The Good Adoptee

Suzanne Bachner’s powerful, award-winning adoption story about her quest for identity and connection with “★★★★★ Laugh-Out-Loud Humor!”

Can you imagine not knowing your own identity?

The Good Adoptee is the riveting and outrageous true story of award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner’s search for her birth/first parents in the face of New York State's sealed records. Once she opens Pandora’s Box, can she integrate her dual identities and still remain “the Good Adoptee”?

The Good Adoptee has won awards for Best Autobiographical Script and Best Actress when it premiered in NYC's United Solo Theatre Festival and was named a Best Play by Indie Theater Now. The show has toured to the London International Fringe Festival and all over the U.S., including a 7-week 9-city Connecticut tour to support the vital and now successful legislative efforts of Access Connecticut.

★★★★★ “The Good Adoptee has a healthy dose of Laugh-Out-Loud Humour!” — Sadie takes the Stage, London UK

"Nardizzi delivers jokes and emotion with the same amount of mastery…. Bachner’s script took us to the point where we started to feel like we were right next to her heart." — The Young-Howze Theatre Journal

 “Incredible Writing and Performance! A powerful show that the entire world needs to see!” — Suz Bednarz, birthmother, writingmywrongs.com

 "Superior writing…A spellbinding emotional detective story!" — Darryl Reilly, Theater Scene

 “The Good Adoptee is everything you want a solo show to be: well-crafted, lovingly performed and thoroughly entertaining!” — Leslie Dileo, Hi Drama

 “What a powerful piece of work. The script is tight and packed with emotion, the performance is brilliant and spot on. Perfection!” — Betsie Norris, Executive Director, Adoption Network Cleveland

 "It was AMAZING! Absolutely riveting and such an important play! I recommend it highly." — Dr. Nancy L. Segal, Professor of Psychology and Director, Twin Studies Center, California State Univ., Fullerton; Author of Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart

Directly following the show, there will be a Talkback hosted by Totally True Things producer/creator Jude Treder-Wolff with playwright/director Suzanne Bachner, performer Kat Nardizzi, dramaturg Bob Brader, and Special Guests, Chemene Vizzi, Adoptive Mom, Co-Founder & President of Long Island Adoptive Families Association and Conference & Production Specialist at Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York and Pamela Rothfeld, Adoptive mom x2, special educator, co-founder & VP of Long Island Adoptive Families Association, and Case Worker at You Gotta Believe - Adopting Older Kids and Youth.

The Good Adoptee written and directed by Suzanne Bachner performed by Kat Nardizzi dramaturged by Bob Brader projection design by Christ Kateff lighting and sound design by Katie Chai graphic design by Michael Koch

For more information on the show go to: www.TheGoodAdoptee.com

The Good Adoptee is part of Lifestage’s Totally True Things Fall Series. You can see all 3 shows – Bob Brader’s Smoker, Suzanne Bachner’s The Good Adoptee and Jude Treder-Wolff’s FASTER: A Comedy About The Cost of Coping With The Speed of Change – with a $50 subscription. Sign up here.

The show is produced by Lifestage, Inc, a NYS approved provider of Continuing Education for Social Workers, who can earn 2 contact hours of CE by attending the show and completing an online evaluation. 

 For more information on Lifestage, Inc. go to: www.lifestage.me