Thanks for stopping by and your interest in my shows.

Since 2005, I've been performing my unique solo shows in New England, New Jersey, New York and  Florida, for libraries, retirement communities, senior centers, historical societies, women's groups, and performing arts spaces.

I'm excited to announce that in 2024, in addition to Florida, I'll also be available to present my shows in in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Pennsylvania and  Maryland.  You can read more about the shows below.

Contact me about when I'll be in your area, pricing, block booking DISCOUNTS and particular dates or if you have any other questions. The best way to get a hold of me is via my email or by cell phone: 978-430-1357. Looking forward to hearing from you. Enjoy your day! -Rita 

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is often known as the crazy wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. She was the glittering half of the Golden Couple of the 1920's and muse and inspiration for the flapper characters in Fitzgerald's Jazz Age stories.  But before she met Scott, she was the flamboyant and outrageous Zelda Sayre, the famous belle from Montgomery Alabama and the daughter of a judge and an artistic mother. Her antics before and after marriage became the stuff of legends.  But Zelda was much more than a southern belle, a glittering jewel on Fitzgerald's arm, Roaring 20's icon or an American expatriate wife in Paris.  This original play, will pay tribute to an often misunderstood woman; a women who battled schizophrenia for much of her life; a woman who was also a mother, an accomplished ballet dancer, an exhibited artist and a published writer . 

                                             *Appropriate for mature teens and up. 

Features full set and printed show program for audience.

65 minute performance with talk-back afterward

Meet some of the women, loyalist and patriot, American born and foreign, who witnessed and in some cases changed the course of the American Revolution.

Some of the women, Rita will portray:

• A Massachusetts housewife who led an all female militia in search of British spies.
• A German Baroness POW
• A Georgian farmer's wife who fought the Red Coats and WON!

  Features full set and printed programs for audience.  

 60 min performance with discussion afterward

Born Salamah bint Said, Princess of Zanzibar, in 1844, Emily Reute grew up in a harem as the youngest child of the Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar. In this show, she will share with the audience the story of her life from her childhood on Zanzibar and her involvement in politics to her elopement with a German trader and her married life in Germany. The former princess will also speak about women's rights in Eastern and  Western culture.  In the words of Oscar Wilde: "The Princess is herself a woman of high culture, and the story of her life is as instructive as history and as fascinating as fiction.”

                                              Features set and printed program for audience

                                                   60 minutes with discussion afterward