‘SNL’ Alum Chloe Troast To Write & Star In ‘Pepper Slit’ Off Broadway

EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Troast, a cast member of the 2023-2024 season of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, will write and star in a new theatrical experience titled Pepper Slit: Live in Her Living Room, directed by Sam Blumenfeld.

The four-week limited engagement – previews begin Tuesday, July 21, with an opening night set for Thursday, July 30 – will be staged at the intimate East Village Basement theater in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. Each night, the “stage and screen icon” known as Pepper Slit will welcome 35 visitors into her “living room” for a theatrical experience that “blends music, nostalgia, and delusion into an unforgettable comedy spectacle.”

“Pepper is a woman that lives inside me,” Troast said, “and has probably lived there my whole life. At age 11, my favorite Broadway show was Follies – a classic preteen tale about the decay of female beauty and fading fame within an unscrupulous industry of vaudeville and burlesque. I was obsessed with Liza, Bernadette, Elaine Stritch, Carol Burnett, Eartha Kitt, Little Edie, Cher. Divas of stage and screen. ‘Pepper’ is an amalgamation of all these things plus a newborn baby. She has been everywhere, done everything, is wistful, entitled, crass, yet somehow innocent. She is a live wire and an open wound with an enormous story to tell.”

The cast will also include Blumenfeld, Tej Khanna, Gus Laughlin, Jamie Linn Watson, and music director Charlie O’Connor. Surprise special guests will be announced shortly.

Troast and Blumenfeld collaborate on her podcast Spilling Your Seed, now in its 3rd season.

Producers Jacob Stuckelman and Andrew Patino of Regular People and Christian Palomares of Paloma Theatrical said in a statement, “We couldn’t be more thrilled to kick off this summer with this theatrical fever dream from the brain of Chloe Troast. Audiences are more eager than ever to be part of shared experiences, and we’re excited to give New Yorkers exactly that.”

The design team features Rodri Hernandez Mtz. (scenic design), Cha See (lighting design), Brandon Bulls (sound design), and Ricky Reynoso (costume design)

Pepper Slit: Live in Her Living Room is produced by Jacob Stuckelman and Andrew Patino of Regular People, Christian Palomares of Paloma Theatrical, Scuttle About Broadway, Mikayla Kibel, Raffie Rosenberg, Duncan Miller, Tommy Doyle, and Brian Ren-Sawyer. Production company collective Lisa serves as associate producers.

Troast is a former writer and featured cast member on Saturday Night Live and can currently be seen in the Feature Films Sweethearts starring Kieran Shipka, Goodrich opposite Michael Keaton, the Netflix series Four Seasons with Tiny Fey and the NBC series The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkins. She can also be seen in Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain opposite Conan O’Brien, Bowen Yang and Megan Stalter, directed by Paul Briganti and produced by Judd Apatow; and her Adult Swim Smalls series DOHLS is currently streaming on HBOMax.

Blumenfeld is the President of the production company collective Lisa and is the director and co-head writer on Spilling Your Seed, produced by Lisa and Stapleview, starring Troast. He is the head writer and director of Lisa’s live sketch shows, Dylan Adler’s Haus of Dy-Lan, and Emily Wilson’s Fixed, which was nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.