Scarlett O'Hara O'Hanrahan?
53 Hysterics

When Scarlett ran away from her Irish home in search of her roots, she never thought she'd discover America: Badonkadonks! Popsuperstar-divas!! Political Correctness!!! Will this African-American-Irish-African-American lassie thrive or will NYC eat her alive? Written/Performed by Melle Powers (Chappelle's Show regular).

Tickets: $15

XY(T)
Written and Performed by Kestryl Lowery

Do you have the balls to become a man?  XY(T) brings to life a series of questions, contradictions, and characters around the theme of testosterone.  Veering between playful,  poignant, hilarious, and disconcerting, transgender butch Kestryl Lowrey strips away layers of gender and self in pursuit of sex and sanity  within embodied masculinity.

Tickets: $10