Mid Life Mood Swing

[NoHo Arts District, CA] – Mary Kennedy is back with Mid Life Mood Swing  at Whitefire Theatre’s Solofest 2024 on Friday, March 8.

What happens after you turn 50, have two teenagers, and are married 20 years? You have a Mid Life Mood Swing!

This show is about Mary Kennedy’s (Shameless, Hulu, CONAN) journey being a roadie for her Mom’s wedding band, having the real-life Kennedys as her cousins, navigating motherhood and ultimately menopause.

Mid Life Mood Swing is quite a comedic ride through 80s nostalgia to present-day chaos.

About Mary E. Kennedy

Mary Kennedy was the recurring character “New Fiona” on Shameless, Season 7 and garnered the prestigious honor of being added to the Shameless Hall of Shame for the final season on Showtime. The movie Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood, where she plays the role of “Berniece, The Lunch Lady,” is streaming on TUBI TV. Tales stars Jon Lovitz and Stephen Glickman. Just recently, the short, Free Chair, made its debut at Sherman Oaks Film Festival, with rave reviews! Mary also booked her second thriller Your Lucky Day, directed by Dan Brown which made its world debut at Fantastic Fest and has a US distribution deal with Well Go USA Entertainment. You can also see her in the upcoming series Beyond Belief, Fact or Fiction directed by Holger Frick through Superposition Films. One of the most fun, she had on set recently, was playing a crazed Chippendales fan, on HULU’s Welcome to Chippendales. In addition, she was a recurring, principal sketch actress on CONAN-TBS. Plus Funny or Die, with director and comedic legend, Rick Overton.

Films include Tiffany Johnson’s film Girl Callin with production company REFINERY 29. Kennedy was cast, as the “Waitress” and it premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. She also was in Shattered as Mrs. Searcy, starring Ray Wise, Molly Burnett and Arianna Zucker.

In Los Angeles, she appeared in the theatre production of AfterGlow the ‘80s Musical Experience with the #originalgorgeousladiesofwrestling (GLOW) as legendary wrestling manager, Jackie Stallone. Kennedy received two Broadway World Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor and subsequently won a Best Ensemble Award.

Her one-woman show, Mid Life Mood Swing, made its debut in L.A. at Oh My Ribs back in 2018, did a tour to sold-out audiences on the East Coast, including Mary’s hometown and just had a successful run at SOLOFEST 2023 through The Whitefire Theatre in Los Angeles. Mid Life Mood Swing had a SOLD OUT tour, August 2023 at Off Cabot in Beverly, MA through John Tobin Productions.

Mid Life Mood Swing will be at SOLOFEST again, February 2024, Community College of Denver March 2024 and at United Solo Theatre Festival on Theatre Row-NYC spring 2024. 

Mary Kennedy, is a headlining comic, all over the country and appears regularly at Flappers Comedy Club, The Laugh Factory and Cinegrill-Roosevelt Theatre. She has also worked at the Comedy Store LA/La Jolla, Comedy Chateau, The Ice House and The Improv (Hollywood, Ontario, Irvine, Brea). When in NYC, she is a regular at Broadway Comedy Club and Greenwich Comedy Club. She has headlined, Laugh Boston’s Off Cabot on the north shore of Boston. She toured nationally with Mom’s Night Out which subsequently was in development with NickMom/Viacom. Her hilarious comedy was also on the LIVE version of Showtime’s Comedy Special, Funny Women of a Certain Age, at the Hollywood/Brea Improvs, Flappers and the Off-Broadway Theatre-The Kraine in NYC.