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Calling Marlene

A solo show by comedian and storyteller

Mickey Farrow

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Mickey Farrow with Marlene in Trinidad

The Story

Marlene always answers...
but this time she didn't.

Marlene was Mickey's Trinidadian nanny and the woman who raised him. She always answers his calls. But on her seventieth birthday, she doesn't. What begins as concern becomes a funny, intimate, and increasingly urgent three-day search to reach her, and to understand the relationship he has spent his life trying to put into words.

Calling Marlene at the Guggenheim Museum

Calling Marlene was selected by the Guggenheim Museum to participate in their prestigious work-in-progress series.

Mickey Farrow performing Calling Marlene at the Guggenheim Museum
Mickey Farrow at the Guggenheim Museum for Calling Marlene Work in Progress Show
Mickey Farrow performing Calling Marlene inside the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
“Calling Marlene is the kind of deeply personal story that becomes universal through its specificity — funny, moving, and full of the emotional truth that makes live storytelling matter."

Natalie Gavilanes

Manager of Public Programs, Performance

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

From script to stage

An episodic behind-the-scenes journey into Calling Marlene 

The series follows the real-time development of Calling Marlene as Mickey Farrow tries to find out how far one finished script can actually go — navigating every step from finding a director and building the creative team to first performances, producers, festivals, theaters, and, perhaps, one day, Broadway.

From script to stage

An episodic behind-the-scenes journey into Calling Marlene 

The series follows the real-time development of Calling Marlene as Mickey Farrow tries to find out how far one finished script can actually go — navigating every step from finding a director and building the creative team to first performances, producers, festivals, theaters, and, perhaps, one day, Broadway.

I Wrote a Show. Can I Get It to Broadway? | Calling Marlene - Episode 1

I Wrote a Show. Can I Get It to Broadway? | Calling Marlene - Episode 1

How Did Caribbean Women End Up Raising Kids Like Me?

How Did Caribbean Women End Up Raising Kids Like Me?

The Daughter of a Jamaican Nanny Finally Tells Her Side of the Story

The Daughter of a Jamaican Nanny Finally Tells Her Side of the Story

What I Learned From Billy Crystal's New Broadway Show 860 (NO SPOILERS)

What I Learned From Billy Crystal's New Broadway Show 860 (NO SPOILERS)

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