Crying In Public

Gina Harms grew up in Kamloops thinking movies were basically documentaries, to the point where watching Transformers left her assuming that was just what living in a city looked like. Crying In Public traces how that habit of scripting her own life led her to meet an Australian guy in Bangkok and impulsively move across the world to be with him.

She builds the hour as one long autobiographical story rather than a string of club jokes, opening with her actual teenage diary and a childhood goal of having random sex with a guy who never calls back. Stuck at home after high school with 50 euros from her grandparents and vague plans for Europe, she finally gets talked into a month-long backpacking trip to Thailand by high school friends Joey and Curtis, even after nearly bailing over September Taylor Swift tickets. Once she meets Nick in Bangkok and relocates to Australia, the story narrows down to psychic readings, misread messages, and sobbing face-first toward a bedroom wall before he drives her to the airport the next morning.

Harms originally debuted the hour to sold-out rooms at the 2023 Vancouver Fringe Festival, then returned to Little Mountain Gallery in Vancouver in 2025 to film the 64-minute special with Warwick Hughes. Released on YouTube in March 2026, it is the first full-length special for the Vancouver comic, Dear Pop Culture podcast host, and Gentlemen Hecklers writer and performer.

Reviews of the 2023 Fringe run praised her self-effacing stage persona, though critic Colin Thomas wrote in Fresh Sheet Reviews that revealing upfront that the Australia move was a bad idea flattened the narrative suspense once the Thailand story kicked in.