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SELF-ISH
Who are you, and...how do you know? If asked,
would know you the answer?
X is hoping you know. In order to become a
superhero, X first needs an identity: “Superman can't be
Superman without a Clark Kent,” so she goes to Earth to find
one in a kind of “superhero vision quest.”
Hoping that the people of Earth can help
point the way, X begins asking everyone she meets about what
this crazy little thing called a“me” is. With tones both
savvy and innocent, Self-ish is about X's quest to
attain Superhero-hood in a journey that explores how we all
come to discover and understand how we know who we are.
As background research for the show,
performer Gray quit her job, changed her name and physical
appearance, and is conducting hundreds of
interviews—continuing through closing night of the
show—asking two seemingly simple questions: who are you, and
how do you know? (You, too, can take part at:
http://www.whoareyouhowdoyouknow.com/)
Self-ish is being presented as a
work-in-progress. (Aren't we all...)
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Gray is an Oakland-based performance
artist and writer. It has been said of her: “She
is not an ordinary human being... She has the spunk of Punky
Brewster, the mind of General Patton, and the awkward
neuroticism of Woody Allen. She is lively, honest -- full of
piss and vinegar." (Scott Lifton, producer of
Mortified SF)
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SNUG HARBOR
Award-winning solo performer Tracey Erin Smith is coming to
Santa Fe with a brand new show. A personal story of loss and
hope, told through the universal lens of The Hero's Journey.
From Smith’s new play, snug harbor : “What if I told you I
had a dream. In that dream, my Dad sells his life insurance
and disappears. My sister and I look for him everywhere.
Finally he phones. I tell him, ‘Dad I was worried about you.
When I couldn’t reach you on your cell, I figured either
you’d turned it off, driven out of range or it was at the
bottom of a lake somewhere’. Then the police hand my sister
Dad’s cell phone. It’s in a zip lock baggie. Soaking wet. It
was at the bottom of a lake. Now, what if I told you it’s
all true. It happened. It all happened."
Tracey
Erin Smith is an award-winning performer, playwright,
teacher and spiritual comedienne who believes in
crazy-wisdom and practices reverent irreverence.
She performed her hit
one-woman show; The Burning Bush! in New York City
(off-off Broadway), Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and
Halifax. The play was Critic’s Pick in BackStage Magazine
NYC, ‘Best of the Toronto Fringe Festival’ and won the
‘Audience Choice Award’ in New York City’s Frigid Festival.
Tracey was recently a guest instructor for Israel’s Dream
Doctors (Medical Clowns) in Tel Aviv and an invited delegate
to Canadian Stage’s Artist Educators Program in Toronto.
Most recently, Tracey taught a SoulOTheatre weekend
intensive at New York City’s TheaterLab. Tracey is the founder and
creator of SoulOTheatre®, a program designed to help
participants transform raw material from their life-journey
into live solo performances. She is a popular instructor at
Toronto’s Ryerson University and graduates from her classes
have gone on to perform their solo shows in New York City
and across Canada. For more information please
visit: www.Soulo.ca
www.TheBurningBush.ca
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WHITE TRASH MONOLOGUE
Deb Heikes is a natural performer who began her career as a
child, by entertaining her working class family, the
inspiration for her one woman show, "The White Trash
Monologue" . Growing up in a blue collar town, in a factory
family, Deb took her place in her lineage by going to work
at General Mills after a stint as a medic in the Air Force.
After getting sober, Deb had an epiphany and relocated to
Santa Fe, New Mexico where she became a Gestalt Therapist.
She now has a thriving practice where she helps others to
overcome trauma and addictions using play as an important
resource for healing. Deb is excited to be utilizing solo
performance as another healing modality for herself and
others. Through the various artistic expressions available,
Deb continues her own journey and is honored to inspire and
support others in theirs.
For more
information please visit
www.whitetrashmonologue.com
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RENEGADE PRINCESS
Renegade Princess
is the myth of the American fairy tale undone. Exploding
with surprising, raw truth and dripping with
self-deprecating humor, the autobiographical tale is woven
with humanity and irreverence into a wickedly sharp
narrative. Marriage, living in Japan, motherhood and the
demands of post divorce life provide a rich landscape for
tenderness, humor, heartbreak and depth. Renegade Princess
is a quick paced, outrageous and bawdy journey of one
woman’s quest to rise above the myth.
Ann marie
Houghtailing is a mother, entrepreneur, speaker, writer,
risk taker and sometime actor. In between building her
empire and raising her two young men, Houghtailing committed
to finish Renegade Princess in January of 2011, and
is thrilled to finally present the Princess to the world
after years of struggling to keep her quiet. Houghtailing
trained at Drama Studio London in Berkeley, and holds a
Master’s degree in American Literature. Ann marie
Houghtailing wishes to express her gratitude to Jackson,
Austin and Mom – you are my heart and my world, and I love
you beyond expression. To those of you who have generously
come to Santa Fe to share this moment with me I thank you
for this, and the many acts of love, kindness and support
you have shown me. You are and will always be the family I
choose.
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EVERYTHING I NEVER KNEW I WANTED
What becomes
of a little girl traumatized by love letters? Who
buries gifts of valor in tulip beds? And who thinks
her greatest weakness is actually her most prized strength?
From
navigating the unpredictable terrain of a complex heart, to
the turbulent waters of a storm ravaged Atlantic ocean, a
woman’s life may not always go as planned….but sometimes
what lies beyond is even better.
Stacey
Bernstein has had over 60 jobs since the age of 7. As a
producer, director and voice-over artist she has contributed
to the production of news, information and factual
entertainment programming for most of Canada’s main
television and specialty networks. For longer than she can
remember, Stacey has wanted to write and perform a solo
show. In a career that has focused on telling other
people’s stories, one day she decided it’s time to share her
own and so began her greatest adventure.
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Dad
Becoming a
father for the first time ain’t for the faint of heart: the
huge responsibility, those haunting ghosts from the past,
that crabby delivery room nurse. The daunting journey
sometimes summons serious guts and really requires a sense
of humor. The challenges can unfurl unpredictably-
everything from Little League angst to autistic rage to
Shakespearian improv. Or to face your own demons. Dad
follows the adventures of a father-to-be chasing parental
shadows to find the light for his unborn daughter. The
story of an uncertain birth with unforeseen complications.
A grizzled
veteran of the Denver area comedy/theater scene, Doug
enthusiastically enters the solo show world. From stand-up
to sketch to Shakespeare, Doug has just about done it all,
including commercial work for the Colorado Avalanche and the
Colorado Rockies. He officially has the best wife (Jessica)
and daughter (Grace) in the history of families. Originally
from Virginia, Doug came out to Colorado to attend
CU-Boulder, where he graduated with a degree in English. He
currently works at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space
Physics (LASP) at CU. Doug thanks Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
for her extraordinary direction as well as the wonderful
opportunity to debut this show.
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Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, Artistic
Director/Producer
Tanya has devoted her professional and
creative life to the writing, performing, directing, drama-turging,
producing and teaching the Art of Solo Performance. Although
she has a background in classical acting from
Carnegie-Mellon University, Emerson College and HB Studios,
she craved a deeper, more intimate, raw experience than
traditional theater provided. She met the late, great
Spalding Gray in 1984 and knew that the type of personal
narrative he was presenting was the direction she wanted to
go with her own work. It took her eleven years after that
fateful meeting (while continuing to perform in many plays)
before she wrote and performed her first one woman show
"Honeymoon In India", voted one of the Top Shows of the
year in 1995 by the Santa Fe Reporter. Since then she has
been involved in performing, directing, producing etc. over
120 solo shows and group monologue shows in New Mexico, NYC
(Off-Broadway) Los Angeles (Writers Guild Theater). She is
the creator of the Therapeutic Monologue Process which
utilizes solo performance/contemporary storytelling as a
healing modality for those who have experienced trauma
and/or serious illness/loss. Currently, she is leading
trainings in Santa Fe and NYC to offer Therapeutic
Monologues in various communities around the country. In
2012, she will be performing the first part of her original
work "Soujourner; a 7 year improvised monologue" For those
interested in participating in a class, training or solo
performance bootcamp,
please email Tanya or go to
www.TanyaTaylorRubinstein.com
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Michelle
Baker, Assistant Director
Ms. Baker is
an artist with a background in visual and performing arts.
She holds a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from St. John's
College, Santa Fe, NM. She also studied photography and
sculpture at Studio Arts Center International in Florence,
Italy.
In 2000, she
attended the Tamalpa Institute in Marin County, California.
While studying and performing with Anna Halprin, Daria
Halprin-Kalighi and Soto Hoffman, Ms. Baker committed to
pursuing her art on a professional basis, and committed to
facilitating others who wanted more creative expression in
their daily lives. She sees the Tamalpa work as a union of
all artistic media - writing, drawing, movement. In this
way, she draws from the stories that live in her body for
her own artistic processes, and believes everyone holds an
endless "wellspring" of creativity in their cells and
bodies.
In 2006, Ms.
Baker met Tanya Taylor of Project Life Stories. Under the
direction of Ms. Taylor, Ms. Baker wrote, performed and
toured her one-woman show, Sole Survivors, in New Mexico,
Philadelphia, Washington, DC and New York City. Ms. Baker
has also been a co-facilitator with Ms. Taylor in the Queer
Monologues.
Ms. Baker
is a SAG actor, and is a freelance writer for online health
and tourism journals. She is also a poet and a children's
book author currently represented by Gotham Artists Agency.
Witnessing
people find, cultivate and express their truths creatively
and in ways that lead to personal freedom is one of her
greatest joys.
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