Valerie Hager's NAKED IN ALASKA Heads to Rome This Month

Award-winning actress / writer movement artist Valerie Hager also writer and performer of NAKED IN ALASKA is being brought out as guest of honor to Rome, Italy to headline the 2015 Genderotica Festival May 22nd at 9:30pm at NUOVO CINEMA PALAZZO produced by Eyes Wild Drag. Naked In Alaska will also as appear on other stages as a guest while in Italy TBA.

Naked In Alaska is a story about Valerie's experience as an exotic dancer and the depths she dove into order to be desired and ultimately the courage she had to find and face in order to leave before it was to late.

The show deals directly with issues like body image/dysmorphia, sexuality, drug addiction, cutting, competitiveness, sexual assault -- and the search to belong when you don't fit anywhere and ultimately how to rise and step into your greatest light against all odds.

Since 2012, NAKED IN ALASKA has been accepted into nine international festivals, winner of Best Solo Show (New York City International Fringe), Audience Favorite (Chicago Fringe), and Pick of the Fringe (Edinburgh International Fringe) Awards; recipient of TONY's four-star review, Critic's Pick, Best of OOB, and Top NSFW Weekend Pick, among many other four- and five-star reviews, profiles, and interviews internationally; European premiere in Rome, Italy, May 2015 headlining a Sexuality & Gender Equality festival, and finally CCRI college awarded Naked In Alaska the 2015 Arts & Humanities Grant to perform in September along with a workshop.

Director & dramaturgy & design by Award-Winning Harvard Alum Scott Wesley Slavin, in collaboration with dramaturgy by former Creative Director of the Mark Taper Forum Amy Handlesman. NAKED IN ALASKA has now performed over 50 times to over 2,000 audience members and counting.

For more information, visit www.valeriehager.com or www.nakedinalaska.com.