The 19th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival – Fall 2025

Featuring shows from across the country and around the globe, the world’s largest solo theatre festival is entering our eighteenth season!

Schedule of Events:

2:00 pm: #40sandsingle – The Secrets to Finding LOOOOVE!!!

Starring Joyce Lao

Dr. Kara Kibara sells her services through a hybrid Ted talk-workshop transformation-improv- performance style as the best dating and relationship guru. She unintentionally reflects on her past to find out why she is still single herself as she offers advice on how to “manifest” love. She reveals how her Indigenous-Filipino-Asian-American Evangelical Christian upbringing has affected her perspective in dating and marriage. Featuring her unreleased original songs recorded when she was under a Columbia Records mentorship years ago, snippets of familiar 80’s and 90’s tunes as well as choreography and monologues that will leave the audience laughing, crying, and inspired. The Cabaret version featuring 80’s and 90’s songs were performed at Don’t Tell Mama, Pangea NYC, Edinburgh Fringe festival 2024 and Art Basel.

Running Time: 60 minutes

3:00 pm: Sunday Solo Social Room Open Mic

Have you ever wanted to perform onstage on 42nd St without being hauled off by security?

Want a preview of what’s coming up at United Solo this Fall? Got a work in progress you’d like to try out on stage? Want to connect with other solo artists and lovers of solo theatre? Got a poem to read? A song to sing? A dance to dance? An anecdote or joke perhaps (but make it funny)? Or maybe you just wanna watch…

Join us every Sunday at Theatre One at Theatre Row for Solo Sunday Social Room! The place where you can liberate your creativity! No Competition, no judgement, only the joy of three minutes on stage!

Hosted by festival Vice Artistic Director Wendy-Lane Bailey, the event is an open forum where artists can sign up to perform. We welcome all artists who would like to participate.

Running Time: 90 minutes