What happens when you let AI choose your soulmate? One (youngish) gal hands over her heart – and her data – live on stage.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
📍 Millarri Murnmut, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre
📅 15–19 April 2025 | 🕗 8:15pm
🎟️ Tickets $12 – $22
Sydney Comedy Festival
📍 Matchbox, The Factory Theatre
📅 23 & 24 April | 🕘 9:15pm
🎟️ Tickets $32
National Theatre of Parramatta’s Supper Club
NB: A 15-minute excerpt of the show will be presented
📍 Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
📅 26 June | 🕘 8:30pm
🎟️ Tickets $29 (with supper)
Show Synopsis
Professor Tiffany Wong is a serious scientist. In this live experiment, she becomes the test subject in her own AI-powered study on love – after surrendering her entire digital footprint to ChatGPT.
The hypothesis? That the algorithm knows her better than she knows herself… and might be better at choosing a soulmate too.
Armed with ChatGPT, audience volunteers, and an ex who once claimed to be her soulmate, Tiffany investigates whether compatibility is calculable – and whether an algorithm can ever truly understand the human heart. Fortunately, she has a live peer review panel: you, the audience. And because the experiment changes nightly – based on audience input, real-time ChatGPT responses, and Tiffany’s PhD in oversharing – no two shows are ever the same.
It’s part comedy, part cautionary tale, and entirely unpredictable – just like love itself.
Welcome to the most revealing science experiment you’ll ever witness.
🎩🧥 What to bring: Audience members are warmly encouraged to bring a silly hat or a jacket – it might just end up onstage (and yes, you’ll get it back).
⏱️ Duration: 55 minutes
⚠️ Content Advisory: Mild coarse language, discussions of relationships and dating, AI ethics exploration, and audience participation
💻 AI Disclosure: ChatGPT is unhinged and may reveal unexpected personal details from its memory banks. Past surprises have included Tiffany’s hopes for egg freezing, her Chinese name, and the existence of her soft toy cat.
To follow the results the experiment and read ChatGPT’s dating diary, and to find out how much each show impacts the environment, follow @helpmechatgpt_theshow on Instagram.
Developed with support from The Ethics Centre, Help Me, ChatGPT </3 explores themes of consent, data, privacy, and autonomy – questioning whether there’s any ethical use of AI at all. You can decide for yourself after watching the show.
Photos courtesy of Jayden May
Reviews
“Tiffany Wong is just a girl, standing in front of an app, asking it to find her soulmate… The premise behind the show is wholesome, and Wong’s nerdy, earnest, and unscripted performance endears her to the crowd immediately… Wong remains unflappable… This experiment will reach its potential. And does Wong find her soulmate? That’s a question only ChatGPT can answer.” – Vyshnavee Wijekumar, The Age (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 15 April 2025)
Wong handles the unpredictable, accurate and sometimes (ok, often) oversharing ‘help’ from her OpenAI co-star with a delicate yet sure hand and a hugely fun personality… full of pleasant LOL / eye catching surprises, one of the biggest is that talented, hugely likable Wong has waited so long to do her own solo (human) comedy show. Different each night, not to be missed, as funny as it is warmly fascinating. Yes, that funny. But don’t trust an AI (sorry bot buddy) – come see and loudly applause enjoy for yourself. You should, you will. – Chuck Moore Reviews About (Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 16 April 2025)
♻️ Environmental Note
We understand the use of AI can be ethically challenging. It will generate multiple short scripts, including compatibility assessments, future predictions, and dialogue based on audience participation. We will generate one image per show.
Tiffany acknowledges the environmental impact of AI use and mentions this during the show. (According to Business Insider, fashion production accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions.)
- Show 1: This thread had ~40–60 messages, so we’re looking at 0.0004–0.0015 kg CO₂.
- Show 2: This thread: ~100 messages, estimated total is roughly 0.04 to 0.15 kg of CO₂.
- Show 3: This thread 130-ish messages, estimated total is roughly ~0.0096 kg CO₂.
🎭 Audience Involvement
You may be invited to share a few details about yourself for the “experiment.” You’re welcome to use a fake name! Real facts make it fun, but safety & consent always comes first.
Artist Information
Tiffany is an artist whose quest for love is nearly as dramatic as her theatre career. She’s been profiled by the New York Post for her viral dating Google Form and by Body & Soul for her wedding… to her diploma.
When she’s not turning her love life into performance art, Tiffany:
- Stars in Five Blind Dates (Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video)
- Played Juliet in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s Romeo & Juliet
- Has worked with Bell Shakespeare, National Theatre of Parramatta & Sydney Theatre Company
- Champions Asian-Australian storytellers as Artistic Director of Slanted Theatre
Usually spotted in pink, she’s still seeking Swifties to trade friendship bracelets with – while defiantly clutching her Barbie flip phone and iPod Shuffle, dreaming up her next autistic (sorry, artistic) adventure.
Thank You’s
The Ethics Centre, QVWC, The Factory Theatre, Corey Bresnan, Robert Hoang, Andrew Dang, Leah Collins, Laurie-Ann Fong Wooley, Jayden May, Bec Blake, Oscar Lanigan, Molly Herbert, Kimie Tsukakoshi, Melissa Gan, Daniel Mackenzie, Sam Webster, Steve Lu, Emma Whitehead, Josie Lee & Daphne Lim
Slanted Theatre 