what is…this is it?

A play with many characters

A solo show performed by one person

An autobiographical fiction

if the body keeps the score, what does it add up to?

how do we know what constitutes a good life?

what meaning can we garner from death in order to better understand life?

When a woman’s life is interrupted by a catastrophic car crash, she is catapulted into an existential, heartfelt, and often funny quest for meaning and connection. Landing in the Bardo, she discovers herself in the “in-between” space between life and death. Using bold and inventive theatrical storytelling, this one-woman tour de force fills the stage with delightful characters, skillful movement, an autopsy, a pole dance, and an explosion of life.

the team

Actor/Co-creator/Producer
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Director/Co-creator/Producer
Kate Kohler Amory

Sound Designer
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Liz is a multifaceted theatre artist. She is an actor, singer, sound designer, composer, and teacher. Her work has been seen in New York City, regionally, in England and India. She creates award-winning devised theatre pieces, composes music for theatrical sound scores, and she’s written an opera based on The Bacchae. Liz was nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performer for The Woman Who Was Me (TheaterLab, NYC). In addition to her sound design for This Is It, recent sound designs include: Medusa Volution (Fringe Arts Philly), The Man in the Newspaper Hat (Pandemic Films), Off the Wall: The Zany Plays (52nd St Project), The Yellow Wallpaper (Cleveland Public Theatre), Antigonick (Whitman College Theatre), Distant Shores (A Dance Film), Murrow (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), Refracting Miss Julie (OneArmRed). Fracked or Friction (Naropa University), Liz received her MFA in Theatre: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. She teaches psycho physical acting and physically embodied and extended voice for graduate and undergraduate students. She has taught at NYU/ETW, Naropa University (BFA and MFA), Denison University, Salem State University, CUNY Staten Island. She currently teaches at the New York Film Academy and at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

Lighting Designer
Erika is thrilled to be a part of the "This Is It" team, feeling so creatively invigorated by the power of this play. Before relocating to the Berkshires Erika was based in New York City lighting for television, theater, and dance. She had the pleasure of designing shows for everything from Red Bull Music to Animal Planet; and spent full seasons with some truly fabulous institutions such as San Francisco Opera, New York City Ballet, Broadway, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Erika spent her summers before S&Co as the production manager/ head electrician for Adirondack Theatre Festival, putting on Broadway-bound productions like Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, Loch Ness, Calling All Kates, and Beau. She also spent the last seven years traveling the world as the lighting supervisor for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a company of folks very close to her heart.