Optimistic Personality Disorder

If a TED Talk and a tequila shot had a baby, it would be this show!

A Hilarious and Heartwarming Show by Merit Kahn

Perfect for Girls Night Out!

Why just go out when you can laugh your face off with your favorite women?

✨ Call the crew
✨ Book the babysitter
✨ Group chat: activated
✨ Drinks before? Obviously.
✨ Drinks after? Definitely.

This isn’t dinner and a movie.
It’s laughter, real talk, and the kind of bonding that only happens when one woman spills it all on stage—so you don’t have to.

Pro tip: Buy your tickets early, then tell your friends you’ve already got plans. Boom. You’re the fun one!

What is the Show About?

Discover a Life Unscripted, Unstoppable, and Unexpectedly Funny

Real Life. Big Laughs. One Unfiltered Woman.

Optimistic Personality Disorder is a hilarious and heartwarming one-woman show by Merit Kahn that’s part TED Talk, part stand-up, and part therapy (if therapy included tequila).

It’s a rollercoaster through life’s messiest moments—childhood, teenage dramas, divorcing a narcissist, dating as a single parent, career curveballs — and cancer… cause why not add that to the mix… and how one woman found the funny in all of it.

You’ll laugh till you cry. Then maybe cry a little. Then laugh some more.

“It’s not my story that matters… it’s that you leave the theater inspired by your own.”

Whether you’re navigating midlife mayhem or just need a break from being everyone’s everything, this show will make you feel seen, uplifted, celebrated and wildly entertained.

Directed by Carole Montgomery, the Creator/Producer of Showtime TV’s series “Funny Women of a Certain Age.”

Associate Writer, Karyn Ruth White, Founder of Laugh & Learn Productions

* In 2019 show was called “Book of Merit”
* In 2022-2023 show was called “Who Chiseled That?”

💜💜💜 Who Loves This Show? 💜💜💜

Women who’ve held it together all week and just need to laugh-cry into a cocktail.
Perfect for moms, midlifers, and anyone one crisis away from a group text meltdown.

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