The 17th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival

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

Schedule of Events

2pm: Daddy Dear - Starring Catalin Gheorghe/Stefan Cudalb

Daddy Dear is a performance that explores the trauma children have from being raised in abusive families. If one is raised by an alcoholic does one become alcoholic? How should children be treated, and punished? Should they be punished? Does abuse lead to abuse? Can the cycle be broken? Is a child worth respect? These questions, and many more, will be answered in the performance.

Daddy Dear provokes thoughts one might have never had, and address uncomfortable questions.  It stirs up memories that most of us have buried deep within.  Every performance has a different beginning, and a different ending, because just like the mind on an alcoholic it is forever unstable.

Written & Directed by Mike Savuica
Dick - Catalin Gheorghe/Stefan Cudalb
The dad - Claudiu Dragomir
Live music - Andrei Dutu
Poster - MD Antidtot

Produce by Unfortunate Thespians

7pm: Laughing Through The Pain
My Journey from Detroit to Hollywood Standup Comedy & Beyond
Starring Joey Camen

Laughing Through the Pain: My Journey from Detroit to Hollywood Standup Comedy and Beyond is a thought provoking one-man play based on the autobiography of standup comedian, voice actor and author Joey Camen. It’s the story of a young Jewish boy growing up in Black neighborhoods in Detroit in the 1960s, making his way into the world of Hollywood standup comedy in the 1970s and working as an actor and voiceover talent.

This insightful seriocomedy delves into Joey's not so pleasant home life with an abusive father, his leaving home at 17 and becoming one of the youngest professional standup comedians at the World Famous Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip. Naturally funny, he finds himself working with comedians Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney and others. Joey’s story is also a tale of childhood survival, ups and downs, laughter and pain, engagingly written and performed by someone who has spent decades in the world of entertainment.