Catherine Cohen Had Hailey Bieber’s Stroke. Now She’s Staging a One-Woman Show About It With Broadway Royalty.
“It really was a spark,” she says. I was looking through her Instagram like, this is going to be me.” The experience eventually became the fodder for her...
Key points
- “It really was a spark,” she says.
- I was looking through her Instagram like, this is going to be me.” The experience eventually became the fodder for her new one-woman show Broad Strokes, which she’ll perform at New York’s famed Lucille Lortel theater from July 14 to Sept.
- “The show begins with me discussing that I’ve always wanted to be exceptional, to be the main character, until something so intense and story-defining happened and I was like, fuck this shit,” says Cohen, who first performed the show during a monthlong residency at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- At the time, she says, the wait felt interminable.
What happened
“It really was a spark,” she says. I was looking through her Instagram like, this is going to be me.” The experience eventually became the fodder for her new one-woman show Broad Strokes, which she’ll perform at New York’s famed Lucille Lortel theater from July 14 to Sept. “The show begins with me discussing that I’ve always wanted to be exceptional, to be the main character, until something so intense and story-defining happened and I was like, fuck this shit,” says Cohen, who first performed the show during a monthlong residency at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. At the time, she says, the wait felt interminable. “Timbers had reached out to me years ago just to say I like your work and we should know each other, which was a dream come true, and it was one of those things where there wasn’t much for us to talk about work-wise but it was nice to know him,” she says. He pointed out there should be a song, and then I went and wrote it and it was literally fixed.” At the same time that Cohen was developing Broad Strokes, her onscreen career was popping off.
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