FRIGID NEW YORK @ HORSE TRADE PRESENTS THE 10TH ANNUAL FRIGID FESTIVAL

 An Open and Uncensored Theater Festival

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will present the 10th Annual FRIGID Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Avenue and Avenue A) February 16-March 6. Founded in 2007, FRIGID is an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of theatre on the fringe of the mainstream, 100% of box office proceeds will go directly to the artists. FRIGID is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene’s ideas of what a theatre festival can be!

Tickets ($10-$18) are available for purchase in advance at www.horseTRADE.info. All shows run 60 minutes, or less. 

Classy comedic “femme fatale” with an international flair takes you on her 80-year journey around the world through songs (French, Italian, English), humorous vignettes, with her piano & ukulele. Her unusual escapades and sexcapades will hold your attention since you won’t know what to expect next. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15

How much bullsh*t can a girl put up with just to have nice things to wear? Come and listen to her stories told in a heartbreakingly hilarious way: between amateur modeling gigs and mail-in beauty pageant, what could possibly go wrong? The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $18

Florida is a messed up place with lots of crazy horrible things happening everyday. All is Fine in Sunny Florida! is a series of short plays (written by a Floridian) all about these TRUE STORIES….yes 98 percent of those play is completely true.  Either from Florida Man twitter, real news stories or happened to the author. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $18

Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley couldn’t be more different. They’re the crispy ends of the higher education banana, and Ben Abbott went to both. But while trading Book of Mormon classes for angry protest rallies, he may have stumbled upon a shocking conspiracy linking the two! (Spoiler: It’s aliens.)UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $15 Mon 2/22 @ 5:30pm, Thu 2/25 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 7:10pm, Wed 3/2 @ 7:10pm, Fri 3/4 @ 5:30pm &Sun 3/6 @ 12:10pm

CHALK (a silent comedy) is a hilarious and unexpected one-man show guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages. Chalk invites audiences into a hand-drawn world where imagination is made real and anything can happen. Charlie Chaplin meets Harold and the Purple Crayon in this romantic romp sure to “Draw You In.”  The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 

Struck by a mystery illness, David receives doctor’s orders to relax: something he’s incapable of doing. Desperate to conquer his debilitating tension, David dives into a spiraling monologue, a farce that audiences will find familiar, funny, and delightfully weird. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $15 Fri 2/19@ 8:50pm, Sat 2/20 @ 12:30pm, Thu 2/25 @ 8:50pm, Fri 2/26 @ 5:30pm, Sun 2/28 @ 5:10pm & Fri 3/4 @ 7:10pm

Conversations with Body Language is wordless solo sketch comedy. Started as a loving update to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, Mike Spara combines silent film sensibility, modern music and absurdity into a mix-tape for your imagination. Mike is also a co-founder of The New Movement New Orleans. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $10 Tue 2/16 @ 5:30pm, Fri 2/19 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/20 @ 10:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 12:10pm, Thu 2/25 @ 7:10pm & Sat 2/27@ 8:50pm

In this farcical mash-up of CSI: Miami and T he Andy Griffith Show, we find a gruesome string of murders happening in Mayberry. It’s up to Andy and Barney to find out who the killer is from a list of familiar faces: Is it Aunt Bee? Floyd the Barber? Or someone else…? The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $18 Tue 2/16 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/20 @ 3:20pm, Tue 2/23 @ 10:30pm, Sun 2/28 @ 5:10pm & Thu 3/3 @ 7:10pm

NYC’s “decidedly wicked storyteller” (New York Times) returns to the FRIGID Festival with his latest tales to eviscerate the American Dream — exposing obsessions on guns, fear and our relentless pursuit of happiness. A resonant new voice of contemporary cabaret, brazenly bizarre and fearlessly foppish. Set expectation aside and see why critics the world over swoon for Dandy Darkly. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $15 Tue 2/16 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/20 @8:50pm, Tue 2/23 @ 5:30pm, Fri 3/4 @ 10:30pm & Sun 3/6 @ 1:50pm

In 2012, Zoe Daniels lived a charmed life in Montreal. By 2014 she’d been dumped, evicted, fired, threatened, and bankrupted. Using the worst possible iTunes playlist and her years of experience as a stand-up comedian and storyteller, she presents the brutally hilarious tale of perfect happiness ruined by simply moving to Toronto. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $18 Wed 2/24 @ 5:30pm, Fri 2/26 @ 7:10pm, Sun 2/28 @ 12:10pm, Tue 3/1 @ 7:10pm, Thu 3/3 @ 10:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 5:30pm

Eighth Grade is the origin story of Nisse Greenberg’s neurosis. It’s funny in the way that losing your optimism is always a little funny. Using projections of found images and his eighth grade yearbook, Nisse shows us what it’s like inside his mind: a place no one asked to go. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $10 Wed 2/17 @ 5:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 1:50pm, Sun 2/28 @ 3:30pm, Wed 3/2 @ 8:50pm & Sat 3/5 @ 8:50pm

In this historical romp, Emily Dickinson, New England’s premiere paranormal investigator, is reunited with her mentor, Edgar Allan Poe. They venture to Brooklyn on the trail of a horrifying new adversary. Along the way they encounter ghosts, witches, and the mysterious Fox Sisters. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $10 Wed 2/17 @ 8:50pm, Sat 2/20 @ 5pm, Thu 2/25 @ 8:50pm, Tue 3/1 @ 10:30pm & Sun 3/6 @ 5:10pm

Step right up and witness a fantastical circus sideshow! In the dusty desert of Arizona, Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, meets her match. This experimental musical reveals the wonders of performing and navigates what it means to be “other.” The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $12 Thu 2/18 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/20 @ 6:40pm, Mon 2/22 @ 8:50pm, Sat 2/27 @ 1:40pm & Wed 3/2 @ 8:50pm

While struggling to write a play, five mental patients battle personal demons and theatrical creativity through vulgarity, sarcasm, and song. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 Thu 2/18 @ 8:50pm, Sun 2/21 @ 6:50pm, Wed 2/24 @ 10:30pm, Wed 3/2 @ 7:10pm & Sat 3/5 @ 8:20pm

The show is the true story of how Brad Lawrence survived a childhood at the center of the Reagan Eighties, the rise of the moral majority and meth amphetamine, the terrors of sex and the nuclear bomb, and his guest role in a sibling’s suicide by escaping into pop culture. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $10 Fri 2/19 @ 7:10pm, Wed 2/24 @ 8:50pm, Sat 2/27 @ 3:50pm, Thu 3/3 @ 5:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 10:30pm

As one assembles an IKEA chair, another determines the meaning of their existence. Devised from journals, emails, and drunken iPhone notes, Help me out here is written and performed by Michael Joel and Kaitlin Overton. Bring a screwdriver…and a Xanax. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $18 Thu 2/18 @ 5:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 5:10pm, Wed 2/24 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/27 @ 10:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 12:30pm

Come join the March sisters as they spit rhymes, drop sick beats, and kick it old schoolhouse! Original debuted in at the Orlando Fringe in 2012; Lil’ Women: A Rap Musical combines the classic story Little Women with hip-hop music. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 

Welcome to Ginger Creek, where curious characters and perplexing events are the norm. Join Hank O’ Hara and Sally Silver Gunz, as they run from the law, stumble over clues and suffer from amnesia. Their lives depend on you, as they attempt to solve a murder and prove their innocence. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 Thu 2/18 @ 5:30pm, Mon 2/22 @ 5:30pm, Fri 2/26 @ 5:10pm, Thu 3/3 @ 5:30pm & Sun 3/6 @ 3:30pm

From an Eden magical, menacing and alive with human feeling, we enter very the mind of Eve. Centuries later Adam is dead, Eve is pissed and good and evil are on the tongues of the tasters. Live musical accompaniment. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $12 Thu 2/18 @ 8:50pm, Mon 2/22 @ 7:10pm, Sun 2/28 @ 1:50pm, Wed 3/2 @ 5:30pm & Sun 3/6 @ 5:10pm

What happens when a boy wakes up to find out that puberty has turned his body into a mustache? Mark Pagán presents the only coming-of-age story involving mysterious stubble patches, etiquette tutorials, Teddy Pendergrass, treasure trails, Russian lasers, fake cancer scares, clandestine salon visits, and wax. Lots of wax. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $15 Wed 2/17 @ 8:50pm, Sat 2/20 @ 5:30pm, Fri 2/26 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 12:30pm & Thu 3/3 @ 7:10pm

Punk Grandpa is about one magical weekend Laura spent with her grandpa at 5 3/4 years old, portrayed through storytelling, dance, music and vintage family movies and photos. Grandpa was the free-est, most inappropriate person Laura ever knew and this show demonstrates how he set Laura free to be herself through his humor and unpredictable, wild ways. It’ll put hair on your chest. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $12 Fri 2/19 @ 5:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 3:30pm, Mon 2/22 @ 8:50pm, Tue 2/23 @ 7:10pm, Sun 2/28 @ 6:50pm & Sat 3/5 @ 3:50pm

A woman raised by pigeons, an author famous only on NPR, and a devil worshipping cable company all know how to make it in the big city. Do you? Once you do, you may be too damaged to make it anywhere else… UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $12 Wed 2/17 @ 10:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 6:50pm, Fri 2/26 @ 8:50pm, Wed 3/2 @ 10:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 2:10pm

In Set Yet in Motion, the ancient Greeks contend with the Judeo-Christian God. Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche address the intellectual and romantic tension between them. Also, there’s onstage sex!* (*Verbal, metaphorical. Some would say that’s the sexiest kind of sex.)  A good time will be had by philosophers, artists, and geeks from all walks of life. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $18 Thu 2/18 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/20 @ 2:10pm, Mon 2/22 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 5:30pm & Fri 3/4 @ 8:50pm

If falling in love could affect the fabric of reality, then a broken heart would shatter it into fragments. Merging theatre, experimental dance, animation, and a dark jazz score, Seven Fragments is a tale of unrequited love, lost memories, and high school. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 Wed 2/17 @ 10:30pm, Fri 2/19 @ 8:30pm, Tue 2/23 @ 8:50pm, Sat 2/27 @ 12pm & Sat 3/5 @ 5pm

HBO’s Going Clear meets Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in this one-woman comedy that takes you along for the ride as main character, Diana, gets into and out of a cult. Based on a true story, Diana’s family does everything they can to rescue her as the cult holds firm control. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $17 Tue 2/16 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/20 @ 8:20pm, Wed 2/24 @ 5:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 3:20pm & Sat 3/5 @ 1:40pm

The award winning, critically acclaimed Rising Sun Performance Company returns to FRIGID with a tale of heartbreak, madness, and horror.  Isabel’s world is forever altered over the course of two nights separated by decades in a desolate Maine cabin.  If only she could hear three little words…The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $18 Wed 2/17 @ 5:30pm, Sun 2/21 @ 5:10pm, Tue 2/23 @ 7:10pm, Fri 2/26 @ 8:30pm & Thu 3/3 @ 10:30pm

During the screening of the silent movie “FAUST” by Murnau (1926), the rock musician Supershock performs live music composed to interact with the images. The public experiences the atmosphere of silent cinema, but everything is repeated according to today’s standards and the classic orchestra becomes rock music, who gives a fresh and modern voice. A show of contamination.  A representation of modernity. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $15 Thu 2/18 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/20 @ 3:50pm, Thu 2/25 @ 5:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 2:10pm, Tue 3/1 @ 5:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 7:10pm

Kate and Eddie, two estranged friends, unexpectedly meet in a therapist’s waiting room after a year apart. As they confront a shared trauma, a delicate dance begins between who they were, and who they have become. Thank You For Waiting explores mental health, loss, and the dynamic nature of friendship. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $15 Thu 2/18 @ 10:30pm, Wed 2/24 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/27 @ 6:40pm, Wed 3/2 @ 10:30pm & Sat 3/5 @ 12pm

Nicole was six when her dad died. But she kept trying to get his attention in hopes he’d come back. WHY SO MUCH SHAME? uses vivid storytelling to explore a child’s unspoken grief, a woman’s confrontation with the truth, and the powerful things that happen when we stop pretending. UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place) $12 Wed 2/17 @ 7:10pm, Sat 2/20 @ 7:10pm, Wed 2/24 @ 10:30pm, Thu 3/3 @ 8:50pm & Sun 3/6 @ 3:30pm

WITH YOU! is a queer sports rom-com about a college rugby team’s love for the game and each other, brought to the stage via one woman’s body. The newest semi-autobiographical comedy from award-winning performer/playwright Una Aya Osato. The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street) $18 Fri 2/19 @ 6:50pm, Mon 2/22 @ 7:10pm, Thu 2/25 @ 10:30pm, Sat 2/27 @ 8:20pm & Sun 3/6 @ 1:50pm