Ana Evans’s Acclaimed Solo Show "SHELL" Premieres in U.S. at SoHo Playhouse

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Ana Evans stars in the solo show, co-created and directed by Linnea Scott, fresh off a five-star Edinburgh Fringe run.

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The U.S. premiere of Shell, written, co-created and performed by Ana Evans, and co-created and directed by Linnea Scott , opens tonight! Shell runs through June 7, 2026 in a limited engagement at SoHo Playhouse's intimate Huron Room, located at 15 Vandam Street in New York City.

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Fresh off a five-star run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Shell is an awe-inspiring solo show that cracks open questions about gender, anatomy, and desire, with the help of a sex-ed-obsessed hockey player and a powerful, otherworldly Peanut. The Scotsman named it among "the most unforgettable shows of this year's Edinburgh Fringe." Bold, strange and funny, Shell is equal parts interactive workshop, theatrical spectacle, and spiritual release. It's drag. It's clown. It's queer sex education like you've never seen before.

We meet Andy: a lovable, cringe and camp "hockey bro" who is starting a sex education club on his college campus to B(reak) R(eproductive) O(ppression). He's passionate, confused, and believes he can "CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" Peanut is full of power, pleasure and a slightly terrifying hunger for desire. Told through an interactive sex ed class, which involves audience members participating in activities and lessons, they dare you to name your desires, to feel your body, to awaken your spirit.

Written and performed by Ana Evans and co-created and directed by Linnea Scott , Shell is inspired by the lens of "parts work" therapy. Through surreal comedy and intimate audience participation, Andy expands our understanding of Reproductive Oppression, while Peanut deconstructs binaries and begs to know what you really want. By embodying these two aspects of identity, Evans explores an evolving relationship with the body, attempting to break open the constraints placed upon it in search of the spirit beneath.

Writer and performer Ana Evans comments, "This show is a ball of light that I hand off to an 8-year-old me, 18-year-old me, and then take back into the world with the 28-year-old me. It holds lessons I needed then and still need now about body, sexuality, and identity. Shell is unique in that the show literally cannot happen without the audience working through these lessons with me. Together we confront how limited traditional sex education is. Together we practice naming, feeling, and embodying our desires and discovering what such an unleashing reveals. I want each person to leave feeling like we collectively opened a floodgate, our spirits bursting through the goddamn door."

In this unapologetic queer celebration, which is full of surprise and transformation, Shell invites us to examine our relationship to the physical body, our understanding of it in a literal way, and then dare to dream of who we are outside the confines of our physical form.

Produced by Lilach Orenstein, Acadia Barrengos and Sam Theobald.

The production team includes Lola Basiliere (Sound Design), Lee Lillis (Light Design), Xavier / Luckiii (Animator), and Luca Evans and Myer Rosenblum (Technical Directors).

Performances are Friday, May 29 at 7pm, Saturday, May 30 at 8pm, Sunday, May 31 at 5pm, Friday, June 5 at 7pm, Saturday, June 6 at 6pm and Sunday, June 7 at 5pm. Run time is 60 minutes. Tickets available from $24.50 - $34.50 (includes fees). To purchase tickets and for more info go to https://www.anachristineevans.com .

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/SHELL-to-Make-US-Premiere-at-SoHo-Playhouses-Huron-Room-20260529)._