Through stand up, musical comedy, and storytelling, Liv Rocklin (The Second City, NYU Ultra Violet Live Winner) recounts her life as a morbidly overachieving American Gen-Zer losing control of her plans, body, and youth for the first time in Paris, France, while living out her Lizzie McGuire moment... or as the French say... moment.
In a final showdown to keep control, she tries to win study abroad, Weight Watchers, and therapy but loses it all over a glass of wine spiked with Benadryl on an American Airlines flight home.
In the style of Rachel Bloom, Bo Burnham, and Mike Birbiglia, An American (not) in Paris portrays the loneliness and reality checks of growing up in a relatable, heartfelt, and laughter-inducing way. It’s the unapologetic rebuttal of an OCD-ridden Gen Zer desperate to maintain control who finally got to the coveted “other side” only for a global pandemic to turn her 20s back into her teens, her old anxieties into new, and her gut into gluten-free. But hey, C'est La Vie!