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Solo Work
Tour dates for The Barn Identity, Tea TIME, and other solo work are frequently added. Check back often for updates.
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April 2026
Tea TIME
Media, PA
Tea TIME
by Erika MacDonald
Writer / Performer: Erika MacDonald
Choreographer: Genevieve Bernard
Director / Sound Designer: Paul Strickland
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Part of the long-standing
Rose Valley House Concert Series
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Other Work
Dates for workshops and theatrical collaborations Erika is involved in will be updated here now and again.
For Erika's collaborations with Paul Strickland, you can also check Paul's website: ainttrue.com
Alphas Comedy Presents
Intro To Solo Performance with Erika MacDonald
Date & Time:
Saturday, October 18th
1-4pm
DESCRIPTION:
“What!? You think I want to stand on a stage all by myself? And say words I come up with myself?” Yes. Yes, I do think you want that. And I want to be there while you give it a try.
This 4-hour one-day workshop is designed to get you out of your head, into your body, and onstage by yourself. By the end of the workshop you will have created and performed your own original one-minute solo performance piece. Exercises will put you in touch with some of your solo performance “scene partners”: your own Body, the Space, and your Audience. So even though you will be performing by yourself you will never feel alone.
Please bring/wear:
- Clothes you are comfortable moving in
- Water bottle and a small snack
- Two sentences of text, fully memorized (instructions will be sent upon registration)
- Curiosity
This workshop is intended for female-identifying enrollees only, for adults 18 and over. Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
Register by September 15 for $80 early enrollment.
Location:
Alphas Comedy Collective at Hoffner Lodge
4120 Hamilton Ave. Cincinnati OH
About the Instructor
Erika MacDonald never thought she would want to perform her own solo work. She came to solo performance from traditional theater, starting in 2004 when she realized that she had something to say and she didn’t want to wait around for other people to give her words or permission to get on stage.
Performance work includes original solo shows Tea TIME (Artists’ Pick Encore Award, 2025 Cincinnati Fringe Festival), The Barn Identity (Best of Fest, 2023 Tampa Fringe Festival; 5 Stars, Saskatoon Star Phoenix), Evacuated! (Critics’ Pick of the Fringe Award, 2016 Cincinnati Fringe Festival), Tap Me on the Shoulder (Critics’ Choice Award: “Best Female Performer,” 2014 Orlando Fringe Festival), and FLUID (“Top Ten Hottest Plays,” Curve Magazine).
About Alphas Comedy
Alphas is an all-female identifying Cincinnati, Ohio based sketch and improv comedy group who has been writing, performing, and improvising shows together since April 2022. Their mission is to amplify women's voices in comedy, while providing an inclusive, safe space for exploration, performance, and learning. Learn more at alphascomedy.com
For more information, or to sign up:
https://www.crowdwork.com/e/intro-to-solo-performance-with-erika-macdonald
GET TICKETS:
https://knowtheatre.vbotickets.com/.../Show_Us.../166527
Erika MacDonald presents
Show Us Your Weird: SPOOKY EDITION
Cincinnati’s legendary Cabaret of Strange — this time, spookier.
An evening of spooky performances too singular to share anywhere else. Show Us Your Weird is for adventurous audiences who live for the “What The F*** Was That?!” and the “Yeah, but, were you there the night when…?”
AMERICAN HORROR STORY meets AMERICA'S GOT TALENT: a secret line-up of experimental entertainers unleashing their most daring and unexpected work.
DATE AND FULL TIMING:
Wednesday, October 29th
6:30pm DOORS
Immersive experiences and pop-up performances downstairs in the Know Theatre Underground. Drink specials.
7:30pm SHOW
*ACT 1*
Show begins upstairs on the Main Stage with Secret Weird performances.
*INTERMISSION*
Costume contest downstairs on the Underground Stage.
*ACT 2*
Secret Weird Headliner
9:30pm PARTY
Afterparty begins in the Know Theatre Underground. Bar is open.
VENUE:
Know Theatre of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson Street, between Central Parkway and 12th
in the heart of OTR
Come early and in costume or just come as you are to gawk and applaud. “Weirdest Costume” wins a special theatrical prize.
Recommended for ages 18+. WARNINGS: We don’t know either.
Tickets and info:
https://knowtheatre.vbotickets.com/event/Show_Us_Your_Weird_Spooky_Cabaret/166527
Presented as part of Know Theatre of Cincinnati's "OctKnowBer" programming, running October 2-29, 2025.
December 2025
Ain't True & Uncle False for the Holidays
Cincinnati, OH
Written and Composed by:
Paul Strickland
Performed by:
Erika MacDonald and Paul Strickland
Know Theater of Cincinnati
1120 Jackson St. Cincinnati OH
Photo Credits (from top, all photos are of Erika MacDonald unless otherwise indicated): Jonathan Rodriguez (banner, performing Evacuated!); Paul Strickland (photo and graphic design, show posters The Barn Identity, Tea TIME); Dan Winters (photo, show poster Evacuated!); Dan Norman (with Paul Strickland in background, performing 13 Dead Dreams of "Eugene"); Erika MacDonald (graphic design, Show Us Your Weird promo collage picturing: Noah Pantano, Joylyn Secunda, Shreya Parashar, Christine Lesiak).
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