ayun halliday

Ayun Halliday's plays include NURSE!, FAWNBOOK, ZAMBONI GODOT and THE MERMAID'S LEGS, in addition to the hundreds of short plays she wrote and performed in as a member of the NeoFuturists in the '80s and '90s. She and her husband, Greg Kotis, are the co-founders of Theater of the Apes, under whose auspices Ayun hosts the book-based variety show Necromancers of the Public Domain and improvises bluegrass musicals with The Wayfaring Strangers. Ayun is the Chief Primatologist - and sole employee - of the long running, hand illustrated zine, THE EAST VILLAGE INKY, and author of nine books, including NO TOUCH MONKEY: AND OTHER TRAVEL LESSONS LEARNED TOO LATE and CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS: THE SMALL POTATO MANIFESTO.

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://www.ayunhalliday.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AyunHalliday/
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IG: @ayun_halliday

MORE ABOUT ME
I feel most like myself when I am dancing to 70s summer hits while volunteering at the New York Common Pantry, or sitting in the Conservatory Garden writing to my 8-year-old penpal, or admiring the packaging in Chinatown markets, or saying 70 minutes worth of lines while looking the audience directly in the eye, wearing a man's 9XL black t-shirt on my head as a wimple.
If I could bring one change to the theater, it would be lower ticket prices (which I suppose would require a major overhaul of how theaters are funded, since making it ain't cheap!) And every play would have some element of humor in it.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
A graphic novel adaptation of NURSE!, a solo play about Juliet's Nurse that I wrote so as to have a project I could perform all over the English-speaking world for the rest of my days.

KEYWORDS
​Adaptations, Immersive, Solo, Comedy, Direct Address, Clown, Puppets