FRIGID NYC Announces All Venues For Festival Shows

Venues for all thirty FRIGID Festival shows have been announced! For a full performance schedule of all of the shows in this years festival please visit, www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.

Not sure what to expect at this years FRIGID Fest? Come to UNDER St. Marks on Thursday, January 29 at 8pm for "snapshot" performances from selected shows in this year's festival!

On Tuesday, February 3 at 7pm come to UNDER St. Marks for a special FRIGID Fundraiser edition of Penny's Open Mike! Featuring open mike performances, a second edition of FRIGID Snapshots, and beer!

Can't get enough FRIGID previews? Then come to UNDER St. Marks on February 24 at 7pm for the "Out-of-Towners" edition of FRIGID snapshots.
The Kraine Theater
Are We Freaks? Comedy Period, New York, NY

4 short stories about 8 abnormal women. Freaks and friends-who really is normal after all?

Camouflage Camouflage Productions, Etobicoke, Ontario
This one-woman play explores the dangers of camouflaging the truth, especially from yourself. Humor, pathos, raucous, gut wrenching, you'll laugh, you'll cry. It's better than sex.

Jihad for Vent and Dummy Coulter and Star Ventriloquists, San Francisco, CA
A deadly puppet skirmish that pulls your strings. Theatre, frivolity and horror collide.

Live! ...at the Cockpit: Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men Loose Moon Productions
Back stage fun during a performance of the last act of Midsummer Night's Dream at the newly built 1599 Globe Theatre.

Recess Una Aya Osato, New York, NY
Una Aya Osato brings us her new one-woman show Recess, an impassioned response to her experiences in NYC's public schools.

The Black Jew Dialogues Cambridge, MA
A two-actor comedy on the history and absurdity of prejudice and racism within the context of the American Black-Jew experience.

The Expatriates The Beggars Group, New York, NY
F. Scott, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway are placed into a devilish purgatory to face their lives all over again. Flappers, booze, and jazz are the guides to untold wealth and unimaginable excess leading this fast paced show barreling towards certain destruction.

The Question House Breadbasket Productions, New York, NY
If you were trapped in a house where you could speak only in questions, how long would you survive?

The Solitary Al-Khareef Theatre Troupe, Damascus, Syria
In the terrible intimacy of the torture chamber, prisoner and guard lose everything but their broken dreams.

The Surprise Martin Dockery, New York, NY
The true, comedic story of a man desperate to save a crumbling relationship with his father and his girlfriend.
The Red Room

Brainstorming Rory Raven, Providence, RI
Minds are read, thoughts are revealed, spoons bend
Coffee Dad, Chicken Mom, and the Fabulous Buddha Boy Mischief and Mayhem Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta
Clucking, chanting, and a lot of caffeine! Meet a family who are trying to figure out what it's all about.

End of the Trail EXIT Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Facing a possible Apocalypse, two old friends play a treacherous board game called "The End of the Trail." The object of the game? Don't die alone! A darkly comic examination of friendship and how little it helps.

How Does a Drug Deal Become a Decent 3rd Date? Green With Envy Productions, Toronto, Ontario
The story of a girl who is coming to grips with a dating life that is unraveling. Dating isn't easy. We all walk a fine line between moments that can be seen as really romantic or really creepy. ...

Now, and at the Hour EXIT Theatre, San Francisco, CA
Join award winning performer and critically acclaimed magician, Christian Cagigal as he takes you onto a journey through Time and Reflection.
On Second Thought Wog Productions, Toronto, Ontario
An hour of high-energy comedy in which performer Paul Hutcheson takes audiences on an autobiographical journey of those moments in life to which he gave pause.

Son of Man Lara Torgovnick and Anna Umansky, New York, NY
What are the consequences of a coincidental meeting of eight deceased individuals at a New York City Subway station?

The Dysfunctional Guide to Home, Perfection, Martial Bliss, and Passionate Hot Romance Dysfunctional Theatre Company, New York, NY
This "How To" piece will use a blend of vintage and original writings to teach you how to be the perfect housewife (or househusband) - Dysfunctional style.
The Heffner Monologues John Hefner, Cabin John, Maryland
In this hilarious true story, John Hefner--the estranged cousin of Hugh Hefner--finds himself in a series of misadventures and mortifications as he struggles to answer the question, "How do you make a name for yourself when someone else already has?"

The Giant's Causeways Nora S. McLaughlin, New York, NY
Can the friendship between two boys, one Catholic, the other Protestant, stand up to the political and religious battles surrounding them in 1960s Northern Ireland?

UNDER St. Marks
95/turnpike/95: Chickens in Jersey International BTC, New York, NY
An absurdly slow day on the Jersey Turnpike takes a sudden turn when two-tollbooth attendants face impending doom barreling towards them... in the form of a truck filled with chickens.

BAGS: Obsessions of a Hoardaholic Lee Michael Buckman, New York, NY
Glimpses of an obsessive personality and some of his adventures as he attempts desperately to cling onto objects and things.

Dalton Trambo's Johnny Got His Gun Sleepless Lookout Players, New York, NY
The inspiring story of twenty-year-old Joe Bonham, a quadruple amputee who has also lost his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth during his service in World War I.

Freedom 85! Hi-D Theatre, Toronto, Ontario
a two woman multi-character comedy about an inept waitress, a feisty senior and their nursing home break-out.

habeas corpus, the real kim harmon, New York, NY
"What would you like to be rid of?" Fueled by anonymous responses from all over the country as well as live audience responses within the theater itself, the real kim harmon performance collective creates a voracious and tender multi-media performance art experience.

Hysteri-Killy! A One Frrooklyneak Show Kelly B. Dwyer, New York, NY
A magical, multimedia march through the mad mind of a manic - depressive, cockeyed optimist.

Jet of Blood or the Ball of Glass No. 11 Productions, New York, NY
A visceral, violent look at and attack on humanity. Both funny and disturbing, this play is a tossEd Salad of Surrealism and Theatre of Cruelty, barraging all of the senses with ever-changing stimuli. And scorpions.
Melting in Madras Overcoat Theater

A darkly comic look at storyteller H.R. Britton's quixotic "pilgrimage" to India. Evocative of the Subcontinent's sights and sounds, by turns gently humorous and increasingly anxious, the tale follows Britton's slightly misguided adventures into the terrain of sickness and delusion, and back again.

Oens Wilson Loria, Gulfport, FL
Bringing and mixing the past and the present together, Oens shows that "globalization" is not a recently coined word in today's vocabulary. Through music, mime and dance, Oens also enacts the eternal wish for a better world.
Y Irene Lezos, New York, NY Travels through the inner landscape of a delusional woman who believes she is Marilyn Monroe.

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