AMY MULLER’S VITAL SIGNS + DAD, PLAYBOY & ME… NOT YOUR AVERAGE SLIDESHOW

These shows are presented as a part of Projectorfest 2024, a four-night showcase of ambitious multimedia-driven comedy projects. More at projectorfest.com. This performance includes two 30-minute shows.

AMY MULLER’S VITAL SIGNS – Amy Muller

The world abounds with familiar signs: “STOP,” “NO SOLICITING,” “LINE STARTS HERE…” but for many years, Amy Muller has been enchanted by the rare delicacies, the ones that leave you with more questions than answers, more fears than instructions. Ones like “NO SOUP ON ROOF” (Williamsburg, April 2023), or “YOU SHOULD KNOW THE FUNCTION OF BANISTER” (Yangzhou, 2017), or “FREE GUINEA PIGS” (Aspen, 2023). And as she collects her little treasures, she can’t help but speculate as to what, exactly, happened that might have inspired them. Amy Muller’s Vital Signs tells the story behind each of her favorite signs—or at least, offers her best guess.

DAD, PLAYBOY & ME… NOT YOUR AVERAGE SLIDESHOW – A.G. Norton

Comedic storytelling featuring rare Playboy Club photographs, anecdotes from the people who worked there, and the personal journey they inspired. Follow our narrator’s journey through iconic photographers, their personal connection to her family history, and research showing intersections between impressionism, the Dada art movement, the lost generation in Paris and their influence on modern day street photography. Oh – and Playboy. It’s wild….

Back in NYC after performances in Berlin, London, & The Edinburgh Fringe Festival this comedic slideshow gives an intimate look behind the Playboy Club through archived film rescued from a basement in New Jersey. The show was delighted to be awarded winner of the Brighton Pride Bursary at the Brighton, UK Fringe Festival 2023 supporting queer storytelling.