The Life and Times of Tilly Norwood

By the playwright the New York Times calls "a keen observer of the American media landscape," Cameron Darwin Bossert.

The Life and Times of Tilly Norwood: A satirical send-up of the fact we now have an AI-generated “actress” making Hollywood headlines, and apparently “seeking representation.

Tilly Norwood can't pay the rent.

It's September 2022, and a young woman named Tilly has a roommate who's trying not to strangle her, so she vows to finally get a real acting job… by locking herself in her room and doing 500 “self-tapes” (video auditions) in 2 weeks. She's never taken an acting class, so her plan is to study all the audition videos she can find on YouTube of the roles that made actors famous, like Rachel McAdams for The Notebook, and especially Evangeline Lilly for Lost, and memorize every nuance of behavior. After this 2-week immersion Tilly hasn't landed an acting job yet, but she reemerges to the living room with strange abilities… but will these new-found “super powers” be helpful in paying the rent? Can she finally rise to stardom before their living situation descends into chaos?

The Life and Times of Tilly Norwood is a spiritual sequel to The Fairest, playwright Cameron Darwin Bossert's 2021 play about the women who painted the first machine-manufactured lead actress, Snow White, which was followed up by Burbank, which the New York Times called “Remarkable… warm and alive and layered with nuance” -Laura Collins-Hughes. Life and Times the features some of the cast from the The Fairest (also now a New York Times streaming theater pick, available at www.thirdwing.info)

The new show takes a satirical aim at the synthetic creativity we're starting to live with, and perhaps have been putting up with for longer than we may realize.

You can see the show for free by becoming a Thirdwing member for $7/ month, giving you access to Thirdwing's entire library of streaming/ theater content and free reservations to the two comedic stage plays opening this fall. Learn more.

Shows will be every evening at 7pm from Aug 11^th through the 23^rd, except for Mondays and Friday, the 21st.

Absolutely no generative AI will be used in the writing or making of any aspect of the show.