AND NOW, NO FLIP FLOPS?!
Meet Eliza: divorced with an ex-wife she couldn’t legally marry and cross-country co-custody of their 72 pound dog. Her search for a way to breathe again takes her from indoor sky diving to drill team tryouts, to making fish flashcards and yes, to losing her favorite flip flops.
BRING YOUR EX-WIFE! SHE GETS IN FREE!
"Mark of a good show? Laughter, tears, thunderous applause!"
graphic design by Kelly Lawrence, photography by Margaret Silverman
Directed by David Ford, AND NOW, NO FLIP FLOPS?! premiered in its entirety at The Rogue Festival in Fresno in February 2015. The SF Premiere was in July 2015 at the SF LGBT Community Center. Eliza has performed excerpts at The Marsh, Tell It On Tuesdays, and Solo Sundays.
“Eliza Gibson brings a crisp, smooth energy to her well written and extremely well performed ‘And Now, No Flip Flops?!’…Gibson’s characters are well articulated and her stage presence is stellar.” – Donald Munro, Fresno Bee
“Eliza brings a fresh, spirited look at our most interesting topic: Ourselves! Funny, provocative, personal.” - Arje Shaw, Broadway Playwright
BIO: Trained as a drummer and classical pianist, Eliza Gibson wrote and performed her first solo show – Dialogues with Madwomen – in 1995, after returning to the US from Yugoslavia, where she had been a humanitarian aid worker.
She also wrote the narrative for Memories Do Not Burn, a documentary about war orphans and refugees featuring the voice of Sarah Jessica Parker. A clinical social worker, in 2008 Eliza led the start-up for Clinic by the Bay, a free health clinic for working uninsured adults, where she served as Executive Director until 2015.