EMOJI: The Hieroglyphs Of Our Time

In 2025, EMOJI sold out its debut run at NYC Fringe Festival. Now it's bound for Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August! 🥹 Part love letter, part stand-up set, part concert, and part iPhone commercial (jk!), EMOJI: The Hieroglyphs Of Our Time, or how I learned to stop worrying and send the risky text 🤷🏽‍♀️ explores whether emoji are a uniquely universal shorthand or digital crumbs of connection in a fractured society. It will have you like 🤣, but also like 🥹. In this hilarious, heartfelt, ADHD-friendly show — packed with energetic musical numbers, sparkling visuals and audience participation — Aarushi Agni delivers a chaotic TED Talk / musical about emoji and the risky texts that keep us connected, blending keen comedy instincts and impressive vocal dynamism. “Absolutely dazzled… I expected to laugh, but not to be so deeply moved.” —Kirthana Ramisetti, author “Aarushi is a brilliant talent that shines as bright as the supermoon..…she lends us the courage to know that it’s not only okay to send a risky text, it’s absolutely necessary.” — Raquel Palmas of Baby Wants Candy Aarushi Agni (@aarushifire, she/they) is queer South Asian writer, poet, comedian, musician, actor, artist, educator and person, who's done a lot of beautiful and obscene things all over the world. Things like -- composing music for a film, screenwriting for a kid's TV show, fixing people's love lives with improv, fronting the band Tin Can Diamonds, not going to medical school, creating cultures in her gut, empowering people to change the world, complaining about tech, and selling out New York City Fringe Festival. Aarushi has done many shows at Caveat, including the first-ever fetus of her hour-long solo show, EMOJI, back when it was a tender, stream-of-conscious diatribe 🐣. Aarushi is excited for the full circle moment of doing the show at Caveat before heading to Edinburgh Fringe! She would like to thank her community of artists and activists for their support with this project and for teaching her how to be human. Follow along with her journey at http://aarushiagni.com/emoji-show