Judy Gold to Star Off-Broadway in New Solo Comedy The Judy Show

Comedienne Judy Gold will star in The Judy Show, a new solo comedy co-written with her 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother collaborator Kate Moira Ryan. The show will begin performances on June 30 at the DR2 Theatre and open on July 7, directed by Amanda Charlton.

Building on the success of her 2006 solo show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Gold will look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth. With multimedia, original music, laughter and love, the actress shows us how she balances family and ambition with a little help from favorite TV shows of the seventies, eighties, and nineties.

“The Judy Show would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't,” Gold said in a statement. “Why? Maybe it's because I'm a 6' 3" lesbian comedian raising my two sons in a 900-square-foot apartment with one bathroom on the Upper West Side. My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl—I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the 70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus, even the project on Good Times seemed better than Clark, NJ.”

In addition to 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Gold has appeared off-Broadway in Love, Loss and What I Wore. A two-time Emmy winner for writing and producing The Rosie O'Donnell Show, she performs stand-up comedy at theaters and clubs across the country.

The Judy Show will features original music by Gold and lyrics by Ryan and Gold. Additional material is by Eric Kornfeld and Bob Smith. The off-Broadway production will have scenic and projection design by Andrew Boyce, lighting design by Joshua Scherr and sound design by Alex Neumann. The show is being produced by Daryl Roth and Eva Price.