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Handstand Upper West Side - Thursday March 26th **accessible
Handstand Gramercy - Friday March 27th ** accessible
Handstand Brooklyn - Saturday March 28th **venue is not accessible and involves stairs.
3 nights, 3 venues, same pop - up play. Doors open at 7:30 performance at 8pm. Ticket admission includes an open bar (complimentary wine, beer, and a signature cocktail). Exact locations will be released to attendees after ticket purchase. Certain venues are accessible by elevator, one is not and some are animal friendly. Please contact the Honey Dipped Girls (honeydippedgirls@gmail.com) with any specific questions about different venue offerings.
An interactive two person piece, Handstand explores what leaves us and what lingers as we grapple with what we all 'hold onto'. Read more at www.honeydippedgirls.com/handstand
Jenn (JJ) Maley (they/them) is a Tony-Nominated producer, director, actor, writer, and consultant. Jenn made their Broadway debut as a producer on Indecent (Tony Nomination) by Paula Vogel. They recently produced Be More Chill (Broadway) and What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway and Tour, Tony Nomination). Jenn is also a producer on Reunion which played at the Byron Theatre and will play this spring at the ZACH Theatre. As a director, Jenn has developed many new works in New York such as Wonder Boy (Musical Theatre Factory), Handstand (Honey Dipped Productions), The Trombone Lesson (Winner of Manhattan Repertory Theater’s Play Contest), Goldilocks: The Drag Musical, and Luna Fest. Jenn assistant directed Tyne Rafaeli on Usual Girls at Roundabout Theatre Company and Power Strip at Lincoln Center Theatre. Their performing credits include Pete (The Sperm Play, Hudson Guild Theater), Max (Love is Love is Love: The Musical, Visual Album) The Witch (Into the Woods, Production Workshop), Ilse (Spring Awakening, Wilmette Theatre), Carter (Bull, Production Workshop), Lucy (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Wilmette Theatre), Jackie (Barbies, Columbia MFA Program), and C (Three Tall Women, Production Workshop). Jenn is in The Academy for improv and Advanced Study Sketch at UCB. They perform with We Will Slay and Slow Fuse at UCB Hell’s Kitchen. Currently, Jenn is also gender consultant on an upcoming Amazon show. They graduated from Brown University and Commercial Theater Institute. Visit jennmaley.com for more.
Helen Huettner (she/her) is Brooklyn based writer/director and the founder of Honey Dipped Productions. Helen is the playwright/director behind Honey Dipped Apocalypse Girls (Off-Broadway) and Blue Maybe (Regional; Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse and St. Louis Actors Studio). Producing credits include Sweatpant (Patrick Nicholas, Eris), Over the Bridge (Griffin Osbourne, Workshop), The Warriors (Evan Linder) and Thick Blood Thick Water (Morgan Dean, The Tank). Helen is the Executive Producer of Girlhood, an annual summer poetry series featuring new and emerging work from women+ writers, and is a published poet herself (Thought Catalog, Tart Magazine). Helen holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen.