Playwright. Director. Artistic Director
My Onliness
is back from
Sibiu International Theatre Festival 2025
June 20 & 21
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“This dark, frenetic fable (is) pleasingly peculiar… Occasionally delicate, it’s more often chaotic, and gleefully so… Just take in the voluptuous strangeness of it all. For theater lovers ravenous for the downtown-peculiar, “My Onliness” is savory sustenance. A welcome gust of weird.``
- Laura Collins-Hughes
“A delightful throwback to the golden age of off-off-Broadway… shows like My Onliness are as rare as unicorns — and just as magical to behold… unfailingly entertaining… completely accessible to Deaf audiences… you won't want to miss these 80 minutes of unbridled insanity. My Onliness is the kind of show that converts casual theatergoers into true believers in off-off-Broadway.”
- Zachary Stewart
“A hallucinatory nursery rhyme for adults… one long wheeeee from its rollercoaster start to its sudden, operatic finish… No one could resist such a king, particularly because he’s played by the Rabelaisian director Daniel Irizarry, a capering theatrical creature… we’re all too busy laughing and doing shots to take responsibility… Meaning, which seemed so elusive, is actually everywhere. Whether you understand it or not, whether you sense it or not, the air is thick with communication. Are you sure that the universe isn’t speaking?”
- Helen Shaw
Presented in
American Sign Language & English,
My Onliness is a
fable / cabaret / circus
about a Mad King’s desperate attempt
to impress a mysterious petitioner.
(The poor Writer
is simply collateral damage.)
Is this a glimpse
of our dystopian future?
Or just the structure
of human consciousness?
This is sexy, visceral, dark buffoonery reimagined as The New Absurd; a homage to Stanislaw Witkacy and his theories of “pure theatre”.
Laced with songs of torture, truth, and tenderness; with fully integrated American Sign Language performed by two Deaf “Mediums” of the royal court.
Creative Team
Kailyn Aaron-Lozano
DESIGN
Lighting Design - Christina Tang
Set Design - Jungah Han
Original Costume Design - James Terrell
Additional Costume Design - Brittani Beresford
Sound Engineer - Lawrence Schober
Featuring
Court Medium
Malik Paris
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Court Medium
MoMo Holt
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Court Musician
Drew Fleming
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