About the Artist

Hannah Parke (She/Her - Creator/Cast) is a catalytic and rambunctious actor, singer, cabaret artist, and playwright. She loves full-bodied and multi-sensory storytelling and is bold, energetic, and specific in her approach. She co-created "Close Your Legs, Honey" which was seen in the Fringe Festival in 2018 and spoke on the darkness and humor of child pageantry, based on my own life growing up in Tennessee. Her work is often described as dark comedy and shows how we often use humor to escape. Her current work explores her diagnosis with Epilepsy and how having an invisible disability is limiting, ridiculously lonely, and one of the most hilarious things that has ever happened to her. She likes to push boundaries, ask hard questions, and find the funny in the worst of places. Hannah was on the National Tour of "The Lightning Thief" and has performed at many regional theatres in Philadelphia.  

Shamus McCarty (He/Him- Director, Co-ProducerShamus (he/him/his)-Shamus is a Queer theatre maker who recently finished his MFA in Directing at Boston University and serves as Guest Artistic Director for Philadelphia’s Shakespeare in Clark Park. Recent credits: Playwrights’ Center (J.C. Pankratz’s Little Kingdom), Boston Playwrights Theatre (Jay Eddy’s Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D! and Pankratz’s Eat Your Young), PlayPenn (Kevin Esmond’s Vintage Illustrations of the Devil), Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival (Eddy’s Big Red Button), National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill Theater Center. His original musical, Close Your Legs, Honey, co-created with Hannah Parke, premiered at PHIT Comedy and later produced by Bootless Stageworks. For BU: Once, Murder Ballad, Machinal, Assistance, Shakespeare’s R & J & Grounded. Upcoming: Two Gentlemen of Verona the musical (Shakespeare in Clark Park), Hannah Parke's Birth. Sparkle. Death. (Cannonball Festival) & Jay Eddy's Driving in Circles

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 13+

Adult Language

This piece will discuss and show pictures of multiple brain surgeries (showing scars, medical staples in the skin, and dried blood.). It will also contain fake blood.

Covid-19 Safety policy

Masks are required during this event