CANCELLED – Lucy Sexton: Sickness, A Night of Sick Stories

CANCELLED 

apologies.

Sickness: A Night of Sick Stories Hosted by Lucy Sexton

Readings by:

• Joe Westmoreland writing about his adventures with HIV
• CD Clifford writing about babies, sex, and old people
• Nora Burns writing with an incredibly sick sense of humor
• Lori E. Seid writing about sick lesbians
• Brigid Murphy writing and singing about terminal lymphoma

LUCY SEXTON has worked in theatre and film in different capacities for more than 20 years. She developed and directed the Obie-Award winning off-Broadway show, Spalding Gray, Stories Left to Tell, working closely with Gray’s widow Kathleen Russo. Sexton produced Charles Atlas’ documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery for the BBC and Arte. With Anne Iobst, she co-created the Bessie Award-winning dance-performance group DANCENOISE, which has performed extensively in New York and around the world since 1983. She regularly teaches workshops in performance and compostion, most recently at the Daghdha Dance Center in Limerick, Ireland. As a performer she has appeared in the work of Alien Comic, Charles Atlas, David Gordon, Jo Andres, Mimi Goese, Heidi Dorow, Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone Jr, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Richard Move, Sarah Shulman, and Alain Buffard among others. Performing as The Factress, Sexton hosts a randomly occurring live talk show, The Lucy Show, with co-host Mike Iveson, aka Nurse Baby Asparagus. She is currently directing Tom Murrin’s one-man theater piece The Talking Show, and producing a new film by Charles Atlas on the musical group Antony and the Johnsons.

Joe Westmoreland is the author of the novel Tramps Like Us, of which Kevin Killian wrote: “Joe Westmoreland writes better than we deserve, and his simple sentences are each one a little marvel of sophisticatio n and purity.” Westmoreland wrote a regular column for Pos Magazine and has contributed to many periodicals and to the anthologies including Discontents (New Queer Writers), Best American Gay Fiction of 1996, Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, and Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men In Love. He lives in New York City.

Nora Burns is a founding member of the comedy groups Unitard and the Nellie Olesons and has performed across the country in venues from PS122, LaMama, and Joe’s Pub in NYC to Highways, Cavern Club and HBO workspace in LA. She has also performed at the Aspen Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs in Montreal and We’re Funny That Way in Toronto. She has appeared in the films Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Broken Hearts Club and Boys Life 3 among others. Her television appearances include Logo’s Wisecrack comedy show and the Sandra Bernhart Experience.

Sep 29, 2009 | Categories: events, literary, performance | Tags: aids, cancer | Comments Off