January 8 – February 9, 2025

Atlantic Theater
336 West 20th St
New York, NY

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written by Mona Pirnot
directed by Ken Rus Schmoll
performed by… David Greenspan

“Yes friends, you’ve read the title correctly. One, it’s funny. Two, I’m not a character. Three, I play young women. Ticket link below. Mona Pirnot is a terrific playwright. I’m being directed by Ken Rus Schmoll – and it’s doesn’t get better than that! Tickets are selling briskly! January 8 – February 9. I sure hope you can make it.” – David Greenspan

One 69-year old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (that’s full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try).

Six-time Obie recipient David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude, Four Saints in Three Acts, On Set With Theda Bara), Drama Desk nominee Mona Pirnot (I Love You So Much I Could Die) and two-time Obie recipient Ken Rus Schmoll (Middletown, The Internationalist, Telephone, Map of Virtue).

More About David Greenspan
David Greenspan has appeared in his plays Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia, performed solo renditions of three American plays from the 1920’s: Barry Conners’ comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s six-hour, nine-act drama Strange Interlude, Gertrude Stein’s experimental Four Saints in Three Acts and solo renditions of Stein’s lectures Plays, Composition As Explanation and What Are Masterpieces and acted in many contemporary plays, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. Honors include Guggenheim, Lortel and Fox fellowships, Alpert, Lambda Literary, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards, a RUTHIE and six OBIES.

David Greenspan been associated with New York’s Off-Broadway theater for over forty years. After graduating with a theater degree from the University of California at Irvine, he settled in New York and found his way into the downtown theater scene – writing, directing and performing. He came to the attention of Joseph Papp who made him a director-in-residence at the Public Theater. He has appeared in his own plays, most notably The Home Show Pieces, Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia – and performed solo renditions of Gertrude Stein’s lectures Plays, Composition as Explanation and What Are Masterpieces. Between 2011 and 2022 he developed and performed solo renditions of three American plays from the late 1920’s: Barry Conners’ 1925 romantic comedy The Patsy, Eugene O’Neill’s 1927 six-hour, nine-act modernist drama Strange Interlude and Gertrude Stein’s 1928 radically experimental Four Saints in Three Acts. His plays and solo projects have been produced by the Public, Playwrights Horizons, Target Margin Theater, The Foundry, Transport Group and the Lortel Theatre. He has acted in many contemporary plays, notably Terrence McNally’s Some Men, Joey Merlo’s solo play On Set With Theda Bara and revivals of Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band and Goethe’s Faust. He enjoys close collaborative relationships with directors David Herskovits, Leigh Silverman, Jack Cummings III, Ken Rus Schmoll and Morgan Green and is the recipient of Guggenheim, Lortel and Fox fellowships, Alpert, Lambda Literary, Helen Merrill Playwriting awards, a RUTHIE and six OBIES.