August 28 - October 6, 2019
December 14, 2019 - February 16, 2020
Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees is the most high-brow show about blowjobs you’ll ever see. Novak spins her material on the femininity of the penis and the stoicism of the vulva into an unexpectedly philosophical show that’s part feminist outcry, part coming-of-age tale of triumph. Ira Glass calls it a “nearly Talmudic dissection of a subject. Really funny and just really like nothing else.”
“Critic's Pick! Brilliant on the absurdity of having and being a thinking, feeling, desiring, body. Shrewd, explicit, though not exactly raunchy, this is the funniest show about Cartesian dualism you will see all year!”
— The New York Times
“A genius ode to fellatio! The seminal work on its subject, exploding with trenchant analysis and autobiographical experience with the act. Novak deploys the kind of uproarious, dexterous provocation seen in Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette or Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag."
— The Rolling Stone
“An overthinker’s delight, and a reminder that a woman’s humor can cut as deeply as her rage."
— The New Yorker
★★★★
"Absurd, real and hilarious. Novak's winning show does what the best comedy can do: It changes the conversation.”
— Time Out
"Clearly her masterwork."
— New York Magazine
"Damn funny with provocative and superbly articulated material."
— The Hollywood Reporter
Written & Performed By
Jacqueline Novak
Directed By
John Early
Presented By
Natasha Lyonne
Executive Producer
Mike Birbiglia
Producers
Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia
Produced By
Abingdon Theatre Company
Production Consultants
Mike Berkowitz
Rebecca Crigler
Associate Director
Elizabeth Bennett
Lighting Designer
Jen Fok
Associate Lighting Designer
Elizabeth M. Stewart
Sound Designer
Theda Hammel
Associate Sound Desinger
Margaret Montagna
Production Manager
Libby Jensen
Associate Production Managers
Lauren Page Russell
Madison Lane
Production Stage Managers
Cate DiGirolamo
Darielle Shandler
Production Coordinator
MC Mangum
Company Managers
Leah Mesh-Ferguson
Sarah Reynolds
Production Associates
Joseph Birbiglia
Peter Salamone
Assistant Producer
Emma Pearl Nigut
Production Assistants
Sara Rennert
Greer Baxter
Bella Tostes
Press Representatives
Keith Sherman & Associates
Michael Gagliardo at 42West
Master Electricians
Dan Mullins
John Anselmo
Key Art Portrait
Gordon Landenberger
Key Art & Graphic Design
Derek Gabyszak
Production Photographs
Monique Carboni
Videographer
Seth Walters