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NEXT UP: LOVEFOOL AT NYC FRINGE! April 5-15, 2024

You’ve heard of LOVE before... You knew it was kinda gay, but you just WAIT till big queer lovefool Michael John Ciszewski gets his limp wrists on it! Join him on an absolute ROMP through flings and flirtations, from first love to forever, as he ritually reassembles the pieces of his heart in a silly, romantic reclamation of heartbreak. 


A very GAY hour that bridges stand-up COMEDY and CONFESSIONAL, LOVEFOOL is a solo spectacular that makes a starry-eyed argument for falling head-over-heels through life. The show invites audiences to hit the disco ball-lit dance floor of our dreams and find happily ever after alongside Michael John. Will he say “yasss” to a life-long commitment to queer love and all its abundant potential? Will you?  


LOVEFOOL has packed raucous, rapt houses in New York City (Asylum NYC, Pete’s Candy Store), Boston (The Rockwell, New Rep , Mosesian Center for the Arts), Provincetown MA (Redroom), New Jersey (Jersey City Theater Center), and Philadelphia (Yellow Bicycle), earning raves from critics and audiences who call it “exactly the audacious celebration of queer love that we need in this moment!”

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Michael John (he/him) is a queer actor and comedian born, raised, and returned to New York City after launching his career in Boston and London.

Celebrated as “one of the most promising young actors on the Boston theatre scene” by digBoston, his acting credits include Christopher in the world premiere of Vile Isle, Ferdinand in Love’s Labours Lost, Rudy in Bent, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Truman Capote in Holiday Memories.

Ciszewski’s solo work is rooted in queerness and healing, gleefully journeying across genres as sundry as solo performance, stand-up, storytelling, and ritual. His debut solo show Everyone is Dying and So Am I premiered in July 2019 and has since enjoyed sold-out performances in Boston and at Manhattan's Theatre Row and United Solo Theatre Festival—spotlighting the best in international solo performance. It was subsequently nominated for the festival’s audience award. His second solo project The Sun is Sleeping, a full-length film composed at the start of the pandemic era, was screened in virtual theatrical events from late 2020 into 2021 and attended by over 300 people across 5 time zones. The full project is now available to stream online. His hit third solo show Lovefool premiered in 2022 and has since played to over 900 people in venues ranging from proscenium and black box theatres to comedy clubs and festival stages in New York City, Boston, Providence, Provincetown, Jersey City, and Philadelphia. In the meantime, Ciszewski has begun performing his fourth solo hour of comedy If Memory Serves throughout New York City, with dates across the northeast and beyond to be announced. Both Lovefool and If Memory Serves are available for booking now by reaching out to xomichaeljohn@gmail.com

Michael is a member of the staff of ArtsEmerson at Emerson College’s Office of the Arts. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and is a proud graduate of Boston University’s B.F.A. Theatre Arts program. Find him at micjcis.com—or @xomichaeljohn, wherever social media happens.

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