Former exotic dancer and New York Fringe Award-winning solo show writer and performer Valerie Hager incorporates true to life characters, live pole dancing, and an infectious 90’s playlist in her very personal and  unapologetic internationally recognized autobiographical one-woman show Naked In Alaska.

“An affecting and intensely personal memoir that offers a first-hand glimpse into burlesque’s bawdy — and for women sometimes perilous — underworld based on Hager’s actual experiences of working in the sex industry."

“Profoundly honest and unbelievably elevating, Naked In Alaska is one of the most highly recommended shows to see this season for the content and the physicality” and is filled with a variety of multicultural characterizations based on exotic dancers and customers Hager worked with for 10 years in Tijuana, Alaska, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.

“A visual masterpiece… An audiovisual feast, dynamically performed and produced with flair, Naked in Alaska is an honest, funny and fast-paced walk on the wild side"— all the while maintaining the heart and soul of voices rarely heard in theater.

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Naked In Alaska

has been made into a TV pilot ©2020.

PLease reach out if you’d like to be a part of this wild JOURNEY into the soul.

Synopsis

Naked In Alaska follows Valerie Hager, a latchkey teenager with a meth addiction and an eating disorder as she fights to break through into her own coming-of-age story. When her life spirals out of control shortly after becoming sober at 21, she runs to her childhood best friend Raven for help. Raven invites her to work with her at a strip club in Tijuana, Mexico, and gives her the stage name “Autumn.” An evening that begins as a way to make some easy cash explodes into a 10-year career that tests the limits of friendship and her will to survive.

The characters she portrays—club managers, dancers, customers, boyfriends, and more bring audiences viscerally into this shadowy world to reveal the joy, hurt, danger, and common humanity that connect us all in the longing to be free.

In Naked In Alaska, Valerie Hager tells the often-untold stories that women experience all over the world—objectification, entanglement of being desired with self-worth, and the need to be loved, even in the face of violence and abuse. In urban environments where women confront on a daily basis male-dominated industries where sex, success, and power messily intertwine, Naked In Alaska pushes audiences to confront their deeper feelings and true values, too-often shrouded in shame, and seize the courage to boldly live them.

Playing to sold-out houses across the US, UK, and Europe, Naked In Alaska tells “a surprisingly complex and personal story” (TONY) of one woman’s choice to grapple with her demons and discover a place inside herself and the world to feel free.

Writer, Performer / Valerie Hager
Director, Co-Creator, Developed with / Scott Wesley Slavin

(IP 2012, ©2019)

Originally developed in Emmy Award-winner Matt Hoverman's GO-SOLO Workshop