TUZLUK
or, The Legend of a Fortune Teller, Disguised As a Salt-Shaker,
Disguised As Tom Cruise, Disguised As My Dad
(a new work in progress)
by izzy sazak
Fri, Apr 17, 2026 6:00 PM
Christ Church
Neighborhood House
Walk-up tickets ($5-50) available for all shows after online sales end!
A gently interactive memoir piece, about a non-binary clown with daddy issues, and their daddy’s daddy issues. Themes of identity, responsibility, and fortune, weave together a collage of memory and fantasy, to tell a story of making peace with something none of us get to choose- one's lot in life. Featuring cameo’s by Tom Cruise, Ataturk (the father of the turks), and a whole lot of salt and paper, come see a work in progress of the play that izzy can never ever ever ever show their dad.
This show is for you if…
you like Rick and Morty, parallel universes, and have daddy issues.
TEAM CREDITS
writer/performer: izzy sazak
director/doula: MK Tuomanen
izzy sazak is a turkish-colombian-american trans-disciplinary artist, theater-maker, clown, educator and facilitator. they live, work, play and grow, on Lenni Lenape Land (philadelphia). izzy is a queer, genderful eco-feminist abolitionist, whose art and art-making process is a celebration of imagination, play and story-telling as radical forms of resistance to colonial violence. izzy is predominantly occupied with the journey of decolonizing their body/mind/spirit, and practicing belonging wherever they are. izzy has been a company member of vanguard experimental theater company Applied Mechanics since 2019. recent credits include: Poor Judge (Pig Iron); Franklin’s Key (Pig Iron); 12th Night, O Lo Que Quieras (Delaware Shakespeare) Home for the Holidays (Delaware Theater Company); Philly Baby Jam (Ninth Planet); Pinocchio (The Arden); Other Orbits (Applied Mechanics); Head Over Heels (Theater Horizon), Geoff Sobelle’s HOME (U.S. and East Asian Tour 2019). Pig Iron/Uarts MFA Class of 2018, University of Virginia BA in Drama (2011)
