LEMUR MOM Comes to Whitefire Theatre Solofest 2019

Megan Dolan has the distinct feeling that she's not the right mom. As she navigates the treacherous world of support groups, child psychologists, and play-dates trying to help her son communicate, she makes countless wrong turns along the way. Megan ultimately must face the truth about herself in order to help her child.

This hilarious and hopeful solo show is one woman's eye-opening journey into life on the spectrum. It explores the power of resilience, kindness, and the value of showing up. Megan forges a path from believing she's the wrong mom to knowing she's the only mom for her unique and gifted son.

Lemur Mom opens this month as part of Whitefire Theatres, Solofest 2019 at Whitefire Theatre (13500 Ventura Blvd.) in Sherman Oaks. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, January 27 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 31 and Sunday, April 28. Tickets are $22 and available at Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3570240

Megan has written and performed stories for the Moth, Expressing Motherhood, Listen to Your Mother, Diversity:Tales from the Urban Jungle, The Scripted Comedy Festival, Cake Batter's Funny Women Festival (finalist storytelling competition), the High Brow Comedy Fundraiser, and the Alta Dena Creativity Festival. Her solo show, Snack played to sold out houses and won an Encore! Producers Award at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Snack was selected to be a part of the Los Angeles Womens Theatre Festival at the Electric Lodge in Venice. She has been a special guest performer for the Southern California Doula Association and Long Beach City College. She is a founding member of the Elephant Theatre Company. She has opened for the comedy folk duo Mommy Tonk and was a featured speaker at TEDxWomen Pasadena. Her talk entitled Messy Mommy: Slob in the Shadows can be seen on Youtube. She lives in Long Beach with her husband, son, and daughter, and lots of clean laundry still in the baskets.

Ms. Hammers loves directing solo artists and is truly delighted to be working on Lemur Mom with the wonderful and witty Megan Dolan. Other solo directing credits include: John Ciccolinis Frank Sinatra F*cked Up My Life, Stephanie Blums When I Cough, I Wet Myself,Jo Willettes The Jo Show, and most recently, Fiona Goodwins A Very British Lesbian.As an actress, Ms. Hammers credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Sopranos, Gray Nomad (ATC), and her acclaimed solo show Ripe (national tour). As a stand up comic, shes appeared on Oprah and The Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Wendy is the creator and host of Tasty Words, a monthly spoken word salon, now in it's 15th smash year.

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