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Exit Cuckoo (Nanny in Motherland)

Presented by First Person Arts at Christ Church Neighborhood House

November 16-November 17, 2011

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“Both brave and funny, Exit Cuckoo deserves our attention.” — Eve Ensler

What began as a simple conversation between two nannies in Central Park grew into Exit Cuckoo, a solo theater work about the complex mother-child-nanny relationship. Playwright and actor Lisa Ramirez tells the stories of the women she met and interviewed while working as a nanny herself. Exit Cuckoo offers a candid, humorous, and sometimes critical look at motherhood and childcare today.

Lisa Ramirez is an award-winning actor and playwright. Her writing credits include Art of Memory, a dance theatre piece presented by Company SoGoNo at 3-Legged Dog in New York; Invisible Women-Rise, a collaboration with the Foundry Theatre and Domestic Workers United; and To the Bone, a new play about immigrant poultry plant workers that was commissioned by the Working Theater and is a 2011 Smith Prize and O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist. Lisa was one of four resident playwrights at the 2010/11 Maria Irene Fornés Hispanic Playwrights Residency Lab at INTAR.

Lisa Ramirez Photo Credit: Samantha Marble