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Get your tickets for CAN I BE FRANK? at Soho Playhouse, July 24-September 13!
MORGAN BASSICHIS is a comedian, musician, and writer who has been called “a tall child or, well, a big bird” by The Nation and “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. Their current show, Can I Be Frank?, about the late performer Frank Maya, is directed by Sam Pinkleton, premiered at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in 2024, and toured to the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, REDCAT in Los Angeles, and the FUSEBOX Festival in Austin. Can I Be Frank? is currently running Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, July 24-September 13, 2025.
Morgan’s past performances include A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah (co-created with Ira Khonen Temple, Creative Time, 2021), Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (co-created with Ethan Philbrick, Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2019), Damned If You Duet (The Kitchen, NYC, 2018), More Protest Songs! (Danspace Project, NYC, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical (co-created with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Ilona Osato, and Una Aya Osato, New Museum, NYC, 2017).
Morgan’s book of to-do lists, The Odd Years, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2020. They co-edited, with Rachel Valinsky and Jay Saper, the anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy’s Subway, 2023). Morgan has released two albums: March is for Marches with Ethan Philbrick (2019) and More Protest Songs! Live From St. Mark’s Church (2018). Their first museum show, More Little Ditties, curated by Dan Byers and Amber Esseiva, was co-commissioned in 2023 by the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Email info@morganbassichis.com if you would like to get in touch.