PERFORMANCE ARTIST, DRAMATIC AND NONFICTION WRITER, FILMMAKER AND TEACHER
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Summer 2025: became a student again, auditing 2 week virtual course in Songwriting, offered by NYU Steinhardt. Incredible teachers.
Presenting participational project, Activate Your Anthem! as part of Art in Odd Places Festival in West Hollywood at end of July
My solo work, (Ob)scene, in AFTER ORLANDO (The Pulse Nightclub Plays) published by NoPassport Press
Following the death of artist/writer Jacki Apple, I worked with her sister and several colleagues to create The Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects. This annual award gives $10,000 to an artist in LA and one in NYC, administered by the LACE (LA) and Franklin Furnace, (NYC). The first Apple/LACE award in 2024 went to Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, and the first Franklin Furnace Apple award is Maria Bauman. Jennifer Moon is the 2025 LACE Apple Awardee. Following the horrible LA fires of 2025, the Fund created FireBreak through LACE to assist impacted artists, and a donation to The Brick's Grief & Hope. We are supporting student presentations at UC/Irivine, the presentation of ASU's DBR Lab at National Sawdust in NYC, and the Art in Odd Places festival in LA. After decades of pursuing grants, it's gratifying to be on the giving end!
Featured panelist (virtual) speaking on Artistic Practices for Roots and Routes : Colloquium Celebrating 20 Years of Theatre and Performance of the Americas and Performance in the Borderlands. Arizona State University September 2024.
Performing in Leslie Satin & Friends "Resume/Résumé" Arts on Site October 2024. Featuring Jeremy Nelson, Vicky Schick, Barbara Mahler and others.
Contributed to Anthem to US project (NY Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Lincoln Center) and made it to semi finals! Here's an excerpt of two versions of work-in-progress, as performed as part of DBR Lab at National Sawdust April 2024. DBR accompanies on 2nd version.
2024-25 ASU Emeritus College Research grant to digitize tapes of interviews 1996-2006 with gay men about bathhouses/saunas, and the concept of sexual "safety." Hoping to make into podcast and eventual publication.