Vincent D'Onofrio and Dana Lyn Celebrate Album Release At Joe's Pub, 5/4

Vincent D'Onofrio and Dana Lyn to celebrate Slim Bone Head Volt - Volume 2 Album Release, Friday, May 4 - Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 7:00pm

Tickets On Sale Now Listen to "I'm A Mule" from Slim Bone Head Volt To steal unapologetically from Steinbeck: Slim Bone Head Volt is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Slim Bone Head Volt is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps of an actor's brain and a musician's hands. Its inhabitant are, as The Man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches," by which he meant Vincent D'Onofrio. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen," and he would have meant Dana Lyn. The project's theatrical roots are evident: Slim Bone Head Volt is the free-form system of Stanislavski mixed with the daring of Sturm und Drang and the broken fourth wall of improvisation; it's Ionesco and Brecht meets The Last Poets and Tom Waits; a theater-of-the-absurd-in-the-round and unabashed circle in the square times of today.

Vincent D'Onofrio first gained attention for his intense and compelling portrayal of an unstable Vietnam War recruit in Stanley Kubrick's gritty Full Metal Jacket. Other film appearances include Mystic Pizza, Adventures in Babysitting, The Cell, The Salton Sea, Imposter, The Player, Ed Wood, Strange Days, The Magnificent Seven, Jurassic World and Men in Black. He received an Emmy Award nomination in 1998 for his riveting guest appearance in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "The Subway." D'Onofrio also directed, produced and starred in the short film, Five Minutes, Mr. Welles, and recently appeared on the Academy Award winning short, The New Tenants.

Multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Dana Lyn works with Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Irish poet Louis de Paor, Taylor Mac and avant cellist Hank Roberts, among others. As a composer, she has received commissions from the Brooklyn Rider, the Apple Hill String Quartet, the National Arts Council of Ireland and the New Orchestra of Washington. Most recently, Dana was an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in the Spring of 2017. She is currently a member of the 2018 Joe's Pub Working Group, which aims to enrich the sustainability and growth of New York-based emerging and established artists' careers by providing administrative resources, physical space and curatorial services, further cultivating a community atmosphere wherein those artists can create and sustain new and developing work.

About Joe's Pub at The Public
Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public opened in 1998 and plays a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. Joe's Pub presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers unique opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works. Commissioned artists have included Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more. In 2011, the Pub received a top-to-bottom renovation, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe's Pub is a home to talent from all over the world as part of The Public's programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually.

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