GERRY VISCO
Gerry Visco is a performer, writer, and photographer. She is illegally blonde and lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
She has performed at such venues as the Cutting Room, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, The Museum of Arts and Design, the Creative Time Gala, The Wild Project, Chantal’s House of Shame in Berlin, Envoy Gallery, The Slipper Room, and nightclubs all over Brooklyn and Manhattan. She is performing in Paul Iacono's show in May 2017 "Psychedelic Playhouse at the Green Room at Yotel. She has appeared in several films, music videos, and TV shows, including Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories, Mozart In the Jungle, Oddities, Love, Lust, or Run, Hellaware, Vamp Bikers Dos, Vamp Bikers Tres, and Abel Ferrara’s 4.44 Last Day on Earth, and a full-length documentary about her called Visco Disco. Visco currently writes for Interview magazine, Vice, and online art magazine Hyperallergic. She has written hundreds of articles which have appeared in NY Press and Out. Her photography has appeared in NY Magazine, The Village Voice, The Daily News, and Gawker and has been shown at the Munch Gallery in NYC, and Gallery U in Montclair, NJ and Detroit, Michigan. The Village Voice named her Bravest Nightlife Photographer of 2010. Gerry holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University and is a certified yoga teacher from the Iyengar Institute. She also had a day job in educational administration at Columbia University for 31 years.
She is currently writing a tell-all memoir about her colorful life as muse, fag hag, and rent girl, in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.
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