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The Show!

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Spinach in My Teeth, written and performed by Raven Petretti-Stamper, will have its World Premiere via the United Solo Festival in Theatre One at Theatre Row on 410 West 42nd Street, in NYC on Tuesday, October 14th at 8:30pm. Opening night, baby!

What's it all about?

Spinach in My Teeth is a sharp, hilarious, and deeply personal one-woman storytelling event about chasing creative dreams while juggling elder care, full-time work, and a marriage that somehow survives 125 screenwriting contest entries and one very expensive neck brace. With biting wit and heartbreaking candor, writer-performer Raven Petretti-Stamper explores the absurdity of modern ambition through the lens of a TV pilot that might just save her life—or at least her sanity. Featuring late-stage dementia, contradictory reader feedback, a robot boyfriend, and a raging alter ego known only as The Raven, this piece is for anyone who’s ever screamed into the void…and still hoped someone would answer back: “You got this.”

Tickets can be purchased at: https://bfany.org/theatre-row/shows/usfall25/

All About Me - me, me, me me me meeee

Dazzling Performances ahead!

Raven Petretti-Stamper is a playwright and screenwriter whose work blends heart, humor, and emotional chaos. Her full-length plays include 2020: A Fantasy and It’s Still You (published by Next Stage Press), with one-acts produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her short works have appeared in LoveNotes, Smith & Kraus’ Best Women’s Monologues of 2021, Laughter is the Best Medicine, and Tiny Plays from the Quarantine anthologies.


Her short films have screened across the U.S. and abroad, earning multiple festival honors.

Her TV pilot Never Let Go placed in Screencraft’s TV and Comedy competitions and received accolades from 8 & Halfilm, Wiki, and the Big Apple Film Festival. She developed her newest TV series, Bridget & the Boy-Bot, at Stowe Story Labs, with early drafts receiving Honorable Mentions from the North Fork TV Festival and Finish Line Script Competition.


Raven is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, a Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive alum, and a Yale Writers’ Workshop fellow. She trained at the School of Early Departures (NYU Tisch and AADA), holds an MFA from the School of Life, and is currently pursuing a PhD in perseverance.

Think you've got what it takes?

Four videos. 3 minutes each. Zero--zilch production value. But a lot of heart. If you can make it through all four--yes all--you'll unlock a Certificate of Endurance, redeemable at the show on October 14th.

 
Are they shot on Zoom? YES. Did my goddaughter maybe throw in some music? YES! Will you regret it? Possibly. :)

Video

Why is she so thrilled to have spinach in her teeth?

Here’s a brief intro to Spinach in My Teeth—the one-woman storytelling event I accidentally birthed, raised on caffeine, and now expect you to come admire. It’s funny. It’s personal. There’s at least one rogue film doctor and a few unresolved emotions.
Come on, doesn't that make you want to see me say all this live? ;) 

The Producer's Nightmare

In this behind-the-scenes nightmare, Raven finds herself trapped in a cursed production of The Glass Menagerie—reimagined. There are twelve audience members, one janitor clapping, and a mic’d-up actor with... digestive regrets.

Welcome to the dream that convinced me to go solo.

(Not in the show.)

The Doctor is In

This film fest story didn’t fully make it into Spinach in My Teeth so I’m putting it here. This is a deeper detailed clip than what’s in the show—featuring my mom, a UPS driver, and a rogue film doctor 

with opinions.

(Longer than a TikTok. Shorter than your cousin’s wedding vows.)

The Mayor of Jersey City

Dementia takes a lot from us. But sometimes it gives us these strange, beautiful moments too. In this one, my dad thinks my husband is the Mayor of Jersey City—and honestly? We let him. Because we’re grateful for the chance to say a long, slow goodbye.


And also…he’s my dad. Sometimes, pride matters more than facts.


(This moment did not make the final cut of the show, but many others about my dad did.)

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