ABOUT THE PLAY
photo by brandon youngWORSE THAN YOU follows overly self-aware comedian Jolie Klein (Pasic), as she navigates the sliding door moments that changed her life, for better and for worse. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll walk away with a new crush.
***Trigger warning: this play contains themes of sexual assault and survival***
CREATIVE TEAM
Mo Fry Pasic is an actor, writer, and comedian. They came up in the New York improv comedy and theater scene producing plays and performing stand-up at Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, Union Hall, The Duplex, Caroline’s on Broadway, and at The Public’s Under The Radar Festival. Their acting has been described as “virtuosic” by The New Yorker’s Howard Fishman and “relentless” by The New York Times’ Ben Brantley. With creative collaborator Tim Platt, their dark comedy plays have earned Pasic and Platt the title, “titans of subversion” from TimeOut NY. Mo co-wrote and performed in the play “50/50: Old School Animation,” which has been cited by theater critic Helen Shaw as being on her all-time-top-ten list. Mo loves the press.
Sudi Green is an Emmy-nominated writer and comedian. She has written for Saturday Night Live, Shrill (Hulu), I Love That For You (Showtime) and numerous variety specials and awards shows. Her on-screen credits include I Think You Should Leave, The Other Two, Girls, and Red Oaks. Sudi currently lives in LA where she types into the abyss between hikes.
Lauren Mandel is a producer who has developed projects with Keke Palmer and eOne, LeBron James & Maverick Carter's SpringHill, and Jimmy Fallon's Electric Hot Dog Productions. She is a frequent collaborator of Den of Thieves on live award shows including the VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS (MTV), PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS (NBC), and recently Co-EP’d iHEART RADIO’S JINGLE BALL special for ABC/HULU (OBB).
Lauren EP’d and showran Electric Hot Dog‘s (Fallon) first stand-up special for Peacock which received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination. Other credits include LAS CULTURISTAS CULTURE AWARDS (Bowen Yang & Matt Rogers), HOLIDAYS WITH THE HOUGHS (NBC), JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU (Adult Swim), and four seasons at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (NBC).