Tonight talk with actor, singer, comedian, writer in Philadelphia, New York City, and beyond, Jenna Kuerzi.

Jenna’s solo-ish show "Johnny Depp: A Retrospective on Late-Stage Capitalism" traveled to the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and will (hopefully) return in 2021. Her performance received a collective 9 stars from various publications covering the Festival. She is currently working on a piece about Diabetes titled "Dawn Phenomenon," drawing on influences from television cult favorite Pee-Wee's Playhouse and the honesty of fellow Type 1 performer and comedian Elaine Stritch, creating an informative and humorous platform to dispel myths surrounding a disease resulting in 1.6 million deaths a year.

Website: http://www.jennakuerzi.com

Social media: @lessthanamuffin

Podcast on Spotify: Depp Impact

Tonight we dined with Patrick Stover, host of Flicks, a WHYY program devoted to coverage of top films, stars and moviemakers seen locally on PBS station WHYY Tv12 in Philadelphia.

Patrick is also the host of Quick Pics, offering the week’s filmic “best bets” — which appears on dozens of PBS stations nationwide each week.

The passions and purpose of creators in our community and around the country are the centerpiece of weekly conversations on Into the Absurd: An Existential Dinner Conversation presented each week by The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, the Philadelphia-based theater company whose mission is to present existentialist and absurdist theater to audiences in the region. Producing Artistic Director Tina Brock hosts the conversation, illuminating the creators around the country and their reflections about life during existentially challenging times.

For the past 16 years, the award-winning IRC has been interpreting the writing of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Franz Kafka and the many existentialist and absurdist writers grappling with the question of purpose and place in the world. Whether the stage setting is a village of twenty or two tramps under a nearly bare tree, the drama of bearing witness to each other’s stories sets the stage to light up the imagination, sharing strength to continue in challenging times.

Join us as we explore the existential stories of the creators on the stage of life as they pursue their passions with whimsy, rigor and determination.