Sophie Zucker, Ida Cuttler, Alexa Spiegel
Comedian Sophie Zucker had a baby this year. And comedian Sophie Tucker had a baby in 1905 and abandoned him to become, well, a comedian. These two Sophies, joined by the assistance and persistence of comedian Ida Cuttler (Is she having a baby? Time, but not too much time, will tell!) collide in an evening of song, dance, and fake piano playing.
A play that spans two centuries and one name just to ask the question that no woman likes to be asked: “how do you feel about kids?”
Sophie Zucker is an Emmy-nominated comedian, living in Brooklyn. Select writing/acting credits include Scrubs (2026), The Daily Show, AppleTV’s Dickinson, HBO’s Sweethearts, and Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company. Her one woman show “Sophie Sucks Face” was shortlisted for the Comedian’s Choice Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, and recommended by British Comedy Guide. She performs with her all-female comedy collective Ladies Who Ranch all over New York. Sophie grew up in New York and attended Hunter College High School, and then Oberlin College. She is down to hang out!
Ida Cuttler is a writer and performer and former company member of The Chicago Neo-Futurists from 2015–22, where she wrote over 200 plays for Chicago’s longest-running late-night show The Infinite Wrench. Ida received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the David Geffen School Drama at Yale (Class of 2025), where she wrote Sort, Moe is a Dick, and Running Play. Ida’s other writing and performing credits include Comfortable Shoes, Save the Cave, Jeff Award-nominated Wildcats. She is a member of the Clubbed Thumb 2026 Early Career Writer’s Group, a 2025-2026 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award Finalist, A 2026 finalist for the American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink award, A 2026 semi-finalist of Rattlestick’s Terrence Mcnally Incubator Fellowship and the 2025 winner of the Chesley/Bumbalo Award. Currently, she and her partner co-own a bakery in Brooklyn @newmoonbakery.
Ian Lockwood is a Brooklyn-based comedian and pop musician, and the winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Comedian’s Choice Best Newcomer Award for his show Ian Lockwood: The Farewell Tour, named one of the Best Reviewed Edinburgh Fringe Shows of 2024 by the British Comedy Guide. He is the host of Ian! The Daytime Talk Show and his work was featured as one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Moments of 2023. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Paste Magazine, Vulture, Time Out New York, and more.
Alexa has also worked in varying capacities with other theatre companies around New York, Co-Executive Producing SheNYC’s Summer Festival, Associate Producing Ars Nova Supra’s Production Of The (Virtual) Wildness, and Line Producing SheNYC’s Off-Broadway production of Chasing Grace. She most recently brought the play Rip Her to Shreds to Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Alexa Spiegel is a theatre & comedy freelance producer who specializes in assisting up and coming artists. She also serves as the Assistant Programming Director of 54 Below, curating the 2020 and 2025 versions of The New Writers At 54! Series and Verses and Voices program, and producing the 10th Anniversary Concert of the Tony winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. She recently was the Assistant to the Conceiver on the Off-Broadway run of The Jonathan Larson Project.
Alexa has also worked in varying capacities with other theatre companies around New York, Co-Executive Producing SheNYC’s Summer Festival, Associate Producing Ars Nova Supra’s Production Of The (Virtual) Wildness, and Line Producing SheNYC’s Off-Broadway production of Chasing Grace. She most recently brought the play Rip Her to Shreds to Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.
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About 25% of the seating is on the ground floor of the theater and does not require using stairs to access. There are five six-inch steps to get into the building.
All remaining seats require no less than one and no more than three steps to access.
Licensed service animals (any dogs that are trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities) are welcome at Ars Nova. They must rest in your seating area throughout the performance and are unable to occupy the aisle. Please bring proof of certification or a license for your service animal and be prepared to present it to the House Manager upon request. You can send advance notice to tix@arsnovanyc.com, which is appreciated, but not required.
Our bathrooms are stalled, all gender restrooms – everyone is welcome to use any bathroom of their choice. We have two single-person restrooms in the lobby; with the wheelchair accessible option located right outside the theater on the first floor (doors 7 feet 10 inches x 3 feet 10.5 inches).
We have space that can be made to offer privacy for feeding should you need at any time. See the House Manager onsite and they will arrange a comfortable space, with storage and refrigeration for your materials.
The audience seating locations could be in, around and throughout the playing area. Performers will be within 3’ of you.
The seating is a combination of chairs.
Black Chairs with back: 19” wide x 32.25” high x 21.75” deep with a 500lb capacity
Black Counter height: 16.5” wide x 38” high x 18” deep with a 500lb capacity
The doors for entry into the building are 7 feet 10.5 inches x 3 feet 7 inches (external) and 7 feet 10 inches x feet 10.5 inches (internal).
Box Office height is 3 feet 6 inches and the Bar height is 3 feet 8.5 inches.
