BABY MAMA Opens this Week at IRT Theater

Written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy, Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People tracks her true-to-life adoption journey, from an accidental conception to the placement of her child with the gay couple of her dreams. All the while MacCarthy manages to live her life, date, and even attend the occasional orgy.

From adoption agencies to adventures in vaginal discharge, from burlesque to goodbyes, Baby Mama makes for an intimate night of storytelling and is about as up close and personal as theatre gets.

"I'm telling this story myself so I can be the role model I didn't have while it was happening," says MacCarthy, who has toured the show to San Diego, Cincinnati, and Provincetown. "You're gonna cry, you're gonna have a good time, and you're also gonna feel things and maybe call your mom."

Winner of The Dr. Robert J. Thierauf Producer's Pick Award of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Bring a belly ready to laugh and also some hankies.

Running time is approximately 70 minutes

Baby Mama is written and performed by Mariah MacCarthy and directed by Sara Lyons with costumes by Stirling Allred and set and lights by Nick Francone.

Performance Schedule:
Thurs Jan 5 at 7pm *preview
Fri Jan 6 at 7pm *opening night
Sat Jan 7 at 7pm
Sun Jan 8 at 7pm
Thurs Jan 12 at 7pm
Fri Jan 13 at 7pm
Sat Jan 14 at 7pm
Sun Jan 15 at 7pm
Thurs Jan 19 at 7pm
Fri Jan 20 at 7pm
Sat Jan 21 at 7pm
Sun Jan 22 at 7pm
Wed Jan 25 at 7pm
Thurs Jan 26 at 7pm
Fri Jan 27 at 7pm
Sat Jan 28 at 7pm
Sun Jan 29 at 7pm

Location:
The IRT Theater is located at 154 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor #B (b/w Greenwich and Washington Streets). 1 train to Christopher Street stop. A/B/C/D/E/F/M trains to West 4th Street stop.

More info at:
http://irttheater.org/3b-development-series/baby-mama-one-womans-quest-to-give-her-child-to-gay-people/

Tickets: $25

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Mariah MacCarthy (writer / performer)
MacCarthy has had her work developed and presented at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick, Primary Stages, Culture Project, New Dramatists, La MaMa, HERE, Dixon Place, The Brick, Atlantic Stage 2, Fringe NYC, various New York apartments, and Paris. Indie Theater Hall of Fame ("Person of the Year" 2012), PoNY nominee. Plays include Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People (winner of the Dr. Robert J. Thierauf Producer's Pick Award; viewed over 41,000 times on YouTube), Honors Students (Kilroys List Honorable Mention; EST/Youngblood Unfiltered), Safeword (Dixon Place), Magic Trick (FringeNYC and Theatre Row; winner of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award and Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences), Mrs. Mayfield's Fifth-Grade Class of '93 20-Year Reunion ("sweet and boisterous...a lot of fun" -The New York Times), The Foreplay Play (two NYIT Award nominations), Ampersand: A Romeo & Juliet Story (twenty Looking Glass Forum Awards, FringeNYC "Outstanding Performance"), and The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret ("f*cKing Brilliant" -Kate Bornstein; performed in Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and New York). Mariah is a Friend of Flux, a writer-in-residence of The Propulsion Lab, a member of Youngblood and Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Executive Artistic Director of Caps Lock Theatre, and Associate Artistic Director-at-Large of The Brick. Her Young Adult novel, Squad, has just been acquired by FSG. mariahmaccarthy.com

Sara Lyons (director)
Lyons is a director, queer and feminist performance-maker, and teaching artist creating new work across performance disciplines. Based in NYC and Pittsburgh, she seeks to explode convention in form and politic, creating work that is critically embodied around issues of gender, sexuality, and race, and engages with contemporary experiences of technology. As a director, performer, and writer her work has been presented at Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Fordham University, Culture Project, LaMaMa ETC, Dixon Place, and many more. She has taught performance and created new work with students of all ages across New York City as well as Mexico and South Africa. Sara holds a B.A. in Theatre and Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; is an alum of DirectorsLabChicago and the EMERGENYC program for political performance-makers at NYU's Hemispheric Institute; and is currently studying for her MFA as a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. sara-lyons.com

ABOUT CAPS LOCK THEATRE
Caps Lock Theatre does funny, ugly, human plays. We like plays where people are at both their worst and their best; where people screw each other-or themselves-over, and have to find a way to deal with it; where people's hearts hurt, or open, or blossom. We also believe in fun. Our plays will probably make you laugh. Probably more than once. And, we believe in creating art by whatever means necessary. capslocktheatre.com

Photo Credit: Kacey Stamats

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