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Sometimes the answers to life are staring us right in the face. But can we pass the test? In these two heartfelt, riveting tales, monologuists Molly McCluskey and Eric Weiner offer deeply personal stories that dramatize the ways we can unconsciously close ourselves off to happiness.

Reprising her “Best Festival Debut” at the United Solo Show Festival 2024, Molly McCluskey shares a darkly comedic behind-the-scenes love story from the nightmare world of dating apps; it’s a tale filled with love, heartbreak, grief, revenge, and the universal hope we all hold onto that we’ve finally found the one. Using personal artifacts from her relationship in 2020, McCluskey draws us into the overly-excited and wildly unsteady mind of a woman planning her future as the world shuts down.

Eric Weiner, the five-time Emmy nominee and co-creator of Nickelodeon’s Peabody-Award winning DORA THE EXPLORER, returns to his first love, theater, as he tells the story of a huge crush he had on a girl in his prep school English class. In the end, this astonishing romantic saga bears an uncanny similarity to the Shakespeare sonnet that he and his true love studied together in high school!