Real Live Women December 9, 2007

For Immediate Release / Contact: hourglassgroupsololab@gmail.com

REAL LIVE WOMEN
Provocative new works from the Hourglass Solo Lab
3 Nights; Dec 9, 12 and 14 (Sunday, Wednesday and Friday)@ 8pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery @ Bleecker Street (F to Second Ave; 6 to Bleecker)
Tickets: $10
Reservations: 212-439-8122 or rsvphourglass@hotmail.com

Hourglass Group, producer of the Obie Award-winning production of TROUBLE IN PARADISE and the recent hit THE BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES, is proud to present REAL LIVE WOMEN, featuring eight new provocative one-woman performances developed in the 2007 Hourglass Group Solo Lab. REAL LIVE WOMEN will run three nights from Dec 9-14 at the Bowery Poetry Club. Pieces cover subjects as diverse as a black-Jewish woman’s experience in “Triple Minority”, comedian Heather Gold’s “The Law Project” and Best of Fringe-winning performer Christen Clifford’s new solo “My Parents’ Sex Life”.

Sunday December 9th - 8pm
Stacey Karen Robinson – Quiet Frenzy, Veronique Jeanmarie – Big Red Drum Set.

Wednesday December 12th - 8pm
Raquel Cion – Fete, Abigail Gampel—Through The Window, Natalia de Campos—Death and Life in the Northeast

Friday December 14th - 8pm
Christen Clifford – My Parents’ Sex Life, Yolanda Shoshana – Triple Minority, Heather Gold—The Law Project.

Lineup subject to change, check the website for up to date information. www.hourglassgroup.org

The Hourglass Group Solo Lab serves a diverse community of women writer-performers in New York City by providing resources to support the development of their work. Members of the Solo Lab meet bi-weekly to share their works-in-progress, provide feedback, and exchange ideas. They are gradually becoming a “solo collective” as well as a support system for each other, which is, to the best of our knowledge, unique in the New York theatre world. Works developed in the Lab have subsequently been presented at the Humana Festival, the International Festival of Contemporary Arts-City of Women, Uptown/Downtown: Intercity Encounter, The San Francisco Fringe, The Frigid Festival and The Uno Festival. REAL LIVE WOMEN is made possible with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Fund for Creative Communities.

Hourglass Group has been producing provocative new plays and neglected vintage American comedies since 1999. Most recently they produced the critically acclaimed BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES at The Fourth Street Theatre, past productions include the Obie-Winning TROUBLE IN PARADISE at the Hudson Guild, the first NYC revival of Mae West’s SEX, the world premiere of Ruth Margraff’s RED FROGS at P.S. 122, Deborah Swisher’s HUNDREDS OF SISTERS & ONE BIG BROTHER, and Mae West’s THE PLEASURE MAN starring Charles Busch.

REAL LIVE WOMEN runs at the Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery. F to Second Ave. 6 to Bleecker. Tickets are $10
RSVP: 212-439-8122 x1 or rsvphourglass@hotmail.com. For more info, visit www.hourglassgroup.org.



Christen Clifford’s solo, BabyLove, won “Best of Fringe” at the San Francisco Fringe and “Audience Award” at The New York Frigid Festival and toured the US and Canada. Actor: Town Hall, Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Culture Project, etc. TV/Film: As The World Turns, The Guiding Light, etc. 2007 Gregory Millard Fellow in Nonfiction Literature from NYFA, 2006 Nonfiction Prize from the New School’s MFA writing program. www.christenclifford.com
My Parents’ Sex Life is Christen Clifford’s story of trying to find herself using interviews, letters, and a libidinous imagination as she explores a subject most don’t dare to imagine.

Yolanda Shoshana (Shoshi) is a lifestyle entrepreneur, talk show/radio show host, blogger, and multidisciplinary artist. She believes in using art to create social change and generate civic dialogue. www.yolandashoshana.com

In Triple Minority this black Jewish diva breaks it down covering race, religion, class, and everything in between.

Raquel Cion has written and performed extensively in the theater in such downtown NYC venues as PS 122, The Kitchen, The Culture Project, HERE, La Mama, Etc.,

In Fête, our hostess Mindy instructs us on how to throw a flawless party. While finding the proper way to entertain, Mindy rummages through childhood stories and how frightening it can be to live among other people.

Veronique Jeanmarie has performed regionally at The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, American Conservatory Theatre, and The California Theatre Center. In NYC, she has performed at BAM, Fringe Festival, HERE, Theatre for the New City, EST, and Work Shop Theatre Company. She is a graduate of The American Conservatory Theatre, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Big Red Drum Set is a play about music, memory, siblings and growing up in Los Angeles. Original music by Paul Robinson.

Stacey Karen Robinson has performed in In The Blood (Perseverance Theater), Red Frogs (P.S. 122), The America Play (Zachary Scott Theatre), and Bee-Luther-Hatchee (Zachary Scott Theatre). She received a BA from Brown University and trained in the Actors Training Program at the Juilliard School.

Quiet Frenzy is an intimate irreverent journey, a web of messy succulent women.

Heather Gold followed truth from law school to comedy. Her participation in early Internet innovations influenced her creation of a live interactive performance that transforms theatre into a new commons. She tours nationally,and her award-winning debut show "I Look Like An Egg, but I Identify As A Cookie," which ran over a year in San Francisco and workshopped at Ars Nova in NY. You can see her work and live monthly talk show at www.heathergold.com

This piece takes the form of a Master Class in Law. I teach the honest class I always wanted to take, which weaves my own journey through law school (Northwestern '95) and my search for truth which drove me to a life in comedy.

Abagail Gampel is a child of actors who acts, writes, sings and directs and now has a child and all is not as it was.

Through the Window sees Gampel surviving Fellini-style in her kitchen, going about her day, the joy and unspoken isolation of motherhood unfolding as she befriends her unknowing neighbors, through the window.

Natalia de Campos is a theater artist from Brazil living in NY, working also as teacher, translator and arts administrator. Performing: FRINGE Festival, BAM (PASTForward), HERE, Drama League, Target Margin Theater's Operatic Lab, LIVING THEATRE, etc. She founded Syncretic Pleasures (1999). Directing and translations: Ontological, HERE, Chekhov Now!, TRIBECA, CSV Center, Essex Market, UTR 06 (Public Theater), Lincoln Center Festival, Drama League. This is her writing debut.

“i” migrate, as one does, for escaping Death and searching for Life in the Northeast.

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