Downtown theater legend Anne Gridley, a founding member of the New York City-based performance art group Nature Theater of Oklahoma, brings her delightfully frank, gleefully experimental, and profound new work embodying the absurdity of navigating both disability and others’ perceptions of it.

Commissioned and Produced by Soho Rep as part of New York’s 2026 Under the Radar Festival, Watch Me Walk is a hilarious, biting, and compassionate new play about disability, pity, injustice, family mythologies, and the absurdities of the American health care system that will stay with you long after the curtain — or Anne! — falls. Through humor, grace, anger, and wry observation, she opens up a space where audiences can both appreciate her story and examine their own thoughts and reactions in real time.

“Gridley’s script, and the incredible performer who tell[s] us her story without sentiment, remains a prime example of what we get when autobiographical theater works: intelligence, and the ability to laugh at oneself with one’s heart, as always, in both the wrong and the right place.” (The New Yorker)