Neurotica Festival

The sharp-minded actor, monologist and memoirist Iris Bahr (Dai) teams up with Frigid New York to create her own short but sweet festival: a four-day collection of cracked perspectives, each performed by their own actor-writers as solos or two-handers. Promising selections include Roya Hamadani's Manic! and Johnnie Mcnamara's the Heterosexuals. Bahr herself kicks off the proceedings on September 4 in a discussion with two very big-time writers: the dauntingly prolific editor-novelist Kurt Anderson and his onetime Spy magazine colleague, the New Yorker articles editor (and recent Lorne Michaels biographer) Susan Morrison.