After a decade of temping, both at work and in relationships, a man embarks on a solo trip deep into Africa, trekking from the Atlantic to the Sahara. There he demands an Epiphany. Any Epiphany. Some proof that though we may be temporary, we're more than mere temps. A comic, true story. “Spectacularly good… Absolutely unforgettable.” —nytheatre.com

MARTIN DOCKERY (creator/performer) is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene, appearing on the stages of The Moth, Speakeasy, The Liar Show, and many others. He’s developed three monologues, two with director Jean-Michele Gregory. Last year Wanderlust was performed in San Francisco, Westchester County, and in New York City at both Ars Nova and The Barrow Group Studio Theatre, where it enjoyed a sold-out run. He debuted The Bike Trip at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo, Brooklyn, at the end of January, 2009, and debuted another new show, The Surprise, at the end of February as part of the NY Frigid Festival. He'll be performing this show at the Kansas City Fringe and the San Francisco Fringe, as well. He’ll be traveling further with Wanderlust in May to the Orlando Fringe Festival and in June to the London (Ontario) Festival. This past summer he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Liar Show, which The Scotsman gave 4 stars. His stories have made him a seven-time finalist in The Moth’s bi-annual Grandslam Storytelling Championship. Also, he was a co-creator of the play C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, which ran on Broadway as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His play Oh, That Wily Snake! is part of a McGraw-Hill anthology textbook on literature, and The New York Times wrote that it was “fantastic.” He received his B.A. in English from Kenyon College and his M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University.

JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY (director) is a director who acts as an editor and dramaturg, focusing on unscripted, extemporaneous theatrical works that live in the moment they are told. Working primarily with solo artists, over the last decade she has collaborated with monologuist Mike Daisey (If You See Something Say Something, How Theater Failed America, 21 Dog Years, Monopoly!, Great Men of Genius, Invincible Summer, All Stories Are Fiction, Truth), writer and performer Suzanne Morrison (Yoga Bitch, Your Own Personal Alcatraz), and NY storyteller Martin Dockery (Wanderlust).
She has directed these performances at venues across the globe: New York: The Public Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, the Under the Radar Festival, Performance Space 122, The Ohio Theatre, Ars Nova, Joe's Pub; Northwest: Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Bumbershoot, T:BA Festival, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Re-Bar; West: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group (LA), The Marsh (SF), Orange County Performing Arts Center, Theatreworks (Colorado Springs), Maui Arts & Cultural Center; Northeast: American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge), Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (DC), Yale Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, FirstWorksProv, University of Vermont, Red House (Syracuse); Midwest: Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); South: The Spoleto Festival (Charleston) The Kravis Center (West Palm Beach); Europe: Theatre 503 (London), The Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Assembly Rooms), The Noorderzon Festival (Netherlands).