Cindy of Arc

• Written and Performed by Cynthia Kaplan
• With Dan Barman and Zachary Larson
• Directed by Dani Davis

The resistance rock musical you didn’t know you needed. Okay, you knew.

Cindy of Arc is about the problem men have with lying and where that’s gotten the rest of us. Particularly women. Think American Utopia with expletives, politics, religion, dogs, Nazis, cannibals, no David Byrne, and no Utopia. And no choreographer. And no money. And it’s a comedy. And we wear our shoes.

Cindy of Arc was a finalist for the 2023 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater and has raised over $11,000 for women’s reproductive rights.

A hilarious journey with rockin’ songs. -Nancy Giles, CBS News Sunday Morning

Hilarious…The show gave me early 90’s riot grrl political anarcho-punk folk meets Violent Femmes-style pop-rock. -Baltimore Fishbowl

CYNTHIA KAPLAN (Writer/Composer/Cindy) has been performing regularly in comedy and music in clubs and theaters in NY and beyond for three decades. Her play, Cindy of Arc, has been seen at Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, Baltimore Theatre Project, the Philly Fringe, and NY’s Dixon Place and Laurie Beechman Theatres. Kaplan has recorded two records with her band, The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal, and is the author of two collections of comic essays, Why I’m Like This: True Stories and Leave the Building Quickly. Her work has appeared in many publications including the New York Times and New York Magazine. Kaplan also writes for film, TV, and for the 52nd Street Project, and is co-host of the long-running Ruthless Comedy Hour at New York Comedy Club. An alumna of Circle in the Square Theater School, she has appeared in many plays and nine films. She has never appeared on Law & Order. www.cynthiakaplan.com

Dani Davis is an Emmy award-winning writer, a Tony-nominated Broadway producer, a Helen Hayes Award recipient for producing, a critically acclaimed theater director and choreographer, a television producer, and an entertainment entrepreneur. www.thedanidavis.com