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What happens when something you love goes up in flames?
"The Carport"
We live in a time where it takes everything to get anything done.
With The Carport, an ordinary person tackles a bureaucratic system, armed only with creativity, resilience, and a sense of humor.
This 60 minute solo show will help you re-ignite with that energy to keep on going, and re-discover how you can do it … how we as a country can do it. Won’t you join us at The Carport?
"Getting Creative with Jennifer Blaine"
Jennifer Blaine’s innovative solo show, Getting Creative, combines topical stand-up comedy, interactive characters, and real-time coaching. Jennifer partners with you, the audience, to spark community, creativity and connection.
Throughout the show, audience members are invited to dialogue with zany original characters, explore prompts to unlock their creativity, feel ready to tackle their current challenges, and become better laughers. After the official play time, each production of Getting Creative culminates with focused coaching for three or so audience members.
The Vicissitudes of Travel
Premiered at the 2017 FringeArts festival, and has been performed for university and medical students, artists of all kinds, and communities impacted by compromised brain issues.
Co-created by Blaine and Karen Getz
Illustration by Chrissie Bonner
"The idea that brain tumors rob patients of their self was so beautifully explored in Jennifer Blaine’s theatrical performance. Blaine’s representation of the tumor was phenomenal. Blaine’s performance is a must-watch for all future neurosurgeons as it gives them a space to begin thinking about how they, as an empathetic human, touch their cold, sharp instruments to another human’s delicate brain while realizing the impact that “just another surgery” [in the surgeons’ eyes] will have on the patient and their loved ones."
"Mannequin"
Takes place at the site of a fur store in South Philly, hopscotching through time from 1965 to the present time of 2020.
There’s a longstanding conflict between the owner, Olive, an elderly Jewish woman who is a Holocaust survivor, and Betty, a protester who vehemently opposes the fur trade and its barbarism. Olive takes solace in collecting mannequins for her shop, and they animate to talk to her and one another in private moments.
"Jennifer and Friends"
Always interactive, often hysterical, and possibly cathartic, she aims to spark the audience’s creativity.
J.B. & Friends” is stand-up, original song, and original characters such as Bill the Body Piercer, Ruth – the elderly woman who tells dirty jokes, and Dixie – an unintelligible little girl, as well as a dozen others. Blaine explores existential crises such as living in Philadelphia, politics, navigating technology, retaining our humanity, and being a friend.
"A Jennifer Story"
Genre: Solo Performance • Comedy • Storytelling
Running Time: Approximately 60 minutes
Originally Performed: Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022
Fringe favorite Jennifer Blaine shares intimate and funny stories, creative bits, and adopts the personas of famous authors to bring their books to life.
Jennifer Blaine, creator of A Jennifer Story, has been performing solo shows for more than 25 years. Her original works delve into serious and socially relevant issues while providing audiences the opportunity to unite in laughter.
She has opened for George Carlin and performed with Chris Rock and Joe Piscopo.
Jennifer has performed at every Philly Fringe Festival during its first decade, earning a reputation for creating performances that are heartfelt, insightful, and wonderfully unpredictable.
"Not just a comedian. Blaine blends seriousness and absurdity to an art form where even the joke that bombs brilliantly delivers you a laugh afterward."
"Package Deal"
Genre: Solo Performance • Comedy • Storytelling
Themes: Aging • Motherhood • Identity • Resilience • Social Commentary
Fringe Festival favorite Jennifer Blaine explores the fragility of our delivery systems, the human body, and what it means to be demoted as an aging womxn artist and mother. Armed with her signature sense of humor and a multitude of unforgettable characters, can her storytelling transform your world?
About the Show
Written and performed by Jennifer Blaine, Package Deal is a thought-provoking solo performance that examines aging, identity, motherhood, and the vulnerabilities of both our bodies and the systems designed to support us.
Through an eclectic cast of characters and her trademark blend of humor and honesty, Jennifer invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and reconsider the narratives that shape our lives.
"Dirty Joke"
It’s comedy with a conscience about very serious topics, but it doesn’t feel preachy. Blaine is warm and thoughtful, never pushy or pedantic, and of course there’s all those dirty jokes.
Review of Dirty Joke from City Paper
With Dirty Joke, Jennifer Blaine presents social commentary wrapped up in a comedy show. Appearing as her recurring character Ruth, a feisty old lady, she reels out a host of dirty jokes that would be right at home on the borscht belt. Ruth is all excited about the amazing Superwoman Conference, where she reminds us, “We’re using ‘woman’ to mean ‘a person.'” That’s one of her many zingers that are meant to make you think twice.
We’re using ‘woman’ to mean ‘a person.’
Through this unifying context, Ruth introduces us to a string of real-life individuals who have dedicated their lives to improving the human condition, a few of whom are well known here in the U.S., like Madeline Albright and Arianna Huffington — others less so, such as Kiran Beth Sethi, an Indian educator, and Wangari Maathai, a Nobel Prize-winning Kenyan activist.
Each is represented through deft impersonation by Blaine, who also occasionally breaks out in song, employing showtune melodies combined with her own crafty lyrics. One example: “That’s Why Scalia is a Schmuck” (sung to the tune of “The Lady is a Tramp”).
And there’s a sub-story line where Ruth embodies the ravages of old age, including ever declining physical infirmity and what looks to be impending Alzheimer’s.
"Ridiculous"
FringeArts 2018 Standing Room Only at L’Etage. Feminist prizes! Escape into the absurd humor of Jennifer Blaine as she wrestles the ridiculous – from motherhood to the patriarchy to bestiality.
“When you hear a music group’s “hit song” you have to wait years for the next one. With Jennifer, you don’t have to wait. Her next show is always super!”
5000 Women Video
"Older Wiser Bitchier Promo!"
"Out of Control!"
A mother of a show; the agony and ecstasy of motherhood
Photo by John Cregar
Motherhood. The most important job in the world. Yet there is no test to pass. You’d think there’d be something. A ring toss perhaps.
Now I am a mother. Truly it is like overnight I have been indoctrinated into a secret society, where I am on the most challenging and rewarding rollercoaster ride. Why didn’t anybody tell me?!
In this show I spill the beans on everything from baby naming and nursing, to sex and dating, to how in the world we raise a child in our modern world when we have no idea what we’re doing. The show is primarily stand-up, with appearances by some of my most loved characters such as Dr. Amir, Ruth, and Danny – and of course the chance for you to be part of the show too.
It has taken me nearly three years to craft this labor of love. I hope you will join me to laugh OUT OF CONTROL.
Enjoy some highlights from OUT OF CONTROL.
"Hearing Voices"
Absurdities and synchronicities in living a creative life.
Jennifer Blaine, "master of characters and voices," (City Paper) recounts zany tales of her journey as an actress from obscurity to a full page spread in Philadelphia City Paper. Using stand-up and audience participation, Blaine presents the synchronicities that link her experiences with the characters who flood her mind.
The show chronicles the absurdities and synchronicities of living a creative life.
"Hearing Voices" features over thirty characters, real and imagined, whom Blaine has encountered in her travels.
"Sorry"
One little word that separates men and women
A woman holds the door for you. You walk through. She says “sorry.” Why do women say “sorry” unnecessarily? Can they stop? If something is not right, women want to hear “I’m sorry.” Trouble is they’re saying it even when they haven’t done anything wrong. In her one-woman show Jennifer Blaine sets the record straight through more than a dozen characters.
“Jennifer Blaine is enthusiastic, energetic, and hysterical. Her performance of “Sorry” was an incredibly funny portrayal of the difference between men and women and the way each relates to the word sorry. We would highly recommend this performance to everyone.”
Jennifer Blaine, host of the annual Philadelphia Women’s Comedy Festival, has made audiences laugh for years.
Although she has been creating work, which is comprised exclusively of characters, in this show “Sorry” she includes herself as a narrator. Due to the world’s ever-growing unconsciousness and corruption, Jennifer felt called to take on the topic of gender, etiquette, and politics – and be funny about it. She has been collaborating with her father, Ed Blaine, a fiction writer for such publications as the North American Review and The Village Voice.
Together they hope this show will entertain, unify, and illuminate – but mostly that it will make you laugh.
“In her sharp, funny one-woman show, actress-comedian Jennifer Blaine takes a look at men, women and the word that separates us all: “sorry.” Her wacky assortment of characters – the self-help Indian doctor and elderly Jewish woman steal the show – keep you engaged from start to finish, as well as stock you up with a few dirty jokes sure to delight the grandparents. Best arrive early for a chance at seats.”
“Jennifer’s characters are truthful, genuine, and most importantly well-crafted. Her one-woman show is not to be missed. She completely won over our national conference audience, and her performance stood out as a highlight at our event. We’d hire her again no question and recommend her for occasions needing absolute entertainment.”
“Jennifer Blaine’s performance is outstanding. Her poignant use of humor is sheer catharsis for any woman who feels like she apologizes for everyone & everything. And to keep it gender-friendly, her ability to capture male personas makes “Sorry” a must-see.”
“Wedgies and Icecubes unite! If you don’t know what that means, then you have to see Jennifer Blaine’s show! Jennifer Blaine brings humor to the very difficult topic of gender relationships and makes it funny. We all laughed so much and hope we can have her back for a return performance”
“Jennifer made us all laugh so much. People were impressed with her facility for being a wide range of characters, taking on such a pertinent topic, and providing so much humor throughout”
“There’s something for everyone in Jennifer Blaine’s show: SORRY. Everybody is part of the fun. All the character interactions were fresh and unpredictable. She found a way to make everyone feel like a pivotal part of the performance. She is hysterically funny. We laughed so hard our faces hurt!”
"White Flight"
A Love Letter to my Neighborhood
“White Flight” is a mix of personal recollection, monologues, and dialogues between Jennifer’s many alter egos.
Jennifer Blaine intends to tour White Flight to any city, town, college, or country that is thirsting for dialogue about creating thriving, diverse, multi-cultural community.
“Jennifer Blaine is a master of voices and characters, and she uses that gift to explore social phenomena to sometimes poignant, always comedic effect. Her work with the Female FunnyFest and last year’s show SORRY have gained her a small following, sure to grow this year as she takes on the phenomenon of white flight from urban centers in the early 1970s.”
“I’m still laughing about your show: “White Flight!”, and I almost have your theme song out of my head now. I so look forward to working with you next year!”
“When you hear a music group’s “hit song” you have to wait years for the next one. With Jennifer, you don’t have to wait. Her next show is always super!”
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