PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement is a comedic solo show about pelvic floor health from Amy Veltman. Veltman shares it all in this raw and ridiculous multimedia extravaganza featuring unforgettable characters, original songs, and a medically unsanctioned chart. We sat down with Amy Veltman to discuss their upcoming show.
What was the moment you realized your pelvic floor deserved its own one-woman show—and maybe a standing ovation too?
I believe everyone’s pelvic floor deserves a standing ovation, but I may be the only middle-aged singer-songwriter/ comedian/ writer/ actor/ filmmaker/ corporate facilitator/ aspiring interpretive dancer who had the title “PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement” pop into her head one day stepping out of the shower. At that moment, I knew we—my pelvic floor and I—had no choice but to create this show.
Between the songs, charts, and characters, which part of the show still makes you laugh every time you perform it?
I love my chart of personal grooming options for visiting the pelvic floor physical therapist. I usually laugh listening to the ripples of audience reactions as they make their way through the permutations.
How did your experience as a comedian—and a mom—shape the unapologetic honesty in PSA?
My goal with PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement was to make discussion of a taboo topic more comfortable, so I have to model that comfort, which isn’t always easy for me. The topics or language that are too intimate or embarrassing for me to talk about I just gave to the show’s other characters. Yes, it is a solo show, but I call this technique “the gift of compartmentalization.”
My kids know that honesty is a big deal to me, which is why my youngest is still angry about 2016, when I promised Hillary Clinton would win the US election.
Did you ever imagine that pelvic health would become your comedy superpower?
With a father who’s an obstetrician/ gynecologist and an uncanny ability to identify (and titter at) double entendres in Romeo and Juliet in 7th grade lit class, I should have seen pelvic health comedy in my future. However, like most people, I didn’t know until recently that the pelvic floor is crucial to male and female sexual, urinary, and bowel health. Comedy gold!
What’s one myth or misconception about pelvic health that PSA gleefully blows out of the water?
People think that leaking stuff is an inevitable part of aging they just have to live with or get surgery to fix. False, false, false!!!
If your show had a public health warning, what would it say—ideally with a jingle?
Before you see Ms. Veltman’s show
To a water closet you must go
For the topics upon which she’ll pontificate
Will remind you your need to evacuate
PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement will run at theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall, 10:50 01-16 August and then 11:50 18 – 23 August. https://www.thespaceuk.com/shows/2025/psa-pelvic-service-announcement