

Created and Performed by:
Danny Wightkin
Directed by:
Journey Maranto
How To Make Friends & Alienate Them is a solo clown show developed in 2024. A self-help seminar on socialization is scheduled but the speaker never shows up. Danny, who hired said speaker, decides to take it upon himself to run the seminar using only the vague visual aids and whiteboards that were shipped ahead of time. It does not go according to plan. Quickly, he is feeding the audience an 18 inch gummy shark, being chased for money, getting ejected out an airlock into space, and stripping down as the audience tries to find scars on his body.
The idea for the show started with wanting to potentially explore social interactions or lack thereof. The final product does that with a light touch underneath all the absurdity and silliness. The show is still performed sporadically but many of the pieces have been taken as self contained pieces for variety shows or shorter performances.



