Part of AKA’s 25th Annual Conference:
"Coming Home to Your Self"
November 4, 2017
World Premiere and Sold Out Run in the United Solo Theatre Festival 2015 • Theatre Row • NYC
Winner • Best Autobiographical Script Award • Suzanne Bachner
Winner • Best Actress Award • Anna Bridgforth
The show was presented during National Adoption Awareness Month and JMTC Theatre partnered with Advocating Legislation for the Adoption Reform Movement (ALARM) to raise both funds and awareness. A portion of the proceeds was donated to this not-for-profit organization and in conjunction with the performances, signatures were collected for the Petition calling for an Executive Order to restore Original Birth Certificates to All Adult Adoptees.
You can still sign here.
Can you imagine not knowing your own identity?
The Good Adoptee is the riveting and outrageous true story of
award-winning playwright Suzanne Bachner’s search for her
birth parents in the face of New York State's sealed records.
Once she opens Pandora’s Box, can she find a way to integrate
her dual identities and still remain “the Good Adoptee”?
This multi-award-winning show is performed by acclaimed
Off Broadway actor Hayley Palmer.
The Good Adoptee has toured to the London International
Fringe Festival and all over the U.S., including a 7-week 9-city
Connecticut tour to support the vital legislative efforts of
Access Connecticut. Suzanne’s play has won awards for
Best Autobiographical Script and Best Actress for original star
Anna Bridgforth when it premiered in the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City. It was also named a Best Play by Indie Theater Now and is included in ITN’s Plays and Playwrights 2017 anthology.
Theater Scene called The Good Adoptee “A spellbinding emotional detective story!” and Hi Drama raved: “The Good Adoptee is everything you want a solo show to be: well crafted, lovingly performed and thoroughly entertaining!”
We are thrilled and honoured to partner with Origins Canada. A portion of the proceeds of our London Fringe run of THE GOOD ADOPTEE was donated to this incredible organization. Origins Canada is a 100% volunteer-run non-profit organization serving people across Canada who have been separated from family members by adoption.
Please check out the amazing work they are doing: www.OriginsCanada.com
Production History
Adoption Summit in Lake Ozark
October 17, 2016
CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS • CUB Retreat
October 29, 2016
7-Week 9-City Connecticut Tour
to Benefit Access Connecticut
Oct - Dec 2016
The Good Adoptee is included in Indie Theater Now’s Best Plays 2017 Anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2017.
Theatrical Production and Talk Back
Adoption Network Cleveland’s
Inaugural Annual Adoption Gathering
March 20, 2016
Massachusetts Mini-Tour
to Benefit Access Massachusetts
Framingham & Northampton
June 9 & 10, 2017
28th Annual New York State Foster Care and Adoption Conference, Albany: “Who Do You Think You Are?"
May 11, 2017
JMTC Theatre’s NYC Benefit Run for Access Connecticut
January 13 - 21, 2018
Keynote Presenter
Indiana Adoptee Network’s 2nd Annual Conference
“Racing to the Records, The Final Lap”
Indianapolis, IN
April 20, 2018
JMTC Theatre’s NYC Benefit Shows for You Gotta Believe
3 From JMTC @ APAP 2019
January 2 - 13, 2019
Hayley Palmer
Acclaimed Off Broadway Actor
joins the cast of The Good Adoptee!
May 2019
Production History