https://www.idacuttler.com/visitmysite daily 0.75 2021-08-14 https://www.idacuttler.com/hello daily 1.0 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1624581468396-VLHM0ASM51NUHOFXGNTY/1D892D9E-F79F-4465-8B80-08D79F381E06_1_105_c.jpeg Home - Make it stand out photo by Joe Mazza https://www.idacuttler.com/contact-wells daily 0.75 2021-10-11 https://www.idacuttler.com/actor daily 0.75 2025-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/a12f6e78-10c0-482f-9b6b-fafb0db9e13f/R02A0284.JPEG Performances - Save the Cave! July 2025 Former Vegas showgirl Pissy Hardling runs a dive bar in the American South. Because of economic downturn and a series of natural disasters, the bar is not expected to last through the end of the week—that is, until the arrival of the disgraced British countess, Dame Eleanor Poop, who promises to use her remaining fortune to help Pissy keep the bar open if and only if Pissy will let her use the bar as a shelter from the British authorities who are hot on her trail. Yale Cabaret Written by Georgia Petersen and Ida Cuttler (Photo by Richard Lee) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/89d5da6d-0dc3-4466-b9f7-963abcf7c5af/GN8A7939+%281%29.jpg Performances - The Day the Butcher Shop Closed February 2025 It’s a tragedy for the town! The butcher shop is closing. Everything is horrible today. And tomorrow? Tomorrow feels so far away somehow. Yale Cabaret Written by Natalie Margolin Co-Directed by Max Sheldon and Ida Cuttler Performed by Ida Cuttler, Francisco Morandi Zerpa, Michael Saguto, Caroline Campos, Kamal Serawhy (Photo by Doaa Ouf) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/26dd332a-330a-43aa-a51f-d18140eb9020/WILDCATS_extras-20.JPG Performances - WILDCATS May 2022 ““Wildcats” is a constellative, drag, fever poem”—Sixty Inches From Center NOMINATED FOR 4 JEFF AWARDS! A two person/one pianist multi-media drag musical spectacle about loneliness, bursting out of isolation, and relatively unknown moment in Lucille Ball’s career. WILDCATS is about failure and friendship and learning to let go. World Premier at Neo-Futurist Theater in 2022 Directed by Halena Kays Written by Ida Cuttler and Nick Hart Performed by Ida Cuttler, Nick Hart, and Laura Mckenzie (Photo by Justin Lynk) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1624304978560-F6T0D4PNUX4FESZSA2UT/COMFORTABLE+SHOES+PIC+1.jpg Performances - Comfortable Shoes October to November 2019 “Cuttler's perpetual motion matches the rapid-fire delivery of her script. With the athleticism of a track star, she leaps, climbs, springs, and swings” —Chicago Reader My solo-show Comfortable Shoes saw a six week run at The Neo-Futurist Theater in the Fall of 2019 and was a Critics’ Pick by the Chicago Reader. Interweaving the frame story of The 1001 Nights and the structure of a filibuster, Comfortable Shoes was a two-person show about gender, sexism and power. World premier at The Chicago Neo-Futurist Theater Directed by Halena Kays Written by Ida Cuttler Music by Katie Klocke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1623712754401-SRW0FDGQCFUE4749NB9I/INFINITE+WRENCH+2.jpg Performances - The Infinite Wrench 2015 to 2022 “Any version of The Infinite Wrench is going to be a surprising, occasionally powerful, often hilarious and always entertaining evening.” –Chicago On Stage Since 2014, I have regularly contributed as a writer and performer to the Neo-Futurists’ long-running weekly show The Infinite Wrench. Every night the cast performs 30 plays in 60 minutes. Each play offers something different, but all are truthful and tackle the here-and-now, inspired by the lived experiences of the performers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1624487593185-AV8V91JLHKEIVRXPTJVC/tnf_landscape_web.jpg Performances - The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral “Any version of The Infinite Wrench is going to be a surprising, occasionally powerful, often hilarious and always entertaining evening.” – Chicago On Stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1626383943003-N3OZA7FCKQ57DCHGAVU8/Backdrop_LUT_TEST5.jpg Performances - BIMBOS Photo by Justin Lynk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1624303821728-YEWJWVESV0P1P4QOE8ZK/45+PLAYS+3+%281%29.png Performances - 45 Plays for America’s First Ladies September to October 2020 “A relentless Sketch Comedy Flipbook” –Jesse Green’s Critics Pick in The New York Times 45 Plays for America’s First Ladies surveyed the lives of the women who served (and avoided serving) as first lady, from Martha to Melania. This show was a biographical, meta-theatrical, genre-bending ride through race, gender and history. World (Virtual) Premier via Neo-Futurist Theater, September 2021. Picked up for streaming by Broadway On Demand through July 2021. Directed by Denise Yvette Serna Written by Chloe Johnston, Sharon Greene, Genevra Gallo-­Bayiates, Bilal Dardai and Andy Bayiates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1624303534773-3SS9DA7S5PRQJ36ZQYDU/T%26P1.jpg Performances - Tangles and Plaques October 2017, September 2018 and August 2019 "...the production is able to not only achieve its goal of “demystifying” the experience of this affliction but also connect with the audience in a personal yet painstakingly artful way." —Newcity Chicago Tangles & Plaques was an attempt to demystify the experience of dementia in the language of theatre—offering a vivid, poignant, participatory experience that is unique to each audience and different every performance.The ensemble interrogated the life and death of memories—how they persist, when they depart and the ways they distort over time. World Premier at Neo-Futurist Theater in 2017. Re-mounted at Neo-Futurist Theater in 2018 and again as part of Theater On The Lake’s season in 2019. Directed by Jen Ellison Created by KR Riiber Featuring the performances of KR Riiber, Kaitlyn Andrews, Ida Cuttler, Justin Deming, Mike Hamilton, Nick Hart and Dan Kerr-Hobert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c17888d4d5d847fab13bca/1626384436137-HD9LV93823WR1UIMH2Y9/39515479_10156747350677948_2439121827298017280_n-1.jpg Performances - That’s Weird, Grandma! 2017 to Current “That’s Weird, Grandma! is for everyone. Everything about [PlayMakers Laboratory] is amazing—their talent for teaching and acting, their mission and vision, their impact, and how they put a smile on everyone’s face.” –Buzz Chicago That’s Weird, Grandma! features adaptations of stories written during the company’s creative writing residencies in Chicago elementary schools. 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