The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known featuring Kimberly Dauber
September 7, 2025 at The Lilypad
This show is 90 minutes with a 10 minute intermission.
Act 1
All The World’s A Stage from As You Like It by Shaina Taub
God, I Hate Shakespeare from Something Rotten! by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick
The Ladies Who Lunch from Company by Stephen Sondheim
All Grown Up from Bare by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere
Change from A New Brain by William Finn
Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind from Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Featuring Joshua Dixon Belt.
Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) from Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Intermission
Act 2
Welcome to the Internet from Bo Burnham: Inside by Bo Burnham
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
Just One Step from Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown
Therapy from tick, tick… BOOM! by Jonathan Larson. Featuring Adam Sell.
Can’t I Just Be from HOMEMADE FUSION by Kooman & Dimond. Featuring Joshua Dixon Belt and Angelica Ocegueda.
Woman Is from Lempicka by Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer
Cabaret from Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Featured Performers
Kimberly Dauber
Vocalist, Producer
Kimberly Dauber (she/her) is a Boston-based singer, actor, voiceover artist, audiobook narrator, director, producer, and cat parent. She can frequently be seen performing with The Post Meridian Radio Players and soon in the upcoming Mrs. Hawking play by Breaking Light Productions. Check out the Not Even Comedy Podcast she produces, as well as her past podcast projects as Hear Me Out Productions. A new audio drama, Malaika, is coming soon! Kim loves performing in original musicals, narrating audiobooks, building accessible websites, crocheting, reading WebToons. dauber.kim
Joshua Dixon Belt
Vocalist, Producer
Joshua Dixon Belt, baritone, is a Boston-based singer and voice teacher. He has performed with his ensemble Atelier Belt, as well as Odyssey Opera, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, MassOpera, Opera on Tap-Boston, NEMPAC Opera Project, Greater Worcester Opera, VOX New England, Opera 51, and The Choral Art Society of the South Shore. An in-demand teacher, with students accepted to Penn State Musical Theatre, NYU Tisch, and University of Michigan, and performing with Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Reagle Music Theatre, and Trinity Repertory Company. He is a graduate of Otterbein (BM) and Boston Universities (MM), Longy School of Music (GPD), and is on faculty at Walnut Hill School for the Arts. joshuadixonbelt.com
Kelvyn Koning
Pianist
Kelvyn Koning (he/they) specializes in composing for choir and theatre and in performing as a countertenor and pianist. He completed his Master of Music in Composition from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and has been commissioned to write pieces for middle school, high school, college, church, and community choirs. In addition to writing several children’s musicals, he has written two award-winning full-length musicals, The Glassblower’s Daughter with Columbia Entertainment Co. and The Prince and the Painter with Moonbox Productions. He is currently the Minister of Music at St. Paul’s Natick and accompanies/music directs at the Boston Conservatory, Freelance Players, and Watertown Children’s Theatre. Kelvyn is a founding member of the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble, the West Michigan Choral Lab, and Lilith Vocal Ensemble. He recently released his first queer Christian album, The Veil is Torn.
Nigel Telman
Bassist
Nigel Telman is a bassist originally from Chicago and now based in Dorchester. A graduate of Columbia University (Class of 2021), he performs on both electric and upright bass across jazz, funk, rock, and musical theater. Nigel is a member of the Boston-based cover band Elephant in the Room and the funk band Further Notice. He has been an active theater pit musician, performing with the Watertown Children’s Theatre in Something Rotten (Fall ’22), Godspell (Spring ’23), Newsies (Fall ’23), and Big Fish (Fall ’24). Known for his versatility and collaborative spirit, he brings energy and adaptability to every ensemble. He is currently a resident of Dorchester.
Artis Street
Drummer
Adam Sell
Vocalist
Adam Sell has been doing theater and theater-adjacent things for more than 30 years, if you count Christmas pageants at church back in grade school. If you don’t, it’s closer to 25 years, which is still a quarter century of being on stages and wow that number is kind of wild to type out loud. Most recently, he appeared as Bruce Bechdel in the Burlington Players’ production of Fun Home, and he’ll appear as Miss Trunchbull in the Footlight Club’s upcoming production of Matilda. Perhaps the wildest shift in role imaginable, but we’re just going to call it range.
Angelica Ocegueda
Vocalist
Content Advisories
- All Grown Up: Teen pregnancy
- Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind: Suicidal ideation
- Just One Step: Threatening to jump off a building
- Can’t I Just Be: References to homophobia
Special Thanks
Poster design by Shai Nir Hana
Facts provided by Kristen Hale, Émile Lewis, Dencil Wilmot, PJ Hernandez, Victoria Longe, Tori Queeno, Jonathan Mendoza, Caitlyn Hoeflin Hana, Shai Nir Hana.
Extra special thanks to my wonderful partner Sam Sexton for assembling my friends and their facts about me. I love you, my love.
Video by Sophia Melville, Clover Melville, and Corey.