Written & Directed by Suzanne Bachner
Performed by Hayley Palmer
Dramaturgy by Bob Brader
Lighting & Sound Design by Katie Chai
Projection Design by Chris Kateff
This show addresses:
Adoption Trauma
Search for Identity
Genetic Isolation
Can you imagine not knowing your own identity?
The Good Adoptee is the riveting and outrageous true story of award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner’s search for her first/birth parents in the face of New York State's sealed records. Once she opens Pandora’s Box, can she find a way to integrate her dual identities and still remain “the Good Adoptee”?
“A powerful show that the entire world needs to see!”
— Suz Bednarz, writingmywrongs.com
"Superior writing… A spellbinding emotional detective story about an NYC woman searching for her birth parents!”
— Darryl Reilly, Theater Scene
“The script is tight and packed with emotion, the performance is brilliant and spot on. Perfection!”
— Betsie Norris, Executive Director, Adoption Network Cleveland
“The Good Adoptee is everything you want a solo show to be: well-crafted, lovingly performed and thoroughly entertaining!”
— Leslie Dileo, Hi Drama
Suzanne Bachner is an award-winning playwright and director and an adoptee rights advocate. Her own true story, The Good Adoptee, won the Best Autobiographical Script award at United Solo, has toured to the London International Fringe Festival and across the U.S., and has been part of law and life-changing adoptee rights advocacy.
Hayley Palmer is an actor and teaching artist living in New York City. She received her B.A. in Drama from the University of California Irvine where she would later earn her M.F.A. in Acting. She teaches Voice, Speech, and Improvisation for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC and is guest Acting faculty for the University of California, Irvine.
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