Solo Theater Festival - February 2022

Tickets: $12.00

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Location: 4820 E McDowell Rd

Audience size is limited.
Masks are required.

Dates:

February 4th & 5th

February 11th & 12th

Time: 7:00pm

Arizona Actors Academy presents our first ever

SOLO THEATER FESTIVAL

featuring the following Local Solo Artists presenting original work

February 4th and 5th, 2022

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Growing Pains…

featuring Julianna Oommen

The struggle of growing up under the pressure of time, family, and life’s expectations.

Adult Themes | PG


Julianna has been acting for 8 years.She has been training at Arizona Actor’s Academy for 3 years and studied at Atlantic Acting School in New York during the summer of 2019. This is her first solo show performance both as a writer and performer.

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Futakuchi Onna

featuring Kristin Moran

A modern and personal interpretation of the ancient Japanese folk story Futakuchi Onna.

Adult Themes | Partial Nudity | PG

Thank you to… Victoria Sandoval, Makeup | Brian Tooker, Camera


Kristin joined Arizona Actor’s Academy community as a beginning actor in 2017. She immediately fell in love with the community and the craft. In 2021, Kristin played Madame Hattori in the short film, Madame Hattori’s Izakaya by Shanna Fujii. This is where she first discovered the story of the Futakuchi Onna. Kristin would like to dedicate this show to her mom, Helen Kimiko Asazawa Moran (1937-2012)

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Girl in Reverse

featuring Avery Volk

A Feminine Rage Manifesto; what happens when a woman doesn’t hit all of the typical “milestones” until later in life than the average person, and hasn’t even begun to come into a real understanding of who she is and what she wants until now. These are the stories of the sort-of-almost-but-not-completely culminated romantic/intimate encounters that happened throughout the pandemic that, at best, were exciting, intense, and meaningful, and, at worst, were deeply painful and sometimes traumatic.

Adult themes, Language | R


Avery Volk is a local actor and artist who has trained at Arizona Actors Academy for the past 2 years. Before the apocalypse, she performed in “Two Man Show” by the London-based movement duo RashDash at Aside Theatre. This is her first solo show. Here the artist wishes to share her final piece of closure to this part of the story. This was cut from the live performance for time, but can be heard at the following link: CLICK HERE  Thank you for listening. 

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Ksjusha’s Minutiae

featuring Ksjusha Povod

Come on in to Ksjusha’s Minutiae where, together, we will discover the meaning of life. Hahaha, jk… Maybe not jk, I’m not sure. I don’t know what the meaning of life is or if there is any meaning or purpose. But I do know that whether I do it intentionally or not, whether I’m happy with the result or not, whether I feel it’s complete or not, I am living and meaning is being created in the world around me – by me, by you, by others. Share in my minutiae with me and maybe we’ll find some meaning together.

Adult Language | PG


Ksjusha Povod is a dreamer, over-thinker and occasional do-er. When she’s not debilitated by perfectionism and procrastination, she likes to read, write, and create, and when she is, she buys books, journals, and pretty pens to fill her shelves and nightstand. When she finds just the right words, she’ll finish this…

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February 11th and 12th, 2022

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Untitled

featuring Megan Scott

It’s a surprise! But it involves teenage girls in Mexico.

 

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I’m Megan Scott and I don’t like to write bios. There’s nothing I could say in 50 words or less that would tell you anything meaningful about me. Except maybe this: I’m a pain in the ass. I’m stubborn and I do things my way. And I don’t care what people think (lies). Oh, and I live in Arizona. And I love AZAA. This is more than 50 words.

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A Post Modern on the Black Dahlia

featuring Trystan Youngblood

A look inside the brain of someone obsessed with the famous Black Dahlia case.

Adult Themes and Optional audience participation for gruesome experimentation | PG-13/R

Special thanks to… Alex Herliny, Model | Jacob Pittolo, Filmographer | Craig Reedy, Design Assistance


Trystan is an Arizona native who fell hard for theatre in high school and has spent the last 10 years trying to pretend she didn’t. She loves traveling, sloths and true crime. In her free time, she can be found either in therapy or at Taco Bell.

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Sir Rachel the Lioness

featuring Rachel C. Grimes

Two coming of age stories told by a slightly self-conscious actor coach, as she figures out how to be a badass.

Adult Language | PG


Rachel Grimes currently teaches at Arizona Actors Academy, coaches young singers at East Valley Yamaha Music School and does some administrating. She co-founded Shringara Theatre Company at Illinois Wesleyan University, which still runs today, as well as Share a Dream Theatre Company which had one glorious production in Chicago before it’s current period of hibernation. She is decent at mini-golf, believes whistling can be taught, and enjoys cuddling with her boyfriend Andrew and their two cats on the good ole couch.

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Solo Theater Festival

Presented by Arizona Actors Academy

Staff

Director: Isaac Byrne

Producing Director: Maren McLean
Artistic Director: Brandy Hotchner
Graphic & Web Design: Jacque Arend




Location: 4820 E McDowell Rd

Audience size is limited.
Masks are required.

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