Lucas Brooks to Star in COOTIE CATCHER at FRIGID New York, 2/18-3/8
FRIGID New York presents "Cootie Catcher", written and performed by Lucas Brooks and directed by David Drake, running February 18th - March 8rd, 2015.
Horse Trade's Annual FRIGID Festival will host the world premiere of award-winning playwright/performer Lucas Brooks new one-man show, Cootie Catcher, which navigates the rocky road of today's urban gay sexual landscape of sex clubs, hook-ups, and STD paranoia.
Cootie Catcher performs:
Thursday, Feb 19, 8:50pm
Monday, Feb 23, 5:30pm
Friday, Feb 27, 10:30pm
Saturday, Feb 28, 3:50pm
Friday, March 6, 5:30pm
At UNDER St Marks, 94 St Marks Place (Basement level of building - no elevator or wheelchair access), New York, NY 10009. Tickets: General - $15. Available on www.FRIGIDnewyork.info.
In this hilarious and borderline-terrifying reflection, Lucas looks back on his many close encounters of the sexually transmissible kind. Through his naked (yet carefully wrapped) adventures, he struggles with his ability to remain sex-positive in an HIV-negative society.
Lucas Brooks (Playwright/Performer) is a writer, performer, and sex educator living in Brooklyn. He holds a BA in The Arts from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, where he appeared in Operetta, Firefall, and Love's Labours Lost, and directed The Vagina Monologues. He has spent the last two years touring the fringe circuit with his first one-man show, VGL 5'4" Top, making stops in San Francisco, New York, Grand Rapids, Toronto, and Orlando, where he was granted the LGBT Award in the Orlando Fringe. He is also the creator of the blog "The Intellectual Homosexual" (www.IntellectualHomosexual.com) where he analyzes gay culture and sexuality.
David Drake (Director) has staged new plays and musicals in NYC at HERE (Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge; Obie Award), The Public's "Under the Radar" Festival (The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac), Rattlestick (Star Struck), Theatre for the New City (Jesus & Mandy), Manhattan Theatre Source (That Woman: Rebecca West Remembers), Players Club (Cover), Producers Club (The Weight of Water) and productions in the NYC Fringe Festival, NYMF, and Frigid Festival. Twice a Directing Fellow at the Sundance Theatre Lab, David has directed regionally and internationally. As a playwright/performer, David is the creator of one of the longest-running solo shows in New York theater history, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, for which he won an Obie Award. daviddrakeproductions.com
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