Westport Resident Amy Oestreicher Brings Hit One-Woman Musical, Gutless and Grateful to New York August 6th
- Watch Amy's TEDx Talk here
From Coma to Comedy: Inspirational Survivor Brings One-Woman Musical to the Midtown International Theatre Festival
Following sold-out runs at theatres nationwide and headlining international conferences, TEDx Speaker and award-winning actress Amy Oestreicher will bring her hit one-woman musical Gutless & Grateful to the Midtown International Theatre Festival on Saturday August 6th at 8:30 p.m.
Amy Oestreicher shares a powerful message that it's possible to overcome physical and mental health obstacles through interwoven song and dialogue in a primal piece of live storytelling.
One bad stomach ache after noshing on a little too much matzah at Passover Dinner changed the course of her life forever.
After an unexpected blood clot caused her stomach to literally explode at 18 years old, Oestreicher is a survivor of 27 surgeries, a coma, organ failure, six years being unable to eat or drink, and the PTSD that comes from ten years of trauma. She is also a survivor of sexual abuse.
Now a PTSD peer-to-peer specialist, artist, author, speaker for RAINN, writer for The Huffington Post, health advocate, actress, and playwright, Amy eagerly shares the lessons learned from trauma through her writing, performance, art and speaking.
Gutless & Grateful will be part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival August 6th at 8:30 p.m. at the Workshop's Main Stage, 312 W. 36th Street, NYC. Buy tickets here.
"When I woke from a coma, months later, doctors told me I had no stomach anymore, I couldn't eat or drink, and they didn't know if I'd ever be able to again."
Amy takes audiences on an adventure of 42 field trips to the CT SCAN room, hitting-on doctors, a surprise visit by William Finn at my very own high school graduation in the surgical ICU, and a song David Friedman and Kathie Lee Gifford wrote especially for me after being on The Today Show, all in a 70-minute musical comedy.
The show has been a critic's darling for 4 years and a favorite of Jewish mothers all over, earning a NYC Bistro Award, Woman of the Year in 2014 and a Best Theatre Debut nomination by BroadwayWorld. The story has been featured on CBS, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and more.
This is no ordinary one-woman show, but an inspiring powerhouse production that leaves audiences in tears and laughing hysterically.
See Gutless and Grateful Saturday August 6th at 8:30pm. Oestreicher will be performing a 45 minute version of her hit one-woman musical. MITF: Summer combines some of the most popular features of past MITF festivals: short plays and musicals, a Variety division, the Short Play Lab, and staged readings. The Festival will take place at the WorkShop Theater's Main Stage and Jewel Box Theaters and will run from July 16 - August 7, 2016. Buy tickets here.
