Dixon Place Announces 20th Annual HOT! Festival Lineup, 6/24-8/6
By: Kelsey Denette Jun. 06, 2011
When: June 24 - August 6, 2011
Where: Dixon Place| 161A Chrystie Street | New York, NY 10002
Tickets: For reservations & advanced tickets visit www.hotfestival.org or call 212.219.0736.
Tickets are also available at the door.
OPENING NIGHT OF THE 20TH ANNUAL HOT! FESTIVAL OF QUEER PERFORMANCE coincides with The 25th Anniversary of Dixon Place! Over 100 hot and sexy queer artists will perform original and provocative work!
*OPENING NIGHT*
Friday, June 24 - 6:00pm
HOT! Opening Night Party hosted by Anti-Diva
Come celebrate the beginning of the 20th Annual HOT! Festival with Liz Liguori and Jessie Mann, also known as Anti-Diva - the hottest downtown girlfriend duo in town. 20 HOT! Artists will preview selections from their newest work.
Free admission
Friday, June 24 & Saturday June 25th - 7:30pm
THE Tom Judson SHOW
Written & Performed by Tom Judson, Directed by Michael Schiralli
Look forward to a sophisticated, sexy songfest perfectly timed for Pride Week! Tom Judson returns for a special two-performance preview of his new show, The Tom Judson Show. The show will be a tune-filled evening of songs both familiar and new; including a handful written by Tom himself. Of course "The ManWho Was Gus Mattox" won't disappoint fans of his adult work. Skin will most likely be bared, "Y'know, to sell tickets," says Tom. "I've never had a problem with gratuitous nudity."
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Saturday, June 25 - 9:30pm
THE BODY BLEND SERIES - REMIXED n' HOMOTIZED
Co-curated by Mathew Heggem, your local Palinographer and co-founder of Queer Art Impact, and
N - "The ONLY Letter In Burlesque" of Crimson Kitty Productions.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Monday, June 27 - 7:30pm and Monday, July 25 - 7:30pm
TAKE THE MIC!
Hosted by Marti Gould Cummings
One of Dixon Place's most popular series gets even gayer and more BROAAADWAY! With the HOT!
Festival version of TAKE THE MIC! Show off your pipes (or any other talent) in front of a lively, show biz loving queer audience. Take your drinks into the theater to cool down from all the sizzling talent. Sign up at www.broadwayspeaksOUT.com.
Free Admission Tuesday, June 28 - 7:30pm
FUCK YOUR MUSICAL
Written by Nick Leyva
Starring Nick Leyva, Ben Rosenbaum and Introducing Stephanie Streisand
Hey! Ever been punched in the face by musical theatre before? NOW'S YOUR CHANCE! Fuck Your
Musical is a musical comedy / character vignette cycle, specifically focusing on people in positions of power. It oft poses the question: are commercialism and creativity at odds with each other? Spoilers: they aren't. Stephen Sondheim was 27 when he produced his first musical. Nick Leyva is 23. Winning? Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, June 29 - 7:30pm
EJERCICIOS DE BELLEZA/ BEAUTY EXERCISES
Created by Liliana Albornoz, Jorge Baldeón, & Megan Hanley
Ejercicios de Belleza/Beauty Exercises is the second part of an international, interdisciplinary
performance taking place this year in both Lima and New York City. Produced with the Peruvian
performance collective elgalpon.espacio, the piece draws on queer theory and the performers'
own experiences to question how gender and national identity are ascribed/inscribed on the body
and how we-the accionistas-perform these identities in relation to each other.
Featuring New York Performers Emma Alabaster, Katrina De Wees, Beth Given, Megan Hanley,
Marcela Barrientos, Lily Mengesha and Kira Neel
With Video Performance by Liliana Albornoz, Jorge Baldeón, and Megan Hanley
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, June 30 - 7:30pm
COBY KOEHL IN CONCERT
Written by Coby Koehl, Sean Dibble & Ken Kincaid
"Coby Koehl is the greatest living soul singer since Amy Winehouse & is absolutely one of the
most amazing voices I've heard in fifteen years" - Boy George
The former protege of Boy George performs for the first time at Dixon Place. Internationally known NewYork singer Coby Koehl covers the greats: Nina Simone, Roberta Flack & the most obscure traditional tunes heard in years, with additional original material.
Piano by Ken Kincaid
Percussion by Leo Santino
Additional Music by Producer Man Parrish
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, June 30 - 9:30pm
HE WHO LAUGHS: LIVE
Written by Isaac Oliver, Directed by David Ruttura
Ingeniously meshing the worlds of blogging and live theater, He Who Laughs: Live is a fun and fastpaced evening of tales from the blog, bringing to life a series of hilarious, bawdy and surprisingly poignant New York moments, celebrity crushes, scenes from casual sex, peeks behind a box office window, and run-ins with a seductively anthropomorphized corporate coffee chain.
Performed by Isaac Oliver and special guests
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior Friday, July 1 - 7:30pm
BARDS
Written by Nick Ryan
In this new, gay, Elizabethan adventure from 3 Sticks Theatre, Christopher Marlowe, spy for the Queen,enlists William Shakespeare on his most dangerous mission yet.
The theory that William Shakespeare wrote love sonnets for the Earl of Southampton but discreetly loved rival playwright Christopher Marlowe fuels this sizzling comedy, BARDS. It opens with the seemingly good news that the Plague has closed the theaters in London, paving the way for Shakespeare's conversion to Catholicism under the patronage of the lascivious Earl of Southampton. Meanwhile, Chris Marlowe signs up as a spy for the Queen and then gets Shakespeare to conspire against the Earl. Performed by Jason Bohon, Nick Ryan, Katie Hartman, Katie Melby, and other performers
Lights by Dan Rousseau
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Friday, July 1 - 9:30pm
HOW BRIEF ETERNITY
Choreographed by John J. Zullo
A meditation on the survival of hatred drawn from genocide of gay men in the Middle East.
How Brief Eternity is an exploration of enduring hatreds that can prosper in a flawed society. The works
conception and creation was inspired by the article "The Hunted" by Matt McAllester in New York
Magazine about the genocide of gay men in Iraq. As well as the Human Rights Watch report "They Want
Us Exterminated: Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq."
Original Music by Mio Morales
Costume Design by Hector Perez
Lighting and Set Décor by Lily Meyer
~ FOLLOWED BY ~
THE Matthew Shepard DANCE
Performed by Michael Freeman
This dance explores the homophobic murder in visceral choreography with bloody video images and
explores Matthew Shepard's life-after-death experience.
Video by Peyton Harrison and Jamie Southworth Drums
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Saturday, July 2 - 9:30pm
BURLESQUE WITH ESSENCE REVEALED AND FRIENDS
Featuring Essence Revealed, Syd London & Miss SoCo
A sensual and entertaining night of performance and storytelling through burlseque. Special guest Miss
SoCo oF Brown Girls Burlesque will grace the stage! And Syd and Essence are cooking up something
special! Don't miss it. Fun and surprises, come peek!
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Tuesday, July 5 - 7:30pm
NOW/NOT NOW OR JUST ON THE CORNER OF WALK/DON'T WALK
Created by Lauren M. Feldman & Diana Y. GreinerA piece about intimacy with strangers and non-intimacy with loved ones and which direction to go when
at the crossroads of walk and don't walk.
Performed by Diana Y. Greiner
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WOMEN I KNOW
Choreographed & Performed by Maria Bauman
Women I Know centers around the often small and narrow box that is womanhood, and Maria's own
journey of pushing the walls of that box farther away from herself. The solo is an embodiment of widely
held notions of womanhood and femininity-and of her own version of those notions.
~ AND ~
"BROTHERS"
Choreographed & Performed by Ephrat Asherie
A girl explores her impossible childhood dream of being a boy.
The creation of a personal identity is one of the central struggles of life. For a girl growing up with four
older brothers the choice is obvious: become a boy. Follow her through this exploration of gender
through movement.
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UNTITLED
Choreographed & Performed by Jen Abrams
A woman finds her body has become a foreign country. Its laws and treaties change without consent or
negotiation. Jen Abrams brings dance, text, and laser-like honesty to the body in transition - not between
genders, but between two far more mysterious states.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, July 6 - 7:30pm
SELF-TAUT
Created & Performed by Chris Tyler
Get ready to party like its 2005 because nothing says "I love you" like acute testicular torsion. It's senior
year at Suffern High School and secret homo/teacher's pet Chris Tyler's balls are in a twist. Figuratively,
of course. But also literally, too. SELF-TAUT is a riotously melancholic solo performance exploring the
roots an often-stressful, always-exaggerated sex anxiety. Intimacy issues encouraged.
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HARD WEAR SOFT DRIVE
Conceived, Performed & Video Design by Josh Rowe
"The history, the pain, the subtext, the sex! Where do the heels end and the man begin?"
A battle for identity transcends the implications of a man in heels. In this multimedia, one-man show
inspired by Taoist philosophy and Carl Jung's archetypes, the differences between masculine and
feminine, live and recorded, passive and active, a man and his heels, are blurred and inverted in a
dizzying spiral effect.
Directed by Corinne Donly
Choreographed by Lindsay Preiss, Katie Lorge, and Josh Rowe
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, July 7 - 7:30pm
COME...I AM YOUR BROWN HIPSTER TROPHY
By Coffee Grindr
Directed by Ni'Ja Whitson
Gay is so HOT right now. Coffee Grindr explores new boundaries of homosexuality and Gay Sex in the 21st
century. From Manhunt to Adam 4 Adam to Grindr - I just got my sexual explosion. Join us for a night of
queer spoken word.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Friday, July 8 - 7:30pm
VOLCANO'S BIRTHRIGHT{S}
Written & Performed by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene
Directed by Ni'Ja Whitson
A one-woman, multi-media theatrical production that fuses poetry, choreography, film and music. This
Nigerian dyke poet and daughter of immigrants, illuminates her experience of love and heartache, art and
activism, culture and roots. Fly spits raw poetry and unleashes uncensored monologue at once seething
with rage, deeply humorous and intensely loving...In the face of genocide and war, this work asks of itself
and the world: are poems enough?
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Friday, July 8 - 9:30pm
DYKE-OPALYPSE: Laughing at the End of the World
Hosted by Elizabeth Whitney
Tricia Clayton Biltmore (Elizabeth Whitney), aspiring comedian from Bainbridge, GA and super-ally to
the lesbian community, hosts an evening of funny stuff about our impending doom. Molly Equality
Dykeman (Andrea Alton) offers poetic wisdom, Drae Campbell brings song & dance, Kelli Dunham tells
funny stories, Victoria Libertore *is* Liza Minelli, and Lea Robinson-as Officer Ruffins-does an official
presentation on zombie preparedness.
Featuring Andrea Alton, Drae Campbell, Kelli Dunham, Victoria Libertore, Lea Robinson and special
guests
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
*Monday, July 11th
is a benefit for Dixon Place and Ali Forney Center*
Monday, July 11th - 7:30pm and Monday, July 18th - 7:30pm
FRONT THE FRONT PORCH: AN EVENING WITH David Mixner
Directed by Stephen Brackett with Special Music by Josh Zuckerman
From his chair on a countryside 'front porch' set, David will captivate his guests with a fascinating
personal and historical portrait of America throughout several of its most turbulent periods including the
anti-war demonstrations of the 60's, the sexual revolution of the 70's, the dark days of the AIDS crisis in
the 80's, and the showdown of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the 90's. The chapters of Front Porch will be
interwoven with special music by Josh Zuckerman and Holly Holcomb to highlight the narrative content.
Tickets for the benefit: $250 - $3000
Tickets for the second performance: $50 reserved, priority seating (includes 1 complimentary drink) |
$15 advance | $20 at door (based upon availability)
Tuesday, July 12 - 7:30pm
AMERICA AIN'T READY
Written & Performed by Pamela Sneed
America Ain't Ready is a new solo written and performed by Pamela Sneed it is this generations HOWL
with a satirical scathing look at pop culture current events film and politics addressing everything from
9/11 to healthcare to gay & lesbian rights. At its heart examining the role and treatment of artists in the
culture.
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HOMEbody
By Katrina De Wees
Home is a space constructed largely by people. What happens to a space when its physical landmarks
loose their anchor, as bodies that occupied that or those space(s) have been displaced? HOMEbody is a
new multimedia dance and video installation exploring the theme of bodies as site(s) of home. HOMEBody
contemplates the implications of gentrification in Park Slope Brooklyn, Fort Greene Brooklyn, and
Harlem NY for those that have been displaced and those that remain.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, July 13 - 7:30pm
DISEMBODIED - A MEMOIR
Created & Performed by Wendell Cooper
Disembodied is a multimedia performance project, a workshop in performance/audience awareness
building, and awareness building, and a literary endeavor. Experiences in dream, waking states, and
journeys in meditation are woven together to tell a nonlinear narrative. Life does not happen in a neatly
packed narrative in a rich and dynamic field of potentials that our senses hone into the experience of this
present, conscious moment. Using guided meditation, contemporary urban dance, voice, music, video
projection, spoken word and monologue, Disembodied takes the audience on a journey though Wendell
Cooper's life experiences.
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EL ENSAYO
Choreographed by Antonio Ramos
Antonio Ramos was born and raised in Puerto Rico where he learned jazz, salsa and African dance. His
choreography has been produced at Dance Theater Workshop (Split Stream), La Mama, Purchase College
SUNY, Dixon Place, P.S. 122,Joes Pub,Taller Pregones, Saint Mark's Church, Lexington for the Arts in New
York, DanceNow Downtown, Princeton University, Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Galapagos
Art and Performance Space, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and recently The Kitchen (dance &process).
Performed by Julian de Leon, Saul Ulerio, Adele Lux- Turner and Antonio Ramos
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
*A MONDO CANE! COMMISSION*
Thursday, Friday and Saturday July 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 - 7:30pm
TICKETS TO MANHOOD
Written by James Scruggs. Directed by Mark Rayment
What makes a man today? How do boys grow into men? America has become more and more urbanized:
gang violence, drug addiction and imprisonment are often as much a boy's rite of passage as religion,
military service and marriage once were. The men in Tickets to Manhood examine the choices that boys
make as they mature into men. But these men don't apologize for their choices: they dive deep into them and hold up the results for all the world to see. Their humorous and poignant stories offer a glimpse into
the events that transformed them and how that metamorphosis occurred.
Performed by Douglas Allen, Maximiliano Balduzzi, Spencer Scott Barros, Gerard Joseph and
James Scruggs
Tickets: $15 advance | $18 at door
Friday, July 15 - 9:30pm
MaDHaTters CabArEt's: Give 'em Fiya!
New York City's most talented ruckus causing queers of color bring you a night of drag, dance, song and
burlesque. Give 'em Fiya! will feature queer artists of color & flavors for a night of Xtravaganza eleganza
that is sure to entertain you, offend you, turn you on, and make you squirm in your seat with delight. A
roller-coaster ride of musical heartbreak, gender f*ckery and spit fire poetry.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Tuesday, July 19 - 7:30pm
GIRL ADVENTURE PARTS 2 & 3
Created by Nina Morrison in collaboration with the performers
A woman searches for a book and encounters a gang of angry sea goddesses in a library. This piece is
composed of original and found text, songs, videos, and dances. Reference is made to the Ramayana, a
Sofia Coppola film, the travel channel, and how people dance at weddings.
Choreographed by Isabel Gotzkowsky
With Artist Vandana Jain and Contributing Writers Joy Armstrong and Tatiana Forero Puerta
Video Design by Zoë Woodworth
Costume Design by Marla Bumble
Lighting Design by Paul Jones
Performed by Denise Baker, Sarah Burke, Brenda Crawley, Teresa DiMauro, Jennifer Fasolino,
Juniper Foster, Jeannie Frye, Jerly Marquez, Nana Miki, Caroline Oster, Katherine O'Sullivan,
Bethany Perry, Susan Quinn, Ellen Simpson, Jeanne lauren Smith, Heather Stickell, Megan Tefft,
and Katherine Wessling
Wednesday, July 20 - 7:30pm
CONSANGUINITY
Choreographed & Performed by Emily Berry of B3W
What we can't see protects us, but if we know it is there, even though we can't see it, are we still safe?
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HOW TO FILL A DAY
By Rebecca Stronger/STRONGERCircus
Lock a Saint and a Trapezista in a room together and what you end up with is an absurdist circus fueled
by the forces of intimacy, addiction, and faith. Put Miss Georgia Valentine and Christina the Astonishing in
a room together and what you end up with is How To Fill A Day, an absurdist circus experience. Come
along on a contagious, high-flying, acrobatic journey as these two searching souls test the limits of
physical and emotional risk-taking, recklessness, and loneliness on the trapeze, on the ground and on
each other.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior Wednesday, July 20 - 9:30pm
THE SHANGHAILANDER
Written & Performed by Peter Neofotis
Award-winning writer and storyteller Peter Neofotis (Concord, Virginia; St Martin's 2009) returns to
Dixon Place's HOT! Festival to debut a new tale: The Shanghailander, in which he relives an affair between
a young man searching for artistic mentorship and one of the greatest classical Chinese artists to survive
the Cultural Revolution.
Praise for Peter Neofotis's Concord, Virginia: "The Southern Gothic genre is marvelously reincarnated in
these beguiling stories penned and performed by Peter Neofotis... Eerily magnificent."
- The Star Tribune
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, July 21 - 9:30pm
NEGRO ANTICHRIST
Written, Conceived & Composed by M. Lamar
Directed by Tucker Culbertson
Negro Antichrist is a multimedia musical exploration of the deep and profound levels of subjection and
dehumanization that ultimately form a radical subjectivity or revolt, revenge, and revival. This is the
story of the Negro Antichrist!! Elaborate projected images and animation combine with the virtuosic
male soprano of M. Lamar to form a musical lamentation of longing and becoming.
Art Design and Animation by Sabin Calvert
Sound Design by Bryce Hackford
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior Friday, July 22 - 9:30pm
UNBOUND S/HE: EJACULATING BEAUTY
By Aimee Herman
Unbound s/he: ejaculating beauty travels along the seams of the ever-changing and
sometimes confused queer body.
Aimee Herman utilizes music, movement and language to translate the stories of one queer body as it
unravels itself in patches of narration. Unbound s/he: ejaculating beauty is a funny, sexy, and revealing
portrayal of one particular journey through queerness, gender and the complications of labels.
~ FOLLOWED BY ~
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU'RE THE ONE
Created & Performed by Laryssa Husiak
In a trio of live music videos, solo artist Laryssa Husiak explores the sexualization of women through
repetitive thrusts and blank stares. Don't worry, it's not as ball-busting as it sounds: she is wearing a
groovy swimsuit. The result is a ferocious dance party spun out of some classic tunes.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior *A DIXON PLACE SPECIAL EVENT*
Sunday, July 24th
- A kid/family ice cream social from 2:00-4:00pm followed by an adult ice cream
social 6:30-9:30pm
MILK NOT JAILS ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Co-hosted by Milk Not Jails and Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner/Jenny Romaine
Ice Cream Sunday is coming to Dixon Place! Melt your mind with fresh local ice cream, hot queer political
desire, and entertainment. Its live solutions thinking on ice! Come to an old fashioned homosexual ice
cream social and learn what milk and jails have to do with one another. Enjoy ice cream and
entertainment. Find out what you can do to demand a new urban rural relationship.
Tickets: $10
Admission includes free ice cream and three game tickets Wednesday, July 27, 7:30pm
RADCLYFFE: THE COMPLETELY HONEST AND MOSTLY TRUE STORY OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S
SECOND MOST NOTORIOUS INVERT
Written & Performed by Kestryl Cael Lowrey
Radclyffe Hall was a butch who swaggered her way through the early 20th century and wrote the
censored lesbian classic, ‘The Well of Loneliness.' In this pseudo-historical solo performance, she
confronts the important questions of queer life today: "What happened to ‘romantic friendships?", "What
the hell is a ‘genderqueer'?!" And "Where can a butch get a good haircut in this town?!?"
~ FOLLOWED BY ~
LEGGO MY EGO
Written & Directed by Corinne Donly
A disappointment play. For all the Crest Kids who drank Sunny D. One must solve the Sphinx's riddle to
enter the temple, but the body is a temple and the temple is failing. Merging ancient Egyptian spirituality
with 1990s ad campaigns, Leggo My Ego is about trying to reconcile the happy-kid lives we were
promised by 20th
Century TV commercials with the confused-adult lives we seem to be living today. It's
about how the prescribed pathways end in longing; about how all those commercial foods ended up
ruining our bodies.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, July 27 and Thursday, August 4 9:30pm
NIGHT MOTHER
Written & Performed by Cole Escola and Erin Markey
Five opening numbers and seven encores. No parents allowed. Erin Markey and Cole Escola are only cute
for a limited time. Catch them while they are in their twenties and can infantilize themselves and
somehow make it sexy, smart and funny. Just kidding! They are teenagers. And they can do whatever they
want and never die. They will sing your favorite YouTube hits and top 40 hits and accidentally think they
made them up. If you believe them, you will win amazing prizes.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, July 28th - 9:30pm
WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*'S TOP SHELF VARIETY HOUR!
Take the elevator of entertainment all the way up to World Famous *BOB*'s Top Shelf! in her Variety
Hour NOT for the masses!
World Famous *BOB*, the Professional Blonde Spectacle of Burlesque, has skimmed the top of the cream
to bring you a dazzling Queertastic Variety show that is sure to inspire a new and brighter you! The energy of a tent revival and the glamour of Vegas awaits as we all end the evening falling in love with NYC
and its constant tide of young queer talent all over again!
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Friday, July 29 and Saturday, July 30 - 9:30pm
NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER
Written & Performed by Marga Gomez
Marga Gomez spills the beans in her 9th solo show "Not Getting Any Younger" a comedy about lies, vanity
and the good old days. Marga's coming of age story begins in a dairy cow's boudoir in the Bronx and
leads to a murder in a ‘Forever 21' department store. Lauded for her honesty as an out gay comedian
before it was safe to do so, Gomez has been a master of deception in other ways. Now the cagey
monologist unburdens herself and brings her riskiest revelation to the stage because Marga Gomez is
"Not Getting Any Younger."
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior Monday, August 1 - 7:30pm
DREAMS OF INCEST IN BALI
Created & Performed by Victoria Libertore
With her trademark dark humor, heart, and sensuality, Victoria Libertore entwines the beauty of Bali
with the unspeakable taboo of incest.
Part memoir, part '80s video, part study of pop culture (i.e. the "Twilight" phenomenon), this new solo
performance by Victoria Libertore weaves the audience through 12 days in Bali cumulating in a neardeath experience on a mountain only to return to Brooklyn to find a letter from her father praying for her
not to be gay.
~ FOLLOWED BY ~
OYSTERS, org*smS AND OVUMS: PART MUSICAL, PART COOKING SHOW, PART HOMICIDE
Written & Performed by Raïna von Waldenberg
Watch one woman consume an aphrodisiac, get horny, get pregnant, and have an org*smic birth. Watch
her have multiple org*sms and raise 5 children. Watch her befriend Andrea Yates. Watch 5 children
drown in a bathtub. Raïna von Waldenburg's acting has been described as "dignified and perversely
celebratory... with an astounding emotional and gestural vocabulary... utterly distinct and compelling
shades of comedic bitterness" - Nytheatre.com.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Tuesday, August 2nd - 7:30pm
YOU DROPPED THIS: AND OTHER MAVERICK TALES
Written by Becca Blackwell
What happens when we cage the human being physically and ideologically?
You Dropped This is a meditation on the incarceration of humans in the physical and ideological confines
created by contemporary society; what is evil to some may be a necessity to others. "Animals ain't got no
commandments."
Designed and Video by Michael De Angelis
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Tuesday, August 2nd - 9:30pm
Puppet BLoK: THE QUIET WAY
Inspired by the work of East Village poet, Eileen Myles, Casey Llewellyn's The Quiet Way is an
interrogation of gender, sexuality and transformation-the scraping of the self against the outside
world.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, August 3 - 7:30pm
HOW TO FALL IN LOVE BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE
By Thain Torres
Monologist Thain Torres recounts his journey between a small mining town in pre-Democratic South
Africa to post-9/11 NYC. A lover of stories both true and fantastical, Torres creates a portrait of a fragile
personal world poised on the brink of collapse. Told with gentle humor vignettes, these stories are a love
letter and requiem to the notion that everything will probably turn out fine.
~ FOLLOWED BY ~
HOT TO STOP SMOKING IN NINETEEN-THOUSAND, TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN SECONDS,
USAMA
Multimedia Reading by Chavisa Woods, Animation by Itziar Barrio
UFO's, a meth lab in a cornfield, a talking couch and the death of Usama Bin Laden, set the stage for a
young woman's journey to give up chain smoking.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Wednesday, August 3 - 9:30pm
SH!T THEATRE'S (GENUINE) PERFORMANCE DEMOCRACY
Written & Performed by Sh!t Theatre's Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Fuller
In collaboration with Lois Weaver
With special guests Tammy WhyNot and Queer Supply
Sh!t Theatre uses satire and song to explore the daily political, the everlasting personal and the
downright perverted nature of their own lives and yours. Tammy WhyNot, Sh!t Theatre and Queer Supply
are getting HOT! at Dixon Place. All the way from London and in collaboration with Split Britches, Sh!t
Theatre are here to question democracy, sexuality, morality, and the crippling fear of their own potential.
Satire, songs, short-films and special guests including Lois Weaver as Tammy WhyNot, and all the queer
members of the UK performance collective, AiR Supply.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Thursday, August 4 and Friday, August 5 - 7:30pm
The TWEED Fractured Classicks presents: SUMMER & TOKES
The TWEED Fractured Classicks Series tops off The Hot Festival with a staged production of a fabulously
fractured tale inspired by Tennessee William's classic Summer and Smoke. The story concerns a
preacher's spinster daughter who falls for the tawdry boy next door.
This ‘send-up' will be interpreted by a dynamic cast including the sensational drag method actress
Sweetie, burlesque superstar Bradford Scobie, Steve Hayes (Tired Old Queen at the Movies), Jay Rogers
(Whoop-De Doo!),David Ilku (This American Life), Colleen O'Neill (Dr Julia Wonder), downtown
raconteur Joseph Keckler, and others. Directed by TWEED's Kevin Malony
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior Friday, August 5 - 9:30pm
BUTCH BURLESQUE: AN EVENING OF SWAGGER
Co-curated & Emceed by Victoria Libertore and Lea Robinson
Hot, queer women flirtin', titilatin', and takin' it off with the originality and swagga only a butch can pull
off. Butch Burlesque was standing room only last year and we're aimin' to do it again! The lineup includes
seasoned, salt-and-pepper performers to burlesque 'virgins' debuting their new wares. Come see these
butches and friends strut their stuff with the bravado and swagger only Dixon Place is hot enough to
handle.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
Saturday, August 6 - 7:30pm
Steve Hayes: Tired Old Queen at the Movies LIVE! "Movie Stars Sing at Last!"
Written & Performed by Steve Hayes and Mark Milano
Who was dubbed in movie musicals and why? Interview and clips with the original performer's voices
restored. Because their voices were considered inadequate, many of the stars who sang roles in the
Golden Age of movie musicals were dubbed. Mark Milano has researched, found the star's original vocal
recordings and carefully re-inserted them. Steve Hayes star of Tired Old Queen at the Movies, interviews
Mark supplying anecdotes and background info on each clip.
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission | $12 Student/Senior
Door: $18 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior
*LOUNGE SHOWS*
For ticket information on all lounge shows, please check the Dixon Place website
for pricing
Tuesday, July 26 - 7:45pm
The Laugh Tour presents: HOT FLAMING COMICS
Hosted by Rich Kiamco
An Outrageous lineup of queer comedians.
Featuring comics Vidur Kapur (NBC, FOX, MTV, VH1, LOGO), Adam Sank
(Last Comic Standing, Here TV, VH1), Frank Liotti (Laughing Skull Comedy Festival), Mona Cooper
(Divas Of Diversity Tour, New York Underground Comedy Festival), Emma Willman
(Finalist: Mohegan Sun's Funniest Comic & Catch A Rising Star), DICK + DUANE (USA Up All Night, MidAtlantic Leather 2011) and Rich Kiamco (The Howard Stern Show, Sirius XM, Queer Eye, WE-tv)
Wednesday, June 29th - 9:30pm and Wednesday, July 27th - 9:45pm
PITCH!
Hosted by Greg Walloch and Mark Allen with special guests
Pitch! is a live storytelling event with a twist. Four fearless storytellers perform in front of an audience
while simultaneously pitching their story to a publishing industry heavyweight! Our guest editor will
share their feedback and maybe even a possible yes or no on the spot! Willing audience members are also
invited to submit a rapid fire 15 second pitch. Thursday, July 13 - 9:30pm and Tuesday, July 19 - 9:30pm
BAD FEMINIST
By Jessica Halem
A nice Jewish girl from Ohio arrives at Sarah Lawrence in the early 90s for training in feminism and queer
theory, works for Bella Abzug, meets celebrities and becomes a stand-up comic and is now seeking hot
sex, the perfect downward dog, and gays who don't want to marry. Jessica Halem's one-woman show
uses personal narrative and bawdy humor to reveal a year in the life.
Friday, July 15 - 9:30pm
Molly "Equality" Dykeman's Comedy Extravaganza!
Produced & Performed by Andrea Alton (aka Molly "Equality" Dykeman)
Molly "Equality" Dykeman is a poet/security guard at PS 339 and a lovable train wreck who is going to
put on the ultimate comedy show with her funny friends. Michael Musto of the Village Voice says "Molly
Dykeman is much funnier-and butcher-than Larry the Cable Guy...She's a scream!"
Saturday, July 23 - 9:30pm
Drag Show Video Vérité V
By Joe E. Jeffreys
The ultimate NYC drag show... on video tape returns to the Hot! Festival with a new fifth anniversary
edition mashing up 50 some years of NYC drag footage into a wild video vortex. Join the drag happy
crowd in the lounge for this late show treat serving a who's who of NYC drag.
Some of the folks in this year's mash up include: RuPaul , Murray Hill, Mario Montez, Raja, Ruby Rims,
Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, Marsha P. Johnson, Misty Meaner, Mimi Imfurst, Logan Hardcore, Switch N'
Play, Bianca Del Rio, Bebe Zahara Benet, Thorgy Thor, Pearl Lin, Drag Queen Weddings for Equality, Paige
Turner, Rose Wood and many, many, more.
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