LOOKING FOR LIGHTNING Gets Third Performance at United Solo!

Looking for Lightning, a past-life-themed solo show written and performed by Elise Hudson, directed by Sophie Netanel, has been extended! Added Performance: 11/13 at 6PM in the 2016 United Solo Theatre Festival, the world's largest solo theatre festival, currently in its 7th season in New York City at Theatre Row.

What do reincarnation, love, and continental drift have in common? In Looking for Lightning, a young romantic visits with three past lives (an Elizabethan-era handmaiden to the queen, a pre-WWI Russian cabaret singer, and an ex-socialite of 60's Atlanta) and learns a likely truth about what it is that we are all searching for, and what we need to do to get it.

What began as Elise Hudson's (writer/performer) final grad school recital at Brown University/Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island bloomed into a creative epiphany and exploration of both her conscious and subconscious past and present. The three past lives (Susanna, Ilsa, and Mary Jane) developed in different ways and with unusual sources...one is based on a true story whose antagonist became Elise's muse, another came out of a dream she had repeatedly over a year ago, and the third came out of an actual past life regression...but not in the order! See the show and venture a guess as to which is which! Her first performance with United Solo on 9/16 sold out, as did her encore on 10/25.

Elise Hudson (writer/performer) is an actor, writer, and believer in miracles. NYC Theatre: Dracula (Hunger and Thirst Theatre Collective), Straight On 'Til Morning staged reading (Wild Rumpus Productions/ MTC), Who Mourns for Bob The Goon? (Dixon Place). Regional Theatre: Twelfth Night and Macbeth (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company), Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence (Summer Rep Festival), Laughing Stock (Peterborough Players), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lost Nation Theater). Brown/Trinity Rep MFA: The Tooth of Crime, Bus Stop, Pericles, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Hedda Gabler, The Serpent. Film: Some Freaks. TV: Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It (filming), A Crime to Remember.
Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA. Elise is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. www.elisehudsonactor.com.

Sophie Netanel (Director) is also an actor and writer. Recent credits include: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Queens Theatre), THE LOCUS (Summer Repertory Festival), SEE BAT FLY (Playwrights Rep), IVANOV (Trinity Rep), IN THE NEXT ROOM (Brown/Trinity Rep), TWELFTH NIGHT (Brown/Trinity Rep), HEDDA GABLER (Brown/Trinity Rep). Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep MFA. AEA. www.sophienetanel.com.

2016 United Solo, the world's largest solo theatre festival, currently in its 7th year, will present 120 shows from six continents at Theatre Row: 410 West 42nd Street, New York City. TICKETS, with a price of $20.25 (which includes a $2.25 theatre restoration charge) are available at Theatre Row box office, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, as well as over the phone at 212.239.6200 and online at telecharge.com. More details can be found at www.unitedsolo.org