Raja Feather Kelly's UGLY Launches Season at The Bushwick Starr
The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to kick off our 10th Anniversary Season with Raja Feather Kelly's UGLY, a new piece created by award-winning choreographer and performer, Raja Feather Kelly, who's most recent work includes The House That Will Not Stand directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz (New York Theatre Workshop), A Strange Loopdirected by Michael R. Jackson (Playwright Horizons), and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Everybody directed by Lila Neugebauer (Signature Theatre).
Part dance-theater and part pop-culture collage, Raja Feather Kelly is UGLY and this is the latest from the Warhol-obsessed; Black; Queer; Drama Queen of the feath3r theory and his response to the dearth of nuanced black queer subjectivity in the mainstream. Raja Feather Kelly says "I am an Ugly man. I am a queer of substance, color and depth, thoughts and expression- and I might even be said to possess magick. I am Ugly, understand, simply because you refuse to see me... "
Written, directed, and performed by Raja Feather Kelly
Lighting Design: Tuce Yasak, Set Design: You-Shin Chen, Sound Design: Emily Auciello, Photography: Kate Enman, Project Manager: Rachel Pritzlaff, Production/Stage Manager: Kimberly Golding, Choreographic Associates: Amy Gernux and Aaron Moses Robin.
Raja Feather Kelly's UGLY was created with support of the Harkness Foundation, The Bushwick Starr, and the Princess Grace Foundation- USA. Raja Feather Kelly is a 2017 and 2018 Princess Grace Awardee.
The Bushwick Starr's 2018-19 Season is supported in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Bushwick Starr theater: 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wyckoff]
Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.
For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/directions
Tickets available at www.thebushwickstarr.org
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