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“Irreverent and soulful, Sara Porter is magnificent. I’m awestruck!” – Niegel Smith, Artistic Director, The Flea Theatre, New York City

Known for her absurdist, playful and intelligent performance, Sara Porter brings the third of her celebrated memoir-based solos to the SummerWorks Performance Festival. Hello Sunshine! Is a one-woman musical and multidisciplinary dance about living with invisible disability—the social, personal, and logistical challenges of negotiating the particularities of a life avoiding sunlight (featuring original songs sung by Sara on her ‘therap ukelele’).

Over the past 35 years, Sara has lived with a worsening condition called Polymorphous Light Eruption (PMLE), an autoimmune disease that makes her acutely reactive to UV radiation. Through Hello Sunshine! she highlights the complexity of negotiating a condition not visible to others, and plays against the pressure to put on a sunny attitude in the face of struggle.

Created with the internationally renowned Blind artist Alex Bulmer as dramaturg, Hello Sunshine! is designed to be accessible to Blind audiences, through prepared audio description and a touch tour of the set.

*The August 13th performance of Hello Sunshine! will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Choreographer, Writer & Performer: Sara Porter
Co-Producer: Alex Jodi Verge
Technical Director: Franco Pang
Stage Manager: A.J. Morra
Lighting Designer: Rebecca Picherack
Sound Designer: Stephen Joffe
Video/Projection Designer & Choreographic Collaborator: Linnea Swan
Disability Dramaturge & Creative Collaborator: Alex Bulmer
Creative Consultant: Katherine Duncanson
Visual Art Contributor: Elaine Whittaker
Accessibility Facilitator: Lorna Craig
Administrative Assistant: Cass Cabral Pucci
Audio Describer: Lindsay Zier-Vogel