I Will Eat You Alive
Written and directed by Katie Hileman
Featuring Vicky Graham, Betse Lyons, and Meghan Taylor
Written and directed by Katie Hileman
Featuring Vicky Graham, Betse Lyons, and Meghan Taylor
You are cordially invited to a dinner party hosted by three fat women to "celebrate" one’s decision to lose weight. Join us for a "delicious" five course "meal" confronting diet culture, fatphobia, and what it’s really like to be a fat woman in the age of Ozempic. It was inspired by and written after a series of interviews conducted between fat playwright, Katie Hileman, and a community of self-identified fat people.
Follow the play at www.instagram.com/iweyaproject. Promotional photos by Studio5 Baltimore. Production photos below by Kiirstn Pagan.
I Will Eat You Alive is made possible by The Voxel Artist Residency Program as well as grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Creative Baltimore Fund, a grant program funded by the Mayor's Office and the City of Baltimore.
January 25 - February 10, 2024 Live performances at The Voxel
March 1 - March 31, 2024 Streaming on-demand on Overture Plus
May 8, 2024 Virtual Screening with Embody Lib on Eventive
March 1 - March 31, 2024 Streaming on-demand on Overture Plus
May 8, 2024 Virtual Screening with Embody Lib on Eventive
Free I Will Eat You Alive Events!
Plus Size Clothing Swap
Saturday, February 3, 11:00am – 4:00pm
We’re so excited to partner with The Skylight Boutique, a gender-affirming, pay-what-you-can, bi-monthly pop-up thrift store, to host a fat clothing swap, prioritizing sizes XL and larger.
Saturday, February 3, 11:00am – 4:00pm
We’re so excited to partner with The Skylight Boutique, a gender-affirming, pay-what-you-can, bi-monthly pop-up thrift store, to host a fat clothing swap, prioritizing sizes XL and larger.
Round Table Conversation
Sunday, February 4, 4:30 – 5:30pm (Following the 3:00pm performance that day)
A conversation with the I Will Eat You Alive cast (Vicky Graham, Betse Lyons, and Meghan Taylor) and playwright Katie Hileman moderated by Kayla Stansberry LCPC, IEC (@FatPositiveTherapist).
Sunday, February 4, 4:30 – 5:30pm (Following the 3:00pm performance that day)
A conversation with the I Will Eat You Alive cast (Vicky Graham, Betse Lyons, and Meghan Taylor) and playwright Katie Hileman moderated by Kayla Stansberry LCPC, IEC (@FatPositiveTherapist).
Two Strikes Theatre Collective Storytelling Hour: “a bridge between starshine and clay” stories on body image
Saturday, February 10, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Our friends Aladrian Wetzel and Christen Cromwell of Two Strikes Theatre Collective are curating a coffee house style storytelling hour featuring Black and Brown storytellers reading and performing poems, essays, and more about body image. Storytellers to be announced in February 2024. The title, “a bridge between starshine and clay,” is a line from Lucille Clifton’s poem “won’t you celebrate with me”.
Saturday, February 10, 2:00 – 4:00pm
Our friends Aladrian Wetzel and Christen Cromwell of Two Strikes Theatre Collective are curating a coffee house style storytelling hour featuring Black and Brown storytellers reading and performing poems, essays, and more about body image. Storytellers to be announced in February 2024. The title, “a bridge between starshine and clay,” is a line from Lucille Clifton’s poem “won’t you celebrate with me”.
All free events take place in the lobby of The Voxel, 9 W 25th St, Baltimore, MD 21218
Media
LISTEN Playwright/director Katie Hileman talks about how she's reclaiming the word "fat" with WYPR's On The Record.
LISTEN Playwright/director Katie Hileman tells a story about "coming out" as fat on The Stoop Storytelling Series Podcast.
In the News
American Theatre Magazine - Making Space Onstage by Sarah Weissman
Effortless Boudoir - How 'I Will Eat You Alive' Changed Me by Christine Harazim
The Hopkins Review - A Place at the Un-Table: I Will Eat You Alive and the Sacrilege of Hunger by Emily M. D. Scott
The Curvy Fashionista - Review: I Will Eat You Alive by Christine Murphy
TheatreBloom - Review: I Will Eat You Alive by Angelica Peaco
MD Theatre Guide - Review: ‘I Will Eat You Alive’ presented by Interrobang Productions at The Voxel by Kateri Pelton
Technical.ly - How The Voxel’s owner and artist-in-residence make tech and theatre inseparable by Alanah Nichole Davis
Baltimore Banner - In new play ‘I Will Eat You Alive,’ fat women reclaim their right to take up space by Courtney Proctor
