Ayun Halliday

Oh sh*t! I AM NOBODY opens 4 weeks from tonight. We’ve got our work cut out for us. All you have to do is ticket up.

This sounds like something to make time for…

A very humble but endearing snowman with a lopsided smile on the Harlem Meer

A very reasonable sort of snowman standing tall on the east Bank of the Harlem Meer

A blessed out snowman grooving on the East Bank of the Harlem Meer

N aspirational little snowman winking near the Harlem Meer

New neighbors
#snowday #newyorkcity

Black and white informal headshots of the Wayfaring Strangers, the world’s best improvised bluegrass musical troupe arranged in 2 stripes on a bright red background with “ MEET THE STRANGERS” in black all caps. More info https://tinyurl.com/waystrangeAPE

ANOTHER improvised bluegrass musical!? Heck yeah! Sunday at 7 at The PIT NYC tinyurl.com/waystrangeAPE #improv #comedy #nyc

The Zagars hosted me, my 2 puppeteers , and the infant Inky (who screamed all night long) when I was in Philly for a puppetfest in 1998. Will never forget they are incredible one of a kind tiled bathrooms & not just because I was sitting in a bathtub with a baby at 2 AM afraid she’d wake the hosts

Hey NYC! Theater of the Apes invites you to test drive Greg Kotis’ guitar powered musical road trip I AM NOBODY Thursday 2/19, 3pm, The Magnet Theater. FREE! All donations go to The Immigrant Defense Project. Opens 4/6

RSVP: theateroftheapes(AT)gmail(DOT)com

#musicaltheater #playreading #freenyc

As the sun sets on National Guitar Day, we encourage you to check out Theater of the Apes’ extremely guitar rich offerings WAYFARING STRANGERS and I AM NOBODY www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-prod... #guitar #improv #newmusical

Hey! Any of youse going to #AWP in March? Any of you like improvised bluegrass musicals? Atomic Books is the bombdiggity, amirite? www.ayunhalliday.com #improv #bookevents @atomicbooks.bsky.social @arielgore.bsky.social @muffybolding.bsky.social

Early warning, NYC

#springtheaterrecommendations #theater #newyorkcity

www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-prod...

This is not the most dire bulletin you will hear today, but didn’t want to let folks know that we’ve canceled tomorrow’s show because of the impending snow. See you 2/22. #improv

I can say for certain that at least one (hopefully both) of these things will be true on Sunday 1/25 at 7pm:
NYC will be buried under a mountain of snow
&
THE WAYFARING STRANGERS will return to The PIT to improvise the first bluegrass musical of 2026

tinyurl.com/waystrange

#improv #nyc #snow

Wayfaring Strangers returns with our first improvised bluegrass musical of this hideous new year. See you Sunday 1/25 at 7 PM, NYC tinyurl.com/waystrangeAPE #improv #bluegrass #musical

A bright red portrait orientation poster with the words "Wayfaring Strangers ol' timey bluegrass improv in black sans serif all caps. The stars faces appear in black and white stars. The date and time - Sunday 12/21 7pm - appears in golden sans serif font, along with the motto: "Gitcher ding-a-dong on" The people's improv theater logo anchors the bottom of the poster. More info about the show and the group here: https://www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-productions/wayfaring-strangers/

Celebrate solstice and gitcher ding-a-dong on with the Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical at The PIT NYC this Sunday night at 7pm. Follow us to Pioneers Bar after. With the Understudies! Tix & more intel: www.theater-of-the-apes.com/current-prod...
#improv #bluegrass #newyorkcity

Someone whose eyes and nose look a lot like Ayun Halliday’s dressed as Santa Claus in mind-bogglingly bad New York City apartment building hallway renovation. The carpet!!!

Red foxx as a beardless Santa on the cover of Jet magazine, 1973

Mick Jagger as a screaming beardless Santa with a seemingly topless Imán either in or behind his bag in a photo taken by Ara Gallant for the December 1977 issue of interview magazine

Dolly Parton as a curvy, feminine, beardless Santa perched on a chimney, under the TV antenna in a snug red outfit trimmed in white fur and black, high heeled booties

Who wore it better?

#santaclaus #christmas2025

On the right, a black and white photobooth strip of Ayun Halliday wearing a striped scarf and her beloved third eye Woke Face beanie. on the left, the word December and the dates times and locations of three upcoming events: 12/11 Extra Credit The Magnet, NYC 12/17 Panther City Reading The Book House Millburn NJ 12/21 Wayfaring Strangers The PIT, NYC https://www.ayunhalliday.com/ https://tinyurl.com/waystrange https://thebookhousemillburn.com/

Something for everyone! Night owls, improv fans, bluegrass lovers, Gen X-ers, holiday shoppers New Jersey-ites
#improv #booksigning #NewYorkCity

Piatt Pund, a young man in overalls, neckerchief and black hat, holds his fiddle to his chest, as Ayun Halliday, a grey and brown haired woman in overalls and Purple Doc Martens grins at Morgan DeTogne, also in braids and overalls, her triangle hung around her neck on a ribbon. They're onstage at The PIT NYC, and they're playing squirrels. Who's that seated to play banjo in old timey togs behind them? Why, it's Greg Kotis! You can tell it's The PIT coz of the Turkish carpet and the red velvet curtains. Come see their next show: https://tinyurl.com/waystrange

Ayun Halliday, a grey and brown braided woman in overalls and Purple Doc Martens and Morgan DeTogne, also in braids and overalls,lead the male castmembers of The Wayfaring Strangers in a dance that apparently involves kicking one leg to the side. Ayun plays washboard. Morgan plays triangle. They're onstage at The PIT NYC. You can tell it's The PIT coz of the Turkish carpet, the red velvet curtains and the vinyl posing wall that says The PIT. Catch their next show: https://tinyurl.com/waystrange

The Wayfaring Strangers traditional show announcement! Red background. Stenciled monkeys playing banjo and fiddle. The PIT NYC's logo. The date and time - 11/16 and 7pm - in mustard yellow. Y'all come. tinyurl.com/waystrange

Don't gitcher overalls in a bunch. Gitcher overalls to The PIT NYC for the Wayfaring Strangers improvised bluegrass musical Sunday 11/16 at 7pm. More intel here: tinyurl.com/waystrange
#improv #bluegrass #newyorkcity

Steven Svymbersky, owner of Quimby’s NYC and creator of innumerable zines, wearing a Panther City crown and cool specs, hams it up in a DIY photobooth with author Ayun Halliday at the release party for PANTHER CITY. More intel: https://tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

Suzanne McConnell , author of Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style, hams it up in a DIY photobooth with author Ayun Halliday at the release party for PANTHER CITY. More intel: https://tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

Jen Cheng, poet laureate of West Hollywood and Sandra Yannone, poet laureate of Old Saybrook, wear a Panther City crown and cool specs to ham it up in a DIY photobooth with author Ayun Halliday at the release party for PANTHER CITY. More intel: https://tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

Bill Roundy, creator of innumerable comics,wears a butterfly wing headband to ham it up in a DIY photobooth with author Ayun Halliday at the release party for PANTHER CITY. More intel: https://tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

Look at some of the cool cat authors, who showed up to the release party for Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 4 Class Project Run Amok. IDs in the alt description tinyurl.com/ayunpanth #booksky #author #photobooth @billroundwind.bsky.social

Plastic spider "skeleton"

My favourite genre of Halloween decoration is biologically impossible skeletons

Just a few of the tastemakers who attended the PANTHER CITY release party at Quimby’s NYC last night… www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city #bookrelease #booksky #author

A collection of Halloween themed, rubber stamps, a human hand with black fingernails, a couple of which sport skull decals, a pink ink pad, and a copy of Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 3 Class Project Run Amok by Ayun Halliday on a scarred wooden table

Author Ayun Halliday’s 3rd grade school photo. Brown hair in low pigtails. Denim dress with red dotted collar. Consistent smile with teeth at various stages of growing in.

The glorious pink cover of Panther City: Tales of a Gen X Grade 3 Class Project Run Amok by Ayun Halliday

Channeling my inner 8 year old - she’s a maximalist - to decorate outgoing book order envelopes in Halloween style all this week. www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city
#rubberstamps #halloween #booksky

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I❤️NY #nokings

Thoughts on promoting my new book or anything really:The thing about throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks is boiling up all that spaghetti steals precious time from the next creative endeavor. Relatable? Pass the cheese tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

#marketingtips #author #bookpromotion #genx

Children of the 70s: who remembers Dawn dolls? Who here had her “good friend” Ron? Coz me and Cousin Cindy did and we were psyched! If you like feeling groovy, you will like my new book, PANTHER CITY: Tales of a GenX Grade 3 Class Project Run Amok tinyurl.com/ayunpanth #genx #booksky #authorphoto

That was my favorite incarnation of Bluestockings...

A rough, bright pastel sketch of trump from a video, mouth open, palms out, probably saying something about Portland burning, as the inflatable-suit frog from the Portland ICE protests looms up close behind him.

Was painting. Got sidetracked by pastels and kaiju.

New Book Recommendations (or Werner & Ayun & Anne)
#bookish #newbook #author #comedy
@alibera.bsky.social

A little cartoon panther girl in a 70s style floral jumper, dancing on a pink carpet against a turmeric background next to the cover of Ayun Halliday’s new book Panther City. Her word bubble invites you to party like him eight year-old in 1973 at the book release party at Quimby’s NYC on Friday 10/24 6:30-8:30. More info https://www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city

Author Ayun Halliday smiles and leans on a carton of books, with many more such cartons stacked behind her in her turmeric colored living room I should displays the cover of her new book Panther City. More info https://www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city

A black and white cartoon panther smiles in the center of a hot pink medallion that reads panther city forever in yellow lemon milk font. It is the logo of author Ayun Halliday’s new book Panther City. More info https://www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city

Hither thine heiner to NYC for my book release party at Quimby’s on Friday 10/24

Can’t make it? I’m shipping out autographed copies now! tinyurl.com/ayunpanth

Official release date 11/4. Your fave indie bookstore can also pre-order your copy from Ingrams.

#booksky #genx #writingcommunity