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SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED FOR
THEATRE ASPEN’S
SIXTH ANNUAL
“SOLO FLIGHTS” FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 2-7, 2025

INCLUDING SIX NEW WORKS FEATURING
COMEDIAN AND ACTRESS MARGARET CHO
THREE-TIME TONY AWARD^® NOMINATED ACTOR MARC KUDISCH
BROADWAY ACTRESS SHARONE SAYEGH
AND WEST END AND BROADWAY DIRECTOR GORDON GREENBERG

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Aspen, CO (August 5, 2024) – Today, Theatre Aspen announced the six new works selected for the sixth annual Solo Flights Festival, the yearly developmental festival of one-person shows bringing lauded creatives to the Aspen area, to be held from September 2-7, 2025 at Theatre Aspen’s Hurst Theatre and The Wheeler Opera House.

“We’re thrilled to feature six terrific new projects with a slew of the preeminent creatives working throughout theatre, comedy, and the film and television industry with luminaries like Emmy^® and Grammy Award^®-nominated Margaret Cho, three-time Tony Award^®-nominated Marc Kudisch, Gordon Greenberg, Sharone Sayegh, and Dick Scanlan in participation,” said Producing Director of Theatre Aspen Jed Bernstein. “Our sixth annual Solo Flights is sure to be a fantastic conclusion to our 2025 Summer Season.

For the first time, Theatre Aspen is taking a Solo Flights production off-campus. Mark Twain Shouldn’t Say Such Things will be presented at the iconic Wheeler Opera House.

This year’s Solo Flights Festival will feature six new works, all receiving early developmental support from Theatre Aspen including:

The Goldsmith
Tuesday, September 2 at 4PM; Thursday, September 4 at 7PM
Written by and Starring Sharone Sayegh
Directed by Zachary Prince
Sound Composer and Music Arrangement by Avi Amon

Stemming from Broadway actress Sharone Sayegh’s true family’s journey, The Goldsmith is a treasury of stories woven through the golden jewelry passed down through her family, across borders, cultures, and generations. Each piece of jewelry takes us further along her family’s journey from Iraq to Israel, and then to America, where Sharone grapples for love as a first- generation Iraqi, Israeli, American Jew. As she wrestles with identity, belonging, multiplicity of self, and acceptance, this solo play moves, surprises, and inspires the audience to investigate the stories and legacies with which we adorn ourselves throughout our lives.

Ghost Tour
Tuesday, September 2 at 7PM; Thursday, September 4 at 4PM
Written by Gordon Greenberg
Directed by Stephen Brackett

In Ghost Tour, a sardonic out-of-work actor returns to his Florida hometown to host a haunted theatre tour—only to be haunted by his own past. As fact blurs with fiction, the tour becomes a hilarious, heart-wrenching deep dive into love, loss, queerness, and the ghosts we carry. Set against the kitschy backdrop of Orlando’s supernatural subculture, this sharply funny solo play is part stand-up, part séance, and wholly unforgettable. Because sometimes, the scariest stories are the ones we tell ourselves.

Mourning Songs
Wednesday, September 3 at 7PM; Saturday, September 6 at 4PM
Written by and Starring Ryan Langer
Co-Directed by Gregg Wiggans & Jack Cumming III

When grief goes viral, how far do you go to turn heartbreak into a breakthrough? Aspiring musical theatre composer, Ryan Langer, is on the verge of giving up—until an unexpected tragedy triggers a creative spark he never saw coming. On an impulse, Ryan starts a social media project to cope with his grief… and it explodes. As likes turn into shares and re-posts, an unexpected career opportunity emerges, and Ryan must confront the cost of turning personal pain into public art.

The Vampire
Wednesday, September 3 at 4PM; Saturday, September 6 at 7PM
Written by and Starring Alec Silberblatt
Directed by Paul Edwards

A lonely and lost young man, seduced by wealth, purpose, and friendship finds himself in the company of a vampire. After inviting the monster into his life, he must choose whether to embrace the violence and chaos it brings or vanquish the foe and protect those he loves most.

Mark Twain Shouldn’t Say Such Things
Friday, September 5 at 7PM; Sunday, September 7 at 4PM
@ The Wheeler Opera House
Written by Dick Scanlan and Marc Kudisch
Directed by Dick Scanlan
Starring Marc Kudisch

While on a lecture tour to promote the publication of his new novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain—America’s first stand-up comic—is faced with a crisis when touring partner and friend, southern writer and unexpected progressive George Washington Cable leaves the tour without warning. Forced to use his famous wit and charisma to turn the two-hander into a solo act, Twain must confront his own views on friendship and race… and his ways of expressing those views. If you think you know the Icon, get ready to meet the Man.

Mommy: A One-Woman Cho
Friday, September 5 at 4PM; Sunday, September 7 at 7PM
Written by and starring Margaret Cho
Directed by Seonjae Kim
Additional Material by Leah Nanako Winkler

In this genre-defying solo show, trailblazing artist Margaret Cho takes on the persona she embodied in her comedy so many times: her own mother. As “Mommy” takes the audience through a hilarious romp of the Korean-American immigrant experience, inconvenient secrets of family and survival emerge. Delivered with Cho’s signature wit, Mommy: A One Woman Cho is a fearless invitation to see the truth in our own stories.

Solo Flights single tickets and passes are available for purchase now. Matinee performances are “Pay What You Can” starting at just $10 (only available by visiting the box office). The schedule for Solo Flights is subject to change, please visit TheatreAspen.org for the most up-to-date information. Purchase at TheatreAspen.org, or call (970) 300-4474 or visit the Box Office (M-F 10-4 PM) at the Hurst Theatre.

In addition to the performances, Solo Flights features signature events including talkbacks, creative discussions, and special receptions.

Additional casting and creative announcements will be made shortly.

Solo Flights is an annual weeklong developmental festival of one-person shows presented in the beginning stages of their making. Launched in 2019, the festival has brought a variety of diverse works and celebrated actors and directors to Theatre Aspen. Artists have included Anthony Rapp, Justin Tranter, Sammi Cannold, Guy Davis, Marsha Mason, Judith Ivey, Phylicia Rashad, Regina Taylor, Bryce Pinkham, Kate Baldwin, Taylor Trensch, Beau Bridges, Jeff Hiller, Lorin Latarro, Kaye Winks, Sarah Stiles, Christine Quintana, Emma Ramos, Richard Greenberg, Lameece Issaq, Michael Gaston, James Naughton, James Whiteside and more.

In 2022, Theatre Aspen created the Solo Flights Project Advancement Fund which provides $10,000 grants to two chosen festival works to support future development. This year a selection panel of distinguished theatre makers, to be announced, will choose two works to receive the 2025 grants. The 2024 grant recipients were From Kabul With Love, written and performed by Sammi Cannold and Safi Rauf; and Touch, written by Kenny Finkle.

ABOUT THEATRE ASPEN

As Theatre Aspen enters its 42^nd season in 2025 it continues to rekindle a sense of discovery in audiences who live in and visit the Roaring Fork Valley by producing big theatre in a small space with intimate storytelling. Each season, Theatre Aspen promises to bring world-class theatre dramatically closer, with innovative and imaginative productions of both plays and musicals. These productions are complemented by an assortment of community events, including cabarets, educational programs and performances, collaborations with other Aspen arts organizations, and new works presentations. Theatre Aspen also boasts an impressive Apprentice Program, one of the largest in the country, devoted to training the next generation of theatrical artists and administrators. For more information on Theatre Aspen, visit TheatreAspen.org or call (970) 925-9313.

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