Can’t get too deep into 2026 without commemorating one of my favorite parts of 2025. Every time I tried to post I got overwhelmed and gave up - how can 20 pics or a few paragraphs communicate the joy and depth of this project?
I’m so grateful to everyone who donated their time and talents last summer! We really just said “fuck it” and tried this out in 2024, and people seemed to have enough fun that we leveled up a bit in 2025. Our production of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING was STUN-IN! The music, the acting, the LIGHTING !!
And even though the performances were magical - the real joy is getting together every week for two months with your best friends and fuckin’ around and forgetting about the algorithm.
We’re meant to be in person, we’re meant to be outside, and we’re meant to make art with our friends. Fully crying now. Thank you for coming and supporting our show, and thank you to the Bard In The Yard cast and crew who made this summer so, so special.
📷: @njp.png
💡Lighting: @blakegrigsby
💪🏼 Crew: @officialmistyfruitcake
🎭: @jelitzer
🎵 Music: @jast_yollew@robthanley@stevenkanter@kelseyroseflynn
🎬Director: @clauddog
Won Halloween this year w/ fellow First Wives @britt27ash & @cristinakeane ❤️❤️❤️ Truly don’t know how to top this next year - if it’s not three women in white and an excuse to chain smoke Capris I don’t want it!!
Need a little dose of creative inspiration? This week on @daddydailiespod Vika is joined by Claudia Restrepo, a director, writer, actor and editor who cut her teeth working on digital content at Buzzfeed and went on to write on THE BOOK OF QUEER (now available on Max), an Emmy-award winning series for Discovery+. In 2021 she was a Producer on the SXSW feature THE END OF US and then starred in and Executive Produced the 2023 feature PEAK SEASON. Claudia writes about culture on her Substack HORNY FOR CONTENT, and you can check out her directing work on her website! 🎬❤️
b 💚r 🧩a 🍏 t 🔫 is growing your hair out for 4 years so you can go full Charli and whip your locks in @thecurlyvshow ‘s face for the entire show- you didn’t complain once sweet Curls, so Troy of you 🙏🏽
