DAJA VU
written and Performed by Aja Nisenson

5 Performances

Bowery Poetry Club
SAT 8/20 @ 5:15
SUN 8/21 @ 2:15
TUE 8/23 @ 7:15
FRI 8/26 @ 5:00
SAT 8/27 @ 7:00

For tickets visit www.FringeNYC.org

DAJA VU: SOME THINGS ARE WORTH REPEATING.

New York, NY-- World Renowned Chanteuse Daja Vu sets
a precedent for a new era of cabaret. Sexy and unpredictable, Daja Vu is the secret love
child of Edith Piaf and Victor Borge. Come for the songs, stay for the flambé.


WHAT THE PRESS SAYS:

THE NEW YORK TIMES:
"Indescribable"

THE NEW YORK POST:
"She's really something."

HER MOTHER:
" I don't know what happened. She was so cute when she was little..."


Press

“As full of talent as she is of spaghetti, she recalls in vivid, sidesplitting detail her trip through Italy as a 21-year-old virgin who becomes a sought-after jazz singer… Nisenson is a natural storyteller, with an ear for impersonations and an eye for glamorous and gritty detail.”
--BACKSTAGE

“I saw this show twice… After that first time, I cried—not immediately, but in the street. I cried over risk, over sexuality, over danger as success and safety as failure, over being a woman and an artist. Isn't that what theatre does at its best—cut you to the core?”
--NYTHEATRE.COM

**** (Four Stars)
“ Like Sarah Silverman, Nisenson dresses her hot self simply—all in black, with comfy sneakers…an engaging portrait of that special time of life when nascent adults go overseas to find themselves, and end up getting into cars with strangers.”
--TIME OUT NEW YORK

“The gorgeous Aja Nisenson demonstrates she can do it all in an autobiographical show about discovering herself in Italy, during which she sings jazz (and a bit of opera), impersonates the colorful people she met with wit and charm, and tells hilarious stories."
--HYREVIEWS.COM

AJA NISENSON is an internationally recognized actor/ comedian/ singer/ playwright originating from New Jersey. Aja earned a B.A. in Theater Arts with a Capstone in Playwriting at Brown University where she studied with Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel and award winning Producer/ Director/Playwright/Dramaturg Bonnie Metzgar. Aja’s one-woman show, Piccola Cosi, about her experience as a jazz singer in Bologna, Italy, received critical acclaim and had sold out runs in the 2009 soloNOVA Arts Festival and the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. A trained pop, jazz and opera singer, Aja has sung with renown musicians in venues all around Italy. She has also worked behind the scenes with the Metropolitan Opera House, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Director’s Company, Voice and Vision and Joe’s Pub. Aja was the recipient of the 2007 Weston Award for Acting and was a 2009 Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Fellow.




















PICCOLA COSI

the hit one woman show

written and performed by Aja Nisenson

YOU'LL LAUGH. YOU'LL CRY. YOU'LL CRAVE PROSCIUTTO AND RED WINE.


After a sold-out run in the 2009 soloNOVA Arts Festival and 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, Piccola Cosi is back for an encore. Aja Nisenson takes her audience on a hysterical and provocative ride through the underbelly of Bologna's jazz scene. Playing herself and the eight Italian men she encounters, twenty-one year old Aja comes of age as she pursues her dream of becoming a jazz singer with the help of more than a few eager Italian men.

About The Show:

Piccola Cosi, which in Italian means "small like this," is based on Aja's experience singing jazz in nightclubs and restaurants in Bologna, Italy. The show traces her development as a woman and a jazz singer, and is a sprawling cacophony of Italian culture and Aja's own fractured understanding of it, where pizzas walk across tables and men appear as smoke in doorways.




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