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The Secret Theatre presents:
The Flying Solo Festival 3: Screw Your Courage! (or The Bloody Crown!)
An Actress's Attempt At Conquering Her Life and Her Dream Role
Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 6:00PM

The Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd Street (between 44 Ave and 44th Rd)
(through green mesh gate then toward large windows)
Long Island City, NY 11101
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Back by popular demand....The Secret Theatre presents its 3rd Flying Solo Festival! Multiple one-performer shows to whet your solitary appetite, see how captivating one person can be ...and then VOTE on it! Yes, we will be rating these singular gems, so pay attention to the details, the nuances, the subtleties....help us to find the king or queen to reign over all soloists!

Screw Your Courage!(or The Bloody Crown!)
Klahr Thorsen: performer, writer
Autumn Mirassou: director
50 min

Witches curse an actress to play the role of Lady Macbeth over and over again until she gets it "just right." Will she be able to conquer madness, Serbians, and enchanted bagpipers long enough to triumph as Shakespeare's most misunderstood heroine?

BIOGRAPHY
KLAHR THORSEN
Klahr is an actor /solo performer /director /choreographer who is currently based in Brooklyn. In 2013, she was selected as an International Acting Fellow at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.

New York credits include: KING LEAR (Theater 2020); MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (Theater 2020); IAGO IS DYING (The Network One-Act Festival); THE BLOODY CROWN (Go-Solo Workshops). Regional credits include: THE TEMPEST (California Shakespeare Theater); TWELFTH NIGHT (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival); DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (San Jose Stage) URINETOWN: THE MUSICAL (San Jose Stage); COLORADO (Impact Theatre); BABY (Playhouse West); A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (New Conservatory Theatre Center); GOOD PERSON OF SZECHUAN (Woman's Will); BLACK NATIVITY (Lorraine Hansberry Theatre); PRELUDE TO A KISS (Fox Theatricals Chicago); SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO (Theo Ubique Theatre); THE LOTTERY (Theo Ubique Theatre); BETTER LIVING (Open Eye Productions); NEW ANATOMIES (Foreground Theatre Company); MAN OF LaMANCHA (Phoenix Ascending Theatre).

Workshops include: her previous solo show THE WATER ROAD (Carolinian Shakespeare Festival); A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (Rock Dove Theater in NYC).

She received training at: A.C.T. (San Francisco); Shakespeare & Company (Lenox; MA); the Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin). She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and The Second City Conservatory.
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​ OTHER SHOWS IN THE FLYING SOLO 3 FESTIVAL
​ If you would like to see any other shows in the festival, follow these links. We offer a Festival Pass for $75 that may be used to see ANY AND ALL shows linked below.​
​
​ It Ain't Pretty
​ Wild Child ​i​n ​the City
​ The Funeral of Enerio Lopez
​ 'This Gonna Be on the Test, Miss?'
​ The Bad German
​ Ripple of Hope
​ The Boy from B​a​ntay
​ Ferdinand
​ I Am Hope
​ Screw Your Courage!
​ Do This One Thing ​for Me
​ The Real Coyote Ugly
​ GarbageMan
​ The Hungry Ghost
​ The Question of My Virgin​i​t​y​
​ Browngirl. Bluegrass.
​ RANT!