Victoria Libertore to Bring NO NEED FOR SEDUCTION to Dixon Place, 5/20-25

Our heroine has finally gotten her act together, or so she thought. When she ends up on the romantic trip of a lifetime in Bali with the woman of her dreams, she is on the verge of having everything she wants...and also on the verge of destroying it all. The true challenge comes when she attempts to put her past behind her in order to pursue her fairytale dreams of her own happily ever after. As DOMA and Prop 8 are debated in The Supreme Court, No Need for Seduction takes an exquisite, insightful, and hilarious look at the question: "Are you committed?"

The creative team includes, set design by Sarah Lambert, lighting design by Steven Battaglia and production images by Jennifer E. Koltun. All performances take place at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey. (Subway: F to 2nd Ave., J or Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring, B or D to Grand.)

Victoria Libertore (writer/performer) is an actress, writer, curator and emcee. She is the creator of six solo shows: Camille: The Forgotten Artist, stalk(her), The Should Dream, My Journey of Decay, GIRL MEAT and No Need for Seduction. She has performed her original work throughout NYC in venues such as Carolines on Broadway, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, Joyce Soho and PS122 as well as in Boston, Montreal, Philadelphia, Provincetown, Toronto and Washington, D.C. Libertore presented her work at Studio 303 in Montreal's Festival of Edgy Women, at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto's Hysteria: A Festival of Women and headlined in the Philly Fringe Festival. She also performed at Cirque du Soleil's opening party for Corteo.

She has emceed throughout New York City in clubs as her incomparable, faux Liza Minnelli where she utilizes her improvisational skills to make "people laugh so hard that their faces hurt." Her plays include A Man with a Limp (Dopplegäng Festival), How Crazy Joe Met His Wife (produced and published by Estrogenius) and Monster and Lola (Humana Festival Finalist). She has curated and produced dozens of local and a few international artists with backgrounds in performance, variety arts, music, comedy and dance. Libertore was a 2008 2010 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Theater Artist in Residence and she has a BFA in theatre from Otterbein College. She serves as a member on the board of New Dance Alliance. Currently, she is working on a screenplay with Ryan Kipp based on the life of the world's most infamous, female serial killer. www.howlingvic.com

Leigh Fondakowski (director/dramaturg) was the Head Writer of The Laramie Project and has been a member of Tectonic Theatre Project since 1995. She is an Emmy nominated coscreenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO, and a cowriter of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Her play, The People's Temple, has been performed under her direction at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Theater Company and The Guthrie Theater, and received the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area in 2005. Another original play, I Think I Like Girls, premiered at Encore Theater in San Francisco under her direction and was voted one of the top 10 plays of 2002 by The Advocate.

Leigh is a 2007 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a 2009 Macdowell Colony Fellow, and a 2010 Imagine Fund Fellow and guest lecturer at the University of Minnesota. She recently codirected The Laramie Project Cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has two current projects: SPILL, a play and art installation (cocreated with Reeva Wortel) about the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil disaster, and Casa Cushman, a new play about the 19thcentury American actress Charlotte Cushman. Stories from Jonestown, her first work of creative nonfiction was published by the University of Minnesota Press in early 2013.