I began developing a character in stand-up and sketch comedy based on my own experiences when divorce left me navigating the choppy seas of mid-life dating. It was either sink or swim.  I survived...but I also took in a lot of water.

               Ginger Peechee-Keane is a wacky but  insightful adult sex ed evangelist & mojo motivator.  Along with her sister, Sonia, she is co-founder of M.O.I.S.T.!  -- the Multiple Orgasm Initiative for Sex-istential Transformation  -- which is also the name of the full-length musical comedy I co-wrote and perform with Iona Morris (Sonia). 

               After a 9-month run in Los Angeles to packed houses, standing ovations and boffo reviews, the show was selected to be performed at the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival where it was picked up by the Negro Ensemble Company for its 2012-13 Off-Broadway season.

               M.O.I.S.T.! has been favorably compared to Menopause: The Musical ...on hormone replacement therapy!  Our goal is to duplicate M:TM's success with multiple international companies.  We've already been approached to have the show translated into Romanian!

               Looking to bring M.O.I.S.T.! to my hometown of Chicago, I introduced Ginger Peechee-Keane to local cabaret audiences last year performing L Words with Chicago's hot BEAST WOMEN cabaret.  I've also taken time to work on new stand-up material and to finish up the proposal for Too Jewish & Not Black Enough -- a book of humorous essays & a memoir of our "younger years" as actresses juggling careers, husbands and kids in New City -- which I'm writing with Seinfeld's, Annie Korzen. Our literary agent, Julia Lord, has been egging us on to get it finished asap so she can pitch it as a Two Broke Girls spinoff!! (Iona & I have a sitcom treatment for M.O.I.S.T.!, as well.)

                It's a great time to be a funny broad and a fun time to be Mariann Aalda...I'm just sayin.'