Amy King, Philip Nikolayev, Steve Dalachinsky, Marc Vincenz,and emcees Ron Kolm and Jonathan Penton.
About #specialcharacters
"This is a thrilling book of femininity and magic. When it comes to capturing the intimacy of pain, Larissa Shmailo is among the most daring poets of her generation. When speaking of human rights, she is a human flame. She is subtle and provocative, fresh and out of bounds. You will fall in love here, and you will be loved right back."
Philip Nikolayev-
"I see this work as a continuum in a long tradition of radical writing practices from Futurism, to Dada, to Oulipo, to Pussy Riot. Read it when you wish to be empowered. Read it when you wish to be entertained. Read it to rid yourself of the precious and polite."
Elaine Equi -
"This is a major work by a major poet."
Steve Dalachinsky
Website or external links (if applicable)_
https://www.facebook.com/LarissaShmailoPoetryandProse
www.larissashmailo.com
http:/larissashmailo.blogspot.com
Arts.Performance
Are you the best actor or actress in New York City? Prove it! That is the calling card for my show The Manhattan Monologue Slam. My name is Philip Galinsky and along with my Robert and super theatre producer Terry Schnuck, we created the "Best Actor Showcase Event" voted by Backstage readers choice awards. The show focuses on a totally live interactive event where actors showcase their skills in front of a packed theatre crowd and industry professionals. We are the only theatre show on the planet where the audience votes for the best performer online using their smart phone.
What inspired us to create this event? Well, we noticed that to be a struggling actor in New York means you have to pay your dues by going on countless auditions. For talent agents, it's difficult to find that diamond-in-the-rough actor who may be "the one" for the role. For New Yorker audiences, there are so many plays, poetry readings and stand-up comedy shows that it's tough to decide what to see. So we created an entertaining solution, with our monthly Manhattan Monologue Slam.
The first Saturday of each month the crowd buzzes with energy. It's an eclectic mix of friends and family (including children), industry people, downtown enthusiasts, and, of course, a slew of fellow actors some with recognizable faces. They spill over the seats into the aisle and line up along the bar, crowding to get a glimpse, like lab scientists anticipating a groundbreaking event.
Some of New York's best one-person shows are never seen. Every day, hundreds of hard-working actors are rigorously rehearsing monologues, isolated in their apartments. Now the time has come for these actors to bring their work to the stage, face an eager audience, and maybe even advance their careers. This is the American Idol of monologue performance.
The Monologue Slam is not about cutthroat competition and egos but about accessible, uplifting, supportive theater. As for the performances, there are some electrifying ones. And, of course, a competition wouldn't be complete without a few flops. But even the flops are successes because the audience generously celebrates risk taking, starting with just getting up onstage. In the performer-friendly climate a performer's dedication and effort often trump virtuosity.
Are you the best actor or actress in New York City? Prove it!
Celebrities at the show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0o99D2109k&feature=plcp
Review on NY1 On Stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACxW7iDlvqE&feature=plcp
All info on both shows is mmslamshow@gmail.com
About the Company: Manhattan Monologue Slam
"Best Actor Showcase Event" voted by Backstage readers choice awards. The show focuses on a totally live interactive event where actors showcase their skills in front of a packed theatre crowd and industry professionals.
Check out our interview on NY1 On Stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACxW7iDlvqE&feature=plcp
ACTORS SIGN UP THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW AT 9:30PM AT THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB 308 BOWERY NO ONLINE SIGN UPS YOU CAN ONLY PERFORM BY SIGNING UP THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW
Arts.Theatre
The holiday season is all about magick, and the team here at Auralfixia are busy shopping and cooking to prepare you a feast of delight filled with pasties and glitter! This years theme we are taking it old school filling your plates with a dash of magick and a sprig of spells! Taking our inspiration from deities around the world, we promise to give you the United Nations of all things tradition & sparkle!Come down to the Bowery... on Thursday December 2nd at 10 p.m. for an evening of magickal delight & sensuality. Doors open at 9:30.
Auralfixia is intellectual...burlesque...redefined..
Hosted by N as Crimson Kitty Alejhoho - Spewing More Vagina Jokes Than A Cat In Heat!
Burlesque by
Dame Cuchifrita - Brown Girls Burlesquer & Performance Artist
Deity - Sewing & Performing GENIUS!
It's A Little Stormy - Hat Makin' Booty Shakin' Whirlwind!
Sweet N' Lo - Making Her Burlesque DEBUT!
SXXXY Readers
Brandon B.
Rachel Cleary
Resident Musician
Charlie Demos
& Crimson Kitty's DUELING STAGE KITTENS: Leta Le Noir & It's A Little Stormy!
Raffle Swag Courtesy of
It's A Little Hat by It's A Little Stormy! www.it'salittlehat.com
A Copy Of The 2011 NYC SEX BLOGGERS CALENDAR www.sexbloggerscalendar.com
A gift certificate from The Pleasure Chest NYC www.pleasurechest.com
and MORE!
Directions & Showtimes
Thursday December 2nd @ 10
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (btwn Bleecker & Houston)
F Train to 2nd ave
For Reservations call 347-441-0771
For Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/138317
This Event Is Produced By Crimson Kitty Productions www.crimsonkitty.com
About the Company: Crimson Kitty Productions
Crimson Kitty Productions is a queer owned and operation event planning and design services company servicing the queer community and beyond. It was established in early 2010 by the award-winning burlesque star N – The ONLY Letter in Burlesque as a way to combine her 12+ years of marketing, design and event planning. www.crimsonkitty.com for more details!
What inhibits your passions or fuels your desires? Is it a light tap of your lovers fingers or a hard slap of the hand? Auralfixia will expose if not inspire your most deepest and darkest fantasies in a tale of debauchery, corsetry and fetishism. Remember Kids, What Happens At Auralfixia....STAYS at Auralfixia!Come down to the Bowery on Thursday November 4th at 10 p.m. for an evening of sinful delight & sensuality. Doors open at... 9:30
Auralfixia is intellectual...burlesque...redefined..
Hosted by N as Sister Lady Nana AlejHoHo!
Fetish Inspired Burlesque by
Sarah Jenny a.k.a Cybil Libertease
Johnny Blazes - ALL the way from BOSTON! Gender-Bending at it's FINEST!
Bambi Galore - Queer Extraordinare!
SXXXY Readers
Jack Stratton
Tess Danesi
Brandon B.
Resident Musician
Charlie Demos
& Crimson Kitty's DUELING STAGE KITTENS: Leta Le Noir & It's A Little Stormy!
Raffle Swag Courtesy of
It's A Little Hat by It's A Little Stormy! www.it'salittlehat.com
A Copy Of The 2011 NYC SEX BLOGGERS CALENDAR www.sexbloggerscalendar.com
and MORE!
Directions & Showtimes
Thursday November 4th @ 10
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (btwn Bleecker & Houston)
F Train to 2nd ave
For Reservations call 347-441-0771
For Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/134656
This Event Is Produced By Crimson Kitty Productions www.crimsonkitty.com
www.auralfixia.com
About the Company: Crimson Kitty Productions
Crimson Kitty Productions is a queer owned and operation event planning and design services company servicing the queer community and beyond. It was established in early 2010 by the award-winning burlesque star N – The ONLY Letter in Burlesque as a way to combine her 12+ years of marketing, design and event planning. www.crimsonkitty.com for more details!
Did you ever have a secret? A story that you have never shared? A confession that was too decadent a sin to spill? Auralfixia will unlock the Pandora's Box of debauchery and unveil them to you through burlesque, music, erotic readings and even porn! What Happens At Auralfixia....STAYS at Auralfixia!Come down to the Bowery on Thursday October 7th at 10 p.m. for an evening of sinful sensuality. Doors open at 9:30
Auralfixia is intellectual...burlesque...redefined..
Hosted by N as Sister Lady Nana Alejandro!
Burlesque By
Victoria Privates
Essence Revealed
Miss Aurora Boobrealis
N
Music by
Charlie Demos
SXXXY Readers
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Mockingbirdgirl
N
& Multimedia Entertainment by
N
About the Company: Crimson Kitty Productions
Crimson Kitty Productions is a queer owned and operation event planning and design services company servicing the queer community and beyond. It was established in early 2010 by the award-winning burlesque star N – The ONLY Letter in Burlesque as a way to combine her 12+ years of marketing, design and event planning. www.crimsonkitty.com for more details!
Auralfixia schools you this September for an evening of queer culture as N is proud to present Gender Studies, a look at all aspects and facets of queer sexuality and performance including Drag, Burlesque, Spoken Word, Music & Pornography!Come down to the Bowery on Thursday September 2nd at 10 p.m. for an evening of AIR-CONDITIONED QUEER sensuality. Doors open at 10. Open-Mic Pre-Show starts at 10:15 SHARP! 2 slots only!
Auralfixia is intellectual...burlesque...redefined..
Auralfixia started in February 2009 as a concept cabaret show fusing together the sex-positive and burlesque communities in NYC. Now in 2010, Auralfixia returns as a 5-month limited engagement at the famous Bowery Poetry Club in downtown NYC.
Curated by the ONLY letter in Burlesque, “N”, Auralfixia takes you to a fantasyland where burlesque becomes poetry, poetry takes its clothes off, & your clothes enter a decadent and intellectual pornographic setting! Enjoy burlesque, erotic readers and video each and every first Thursday of the month!
Come down to the Bowery on Thursday August 5th at 10 p.m. for an evening of AIR-CONDITIONED sensuality where N and her creative cohorts promises to trap your aural senses, strip your visual identity and stew it over a brimming pot filled with pornography!
Auralfixia is intellectual…burlesque…redefined.
Hosted by the sharp, witty talents of Juliet Jeske as GLOOMY GOTH GIRL!
with the burlesque talents of
Busty Kitten
Lydia Love
N
Music talent by
Charlie Demos
SXXXY Readers
Brandon B.
Avatar Koo
N
& Multimedia Entertainment by
N
Audacia Ray
and more!
For Reservations call 347-441-0771
For Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/119203
For Press Inquiries Contact N at crimsonkittyproductions@gmail.com
www.auralfixia.com
Produced by Crimson Kitty Productions – www.crimsonkitty.com
The Benefit Concert is to help The Hannah's Hope Fund to raise money for genetic research. Hannah Sames had just turned four years old when she was diagnosed with G.A.N. (Giant Axonal Neuropathy) - a very rare genetic disorder. Joining artistic forces are
F.A.C.E. - A rebellious mix of live music and unscripted theatre. The onstage band drives the story. The cast twists the narrative in new directions each performance.
Shockwave - Praised by The Village Voice and Time Out New York. Shockwave is an amazing percussionist and beat boxer. He uses his mouth like a sound effects program that no computer could possibly match.
Veronica Mosey - From NBC's "Last Comic Standing," Comedy Central, Caroline's, The Comedy Store, and comedy clubs across the country. Veronica brings her charm and witty repertoire to the Bowery Poetry Club for one night.
Hosted by singer, songwriter, and comedienne May Lane.
REAL LIVE WOMEN, features eight new provocative one-woman performances. Pieces cover subjects as diverse as a black-Jewish woman's experience in "Triple Minority", comedian Heather Gold's "The Law Project" and Best of Fringe-winning performer Christen Clifford's new solo "My Parents' Sex Life". Sunday December 9th - 8pm
Stacey Karen Robinson – Quiet Frenzy, Veronique Jeanmarie – Big Red Drum Set.
Wednesday December 12th - 8pm
Raquel Cion – Fete, Abigail Gampel—Through The Window, Natalia de Campos—Death and Life in the Northeast
Friday December 14th - 8pm
Christen Clifford – My Parents' Sex Life, Yolanda Shoshana – Triple Minority, Heather Gold—The Law Project.
TO THE DEATH OF MY OWN FAMILY is an intensely dramatic non-linear play about an Afghan-American woman who returns to the land she fled with her mother as a child to help her father escape, and then has to justify her journey, reclaim her citizenship, and relive lives lost, during an interrogation when she comes home to the United States.DAVID L. METH is an O'Neill finalist who has been produced nationally. For more information, please visit: http://web.mac.com/dlm67
TREZANA BEVERLEY: Winner of the 1976 Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway show "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rain Is Enuf". Among the highlights of her distinguished acting career are: Mother Courage, A Raisin In The Sun, Flyin' West, Peer Gynt and Macbeth. In film: Beloved, Resurection, Carolina Skeletons and Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies. Among her directing credits are: Spell# 7, Native Son, In The Blood, From The Mississippi Delta, Pecong, The Trojan Woman, Salome, String Of Pearls, and The Bluest Eye.
FARAH BALA origninated the role of "Nadeema" and resides in New York City. She is a founding member of Q Theatre Productions in her hometown Bombay, India. Theatre credits include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Sylvia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Letters to Baghdad, Fear Up, and 9/12. Film credits include Karma, Confessions and Holi. She is affiliated with Sports and Arts in Schools Foundation.
Heavy weights Red Bastard and Deenie Nast don their comedy gloves and go 2 rounds in their title shot for the upcoming Aspen Fest (HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival). In their corner, they bring a quick combination of sparring partners, including: Corn Mo, Chris Rozzi, Zero Boy, and more..
Let's Get Ready to Rummmmmble!
In red, NY's cult favorite clown freak, Red Bastard bobs and weaves across the stage with an ego so enormous it can only be matched by his colossal red ass. In this 30 minute "Best of" show, his well placed jabs take the piss out of elitism, theatre, politics, the audience and even himself.
In sequins, Oscar-winner, 2-time Tony winner and international super-drunk, Deenie Nast, delivers her no holds barred, song-filled tribute to herself. After a 12-year legal bout, Nast is back with a vengeance, having earned the rights to perform "below 39 th Street". Songs, film clips, gossip and general "Nast"-iness will splatter the ring.