Cyndi Freeman's I WAS A SIXTH GRADE BIGFOOT Set for UNDER St. Marks, 7/27

Cyndi Freeman in I Was a Teenage Bigfoot Photo credit: Ben Trivett Written and performed by Cyndi Freeman / Directed by Sara Peters

Monday July 27 at 7pm. @ UNDER St. Marks 94 St. Marks Place (between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) Tickets ($15; $12 students) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info.

This is a one-time performance before the show moves onto The 32nd Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival

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When she was 11 years old Cyndi Freeman became obsessed with the Bigfoot phenomenon, the hunters, the hoaxes and the true believers. That same year, her homeroom classmates perpetrated a hoax of their own. They convinced the faculty that Cyndi was a thief, an instigator of fist fights, an agent of mayhem. It had all been lies and, by their high school years, the kids who had participated apologized and Cyndi forgave them. But the teachers still believed the legend that Freeman was a violent pathological liar. Friendships were lost, parents lived in fear and only the children knew, and accepted, the truth. Weaving together fun trivia about the Bigfoot myth and darker tales about the fiction that surrounded her during her formative years, Freeman talks of truth and lies, motivations both hidden and obvious, and the resilience it takes to survive childhood.

Cyndi Freeman (Writer, Performer) is a two-time NY Fringe Festival award-winning solo performer. Her solo shows have been presented in Boston, Amsterdam, Ireland, the UK, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Festival, and both the Frigid Festival and the New York International Fringe Festivals in NYC. Her newest solo show, I Was a Sixth Grade Bigfoot, will be presented at the Edmonton Fringe Festival in Canada this upcoming August. As a storyteller she has performs throughout New York, credits include: The Moth, The Liar Show, Adam Wade's Super Stories, Seth Lind's Told, Risk, Story Collider, Stripped Stories, and And I Am Not Lying. Other credits include The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Campus Comedy on HBO, and Compromising Situations on Showtime. Freeman also performs burlesque throughout New York as Cherry Pitz.

Sara Peters (Director) is a storyteller who has been featured at TEDMED, on The Moth podcast, and on stage at The Liar Show, Bare, and Super Stories. She has worked as both a actor and a director with Alliance Repertory Theater Company. Currently she is a featured columnist for Bleacher Report, covering the New York Knicks. She was once called "badass" by Mobb Deep and she occasionally performs burlesque as Legs Benedict.