what do you get for a woman who has everything? Smut and profound sexual metaphors. WHEN: 5 hours (7:30pm-12:30am), October 10, 2016. WHERE: In front of Bicycle Michael's, Frenchmen Street, New Orleans. OUTPUT: one quarter-sheet and four full-length pieces, including a male-submissive bondage session with a mirror...
View MoreCompersion, in poly terms, is the happiness one experiences watching their partner being happy in love/sex with another person(s). I feel like there must be a parallel concept/word in the performing arts, for when one is genuinely happy watching other artists succeed. What we call...
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- I’m leaving in three months, I said. "Forever?" he asked, with some incredulity and maybe anxiety. - Yeah. "Is everything okay?" - Yes. I'm just moving to a different country. Not Canada. "Oh." [awkward pause] - There are some awesome girls here at this company, you know. [awkward pause] - But if you want...
View MoreWhile touring nerdfucker this summer, I noticed how much people expected autobiography from me. People kept asking, “Does that actually exist?†that is, are there people who play chess on other people’s backs? Or, “Did that really happen?†e.g. have I really, somewhere in my colorful...
View MoreWhere are you from? My shoulders creep up to my ears every time I hear that question, a common conversational gambit. It’s an opening salvo in most small-talk skirmishes, one that is mostly about figuring out one another’s places, one’s clan, and setting up parameters and...
View MoreUsually the idea of creating new material while touring feels a bit … high-pressure? Over-achieving? Hell, I’m banging this out over the shitty wi-fi on the last possible ferry to get from Victoria to Vancouver in time for my tech rehearsal this morning, with no...
View MoreLast night in Edmonton, my Fringe friend was admiring the constellation of buttons that spreads like a neon-colored Milky Way across the ceiling of the Deerinator. She was able to identify a few of them, and I pointed out others that were more obscure. I...
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This is me before the storm of Winnipeg hit. (photos by Heather Witherden) I’m in the middle of my first Canadian Fringe tour in years. I pulled through the Valley of Despair (Winnipeg), and finally broke through the fog with a glowing...
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See how much I hate flyering? Oh, god, how tortured I look. I stayed up late last night prepping for my Street Promo 101 workshop here in Calgary, basically just re-reading my e-booklet by the same name and making notes for what...
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