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unusual facts about one-woman show



Pnina Gary

In 2008, Gary wrote and directed the one-woman showAn Israeli Love Story”, based on her own true life story between 1942, when she first met Eli Ben-Zvi, and 1948, with the tragic ending of their relationship.


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Belle Kogan

Kogan was the focus of the 1946 one-woman show at the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Hetty Burlingame Beatty

A one-woman show of her sculpture and drawings was held at the Worcester Art Museum in 1941.

Jane Bussmann

Bussmann also wrote and starred in "Bussmann's Holiday", a live one-woman show, directed by Sally Phillips, which played in Los Angeles, New York and Edinburgh.

Kate Moira Ryan

Ryan was the co-writer of comedian Judy Gold's one-woman show, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.

Katharine McMahon

Song commissioned by the award-winning actress and singer Janie Dee Performed in her one-woman show at the National Theatre Studio and subsequently on tour.

Linda Lee Thomas

A one-woman show about Linda's life with Porter, Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter, starring jazz vocalist Stevie Holland, ran Off-Broadway at the York Theatre, in 2013.

Maggie Ollerenshaw

Her one-woman show Yours Sincerely, a musical play about Dame Vera Lynn has played in the UK and abroad.

Me and Bessie

The basically one-woman show, conceived and written by Will Holt and Linda Hopkins and performed by Hopkins, features songs by Lil Green, Clarence Williams, Henry Creamer, Andy Razaf, and Jimmy Cox, among others.

Minal Hajratwala

For World AIDS Day in 1999, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco commissioned her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium.”

Nick Broomfield

This shift in film-making style was also heavily influenced by Broomfield's experience in attempting to release his earlier film Lily Tomlin, which chronicled Tomlin's one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.

Poppy Jhakra

Jhakra has also given a one-woman show called Dance Without Movement in which she took her audiences through a journey of a young Asian woman's life in England as well as performing as Princess Jasmine in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal, Windsor for Bill Kenwright during Christmas 2009.

Sarah Saltzberg

She has appeared off-Broadway as Helen in The Donkey Show, Cherry in Sinfully Rich, as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in her one-woman show Dear Diary (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade.

Virginia O'Brien

She continued to perform well into the 1990s with both her one-woman show and a production of Show Boat co-starring Alan Young, and also headlined The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies.

Wilhelmina Weber Furlong

The one woman show was held at the Iconic Building 98 studio galleries along with a one hour lecture by Professor Emeritus James K. Kettlewell retired curator of the Hyde Collection.