How to Put On a Sock at La Jolla Playhouse!

I am THRILLED to share that my show How to Put On a Sock will be presented through La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival this April!

I've been working on the show for about a decade (!), first at Carnegie Mellon, then through the Beatrice Terry Residency at The Drama League, and now for its first full (non-academic) production at LJP. It’s part of a festival focused on theater that doesn’t happen in theaters — such a perfect fit for my work.

It’s gone through quite a journey over the years and is such a different show now. Here’s all about it:

Abstinence pledges, birth videos, STI slideshows, condom demonstrations. Sex ed can have it all -- if sex ed is taught at all.

How to Put On a Sock takes the audience on a cross-country tour of US sex ed. Jumping state to state and featuring actual, in-use sex ed lessons from the California liberal to the Christian conservative, How to Put On a Sock exposes the highs, lows, and in-betweens of what teens are and are not taught about sex today.

Personal stories from a multigenerational ensemble mix with multiple opportunities for audiences to participate in the lessons being shared, to highlight the continuing consequences of our sex ed experiences and ask what we all still need to learn to become fully-realized sexual citizens.

If you’re in San Diego or Los Angeles, come through! It’s playing six shows April 24-27 — lots of opportunities to get your sex education on.