Limor Garfinkle Sam Kissajukian’s “300 Paintings” is a retold, not scripted, account of a manically creative episode.

Before artist and comedian Sam Kissajukian won awards at fringe festivals for his show “300 Paintings,” he quit comedy, rented an old cake factory and, in what he later learned to be a manic episode, painted the titular 300 works. Onstage, he shows each to the audience, and with humor and poise reflects on what he felt as he painted and what they look like to him now, after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

“The night before the show, I didn’t know what to talk about, so I just put all the paintings up on a projector screen, and went through slide by slide and talked about what I experienced at the time when I was making the painting and what I thought the reality w

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