In his new solo show, Jack Hitt tells extravagant, almost unbelievable, true stories that take him from his early childhood in South Carolina (where his flamboyant neighbor, a British novelist, became global news as one of the world's first transsexuals) through his trek to New York (where his apartment super kept a deadly secret identity). MAKING UP THE TRUTH weaves these and other stories together with the latest experiments in cognitive research. Scientists of the mind are now studying the mechanics of how we all narrate our own stories in our brains, and Jack searches them out to answer the question everyone always asks him, "Why do these things always happen to you?" They don't, the experiments show. We are all making up the truth, often to shield ourselves from what Jack discovers: the uncanny wonders that lie just beyond our brain's notice. And that tale, it turns out, is another extravagant, almost unbelievable, true story.


Huntington Theatre, Boston (workshop, Oct 2010)
New York Theater Workshop (readings, Nov 2010 and April 2011)
NYU Graduate Journalism Program (April 2011)
3LD Art and Technology Center (workshops, April and June 2011)
International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven (Premiere, June 2011)

Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, March 15-17 2012
Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC, May 25-28 2012

More dates to come...