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2024 IRTE Shows “VIRTEGO Circus” and “REMOTE
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John Munnelly songwriter and live performer plays live in the producers Club NYC as part of IRTE show The Lonely Life & Death of L Harris
I love my garbage!

Live at L Harris IRTE Improv show “I love my Garbage- Song”

Lonely Death of L Harris

The Lonely Death of L. Harris Spring 2023 and Sarasota Squeaky Wheel Festival May 2024
Featuring live music by John Munnelly

L. Harris is dead, alone and unseen in a NYC apartment with no next of kin and no mourners. Join IRTE in their latest serio-comedy as they piece together the clues and secrets of a life unnoticed, improvising a fitting obituary. Are any of us truly knowable? Is identity immutable? Or are we the sum of others’ perceptions?

WowWee! Another Improv show with a Christmas Theme

Picture by Roberto Tobar, at the Structured Improv Show WowWee in the Fall/Winter of 2022

I played the last musician on earth, held captive in some kind of Post Apocalyptic search for Christmas meaning within the bounds of a repeating sitcom. The protagonist supposedly changes every evening but always the malign/benign Andie the Android is pulling the strings on the emotional and family dynamics. Can John Munnelly escape?

Writing: Words on the time of Covid

Wordsongs in the time of Covid. We wrote together during Covid and I ‘stupidly’ decided it might be a good idea to produce a book. Little did I know what drama and resistance awaited on the committee. Anyway we made a book happen and it is available and its rather a good collection of individual Brooklyn voices.

There is a saying, a saw – if you want to go fast, go alone and if you want to go far, go together. They could have added that if you have a unique vision and want to go mad, go on a committee. Anyway, thanks to some saints and good spirits we produced a book “Wordsongs in the time of Covid.

Issue 7 of the Voices of Lefferts “Flatbush Eats”

My essay titled “The Great Hunger” could very well have been titled

what fried potatoes mean to me

John Munnelly for Voices of Lefferts - Pcture Credit Nancy Treuber
John Munnelly in the shade for Voices of Lefferts Vol 7 – Picture Credit Nancy Treuber

or
how I learned to stop worrying and love hot sauce.

This story is included in issue #7 of the Voices of Lefferts, “Flatbush Eats” available in The Green Light Bookstore on Flatbush, Brooklyn.

My piece traipses in a jolly-serious way through Irish history, my own family upbringing, the Flatbush, Brooklyn Caribbean influence and how it all relates eventually to Hot Sauce and my artisan food creation Hattwood.com