Photo: Maria Baranova
Watch Me Walk
"Being disabled always includes an element of chance."
Anne has a disease you've probably never heard of and it doesn't have a cure. Her doctor says it shouldn't define her, but she's going to define it for you.
A hilarious, biting, and compassionate new play about disability, pity, injustice, and family mythologies — that will stay with you long after the curtain, or Anne, falls.
World premiere produced by Soho Rep, in association with the Under the Radar Festival. January–February 2026, Playwrights Horizons, New York City.
On Tour
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November 14 – December 5, 2026 |
Yale Repertory Theatre
222 York Street, New Haven CT
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New Haven, CT | Tickets |
| January 21–24, 2027 |
Arthur Miller Theatre
University Musical Society
Thu Jan 21 · 7:30pm
Fri Jan 22 · 7:30pm Sat Jan 23 · 2:00pm & 7:30pm Sun Jan 24 · 2:00pm |
Ann Arbor, MI | Tickets |
"One of downtown theater's tartest, wryest performers… our deepest delight comes, as it has for decades, when she dances."
"Gridley's script, and the incredible performer, remains a prime example of what we get when autobiographical theatre works: intelligence, and the ability to laugh at oneself, with one's heart, as always, in both the wrong and the right place."
"Breathtaking… don't get too hung up on 'autobiographical.' Watch Me Walk is, definitely and sometimes defiantly, a SHOW, directed by Eric Ting with exactly the right ratio of stripped-down sincerity to manic glitz."
"Gridley gives us a reckoning with a life that has learned, stubbornly and brilliantly, how to keep moving. She is in complete command — of her balance, of the moment, of the uneasy tenderness she has coaxed from the room."
"Every step has meaning… Gridley's wry, warm delivery and her oft-mischievous grin allows her to bring the storytelling to very dark places and then lead us back to the light."
"It may seem incongruous that in a play about disability, trauma, death, and the fucked-up American healthcare system there is a stage direction which reads: 'SPECTACLE SPECTACLE SPECTACLE! CONFETTI CANNONS!' But for Gridley, this is what makes theater so special."
Photography by Maria Baranova
Archival recording — contact Anne for access.