WNYC's Bob Garfield Stars in RUGGEDLY JEWISH

Award-Winning Media Personality Is On The Road Again,

And This Time, It's Personal

Ruggedly Jewish, a 90-minute multimedia monologue written and performed by Bob Garfield, had its world premiere at Philadelphia Theatre Company September 15. The show has embarked on nationwide tour through 2018.

In a raw, wistful, hilarious and disturbing encounter session, the inveterate journalist weaves together disparate narrative threads on the subject of identity -- including his own nominal Jewishness -- to explore the exploration of self itself. A crazy-quilt 90-minute multimedia experience, Ruggedly Jewish bounces from harrowing life-and-death moments to oddballs galore.

"This is certainly a spectacle of me trying to make sense of who I am," Garfield says, "but it's really much more concerned with who you are -- who we all are -- as individuals and as a society, especially at this particular political moment. Plus one talking cat, two dead cats and a surprising amount of gunplay."

Garfield, who has forged a 40-year career in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, co-hosts WNYC's On the Media with Brooke Gladstone. The Peabody-winning weekly hour is a Top 50 podcast and is broadcast by 450 stations nationwide. A longtime resident of Washington, DC, Garfield is the author of five books, a recent visiting lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Future of Advertising Program, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management. He once wrote an episode of NBC's short-lived sitcom Sweet Surrender. "It s*cked," Garfield says.

Upcoming Tour dates:

New York: Sunday, Jan. 14, @ 3PM & 8PM, Deane Little Theater 10 W. 64th St. New York, NY 10023

Berkeley: Saturday Jan. 27, @ 8PM, UC Berkeley Theatre, 2036 University, Berkeley, CA 94704

Park City: Saturday Feb. 17, @ 7:30PM, Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd. Park City, UT 84060

More dates announced soon.

For further information, please call (917) 405-7096.