MORA Theater to Present SEX AROUND THE CITY: THE WALKING TOUR OF SHAME This Fall

Look out Manhattan! Here come the girls...no, not Carrie and her gang, but real women of NYC and they want to tell you their stories...their SEX stories.

This fall, MORA Theater, producers of site specific theatrical hit, Crumble, in collaboration with Ivy Theatre, producers of Time Out New York's Critics Pick 2015, Donkey Punch, present NYC's most innovative theatrical experience.

Raw, edgy and revealing, Sex Around The City: the walking tour of shame is an experience like no other. Set on the streets, in the bars and the subways of Manhattan's Midtown East, join tour guide and 'sex-sighter', Joanie, on a gritty adventure all about sex - both good and bad. And along the way meet some very gutsy women, daring enough to tell their stories.

Please note this is not a tour for the faint-hearted, the squeamish or the prudish. Sex Around The City: the walking tour of shame is a darkly comic, provocative and very honest new play, written and performed by Laura Hooper, dealing with sexual stigma, prejudice and courage over adversity.

Due to the site-specific and interactive nature of Sex Around The City: the walking tour of shame, no performance or audience experience is ever the same. To manage numbers, audience members are given the specific address of the first location after they purchase their tickets.

You can join Sex Around The City; the walking tour of shame on September 29th, 30th and October 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st, 22nd. Tickets are $40 full price and $18 for discounted tickets. Each ticket includes two free drinks and a "happy ending". For more information visit www.sexaroundthecitynyc.com.

MORA Theater are a theatre company run by English actress and theatre maker Laura Hooper and writer Mark O'Neil. Their aim is to make new theatre accessible by performing in unusual, non­-theatre spaces. Crumble was first performed in a theatre and a cafe in London, UK in 2005 and has now toured over 20 kitchens on both sides of the pond. In August 2012, MORA performed the play at Happy Days the Enniskillen International Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland, the world's first annual Festival dedicated to Nobel Prize­winning writer, Samuel Beckett. Prior to this MORA sold out performances of Crumble in New York in 2011 and 2012 and London in 2012. In 2015 they went on to sell out their entire New York run which saw Hooper nominated as outstanding solo performer by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, the results are in September. MORA have gone on to produce three other short plays, of which Invisible Glue won the Short Play NYC Festival in 2014. For more information about their flagship show CRUMBLE, visit crumbletheplay.com.

Laura Hooper is an actress, writer, director and producer who works internationally in Theatre, Film, TV and Radio. Theatrical acting highlights include; playing Sylvie in the solo show "CRUMBLE", Gilda in "Design For Living" directed by Tony Award winning director Jack Hofsiss, The Queen in "The Persians" a tour of Amphitheaters in Cyprus, Olivia in "Twelfth Night" in LonDon Parks, originating roles in "Supermarket Shakespeare" in supermarkets across London, Natasha in "Three Sisters" at The Theatre Museum, Covent Garden and devising and performing in a show for Miramax. Laura wrote, produced & starred in her debut film "Cat On The Matt" which has been screened at numerous festivals in NYC. This spring she won Outstanding Director for "Farewell, King Carter" at The Fresh Fruit Festival; recently directed the sell-out "Growing Up Fundie" at the New York Fringe; won the NYC SPF for directing "Invisible Glue", and directed and acted in a series of radio plays for Geste podcasts and FAD Theater. Laura is currently nominated for the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Solo Performer for Sylvie in "CRUMBLE". For more information, visit www.laurahooper.info.

Ivy Theatre Company was founded by Audrey Alford, Katie Braden, and Gwenevere Sisco in 2013. They are dedicated to dynamic storytelling that explores the human condition in a visceral way to provoke thought and challenge both the artist and audience. Their work climbs up, inside, and over the walls that have confined and silenced the voices of the few and the oppressed.

Ivy's production of Donkey Punch by Micheline Auger was nominated for 3 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Premier Production of a Play.

Audrey Alford, Artistic Director of Ivy Theatre Company, has directed in New Orleans, Seattle, Charlotte, and New York. Her Off Broadway production of Donkey Punch, by Micheline Auger, was a Time Out New York's Critic's Pick, and the Off Off production was nominated for 3 NYIT Awards, including Best Premiere Production of a Play. In 2013, she was nominated for Best Director in the Midtown International Theatre Festival for Black Ice, by Lezlie Revelle. Her production of Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was nominated for multiple awards including Best Drama. She is a proud feminist and is working toward a theatrical community inclusive of everyone's stories.