POTUS
OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE
OCT 25 - NOV 17, 2024
WRITTEN by Selina Fillinger
DIRECTED by Epic Jones
One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
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““I am woman, hear me roar – with laughter, at POTUS... playwright Selina Fillinger’s delicious feminist farce… There are no secondary characters here, but a tight, fiercely funny ensemble of women… irresistibly funny.””
““A broad, zany, old-school comedy… You can feel how hungry the spectators are to laugh together, and they get to do it often in this silly, fast-paced lark.””
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
SELINA FILLINGER
Selina Fillinger is an LA-based writer and performer. Original plays include The Collapse; Something Clean; Faceless; and The Armor Plays: Clinched/Strapped. Selina recently made her Broadway debut with her seven-woman farce, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Alley Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory and Roundabout. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat; Something Clean is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and Clinched/Strapped received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival's L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. POTUS was on the 2019 Kilroys List. Selina writes for the third season of Apple TV's The Morning Show and is developing a feature for Chernin/Netflix.
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CONTENT INFO
POTUS contains strong profanity throughout, adult humor, and audience interaction.
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RUNNING TIME
105 Minutes + Intermission
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Profanity + Adult Humor
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