Official Selection & Encore Performance
Son of Semele Solo Creation Festival 2018
THE
FREE WILL
MANIFESTO
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
PRESENTED BY
CHERYL FIDELMAN
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION /
"The validity and actual existence of this document is questionable. But that does not, in my opinion, lessen it's weight or value." - CHERYL FIDELMAN
With her 2nd solo show, Cheryl Fidelman enters into an inquiry about Free Will because she's been wondering whether or not we have any. What would it be like if our psyches were stripped of all sociological & familial influences? Would we then be living from a place of pure Free Will? Is that what it would mean to have Free Will? And is such a state of being even possible or desirable? Fidelman performs this comical, exploratory and pseudo-intellectual inquiry with a TED Talk-like presentation. The narrative of the piece hopes to bring to light that the access to true freedom may be through deepening our compassion and understanding of our own psychological and emotional programming and that of those around us.
WHERE /
TBD
ABOUT THE ARTIST/
CHERYL FIDELMAN
is a nationally toured spoken word artist & a three-city Bay Area slam team finalist. She is a recipient of the International Shakespeare Scholar Certificate from Cambridge University (UK), studied theatre at HB Studio (NYC) & Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College (NY). FIDELMAN is part of a performance research laboratory at The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA and is one half of the performance art duo THE LAW OFFICES OF FIDELMAN & BERKOWITZ. Her first solo show, "RIDE. A Life With Tobacco," was an official selection of The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, NY's The One Festival, LA's Solo New Works Festival and was presented at NY's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe & The Bowery Poetry Club.
Prior roles include, but not limited to:
-"Alicia" in CBS' The Mentalist
-"Rosie" in the indie feature Through Rosie Colored Glasses
-"Leah" in the indie feature FELL
FIDELMAN is a writing consultant and performance coach. She taught poetry at Richmond Elementary School and enjoys writing bios about herself in the 3rd person.