Hi, Are You Single? Ryan J. Haddad

About This Show

Ryan has a higher sex drive than you. He also has cerebral palsy. Following a sold-out performance on closing night of this year’s HOT! Festival, his autobiographical solo show Hi, Are You Single? returns to Dixon Place. Though society assumes people with disabilities lack sexual and romantic desires, Ryan shatters this misconception while navigating humor and hurt on his search for love. He enters the gay club ready for glamour and excitement but soon realizes his cerebral palsy makes him an outsider. The men he meets force him to confront his insecurities and examine his own judgmental behavior. But not everything is so serious! Grab a margarita and say hi to Ryan on Grindr. Give him a kiss if you’d like. There’s no need to be shy.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

RYAN J. HADDAD (Ryan) Salvaged Fragments (La MaMa E.T.C.), Exhibit Q: Queer Bodies (New Museum). Regional: A Scavenge (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Ohio Wesleyan University: Hi, Are You Single? (2015 Excellence in Performance Award), A Little Night Music (Madame Armfeldt), Urinetown (Caldwell B. Cladwell), Ring Round the Moon (Romainville). Ryan’s short play Art Unfinished was an American College Theater Festival regional finalist. He was a member of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2014 Apprentice Company, for which he received the VSA/Rosemary Kennedy Scholarship for performers with disabilities. This summer he returned to Williamstown to teach his workshop in Autobiographical Storytelling and Solo Performance.

LAURA SAVIA (Director) The Recommendation (IAMA – Ovation Award, Best Production), Bareknuckle @ Gleason’s Gym (Vertigo), Unstuck (59E59, Red Flamboyant (Firebone), The Mnemonist of Dutchess County and Heads (Theatre Row), Red Light Winter (Itself Festival in Poland), Letters to Santa (Naked Angels), House Strictly Private (1st Irish), The Color of Justice (Theatreworks), The Lover (The Drama League), Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Strasberg Institute); short plays for Labyrinth, Ars Nova, Partial Comfort, 24 Hour Plays; Workshops at the Public, Roundabout, Atlantic, Second Stage, Playwrights Realm, Ma-Yi. Assistant director of Broadway’s The Merchant of Venice. Associate Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. 

SALLY CADE HOLMES is a freelance producer who most recently produced Dylan Frederick’s Summer Valley Fair at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and The Twentieth-Century Way with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. In 2014 she collaborated with Les Freres Corbusier to produce Here’s Hoover! directed by Alex Timbers. Additionally, she is the Producing Associate at Tom Kirdahy Productions (The Visit and It’s Only A Play). She served as the Producing Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival where she worked on Broadway and off-Broadway productions of The Bridges of Madison County, Fool for Love, Living on Love, The Old Man and The Old Moon, and The Visit. Other companies that she’s collaborated with include: Keen Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Sans A Productions, and TheatreWorks USA. Sally Cade is a Master of Arts Administration candidate at Boston University and received her BS in Theatre Studies from the University of Evansville. She is a proud adjunct member of The Broadway League. www.sallycadeholmes.com

Wednesday, Nov. 18 & Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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Credits

Director
Laura Savia

Ryan
Ryan J. Haddad

Produced by
Sally Cade Holmes

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