Greetings, DCW fans!
No, you did not miss my first email this month...I didn't send one!
My apologies to you...while resuming activities after The Big Lacuna, I have found myself loving the personal interaction, and exceedingly exhausted afterward. That is: seeing a friend for lunch in person: requires a 4-hour nap afterward. Volunteering for a City Council Candidate: Vitamins AND coffee!
So yes, it is a bit overwhelming to be back out in the World.
But exercise makes you stronger, and we will be able to exercise our artistic muscles in person this Thursday evening as we Careen with Pride! (And you may notice that I am on the bill again. This is because some people really aren't ready to jump back into hurlyburly...and that's OK.)
BUT FIRST...I must thank the amazing writers who broke our DCW drought last month: Titanic Tim Cusack, who enchanted us all with his beglittered beard and modern reinvention of Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric." Divine Kelli Dunham shared with us her beautiful and heartfelt story about needing, and asking for, help; and being with your family in hard times.
I read an older piece about being at a parent's deathbed (which did have some funny moments). I am going to try to bring in something new this week, but it might be TOO new!
Along with the live reading, I want to encourage you to do two MORE things:
We are in the first week of early voting here in NYC, and there are many seats at many levels open in our city government. If you're confused about Ranked Choice Voting, ask me: I'm a poll worker and will be on duty at my station on Primary Day itself (June 22).
IRISH THEATRE
As you know I love going to the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival each year. Last year's was cancelled, this year, they commissioned a bunch of new work, and are streaming it, along with some "greatest hits" online.
I hope to see you tonight. If not, that's okay.
Much love to you,
Kathleen
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Drunken! Careening! Writers!
Careening with Pride!
D'yan Forest
Nicky Paraiso
Kathleen Warnock
with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock
Thursday, June 17, 7pm
85 E. 4th St.
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Health & safety guidelines for
attending readings at KGB
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- While you do not have to show proof of vaccination, I'd prefer that you have all your shots.
- A maximum of 44 people are permitted in the bar. We will be keeping count, so get there early(ish).
- Your temperature will be taken at the door.
- You do NOT have to purchase food. That directive has been rescinded. You can always bring something if you're hungry.
- Tip your bartenders well. Buy drinks!
- If you don't feel ready to attend an indoor event yet, that's OK. I'm booking people through the end of this year and into '22.
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D’yan is stand-up comedian, singer, cabaret artist, author and avid golfer. She has performed professionally since the 1960’s with regular performances in Paris and New York. D’yan has performed her cabaret and solo-shows, I Married a Nun, Swinging on the Seine, A Broad Abroad, among others, all over the world with notable performances in New York City, Orlando, San Diego, Phoenix, Greece, Israel, Paris, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Forest started performing stand-up in her 60’s (after 9/11) because she wanted to bring more laughter to the world. She performs (with her ukulele) regularly in Paris and at The Gotham Comedy Club in NYC. She even did a stand-up set in Ethiopia when she traveled there a few years ago. D’yan just published her first memoir I Did It My Ways which follows her unconventional adventures over the last eight decades. Her writing has been featured on Huffington Post, Gay Star News and Frenchly US. D’yan lives by the motto “love has no age.” www.dyanforest.com
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Nicky Paraiso is an actor, curator, singer, musician, writer, solo performance artist. He has been a fixture of the NY downtown performance scene for the last four decades. He is Director of Programming for The Club at La MaMa, and Curator for the annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, celebrating its 16th season from May 12-23, 2021. He has worked as a performer with vanguard artists Jeff Weiss & Richard C. Martinez, Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Anne Bogart, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley, among many others. Nicky is the recipient of a 1987 Bessie Award for Performance, a 2012 BAX (Brooklyn Arts Exchange) Arts & Artists in Progress Arts Management Award, a 2018-2019 TCG (Theatre Communications Group) Fox Fellowship for Resident Actors/Round 12, and the 2019 (NY Innovative Theatre) Ellen Stewart Award for Stewardship. Nicky's most recent full-length performance, now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories, directed/designed by John Jesurun, was presented at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre in March-April 2019.
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Kathleen Warnock is the founder of Drunken! Careening! Writers! (since 2004). It is her prerogative to occasionally read something herself Kathleen is a playwright, essayist, fiction writer and editor. Her work has been produced in NYC, regionally and internationally in the US, England, ireland and Australia. She is Associate Artistic Director of The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) and a NYC Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild. She is Ambassador of love for North America for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. She is a proud member of Community Board 1 in Queens.
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Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a reading series based on the proposition
that all readings should be by: 1) Good Writers; 2) Who read their work well;
3) Something in it makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts.)
Since 2004.
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