Hose Water is a one-woman show written, produced, and performed by myself. The show includes comedy, original song, poetry, film and puppetry all surrounding the themes of love, heartbreak, growing up and being a 21st century girl. 

The project was born during Des Moines Art Week 2022. I registered for the event as a personal challenge (just make something) and spent a month flipping and flopping between ideas. But rather than creating something entirely from scratch, I started pulling apart the pile of unreleased poetry, song, sketch that I had written in the two years since college. A theme emerged: immature love. 

ONE WOMAN SHOW

Hose Water

I was inspired by memories of childhood summer, unrequited love, the 90s and early 2000s. This bled into the marketing for the show, which involved a lot of crayon, paper collage and scanned in elements. 

In 2023, the project grew (huge!). We increased the run time by almost double, added new pieces, built up the set and lighting, added a director (Brittny!) and moved the show to TeeHee’s (the best spot for comedy in Des Moines). It was the same show but now with more toilet, a bucket’s worth of googly eyes, and handmade rip away jeans. 

In June of 2022, I performed a 45 minute version of the show at Mars Cafe. We rolled out a 7’ x 10’ piece of astroturf and I hooked my guitar into an amp. The show was only partially memorized, I ran all the projection myself from my phone and my friends came to watch me sing for the first time in front of a (real) audience. 

The show proved to be a success, reviews from friends said they laughed, they cried, they soiled their daisy dukes. We packed everything back up into my car and hosed off at home. She will see the light of day again some summer…