The creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a new solo piece, Death, Let Me Do My Show , now running Off-Broadway.

For Bloom, Death, Let Me Do My Show is a way of processing what happened in 2020. At the very beginning of the pandemic, she gave birth to a daughter, who had to stay in the NICU. Meanwhile, the maternity ward was readied for the overflow of COVID-19 patients. During those same fraught few days, Bloom also lost her songwriting partner of five years, Adam Schlesinger, who died of complications from the virus after being hospitalized and placed on a ventilator. Schlesinger collaborated with Bloom on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

“This show really helped me,” she says. “By working on this and intellectualizing it, there’s a scabbing over of wounds that has happened. It’s part of my narrative now. I find it cathartic to talk about things out in the open. It helps me heal.”