Baby GirL (Full length play/90 minutes) 5F/3M
Official Selection of The International Fringe Festival-Fringe NYC 2014
What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple in love, and next by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child but the "little guys" never make it to the egg? What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand?
After coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. When Ashley's fantasies meet reality, expect the unexpected!
What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple in love, and next by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child but the "little guys" never make it to the egg? What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand?
After coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. When Ashley's fantasies meet reality, expect the unexpected!
"Go gaga for Baby GirL, a lesbian themed comedy by Kim Ehly. Our advice? Don’t miss Baby GirL at the Kraine Theater. It’s comical, poignant, entertaining and one of the best off-off Broadway plays we’ve seen in a very long time... The play’s protagonist is Ashley (Christa Meyers), an adopted kid who grows up gay in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Later, as a young woman, she comes out to her adoptive family and embarks on a weird yet wonderful journey to find her biological parents. Along the way, there are plenty of laughs, cringeworthy moments, and highs and lows on the path to self-acceptance that we can all relate to." - GO Magazine, NYC, Shannon Leigh O'Neil
"Baby GirL is about a young woman sharing her compelling, and very funny, story about being adopted, coming out as a lesbian, and going in search of her birth mother...Christa Meyers is delightful as Ashley, easily gliding between re-created scenes from her life and speaking directly to the audience as her character explores her sexuality and family history; the other seven members of the uniformly strong cast all portray multiple roles. A production of Ehly’s Fort Lauderdale-based Kutumba Theatre Project, Baby GirL gets much deserved laughs...and has an inviting, charming warmth that is just right for the Fringe." -This Week in New York
“The story [Baby GirL] is grounded in the very real and complex relationships of parents to their children while at the same time highlighting dramatic moments with the absurdity with which we often remember them. For example, coming out to ones parents can often be an ordeal, sometimes of comic proportions in retrospect. Ehly utilizes these theatrical tools to great effect in her script.”-NY Theatre Now, Leta Tremblay
“Baby GirL is full of serious ideas and themes, not to mention inevitable flashes of pain when Ashley faces judgment and rejection. Yet for all its depth of feeling, Baby GirL is a joyous celebration of one woman's journey toward happiness. Baby GirL is sweet, funny, touching, unsettling, tender. It's an artistic offspring that would make any playwright proud. Ehly makes a persuasive case for looking beyond blood bonds to find family in those who love us. And in Baby GirL, she makes an impressive playwriting debut.” – Christine Dolen, Miami Herald
“It's something close to magic that Baby GirL not only works but excels with just eight cast members, a mostly bare-walled set, and static props limited to a bed, a sofa, a beat-up desk, and some movable pedestals. No matter —this is a transportive, original piece of stagecraft that rewards our imagination and always keeps us on our toes.” – John Thomason, New Times
“Baby GirL is blessed with offbeat humor, sly insight and a beating heart.” – Rod Stafford Hagwood. Sun Sentinel
“Ehly’s play [Baby GirL] is so successful in reaching in and grabbing so many emotions that in the span of under two hours you’ve empathized, sympathized, shed a tear or two, laughed more than a little, and discovered that somehow you, too, have become part of the family she’s created.” – Michelle Solomon, Miami Artzine
“At the risk of sounding paternalistic, another pleasure is the production’s complete comfort with the heroine’s sexuality. It’s not a matter of angst…It puts sexuality in its proper perspective as an element of Ashley’s life but not the central drama. That feels liberating for the audience regardless of sexuality.” -Bill Hirschman, Florida Theatre on Stage
The Happy Ones (10 minute or 30 minute play) 2F
Good fortune shines on AJ, a beautiful lesbian and actor from Manhattan, when she scores a place in Los Feliz for pilot season! After taking a short walk to a neighbor’s house for a welcoming glass of wine, the visit isn’t exactly what AJ would expect it to be. Her neighbor, Kelly, has some plans of her own for AJ.
"Kim Ehly’s The Happy Ones draws frayed, wrenching comedy from a disastrous wine tasting-cum-first “date” between two lesbians in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz community. As AJ’s neighborly visit to Kelly’s house for some vino and cheese becomes something else entirely, the play evolves into a stellar showcase for the lead actress, whose desperate behavior occupies the moment when healthy admiration yields to debilitating obsession."-John Thomason, Boca Magazine & writer for New Times
Kim Ehly's The Happy Ones is "hysterically funny!" - Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel
"Notable among the plays are Kim Ehly’s The Happy Ones, which she both wrote and directed, based on an experience with a stalker neighbor she met while living in LA. The script is witty, and the directing is crisp. It is also the best acting of the night..."- Kathryn Ryan, Edge Miami
The Happy Ones voted audience favorite at Girl Play 2014 -Women's Theatre Project
Places (One minute play) 1F/1M
Comedy about random human interaction.
Premiered at the One Minute Play Festival in Miami.
"T" (One minute play) 4F or 2F/2M
A visual introspective look into the mind of a transgender individual.
Premiered at the One Minute Play Festival in Miami.
