List of Past Productions

Production History

2024 United We Sweat
The Bughouse, 1910 W Irving Park Road, Chicago (June)
Lifeline Theatre and South of the Border, Chicago 23rd annual Fillet of Solo Festival (January)

2023 Sweat Menders
Lifeline Theatre and South of the Border, Chicago, 26th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2022 Sweat Girls (untitled)
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 25th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2021 Sweat in the Time of Covid (Virtual)
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 24nd annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2020 Sweat Girls (untitled)
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 23nd annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2019:  Sweat Sorority
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 22nd annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2018:  Total Eclipse of the Sweat
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 21st annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2017:  The Sweat of the Union
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 20th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2016: The Sweat Girls: DIY
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 19th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2015: The Sweat Girls Are: Tribal Elders
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 18th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2014: The Sweat Girls Are … 21 and Finally Legal!
Heartland Studio Theatre, Chicago  (6 week run)

2014: Sweat Girls Size Up the New Normal
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago, 17th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2013: SW(EAT) THIS!
Acorn Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan

2013: The Year of the Sweater!
Lifeline Theatre and Heartland Studio, Chicago 16th annual Fillet of Solo Festival
Actorn Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan

2012: Super Sweat
Acorn Theater, Michigan

2011: Holy Sweat!
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago 15th annual Fillet of Solo Festival
Actorn Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan

2010: The Sweat Girls Are a Ga Ga! … agog, aghast, and goin’ gray about it.
Lifeline Theatre and Live Bait Theatre, Chicago, 14th annual Fillet of Solo Festival
Acorn Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan

2010: Grown Up (solo show by Dorothy Milne)
Lifeline and Live Bait, Chicago, 14th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2010: Man Up (workshop performance by Martie Sanders)
Lifeline and Live Bait, Chicago, 14th annual Fillet of Solo Festival

2009: The Me, Mom, and Dad Show!  (by Martie Sanders, performed with her dad, Charlie Sanders)
16th Street Theater, Berwyn, Illinois (hosted by Goodman Theater Festival “Taking the Stage: A Celebration of Women Making Theater”)

2008: Sweatilicious
Live Bait Theater, Chicago, 13th annual Fillet of Solo Festival
Acorn Theatre, Three Oaks, Michigan
G Boutique, Chicago

2007: Sweatily Ever After
Acorn Theatre, Three Oaks, Michigan
Raven Theatre, Chicago (6 week run)

2007: Sweat Etiquette
Live Bait, Chicago, 12th annual Fillet of Solo Festival  • Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago

2006:
The Sweat Girls Are: Coiffed & Dangerous

Live Bait, Chicago, 11th annual Fillet of Solo Festival  • Acorn Theatre, Michigan • Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago

2006: The MotherLode
Acorn Theatre, Three Oaks, Michigan

2005: Sweat Girls: The Life of the Party
Live Bait, Chicago, 10th annual Fillet of Solo Festival • Acorn Theatre, Michigan • Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago

2004: Übersweat
Acorn Theatre, Michigan • Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago

2003: Cirque du Sweat
National Pastime Theatre, Chicago • Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Chicago
(6 week run)

2002: The MotherLode
PickWick Theatre, Chicago

2001: The MotherLode
The Arts Series, Naperville

2000: The MotherLode
Chicago Shakespeare Studio Theatre on Navy Pier, Chicago • Working Women’s Festival, San Francisco

2000: All This and the Sugar Dish Too!
Jackos, Chicago

1999: Sweat Girl Swing
Swedish American Museum, Chicago

1999: The MotherLode
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago
(8 week run)

1998: Sweats in NYC
The New York International Fringe Festival

1998: Sweat Retro
Magpie Studio, Oak Park

1997: The Sweat Girls Are: Pigs at the Trough of Attention
Cafe Ashie, Chicago
(6 month run)

1996: The Sweats Go West
Working Women’s Festival, San Francisco

1995: I Just Ooops Until I Wow!
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago
(4 week festival)

1994: Sweat Dreams
Organic Greenhouse, Chicago
(6 month run)

1993: I’m Sweating Under My Breasts
Annoyance Theatre • Chicago Cafe Voltaire Theatre, Chicago
(8 month run)

Poster design by Martie Sanders
Poster design by Martie Sanders