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PERFORMANCE ARTIST, DRAMATIC AND NONFICTION WRITER, FILMMAKER AND TEACHER

Discontents, Jeff McMahon

CURRENT AND UPCOMING

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 will be the 2025 LACE Apple Awardee. After decades of going after 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.

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.

I shared a reading on November 6, 2023 with Karen Finley and Laurie Stone, in an evening curated by Sarah Schulman as part of her series, First Mondays. Performance Space New York

 

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