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    • 50% of Presence
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    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
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    • fidget. spinster.
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 Beastly: an autobiographical feminist folk tale

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Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale 
Melissa Hale Woodman

​Hometown: 
Brookline, MA

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Website - https://www.melissahalewoodman.com/ 
Instagram - @mellymyselfandi

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TICKET PRICE:
$20


DESCRIPTION OF PIECE

It's 2050 and the world has gone mad. But one woman is determined to throw off the patriarchal systems that keep us divided and broken, once and for all. This one hour, one woman romp -- filled with naughty animal poetry and perimenopausal standup -- will inspire you to step into your power and create a new world.


ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Melissa is a writer, comedic performer, and social justice organizer who is obsessed with making activism fun and joyful. "Beastly" -- which she wrote and performs in -- aims to do just that. The show has played to sold out audiences in Boston, and raised more than $15,000 for reproductive justice and climate organizations. In her "day job", she's raised millions of dollars for Corporate Accountability's climate campaign. Melissa grew up in London, and lives in Brookline, MA with amazing family and lab/pitt mutt Toby. In her spare time, she's active on social media as Olga, Russian dissident and menopausal manifestor, and Cassandra Thistlewaite-Crumby, King Charles' sex-mad jilted lover.

FRINGE 2025: July 13-26, 2025


​FRINGEPVD : The 2025
Providence Fringe Festival®
​​IS PRESENTED BY
 THE WILBURY THEATRE GROUP
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  • 2025 Artists
    • 50% of Presence
    • A Wolf in Ex's Clothing
    • Actress Waiting to Audition
    • Apocalypse King; Or, the legacy of small hands (an anti-anti intellectual play) also known as, No one panic! It’s just late stage capitalism!
    • Beastly: An Autobiographical Feminist Folk Tale
    • Blue Cow Bells: Six Short Plays
    • Childhood Nostalgia
    • Chin Up
    • CHRONIC PAin au chocolat
    • Circumscribed: A True Tall Tale of One Father, Two Sons, and Thousands of Foreskins
    • Clémence et Virgile Présent: VOYAGE
    • Connecting the Dots
    • Drunken Folk Music
    • emotion/truth
    • Fatso Goes to McDonald's (and other short plays)
    • fidget. spinster.
    • Folk Music for the 21st Century
    • franny keeps live
    • Golden Arches
    • How Much Can You Change for Someone You Love?
    • How to Get a Second Husband
    • husk/vessel
    • I Am Going To Die (And All They Gave Me Were These Lousy Cupcakes)
    • I Love You, Satan
    • In A Minute
    • Jacob and the Jellyfish
    • Literary Monsters
    • Marge the Pizza Presents: A Slice of Life
    • Me'leven
    • MetroGnome: A Fully Improvised Musical
    • Modern Butchood
    • Ms. Steak's Mistakes
    • Murder, Meth and Mayhem: a folk opera
    • My Rocket Ship Crash-Landed
    • Obsessive Comedy Disorder
    • Of Petals and Fire
    • One Dead, One Alive
    • One Providence Place: A Mall Musical
    • Persistence
    • Pierrot < 3 Moon
    • Piggy Wants to Fly
    • PROMISCUOUS METALS
    • RHODE DAWN!!!
    • Shelter from the Storm
    • TBA 8&1 Dance Company East
    • The Call to Adventure: An Improvised Epic
    • "The Clothes Make The Man: A Loving Satire On 'Mrkn Fashion Featuring 'The Man In White' And The Developing Country Band"
    • The Con
    • the estate sale
    • The Farm
    • The Fear is Becoming Normal
    • The Gospel According to Susan: Confessions of a (Transgender) Serial Killer
    • The Greatest Betrayal
    • The Lady of Shalott
    • The Navel Gazers
    • The Stronger
    • The Waste Land
    • Too Fat for China
    • Travel “Whore”: The Backside of International Relations
    • Trolley Stop(s)
    • Two Passengers
    • Unscripted: The Everchanging One Act Play
    • Whatever Fate Decides
    • When Cayden Came
    • WomenInShorts Part Deux
    • Working Title: THE CALLING, or BROKE
    • "Would I Lie to You?" Played by PIG Performers
    • Zauber Magic Flute Enchantée
  • Special Events
    • "Let's Fringe!" Opening Night Party
    • Sims Ave Fest + Family Fringe!
    • Haus of Codec LGBTQQIA+ Resource Fair & ART Marketplace
    • Busking at the Fringe!
    • Motion State Arts Dance Classes
    • Writing at the Fringes - LitArts RI
    • Artist Mixer
    • Closing Party
    • What the Fringe?! Panel
  • Venues
    • 50 SIMS
    • ALCO
    • Buttonwoods Brewery
    • Farm Fresh
    • ISCO
    • LitArts RI
    • PUBLIC
    • Teatro ECAS
    • The Steel Yard
    • Troop
    • WaterFire Arts Center
    • Wilbury Theatre Group
  • About
    • FAQ's
    • About The Wilbury Theatre Group
  • Support
  • swag