CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Solo Fest – Artist Meet, Greet & Preview!
A quick, casual gathering of Solo Fest Artists, staff members and volunteers, and other members of the PortFringe Community. Let’s put names to faces, maybe hear a little from our Solo Fest artists about their incredible shows, and then give them an enthusiastic send off as PortFringe Solo Fest officially kicks off at 7:00PM! Free and open to the public!

A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Brett Johnson: Poly-Theist
Brett Johnson (Boston, MA)

Brett was a married, 21-year-old monogamous Evangelical. Then he became the opposite. Stand-up comic Brett Johnson’s new solo show about non-monogamy, Jesus and combo KFC/Taco Bells hits the PortFringe: ”A unique story” (Boston Globe) “The definition of more-than-meets-the-eye” (PGH in the Round)

Brett Johnson is a Boston-based actor and comedian. He co-founded the award-winning video team Brainfox and has performed stand-up all over, including as a featured performer in the Women in Comedy Festival, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and in a “bud pub” in Toronto. He’s spry but bad at sports.

For more information – including how to purchase tickets – please click here.

A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Invisibility: A Journey of Pasta, Prayer, Protest, and Peru
Richard Cardillo (New York, NY)

Richard Cardillo takes us on a magical, mystical and multicultural ride through his childhood growing up in a large Italian-American family, his youth and young-adulthood as a monk in a Catholic monastery, his 10 years working and learning in Peru, and his eventual evolution as an out and proud queer activist. With equal measures of celebration, sadness, self-discovery, and sex antics, Invisibility will take all on an unforgettable journey. Rich is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side in Manhattan and a six-time Moth StorySLAM winner. He’s performed at shows such as Yum’s The Word, Pros(e) Of Pie, Story Collider, The Liars Show, RISK!, and was recently featured on The best of RISK! #12 Podcast. Rich was recently featured on television in the PBS Series: “Stories From the Stage”.  This winter, he debuted his solo show “Invisibility” to sold out audiences at Frigid Festival in the East Village of NYC. Rich is a passionate activist (recently garnering his first civil disobedience arrest in support of immigrant rights while inside Trump Tower!).   His playground voice has transitioned nicely to become his protest voice!

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A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Effing Robots: How I Taught the A.I. to Stop Worrying and Love Humans
Giant Nerd Productions (Seattle, WA)

Artificial Intelligence is on the way, and it will be powerful. What happens to us when it arrives? How will it perceive humanity? Can it learn … to love? After getting hit on by a chatbot, one horny science fiction nerd is on a quest to make it with a new AI overlord. Giant Nerd Productions was founded by L. Nicol Cabe, based in Seattle, WA, to produce sci-fi and speculative fiction-based theatre.

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A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Apocalypse Songs: A Solo Singer-Songwriter Storytelling Adventure Show
Aaron J. Shay (Seattle, WA)

In the far future, a graduate student uncovers the classified records of a vanished scientist/poet known only as Captain Redacted, who was sent to explore alternate Earths and document his findings in strange stories and original songs. An interactive show for all ages with banjo and ukulele! Expect sing-alongs, stomp-alongs, and physics jokes.

An acoustic singer-songwriter from Seattle, Aaron J. Shay blends an old-world folk sound with a modern lyrical style and an affinity for science, technology, and speculative fiction. His performances are highly interactive experiences, featuring many sing-alongs and stomp-alongs, all punctuated by his funny and heartfelt musings on relationships, creativity, magic, and the future of humanity.

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A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Sexology: The Musical!
Mel Moseley (Portland, OR)

Join Mel on her journey from monogamy to non-monogamy to polyamory to solo-polyamory in this one-woman musical. Mel says: “In the suburban, hetero-normative world I grew up in during the 70s and 80s, it was all about getting your man, then I discovered there’s a huge world out there of other relationship structures. Why not explore (and set it to music)?!”  Mel Moseley is a theatre artist, musician, writer, storyteller, teacher, and general practitioner of doing her very best to live an authentic life while hoping to inspire others to do the same. She’s touring her show Sexology: The Musical! from her hometown of Portland, OR to Portland, ME this summer!

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A PortFringe 2019 SOLO FEST Production
Half-Baked Boomer
ZaZu Productions (Largo, FL)

“Half-Baked Boomer,” is a solo performance improv comedy show about a person who bakes wonderful confections interacting with the audience as icing on the cake!  Take the journey that changes with every show with a ditzy baby boomer and child of the 50’s.  It can be delectable or horrendously tasteless! Francine, a performance artist from Tampa Bay, Florida, has been a member and founder of assorted improv groups in Ohio and Florida since the mid-90’s.  Her company, ZaZu Productions, produces original theatre, improv workshops, red carpet characters, and a musical duo, “ZaZu’s Revue”–catering to senior communities.  She has also appeared in films, commercials and voice overs for the past twenty-five years.

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Hey everybody! Let’s meet up after the shows!

TONITE:

LAZZARI

618 Congress Street

https://www.lazzariportland.com/