Written and Performed by Donna Oblongata

Directed by Francesca Montanile Lyons

Projection design by Sandra Andrade

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Donna Oblongata is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been seen at galleries, vacant lots, protests, squats, and proper theater settings around the world. She's the recipients of the 2025 Leeway Transformation Award and the 2025 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Meow Wolf, and most notably, Dr. Bronner’s soap company. She’s also shared the stage with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Slava’s Snow Show and had her protest art in support of Gaza acquired by the Jewish Museum in DC. She's currently developing a new, immersive musical in collaboration with Sequoia Sellinger, about the Earth First! movement. 

 

Francesca Montanile Lyons is a Philly-based artist and educator who focuses on the creation of new work as a director, dramaturg, and performer/clown. Her art-making seeks to disempower shame and taboo through playful honesty & voyeuristic delight. Credits include VILE (PHL, PVD, MN, Indy Fringes), Van Gogh Shogh (national tours, Edinburgh), Dear Diary LOL (FringeArts, New Ohio), Good Grief (PHL Fringe, LeMondo), Legal Tender (FringeArts, AntFest), Fourth Quarter (FPA Fest), and Girl Poop (Various Venues). Her work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYTW, FringeArts, Painted Bride, Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Bartol Foundation, Bethany Arts Community, Network of Ensemble Theaters, & Puffin Foundation, among others. MFA in Devised Performance from UArts/Pig Iron (2016). BA in Theatre Arts & Performance Studies from Brown U (2011). ig: @francescamontanilelyons. www.francescamontanilelyons.com

 

 

Many many special thanks to:

Rita Burkholder, Eric Davis, Emmanuelle Delpech, Alex Braslavsky, Elaine Arias, Courtney Smith, Taylor Kelly, Patrick Costello, Karen Orrick, Ambrose Gage, Anna Sellinger and Pete Langway, Erik Trester, producers extraordinaires Barra Cohen and Jess Ducey, and as always, Matt Gilbert, whose off-hand joke spiraled out of control to become this show.