Faking It
Created and performed by Olivia Raine Atwood
Co-Produced by Rob Howard
She’s undercover. She’s overwhelmed. She’s bad at everything. Fresh off her Off-West-End sold-out debut, this electric comedy tells the true story of Liv’s classified mission evaluating NYC hospitals…in 2020. She’s Patient 0, using her ‘acting skills’ to pretend to have Covid and save the American healthcare system. And that’s show biz, baby. So buckle up.
“Terrific storytelling” ***** (FringeReview)
“Excitable, manic, vivid” **** (The Reviews Hub)
“Hurricane composite of top class acting” **** (Mumble)
“Crazily funny” **** (The Derek Awards)
Winner: Best Solo Show, WhatTheFringe Podcast
Nominee: StageCrafts Selects, Hollywood Fringe 2024
Official Selection Hollywood Fringe Spotlight Series 2024
In 2024, Liv toured FAKING IT across the globe, from Hollywood to Denver to NYC to Edinburgh Fringe to London. She scooped a nomination for the HOLLYWOOD STAGECRAFTS SELECT AWARD at Hollywood Fringe 2024; she won BEST SOLO SHOW from the What the Fringe Podcast; at Edinburgh Fringe, she received exclusively 5, 4.5 and 4 star reviews. She was also named a Pick-Of-The-Fringe winner from Greenwich Theatre, and her show transferred Off-West-End in October.
Performance: Thursday, April 10th at 8:30 PM
Venue: HERE, Dorothy B Williams Theater (DOT), 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
Running Time: 60 minutes
Cost: $20
We understand the extreme challenges that our current financial climate presents. No matter your socioeconomic status, we want everyone to have access to groundbreaking art. There are ten tickets priced at $10 available for each performance on a first-come, first-served basis, for those in need of financial assistance. These tickets are available with the code ACCESS. Limit two tickets per patron. Subject to availability.
About the Artist:
Olivia Raine Atwood is a comedienne, matchmaker, writer & fitness instructor who splits her time between Los Angeles and the Los Angeles of the East (New York). Olivia has been called “riotous” by Time Out New York and her comedic duo has been hailed as a “modern-day Lucy and Ethel” by StageBuddy. Known for her “terrific” and “delightful physical storytelling,” (Fringe Review 2024), Olivia would “make coffee nervous”…which is the most accurate description of herself she has ever read (Mumble UK).
Her matchmaking company has been featured on NPR, WNYC and Elite Daily, among others, and won the 10k Rookie of the Year prize at the IKON Start-Up Awards. She has developed several full-length shows that have received rave reviews from New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, DC Theatre Scene, Vulture, Stagebuddy, Fringe Review and The Reviews Hub. She made her Off-Broadway debut in July 2023 with Liv, LIVE at the SoHo Playhouse. In December she returned to SoHo with UNDERPREPARED & OVERHYDRATED.
In 2024, Liv toured FAKING IT across the globe, from Hollywood to Denver to NYC to Edinburgh Fringe to London. She scooped a nomination for the HOLLYWOOD STAGECRAFTS SELECT AWARD at Hollywood Fringe 2024; she won BEST SOLO SHOW from the What the Fringe Podcast; at Edinburgh Fringe, she received exclusively 5, 4.5 and 4 star reviews. She was also named a Pick-Of-The-Fringe winner from Greenwich Theatre, and her show transferred Off-West-End in October.