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(New York, NY) – Ever wake up next to a stranger? What if it was planned that way?Shameless hussy production showcases critically acclaimed single woman show dissolve Written by Meghan Gardiner and directed by Renee Iaci, co-art director of Shameless Hassi Productions.The show will take place on Saturday, October 15th at 2:00 pm as United Solo Theatre Festival. It runs for 45 minutes and then the talkback will take place.

dissolve Confronting the topic of alcohol and drug-fueled sexual assault. Responding to the interest of schools and educators, dissolve For over a decade, he has toured communities, colleges, universities and throughout North America. dissolve Star Emmelia Gordon won the Jesse Richardson Award for “Outstanding Actress” for her performance in the role.

dissolve Follow a college girl on a night out, moving back and forth from the bedroom to the bar scene, shifting between 16 characters that is both comedic and engrossing. Designed to stimulate thought and conversation about sexual consent, dissolve Challenges us to change our thoughts and behaviors about alcohol, drugs and sexual assault.

Now dissolve New York’s off-Broadway premiere at United Solo, the world’s largest solo music festival, is on Theater Row. Meghan Gardiner’s hilarious yet brutally thought-provoking drama captivates audiences with satire, while a twisted attitude toward drugs and alcohol fuels sexual assault.Bring your teen, bring yourself, as one reviewer put it “Get your kids to agree to watch Dissolve. “

The show was created by Gardner based on her life experiences as a college student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. With the support and playwriting of UBC theatre and film professor Stephen Heatley, the play was written and first performed by Gardiner as a graduation project in her BFA Acting program. She then toured with it until the baton was passed on to the outrageously vulgar productions, who demanded so much of the production that there were two actresses touring on the 1-female show – Emmelia Gordon and Lucy McNulty.

Meghan Gardiner is an actor and playwright who wrote two plays for Shameless Bullshit, love bomb – a musical about teen sex trafficking, and the recently premiered to perfection – A comedy about a grandmother struggling to understand her grandson as “gender fluid.”Gardener has also written for Green Thumb Theatre, Carousel Theatre, Gateway Theatre and toured one of her female performances independently dissolve across North America for over twelve years. Meghan was nominated for the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in 2011 and won the Sydney New Playwrights Venture Award at the 2012 Jesse Awards. She has written two screenplays; both were nominated for a BC Leo Award for screenwriting, and she is currently working for the Arts Club Theatre and the Carousel Theatre.She can be seen on stage in an upcoming production at the Vancouver Art Club in Canada the sound of music and cullas well as various locally filmed TV shows on the screen.

Founded in 1995, its mission is to “Tell provocative stories about women who shake the world with the hands that inspire the cradle” Shameless vulgarity in Vancouver, Canada brings HERSTORY to the forefront. They seek out and create work that deepens understanding of women’s past, present and potential, and bring it to the Canadian and American stages.

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