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Girlfriends: A Not So Straight Play

Sara Malinowski

Cabaret & Variety, Comedy, Solo Show, Theater

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Why get breakup bangs when you can jump into a spray-painted ’98 Honda and cry along Route 66?
Drive across the US in 2014 with a heartbroken 22-year-old who, in a moment of either courage or insanity, brings along her barista: a pragmatic, polyamorous Polish stranger who makes her question everything she thought she knew about relationships.
One woman will sing for gasoline. Frighten bears with Shakespeare. See her first full sky in Texas. Learn to smoke somewhere around Arizona.
But will she ever love again? She will ask sincerely and far too often.
And will they ever actually make it to California?

A one-woman play about that moment in your twenties when you have just enough information to be frightened balanced with enough bravery to just keep driving into the horizon. Laugh your way through her tears. Based on a too-true story. Emulating a modern day Juliet or a more sexually progressive Carrie Bradshaw, Scout twirls her curls from a windowsill: I couldn’t help but wonder... When it comes to relationships... were we ever GIRLFRIENDS?
© Retained to all joyfully sung songs. Recommended 16+
Details
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $25

PWYC Options $5+

Venue: Asian Arts Initiative Project Space

Dates: September 24, 2026 - September 26, 2026

September 24, 2026 7.30pm

1219 Vine St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

September 25, 2026 7.30pm

1219 Vine St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options

September 26, 2026 6.15pm

1219 Vine St

General Admission: $25

PWYC Options


About the Artist

Sara Malinowski is a playwright, singer, actress, and location scout. As an Equity actress, she has performed with Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Forum, Shakespeare on the Fly, and Aquila Theatre. She’s trained with Shakespeare & Company, the Humanist Project, Brooklyn Improv Training, and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She has collaborated with Letter of Marque Theater Company since 2018. As a location scout and manager, she’s worked on FBI: Most Wanted, Tick, Tick... . Boom!, Private Life, Broad City, Sneaky Pete, Mozart in the Jungle, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Her first play, Girlifriends, has been performed at WOW Cafe Theatre, Houghton Hall Arts, Opera America, and El Barrio’s Artspace in NYC. She has an acoustic album “Home Before Dark” and her novel “What Are They, Then” was chosen in Santa Fe’s New Voice Award for publication in New Mexico. She will be bringing her one-woman show to Edinburgh Fringe 2026.

  • Sara MalinowskiPlaywright/Actressmalinowski.sara@gmail.com
  • Avery BargarPianoaverynbargar@gmail.com
  • Ash MalloyDirectormalloy.ash@gmail.com
  • Ryan O'ConnellAsst. Stage Manageroconnell.tours@gmail.com
  • Jacob McKeatingProjection/Sound Design
  • Andrew Borthwick-LeslieDevelopment Consultant
  • Katie Johnson
  • Amanda Roberts Creative Consultants

Accessibility & Content Considerations

Contact the Fringe Festival Box Office for up to date accessibility information.

This event is appropriate for ages 18+

Adult Language

Audience Interaction

CW: discussion of female pleasure, orgasm, queer shame, and body dysmorphia.

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn


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