Presented as part of the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival
D’yan Forest, the Guinness World Records title holder for Oldest Working Female Comedian in the World, will present her new one-woman show D’yan Forest: 90 Years of Songs & Scandal at the New York City Fringe Festival this April written by D’yan Forest, Eric Kornfeld, and bestselling author Stephen Clarke. The production will be presented as part of the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival with FRIGID New York at wild project, 195 East 3rd Street with performances on Thu April 3 at 6:30pm, Fri April 11 at 8:10pm, Thu April 17 at 6:30pm & Sun April 20 at 3:40pm. Tickets are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance will run approximately 60 minutes.
At 90 years old, D’yan shows no signs of stopping and takes the stage with a mix of stand-up, storytelling, and music, bringing audiences along for a hilarious and unfiltered look at her extraordinary life. Written by D’yan Forest, Eric Kornfeld, and bestselling author Stephen Clarke, the show dives into her adventures over the decades, taking the audience back to when she was just seven years old. The show is full of hilarious tales of her storied life that led her to become the 90-year-old woman she is today. With her ukulele in hand and plenty of risqué humor, D’yan proves that comedy has no age limit.
Critics have called her everything from “saucy,” “witty,” “irrepressible,” and a “naughty version of Betty White and she has shared the stage with “D’yan performed on “The Drew Barrymore Show”, and has been featured in The New York Times, Time Out NY, New York Post, The Guardian, and “France’s Got Talent”. Her act, accurately called “I Married a Nun,” landed her on the same stages as Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, and Joan Rivers. In fact, upon meeting Rivers, she referred to Forest as “the filthy ukulele player.” D’yan Forest has performed all over the world with notable performances in New York, Paris, Edinburgh and even Ethiopia. If there’s a stage, chances are she’s been on it.
The New York City Fringe Festival 2025 will take place from April 2–20, 2025. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.frigid.nyc.
New York City Fringe Festival is an open lottery-based theatre festival presented by FRIGID New York, which gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of the Indie Theater Community, 100% of box office proceeds go directly to the artists whose work is being presented. FRIGID New York is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene’s ideas of what a theatre festival can be! www.frigid.nyc
About D’yan Forest:
D’yan Forest was raised a provincial girl in the conservative suburbs of Boston. After a “scandalous” divorce for the time and two years of oral French lessons, Forest got on a five-day boat ride to study abroad in Paris. After falling in love with the city, Forest would then embrace the French culture fully, which would determine the trajectory of the rest of her career.
Back in the US, Forest performed as an international singer at golf clubs, country clubs, bars, and restaurants. Her life as a singer was cut short when the entertainment business in New York. City was brought to a halt after the 9/11 attacks. With no idea that she had the capability to be funny, Forest became what the world needed the most at that time: a comedian. With her ukulele in hand, Forest put together a hysterical and risqué one-woman show which caught on quickly.
COVID-19 got Forest to wondering what else she could do with all of her wonderfully hilarious stories from life. I Did it My Ways is the culmination of her sitcom-worthy life events, now available for all to read. But this book is no indication that the 89-year-old is done taking to the stage. Her act, “Swinging on the Seine,” can still be seen in New York and Paris at some of the most famed comedy clubs.
