MY YEAR OF PORN
One woman’s adventures in the trenches
Written and Performed by Cole Kazdin
Directed by Ivanna Cullinan

Friday, September 16, 23, 30 at 8PM. $10

MY YEAR OF PORN is a one-woman comedy about a journalist’s eye-opening adventures, the year she produces a documentary on the porn industry. Through storytelling and character monologues, she travels to porn sets, backseats of trucks and a bizarre swingers club in downtown LA. It’s Heart of Darkness. Only instead of the Congo, it’s Porno.

You’ll meet the enthusiastic porn starlet Sinammon Summers, who takes her job very seriously; the busiest director in porn, Gordon “Monty” Monty; the swarthy porn veteran, Rock Hard; and the somewhat intimidating porn superstar, Angel St. Jaymes. Cole even manages to track down the famously reclusive and disturbingly shell-shocked porn director, John Merriweather.

Cole’s plucky curiosity morphs into deep concern when she realizes maybe she’s in too deep. Monty thinks she’d be perfect to star in his next movie, Merriweather thinks she’d be perfect to write his next movie, and Angel St. Jaymes keeps looking at Cole in a leering way that’s starting to make her feel uncomfortable.

What is a year of porn going do to her?

"Compelling...Ms. Kazdin brings a wry tone to her anecdotes, many of which are too graphic to repeat here. She also portrays a variety of eccentric but thoroughly believable characters."
- New York Times (Image of clipping)

‘It’s alarmingly good material”
- Time Out New York

“Kazdin has a gift for creating personae on the fly … She has remarkable comic timing”
- American Theater Web

“Funny, poignant, and eye-opening …
You may never think about ex-Marines or non-dairy creamer the same way again”
- nytheater.com

COLE KAZDIN (Playwright/ Performer)

Cole Kazdin is a writer, actress and producer. She currently appears on episodes of VH-1’s All Access series. Cole has performed improv and sketch comedy all over the city, most notable with Gotham City Improv where she was in nearly ten thousand shows. She was also seen in High Cotton at the 2004 NYC Fringe Festival. She has toured nationally as a dancer and appeared in numerous independent films. Her writing is published on Salon.com, in magazines and books, most recently, The Best American Sex Writing 2004. Cole has produced news and documentary television. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.