News: Jesse Bradley-Amore’s "How I Learned (NOT) To Drive" Makes Its NYC Fringe Premiere This April


Jesse Bradley-Amore will present 2025 Philly Fringies Frontrunner Pick How I Learned (NOT) To Drive, written and performed by Jesse Bradley-Amore and directed by Padraic Lillis. The production will be presented as part of the 2026 New York City Fringe Festival with FRIGID New York at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place. New York, NY 10009) with performances on Fri April 10 at 8:10pm, Sat April 11 at 2pm, Sun April 12 at 3:40pm, Fri April 17 at 9:50pm & Sat April 18 at 8:40pm. New York City Fringe Festival is an open lottery-based theatre festival presented by FRIGID New York that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination and gives 100% of box office proceeds go directly to the artists whose work is being presented.

How I Learned (NOT) To Drive, directed by Indie Theatre Hall of Fame director Padraic Lillis, deals with the very true story of a 40-year-old Florida man overcoming his lifelong fear of the open road and getting his driver’s license in a desperate attempt to save his marriage. It’s like a live-action version of The Fast and The Furious, but funnier, more anxious, and only 60 minutes.

Broadway World has called How I Learned (NOT) To Drive "a fabulous piece of live theater. Jesse's expressions and delivery are outstanding, bringing vulnerability, humor, and energy to the story. It is an immensely relatable story of trauma, loneliness, love, and overcoming fear, and his performance makes it impossible to not become completely invested in the story.”

The show's award-winning director, Padraic Lillis, is the Founding Artistic Director of The Farm Theater, as well as The Humana Visiting Scholar and Artist in Residence at Centre College. Playwright and performer Jesse Bradley-Amore is a writer, cartoonist, and (occasional) improviser based out of Winter Park, FL., whose stories have been featured on RISK! and The Volume Knob. His comics have been published in Oyez Review and Action, Spectacle. Under his J. Bradley pen name, he’s the author of Teenage Wasteland: An American Love Story and has fiction in Short Edition dispensers. How I Learned (NOT) To Drive is his first solo show.

Tickets ($25) are available for advance purchase at www.frigid.nyc. The performance will run approximately 60 minutes. Performances will also be available to livestream.

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