Neurotica

A recognition-based comedy experiment

Something new is emerging in my work.

For years I’ve immersed myself in conversations and experiences around embodiment, spirituality, sexuality, and what it means to live honestly and ecstatically in a human body. Recently another form has been insisting on itself.

Comedy.

Not the kind that distances us from life — the kind that reveals it.

Neurotica explores the strange intersection of aging, desire and the human psyche— especially inside the body of a woman learning to live fully inside her own skin.

The project lives somewhere between stand-up, storytelling, and ritual performance. It explores the hilarious and tender terrain where eros meets the overthinking mind.

Menopause.
Motherhood.
Dating.
Sex.
Anxiety.
The strange negotiations happening inside the nervous system as we try to be both divine and fully human.

Sexuality is often where the rubber meets the road. It’s where curiosity, shame, fantasy, vulnerability, and aliveness all show up at once.

And it’s where a lot of our neurosis lives.

The goal isn’t to fix it.

The goal is to turn toward it together.

Humor creates the eagle-view that lets us see our patterns without collapsing into shame. In the theater, the audience becomes a kind of container — a place where we can witness the ridiculousness and beauty of being human.

Sometimes the jokes land first.
Sometimes the truth does.

Either way, something relaxes.

And we remember that being human is not a problem to solve.

It’s an experience to inhabit.