JEW, INTERRUPTEd

A NEW SHOW By ETHAN STANISLAWSKI

Jew, Interrupted is a blisteringly honest, laugh-through-the-pain one-person show written and performed by Ethan Stanislawski. Across seven chapters, Ethan explores his experience growing up with the legacy of his father, a professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, and his maternal grandfather, a pioneering Jewish politician from Brookline, Massachusetts. The show explores his upbringing in the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1990s, his struggles with mental health and social dynamics, religious trauma,and the contradictions of contemporary Jewish identity—with biting wit, intellectual rigor, and emotional vulnerability.

Part memoir, part cultural critique, part love letter to his family, the 60-minute performance traces Ethan's journey through unlearning the assumptions of his childhood, forging his own path, and reckoning with the moral crisis of Jewish culture in a pre- and post-October 7 world.