Caitlin Cook: The Writing On The Stall
The Writing On the Stall
Soho Playhouse, September 6-9, 13-16, 20-23
"Legendary cock lobster." "My life is on fire, I think I'm in love." "Life ain't all burritos and strippers, my friend." These are just three examples of the bathroom stall graffiti that Caitlin Cook has been obsessing about and photographing for over a decade. Confessional, immersive, and uproariously funny, this one-of-a-kind show—literally set in a dive bar bathroom—transforms graffiti scrawled all over the stalls into the lyrics of her original songs and trail markers along the journey she takes us upon. Through these irreverent, poignant, and often obscene messages, Cook reckons with our shared humanity and what we owe each other. May include: slingshotted panties, milk pistols, and a cowboy dick (complete, with spurs!).
Caitlin Cook wears a lot of hats: comedian, musician, artist, director, producer, beanies in the winter. A fierce champion of mixed media and genre-bending works of art, Cook has carved out a space for herself smack-dab in the center of the Venn diagram between comedy, music, theater, and visual art.
She has taken the stage all across the world at top-tier comedy clubs, festivals, theaters, dimly lit bar basements, strangers’ living rooms, and even a houseboat once. Cook has released three successful musical comedy albums—Zinger-Songwriter, which she recorded at 12 different venues while on tour across the US and UK; Betty Pitch, which she recorded after writing 250 songs a day during the pandemic (amassing her over 115K TikTok followers); and The Writing on the Stall, which the studio version of her hit one-woman graffiti musical. All are regularly featured on Sirius XM.
Cook served as a creative consultant for Sean Patton’s Number One on Peacock, as the producer for Gabe Mollica’s thrice-extended show Solo at Soho Playhouse, and as the director of A.J. Holmes’ critically-acclaimed Yeah, But Not Right Now at Soho Playhouse. Cook also produces the live comedy show Good God with Shane Torres and Brittany Carney and Fake Birthday with A.J. Holmes. She is one half of the comedy duo 2/3rds of a Threesome.
