The Seth Lepore Project presents a trilogy of one-man shows about the underbelly of the self-help movement.
Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee is a hysterical romp through America’s spiritual enterprise exposing the blurry line between self-help and faith. Winner of two Encore Awards at the Boulder and Minnesotta Fringe Festivals. One of the top 10 plays of 2011 by the Twin Cities Daily Planet. Watch a clip.
SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Something That Feels Better Than This. The show examines the rise in popularity of the happiness industry and the farcical ideology of the positive thinking movement. On tour since March 2012. Watch a clip.
Kicking Ass and Taking Names. Measuring Success One Failure at a Time. Lepore takes on our culture’s obsession with being successful and our fear of external and internalized failure. In development for March 2014.
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[...] with whether it be love, politics, food, family systems, et al. I’m touring and developing a trilogy on the underbelly of the self-help movement. I came to realize that the new age and self-help movements were just as dogmatic as my Catholic [...]