City Solo: April 2010 April 4, 2010

CITY SOLO: A karaoke champion, an army of Vietnam war cliches, the voices in your head, and a bevy of stereotypical Latinas take the stage at Off-Market Theater!

City Solo is a fresh, new solo performance series featuring a diverse collection of the finest solo artists, comedians, and storytellers in the Bay Area. In April 2010, the City Solo Sunday evening showcases will feature:

THAO P. NGUYEN
In "Fortunate Daughter," Thao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen. Only she survives. Later, she meets her grandmother for the first time.

ENZO LOMBARD
In "Love, Humiliation, and Karaoke," Enzo really does not want to end up cut into little pieces and deposited on the side of the highway. Yet he’s risking just that by driving 600 miles to meet SanDiegoDavid, a complete stranger he met online. What has Enzo gotten himself into?

CAITLIN GILL
In "The Mental Audit," an official from the Internal Review Service has arrived at Caitlin's brain to conduct a Mental Audit, to see if her mind's internal contents meet her external claims!

SARITA OCON
"Compromise" is a darkly comic solo-work about the performance of cultural identity. An exaggerated, reenacted audition, the piece shifts through a series of images of the "Latina" as conceived by white US commercial performance - confronting themes of race and gender, stereotype and projection,and raising questions about how artists navigate and negotiate within the industries of performance (with an excerpt from "References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot" by Jose Rivera).

Dates/Times:
Sundays at 7pm
April 4, 11, 18

Location:
Off-Market Theater
965 Mission Street
(btwn 5th St. & 6th St.)
San Francisco, CA

Tickets:
$15 General Admission
Sold at the door and online
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103279

Artist biographies:

Enzo Lombard has been in one form of show business or other since he was 5 years old. He has sung professionally since 7, worked in London cabaret, studied acting in both London and New York, and been a stand-up comedian for three years. "Love, Humiliation, and Karaoke" opened at San Francisco’s StageWerx Theatre in September of 2008, moving to NYC Summer 2009 where it was nominated for two Midtown Artist Awards, winning Best Solo Show/Outstanding Actor in a Production w/ Music. http://www.enzolombard.com

Thao P. Nguyen has been writing and performing solo shows since 2007. Recently, she performed "I Am So Hot" (an excerpt of her full-length show "Fortunate Daughter") as the closing act at the Museum of African Diaspora stage at the San Francisco's 2009 Theater Festival. She also co-produces two monthly solo performance series in San Francisco: "Words First" at CounterPULSE and "City Solo" at Off-Market. When Thao isn't writing, performing, or producing solo shows, she's working as a freelance journalist and spending time with her freakishly cute 9-month-old nephew.

Caitlin Gill is a stand up-comic based in San Francisco, who has performed across the country at comedy clubs and festivals with some of the best names in entertainment.

Sarita Ocón was most recently seen in Octavio Solis’ new theatrical work Ghosts of the River, produced by Shadow Light Productions. Her theatrical credits include performances with Teatro Visión, Active Arts Theatre, Bindlestiff Studio, the Hybrid Performance Experiment project (HyPE), The Playwrights Foundation, SF Summer Theater Festival at the Yerba Buena Cultural Center for the Arts,Stanford Summer Theater, and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford. Sarita received her BA in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity from Estánfor.

Official Website: http://www.pianofight.com