Karaoke Confessional To Have World Premiere At The Secret Theatre's 2018 UnFringed Festival

When a popular children's television show host experiences a total meltdown on national television, her instinct to turn to karaoke as a means of coping makes her the ideal candidate for a new psychological case study.

Starring actor and playwright, Katie Housley, alongside fellow actor Matt Scholes, Karaoke Confessional is a seriocomic play that uncompromisingly delves into the millennial obsession with pop culture and social media and its tragically hilarious ramifications.

This is the second world premiere to take place in New York that Housley has written and performed in. Her first play, Midnight on a Monday, won the Playwrights Guild of Canada/Toronto Fringe Festival's Twenty-four Hour Play Writing Contest before going on to premiere at the 2016 Midtown International Theatre Festival where it garnered two nominations; one for best short subject and one for best actress.

In her new play, Karaoke Confessional, Housley plays Ingrid, a beloved children's television show host who, after experiencing a televised nervous breakdown, turns to karaoke to channel her shock, much to the dismay of her neighbours. Scholes, who plays Sam, an awkward and antisocial psychology grad student and fellow resident of Ingrid's apartment building, has been appointed the unfortunate task of asking Ingrid to stop the boisterous singing. However, upon observing Ingrid up close, Sam sees a potential solution to his struggling psychology thesis.

Catch Karaoke Confessional this August at the Secret Theatre as part of the 2018 UnFringed Festival!

Performances: August 11th, 17th, 22nd at 7:30 and August 26th at 8:00.

Tickets available at secrettheatre.com/Unfringed 2018 or by calling the Secret Theatre's Box Office at 718-392-0722.