Esther Fallick Will Return to Joe’s Pub With ESTHER UPDATES HER BOOK

Following sold-out performances earlier this year, comedian and cabaret artist Esther Fallick will return to Joe’s Pub with Esther Updates Her Book for two performances on November 5 and November 9, 2025. The show, which blends stand-up, musical comedy, and commentary on gender politics in theatre, will feature new material and songs.

Named one of Vulture’s Comedians You Should and Will Know of 2025, Fallick has performed to sold-out houses at Joe’s Pub, The Bell House, and Union Hall. For this return engagement, she will reunite with collaborators Natalie Walker and JJ Maley, under the direction of Mack Brown, with music direction by Farrah Rotman. The show is produced by Esther Fallick, JJ Maley, and The Queer Ensemble.

Esther Updates Her Book features songs by Esther Fallick, Preston Max Allen, Clark Baxtresser, Richard Lowenberg, Avery Nusbaum, Farrah Rotman, and Murphy Taylor Smith.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Esther Fallick is a comedian, singer, and musical theater writer. She has appeared in Them, Vulture, Autostraddle, Slate, Gawker and more. This year, she was crowned “Comedian You Should Know in 2025” by Vulture. Her one woman show, “Esther Updates Her Book” has sold out Joe’s Pub, The Bell House, and more. and was part of the New York Comedy Festival. She recently started as the narrator of the viral hit “Butch Wicked”. She was also the co-writer on the Purple M&M’s announcement song, “I’m Just Gonna Be Me”, which was famously hated by Tucker Carlson. She performs regularly around Brooklyn & Manhattan and frankly you’re just gonna love her. 

Mack Brown builds precise new musicals and genre-defying theatre work about miracles happening to misfits. Transsexuality and the disciplined practice of hope are core tenets of their work in both form and content. They are currently a Resident Artist at Ars Nova, the recipient of the 2025 SDCF Abe Burrows Award for Assistant Directors, a Roundabout Directing Fellow, and currently serve as Lead Facilitator of the Roundabout Directors Group. Mack also is a NYU Tisch Drama Gender Expansive Mentor, an NYCLU Artist Ambassador, and works at Convergence Magazine with grassroots organizers and activists to produce media that sharpens our collective practice. Recent: WATCHDOG (ANTFest), TRANS AM (Joe’s Pub). Associate: PICTURES FROM HOME (Broadway), THE BIG GAY JAMBOREE (Off-Broadway), I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (Classic Stage). Proud SDC member. mack-brown.com

Farrah Rotman (b. 1997) is a composer, lyricist, pianist, producer, and aerialist based in Brooklyn. As an aerialist, Farrah has regularly performed at venues including House of Yes, The Stranger, and The Slipper Room; she teaches an Intro to Rope class at Om Factory on Saturdays. Farrah holds a B.A. in Music & Theatre Studies with honors from Yale University. Music, writing, and performance can be found at farrahrotman.com and @farrahnumberone.

Natalie Walker is a performer and writer. Stage: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group), The Big Gay Jamboree (Orpheum) — Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominee, White Girl in Danger (Second Stage), Alice By Heart (MCC). Screen: Search Party, BoJack Horseman, The Other Two, The Hamlet Factory. Writing featured in Bookforum and New York Magazine.

JJ Maley is a writer, actor, and producer. As an actor, JJ starred in Steven Soderbergh's Command Z, King of the Jews (Off-Broadway), This Really Happened (Tribeca), Farther Along, Esther Updates Her Book, and more. Previously, he performed at UCB with We Will Slay and Slow Fuse. He is a Tony-Award Winner for A Strange Loop and four-time Tony-Nominated Producer.  Other producing credits include Illinoise (Tony Nomination), What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony Nomination), Indecent (Tony Nomination), and Be More Chill. His writing credits include Partial, He/She, 808 (Out on Film), and The Revival (Fault Line Theatre; Irons in the Fire Finalist). He is also the Founder and Executive Director of Queer Arts Coalition, where he recently partnered with BTB to bring Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink to Edinburgh.