Join us in January for an all-new “pop-up” festival, featuring the best in Bay Area solo performance, including new works by Lisa Evans, Malcolm Grissom, Marjorie Hazeltine, Michael Phillis, Katie Rubin, Thomas Robert Simpson, Nina Wise, and Dan Wolf! Tickets are $21-$36 and All-Festival Passes start at just $88 (Pick-4 Passes are $68).

Nina Wise
WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Jan 14-3PM / Jan 26-7PM / Jan 27-6PM
Nina Wise’s What Just Happened? is an improvisational performance based on personal and political events which have transpired over the previous twenty-four hours. Wise tell stories using her physicality as well as language and sound. Her autobiographical performances, known for their warmth and compassion, weave irony, physicality and insight into complex, spontaneous narratives. Her work, which has been compared to a cross between Lily Tomlin, the Dalai Lama and Jules Feiffer, is at once full of humor and poignancy. Audiences repeatedly report that they have never seen anything quite like Wise before and that they are at one instant laughing so hard they are falling off their seats and the next moment moved to tears. Running time: 60 min.

Nina Wise, performance artist, writer, director and educator, is known for her provocative and original performance works which have been produced in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. Her pieces have garnered seven Bay Area Critics’ Circle Awards, and she has received, among other prestigious honors, four National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her written pieces have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the founder of Motion Theater®, a form of autobiographical improv, and the author of A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life.

For the complete festival schedule and lineup, visit http://playground-sf.org/solofest.