The Urbane Arts Club
Wed, Sep 04
|Brooklyn
Quacks & Whacks: A C(ancer) Comedy
Cancer cells sing, dance and hike through the body of our protagonist as she navigates the labyrinthine American health care system. The essential question: what does it take for a person to move forward when faced with such great uncertainty?
Time & Location
Sep 04, 2024, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Brooklyn, 1016 Beverley Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218, USA
About the event
When Terry Miller was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer two and a half years ago, the cancer had metastasized to her hip, thigh, adrenal gland and brain. One day after a scan, she spoke about an image that came to her: of the cancer cells as campers traveling through her body, pitching tents and roasting s'mores around a fire. She brought it up again and again, until her daughter, Amanda, finally asked her if she wanted to write a show together. And with that Quacks and Whacks was born.
About the Creative Team:
Terry Miller ran the middle school drama program for seventeen years at Pershing Middle School in San Diego. Before that, she taught middle and high school drama in San Diego and New York City. This is her first original work.
Amanda Miller is an award winning writer, character actor and clown who has toured her solo shows to festivals nationally and internationally for over a decade. Notable acting credits include Smile All The Time (Frigid Fest), How to Suffer Better (Edinburgh Fringe, Edmonton Fringe), The Jew in the Ashram (SoloFest at Whitefire Theatre) and Fools Mass (Dzieci Theatre). She produces the variety shows Lyrics, Lit & Liquor and Supper in Fort Lauderdale.
Katie Kopatjic is a queer writer, filmmaker and actor whose work spans theatre, film, and writing. Notable acting credits include: Modern Witches (The Players Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe) Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood (River’s Edge Theatre Company), Lipstick Lobotomy (Columbia University staged reading), and Confessions of a Personal Trainer (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017, 59E59, The Tank).
Rachel Evans is a writer, actor and director who teaches theater at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Her one-woman show, Jew Wish, premiered in the NY Fringe Festival and was subsequently performed at The Eldridge Street Synagogue and Planet Connections. Her short plays and monologues have had readings or performances at various theaters in NYC. She’s had a personal essay appear on Kveller, and has another in the book Sex With Everybody from Little Brown & Co.
Doors 6:30pm
Reading 7-8pm
Conversation 8:15-9pm
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