The Femme Show

Contact: Maggie Cee Tel: (857) 204-5816 Email: maggie@thefemmeshow.com www.thefemmeshow.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2011

The Femme Announces August 11-

Show Northeast Tour, 20, 2011

In the Streets Productions is proud to present The Femme Show on tour August 13-21, 2011. A stellar cast will bring The Femme Shows unique perspective on femininity, gender, queerness and sexuality to cities throughout the Northeast. Now in its fifth year, The Femme Show uses dance, burlesque, drag, spoken word, puppets, and more to give audiences new ways and new reasons to think about gender, femininity, and desire. The Femme Show returns to New York City for a one-night only engagement at the WOW Caf Theater on Sunday, August 13 at 8:00 PM. WOW Caf Theater is located at 59-61 E 4th St. Guest artists include burlesque dancers The Crimson Kitty, Busty Kitten, and Sweet Lorraine. The Femme Show is queer art for queer people, with a variety of diverse perspectives on queer femininity that can be thoughtful, sad, funny, and sexy. In October of 2007, the first-ever Femme Show sold out and received rave reviews from audience members who called it wild, raw, transparent, and unique, and a fantastic, funny, powerful show. Since then, The Femme Show has been seen at True Colors, the countrys largest LGBTQI youth conference (Storrs, CT); Emerson College (Boston), Machine (Boston), Queer Spirit Camp (Greenwich, NY), headlining at Common Threads Youth Empowerment Retreat (Stony Point, NY), Portland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. Cast members have recently been seen with the Body Heat tour, FringeNYC, ImprovBoston, Hell on Wheels tour, Butch Burlesque, Company One, and the Tranny Roadshow, among others. About the Artists Johnny Blazes is known throughout the country for hir gender-blending, genre-bending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Johnny is notorious for flamboyantly combining clowning with burlesque and drag, glitter with sophistication. Johnny also occasionally tours with the fierce performance troupes The Femme Show and The Tranny Roadshow, and keeps up a busy tour schedule of hir own workshops, lecture/demos and one-performer show entitled wo(n)man show. Johnny's writing has been published in several anthologies, including Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, and ze is on the editorial board of Salacious Magazine. www.johnnyblazes.com Maggie Cee (artistic director) is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and sequins. She performs regularly around Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, at the Femme2008 Conference, and at the Stonewall Inn. Publications include anthologies Girl Crazy and Second Person Queer and journals Gertrude and Common Ground Review.

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Geppetta is a multimedia fabulist & puppeteer described as "cryptic vaudevillian surrealism" by bitchmedia. She presents fairy tales and fables of a darker whimsy crafted from found objects and nostalgic ardor. She has been featured with Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow, The Tranny Roadshow, Puppet Uprising, and Fresh Meat Productions, among other groups, and has facilitated workshops on gender, art, and activism at universities across the country. Madge of Honor is a queer performance artist whose work is bizarre, bold, and subversive. Madge uses burlesque, drag, clowning, and physical theater to create compelling characters and baffle the senses. With a commitment to craftsmanship and unrelenting stage presence, Madge of Honor arouses the intellect and defies the ordinary. They are grateful to the Femme Show for the opportunity to wrestle with femininity, curse it and love it roughly. Rachel Kahn is a freelance writer, poet, and performer, but spends the vast majority of her time pretending to be a therapist. Her work has been heard at a variety of venues, including the Apocalypse Lounge, the Ear Inn Poetry Series, and The New York Writers Coalition Writing Aloud series. She has performed at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, and makes trouble on and off stage up and down the East Coast. Rachel is not ashamed to tell you that she wrote a young adult novel, but will never let you know what name she used. Miss Amy Rain is an artist, writer and educator known for her 'zinester antics and feminist narratives. Her work always draws from personal experience and investigates femme gender as it pertains to language, hierarchies and relationships. Amy has produced and performed in The Femme Show since 2007. She also has directed numerous VDAY Campaigns, part of the global movement to end violence against women. Miss Amy can be spotted in the cat section at the grocery store or kayaking the Presumpscot River. Shes always up for an autograph or a good tarot reading. Check out her blog: www.deliciousfemmefortunes.blogspot.com. Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney live in New York City as partners in life and crime, where they were recently featured in GO Magazines 100 Women We Love. Together they have brainstormed pioneering performances of gender, such as the butch-femme country-western drag act, Sissy & Cocoa Chaps: The Urban Cowdykes, and the soon-to-be world famous hooping duo, Bitches With Barrettes. Boston audiences may recognize Bitches from the Works in Progress series at The Theater Offensive and of course from the oh-so-glamourous Femme Show. Elsewhere, Robinson and Whitneys collaborative work has been seen at Dixon Place (NYC), Femmetasia! (Seattle), Dixon Place (NYC), Great Small Works Spaghetti Dinner (NYC), Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto, ON), DramaRama (New Orleans, LA), Broad Vocabulary Books, Woodland Pattern Books, with the Miltown Kings and at Darling Hall (Milwaukee, WI), Utah Pride Center (Salt Lake City, UT), and The National Communication Association Conference (San Antonio. TX). HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ###