"Kookspeak" will be performed on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 2:15 pm and Sunday, Oct. 13 at 3:15 pm at the Monroe Center for the Arts, 720 Monroe St., Hoboken, N.J., as part of the Digable Arts Festival. Admission is free. For more information, visit the DigableArts.com or Summerization.com.

Hortillosa brings each of these "kooks" to life, with everything from delightful death fantasies to gravely serious conversations between hand-puppets. The show also features the Most Annoying Girl in the World and a Grammy performance with one kook's true love, a FIFA World Cup star/YouTube phenomenon. This witty show offers tons of wacky fun and romance.

The show debuted at the So Low Theater Festival in Jersey City in 2012 and has since been part of the Jersey City, Land of the Free-form Festival and opened for Reg E. Gaines's one-man show "The Last Celebrity." One of the pieces from the show, "Senses," was part of the Tri-State Arts and Music Festival in Hoboken in May.

Check out a snippet of "Senses," the final monologue in the show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2ulXMgYdA

ABOUT SUMMER DAWN HORTILLOSA
Summer Dawn Hortillosa is a creative writer specializing in plays and short stories. She won the New Jersey Young Playwrights Festival in 2007 at 16 and made her directorial debut as an Art House Productions Emerging Artist later that year. Her work has also been featured in the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in SoHo and the inaugural STAGEfest at the Loew's in Jersey City.

Hortillosa is a recipient of both the Lavina Kohl Award in Literature from the New Jersey chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters and Governor's Award in Arts Education. She is also a director, actress and freelance arts journalist. For more information, visit http://www.summerization.com.

ABOUT THE DIGABLE ARTS FESTIVAL
Digable is a free arts festival at the Monroe Center for the Arts that attracts over 2,000 visitors from Hoboken and beyond with works by hundreds of artists and varied performances on three stages. This year, the theme is "DIY," with participating artists being closely involved with the festival's development process.

 

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