Alison Leiby: Oh God, A Show About Abortion is not a production of Cherry Lane Alternative. Cherry Lane Alternative is a not-for-profit corporation. Revenue derived from the rental of the theatre is used to further the work of the Cherry Lane Alternative.
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REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS RESOURCE GUIDE

Abortion Care Network via the Keep Our Clinics Campaign funds independent community-based clinics that provide abortion care, covering tangible expenses like increased security, building repairs, PPE, and hazard pay for staff working during the pandemic, legal fees, and community education and advocacy.

ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project through litigation, advocacy, and public education, the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project works to uphold the rights of individuals to decide freely, without governmental hindrance or coercion, whether or not to bear a child.

The Brigid Alliance arranges and funds travel, along with related needs, to support individuals across the country who are forced to travel for later abortion care. It works closely with the community of abortion funds, specialized clinics, and partner organizations across the country to ensure that abortion services are accessible when barriers arise.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.

Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7, high-quality text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by empowering a community of trained volunteers to support people in their moments of need. Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor.

INeedanA.com provides a simple, up-to-date, and localized source of information for people seeking abortions using 3 non-personally identifiable pieces of information. Its goal is to make finding applicable information and resources as easy as possible, without sifting through noise, misinformation, or stigma from anti-abortion organizations.

If When How seeks to transform the law and policy landscape through advocacy, support, and organizing so all people have the power to determine if, when, and how to define, create, and sustain families with dignity and to actualize sexual and reproductive wellbeing on their terms. It also runs the free, confidential Repro Help Line that provides legal advice and information on self-managed abortion. Visit ReproLegalHelpline.org or call 1-844-868-2812.

Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice – New York is part of National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, serving to amplify the Latina/x voice, organizing, and advocacy presence in New York. It works with activists and leaders throughout New York City to inform, organize, and mobilize the Latino/x communities on reproductive justice issues that impact their families and lives.

The Liberate Abortion Campaign is an effort comprised of more than 150 reproductive justice and rights organizations, groups, and abortion providers working in coalition to fight for abortion that is available, affordable, accessible, and stigma-free for anyone who needs it.

The M+A Hotline provides free, expert advice on self-managing a miscarriage or abortion. All communications are confidential, private, and secure. The hotline is available 8AM to 11PM in all continental US time zones and can be reached by phone or text at 1-833-246-2632.

NARAL Pro-Choice America organizes and mobilizes to protect reproductive freedom by fighting for access to abortion care, birth control, paid parental leave, and protections from pregnancy discrimination. NARAL works to ensure abortion access is not only protected but expanded, pushing back against fear and disinformation.

National Network of Abortion Funds builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is a long-standing, trusted provider of reproductive health care. PPFA provides community healthcare, leads the reproductive health and rights movement, and advances global health with over 55 unique, locally governed affiliates nationwide and more than 600 health centers.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is a leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services and information as well as an advocate and partner in advancing equity and improving health outcomes for all. It envisions a world where everyone has full access to innovative, high quality, affordable, evidence-based sexual and reproductive health services.

Shout Your Abortion in 2015 as the viral hashtag, Shout Your Abortion has evolved into a decentralized network of individuals talking about abortion on their own terms and creating space for others to do the same in art, media, and at community events all over the country.

SisterSong is a Southern-based, national membership organization. Its purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.

WHO'S WHO

ALISON LEIBY (Writer/Performer) is a Brooklyn based writer and comedian. She was a co-producer on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and has written for Comedy Central's The President Show, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper and she did punch up on Broad City. She also executive produced Ilana Glazer's Comedy Time Capsule and Ilana's Amazon stand up special The Planet is Burning. Other credits include Hulu's Triumph Election Special and Cartoon Network's Teenage Euthanasia. Alison's been published in McSweeney's, Vice, Cosmo, Marie Claire, and she's written several humor pieces for The New York Times. Alison also co-host's the Irony Point's popular podcast Ruined, with Crooked Media's Halle Kiefer. Alison's twitter profile, which has over 25k followers, has also been featured in several publications. 

LILA NEUGEBAUER (Director) is a New York-based director. Broadway: Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery (Golden Theatre, starring Elaine May). Recent Off-Broadway: Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlow (2nd Stage); Annie Baker’s The Antipodes; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody, Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife/The Zoo Story; Albee’s The Sandbox, Mary Irene Fornes’ Drowning, Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, Zoe Kazan's After the Blast, Abe Koogler’s Kill Floor (Lincoln Center). As co-Artistic Director of The Mad Ones, she co-authors and directs ensemble-devised work, including Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons, The Bushwick Starr), Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova), and Samuel & Alasdair… (Ars Nova, New Ohio Theatre). TV: The Duplass Brothers’ Room 104 (HBO), Mindy Kaling's The Sex Lives of College Girls (HBO), and Maid (Netflix). Her first feature, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is due for release in 2022. She is a recipient of the Obie, Drama Desk, and Princess Grace Awards.

CAITLIN RYAN O’CONNELL (Associate Director) is a freelance director and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. She has directed and developed work at Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Bushwick Starr, The Lark, Roundabout, Under the Radar Festival, Theater De Welt, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Montana Repertory Theater, and The Denver Center. She currently teaches theater at NYU, Wellesley College, and two senior centers in Brooklyn.

MARGARET MONTAGNA (Sound Designer) is a New York City based sound designer, originally from Brooklyn. Select design credits include: The Collision/The Martyrdom (59E59 Studio C), Unstuck (The Tank), Family of Lear (Stella Adler Studios), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (The New School), A Woman of the World (59E59 Studio C), Raw Pasta (The New Ohio Theater), Queen (Astoria Boys and Girls Club), Prisoners of Quai Dong (The Tank), Williston (IATI), Holy ghosts (Urban Stages), They Promised Her the Moon (Theatre at St. Clements) margaretmontagnasd.com

AMINA ALEXANDER (Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting designer/associate. Recently graduated from Western Illinois University with her MFA in lighting design. Recipient of the Black Theatre Coalition fellowship 2021. Designs include Power Play done at The Shed, Colin Quinn: The Last Best Hope at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and Silkroad 2021 at A.R.T. (Associate). Amina is thrilled to be a part of this production.

MADISON LANE (Production Coordinator) is a New York-based stage manager, originally from northern Virginia. She feels very fortunate to have continued making art throughout the shutdown, thanks to the miracles of technology, and to have been spending a lot of her time recently working as a COVID Safety Manager, helping to make sure that our return to theatrical spaces has been smooth and safe for all. Recent credits include: Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons); The Misanthrope (Moliere in the Park); Moliere Turns 400 (FIAF); Wolf Play (Soho Rep); King Lear (New York Classical); pen/man/ship (2021, 2020), School for Wives, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope (virtual, Moliere in the Park); A Doll’s House Pt. 2 (virtual, Stella Adler Studio); I, My Ruination by Kevin Artigue, Bust by Zora Howard, The Hystericals by Edith Freni, Moses by Michele Lowe (virtual, Cape Cod Theater Project).

ANNA WHEELER (Company Manager) is a former lawyer, beach bum, restaurant manager turned professional theater nerd. Select credits include Broadway: David Byrne's American Utopia, Slava's Snow Show; Off-Broadway: Mac Beth, Puffs, Red State Blue State, Uncle Vanya, Sweeney Todd; National Tour: Chicago.

LIBBY J'VERA (Production Manager) Recent credits include: Just For Us (Soho Playhouse), Get On Your Knees (Lucille Lortel), DirectorFest (Drama League), Colin Quinn's Red State, Blue State (Minetta Lane), Mike Birbiglia's The New One (Cherry Lane), A Clockwork Orange (New World Stages) and Turn Me Loose (Westside Theater). Resident Production Manager at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and AfterWork Theater. Love to T.Rex and River. libbyjvera.com

THE PRESS ROOM (Publicity) represents the Broadway productions of Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, and Paradise Square, as well as the Vineyard Theatre, The Wooster Group, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Building for the Arts, Hunter Theater Project, Miami New Drama, Paper Mill Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company, Ogunquit Playhouse, 3-D Theatricals, NY Classical Theatre, The Drama Book Shop, and the Antonyo Awards. Recent: Black No More; The Waverly Gallery; Beyond Babel; Gloria: A Life; Out of the Box Theatrical’s The Last Five Years; Waterwell’s 7 Minutes. Upcoming: Florida Georgia Line’s May We All; Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical; Born for This; Mister Miss America; and Sidney.

ILANA GLAZER (Presenter) is the co-creator and co-star of the critically acclaimed web series and Comedy Central series Broad City. Most recently, she starred in the Chris Miller & Phil Lord series The Afterparty on Apple TV+. Her debut stand-up comedy special, The Planet is Burning, was released on Amazon Prime in January 2020.

CARLEE BRIGLIA (Producer) is one half of Mike and Carlee Productions. Selected credits include Colin Quinn: The Last Best Hope (Lucille Lortel Theatre),  Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees (Cherry Lane Theatre), Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State (Minetta Lane Theatre), Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh Hello On (Off) Broadway (Cherry Lane Theatre), Chris Gethard Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theater), Neal Brennan 3 Mics (Lynn Redgrave Theater), Colin Quinn: Unconstitutional (Cherry Lane Theatre), Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (Barrow St Theatre). Film: Crown Heights (Sundance Audience Award), Love Beats Rhymes, Other People’s People (HollyShorts Award Winner). Carlee wants you to know that she stayed in Brooklyn during the pandemic and she did get a new cat but was otherwise fine. mikeandcarlee.com

MIKE LAVOIE (Producer) is the older, tireder half of Mike and Carlee Productions. Selected credits include Oh Hello On (Off) Broadway, Get On Your Knees, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, Thank God For Jokes, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Sleepwalk With Me, Colin Quinn’s The Last Best Hope, Red State Blue State, New York Story, Unconstitutional, Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide. Film: Other People’s People (Austin Film Festival). Mike lives in Brooklyn with his chaise lounge and Advil. mikeandcarlee.com

CHRIS BURNS
(Producer) is VP at AGI Entertainment Media & Management, where he is a producer and manager of writers, actors, directors and stand-up comedians. Prior to joining AGI, Chris worked in TV and Film in a variety of roles on titles that include Trainwreck (Universal), Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO), Bridge of Spies (Dreamworks) and many others. While at AGI, Chris's Executive Producer credits include: The Standups (Netflix), Joe List: I Hate Myself (Comedy Central) and Sarah Cooper: Everything’s Fine (Netflix).

BAD ROBOT LIVE (Producer) was formed by filmmaker J.J. Abrams in 2001. The company has produced television series such as Alias, Lost, Fringe, Person of Interest, Westworld, Castlerock, Lovecraft Country, and Lisey's Story, feature films such as Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Rise of Skywalker, the Star Trek, Mission: Impossible and Cloverfield franchises. In theater, Abrams has co-produced The Play That Goes Wrong, The Magic Show That Goes Wrong (UK) and The Secret. Bad Robot is based in Santa Monica and can be followed @Bad_Robot on Twitter and Instagram.

THE CHERRY LANE THEATRE is the site of a silo on the Gomez farm in 1817, the building that now stands at 38 Commerce Street was a brewery, built in 1836 that later served as a tobacco warehouse, then box factory. In 1923, a group of theater artists, colleagues of Evelyn Vaugn & Edna St. Vincent Millay, commissioned famed scenic designer Cleon Throckmorton to convert the box factory into Cherry Lane Playhouse. It fueled some of the most ground- breaking experiments in the chronicles of theAmerican Stage. The Downtown Theater movement, The Living Theatre, and Theatre of the Absurd all took root at the lively Playhouse, and it proved fertile ground for 20th century dramaturgy’s seminal voices. From this village jewel streamed a large succession of plays by nascent writers whose names have lent distinction to the American and international literary and dramatic treasuries from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Elmer Rice in the ’20s to O’Neill, O’Casey, Odets, Auden, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot and William Saroyan in the’40s and ’50s to Beckett, Albee, Pinter, Ionesco and LeRoi Jones in the ’60s toSam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Joe Orton and David Mamet in the ’70s and ’80s.The Playhouse productions featured an equally illustrious group of actors and directors including Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Beatrice Arthur, James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst, Cicely Tyson, Alan Schneider, Judd Hirsch, Tony Curtis, Kim Stanley, Tyne Daly, Estelle Parsons, Geraldine Page, Adolf Green and Betty Comden, Alvin Epstein, and Joseph Chaikin.It is managed by Cherry Lane Alternative (501c(3)), Mary Geerlof, Managing Director. Mission: In keeping with Cherry Lane’s Groundbreaking history to provide a safe experimental space for artists and audiences to explore the boundaries of storytelling. Visit our website for the entire history. cherrylanetheatre.org

OH GOD STAFF

Add'l Stage Manager MC Mangum, Cate DiGirolamo
Key Art  Sunqueen Designs
Photography Arin Sang-urai
Website Stephen Gilewski Design
Production Assistant Lillian Menkens-Weiler
Production Electricians John Anselmo, Dan Mullins
Production Photography Mindy Tucker
Accountant Evan Lu, CPA
Production Counsel Julie Angell / Franklin Weinrib Rudell + Vassallo LLP

FOR ALISON LEIBY

Agent Rachel Viola, Mark Gordon / United Talent Agency
Manager Chris Burns / AGI Entertainment

THE CHERRY LANE STAFF

Founder, Executive Director Angelina Fiordellisi
Managing Director Mary Geerlof
Financial Director Joyce DeNicola-Friedman
Facility Manager Janine Tendy
Managing Assistant Nicolette Norton
Consultant Serafina G. Lawrence
House Manager Shannon McDermott
Assistant House Manager Juliet Perrell McCarthy
Box Office Treasurers Rylie Butzbaugh-Patrick, Pia Cincotti  
House Assistants Talia Godfrey, Olivia Fergus-Brummer, Serena Phillip, Natalie Kastner, Haley Fragen, Annah Valenta
Architect Mitchell Kurtz
Accounting Friedman & LaRosaBusiness Mgmt
Insurance Mike Karl, Key Insurance
Legal Robert LaRosa

CHERRY LANE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Founder Angelina Fiordellisi
Secretary Matt Williams
Treasurer Margarida De Brito
Board Member Carol Lippert Gray
Board Member Bridgette Wimberly
Board Member David Youse

SPECIAL THANKS

This show is dedicated to my mom, who made me into the kind of woman she is, whether I like it or not. (I do)
My incredibly supportive parents Rita and Jim Leiby
Alyssa Wolff
Emmy Blotnick
Anthony DeVito
Josh Gondelman
Jared Freid
Lux Alptraum
Kevin Allison
Divya Jayachandran
Natasha Pickowicz
Andrea Brakke
Kris Acimovic
Sam Griffel
Audrey Stanfield
Elizabeth Rothman
Jasmine J. Johnson
Ellie Dworkin
Daniel Flick
Rebecca Trent and The Creek and Cave New York
Maggie Hoffman, Colleen McGarr, Lietza Brass and our friends at Moontower Comedy Festival
Markie Fisher, Andrew Mumm, Matt Kelly, the Union Hall and The Bell House, Brooklyn
Gabe Henry, Hope Morawa and Littlefield, Brooklyn
Ben Lille and Caveat, NYC
Raj Tawney, Dane Weiss & McSweeneys
Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and all the friends we made at the legendary Barrow Street Theatre
The kind and wonderful staff of Planned Parenthood Manhattan and every person who helps protect and expand the right to abortion.

NO RECORDING PERMITTED

The photographing or sound recording of any performance inside the theater, without the written permission of the production, is prohibited by law. Violators will be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for monetary damages.

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