Fringes-Margins-Borders
San Diego Premiere
Thursday – Saturday, March 12 – 14 @ 8pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can
Performers: DEADLEE, Alison De La Cruz, Ian McKinnon
Using poetry, music, monologue, hip/hop, dance, and storytelling, Fringes-Margins-Borders includes six compelling autobiographical works that examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender contemporary life in California. Our state is one of the world’s leading battlegrounds of change and conflict, and these works artfully articulate our evolving cultural paradigm.
DEADLEE has attracted press with his groundbreaking, genre-screwing approach, including cover stories in Gay City News and Choice magazines and the New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine, The Advocate, L.A. Weekly, and Variety. He has appeared on the Tyra Banks Show and the Howard Stern radio show. He was one of 18 gay hip hop artists featured in the landmark documentary film “Pick up the Mic”. He has written and performed Tres Leches and LA Weekly’s Pick Of the Week – Doomed Angels.
Alison De La Cruz is a multi-disciplinary cultural worker and artist. Her work ranges from solo theatrical pieces to documentary film narration to community based cultural organizing and productions.
Ian McKinnon is a Gay centered performance artist who has been creating/ curating gay men’s shows in LA for six years. He was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, for his piece SPANKED! which toured to the NYC Fringe Festival and The New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He is also the creator and director of the glitter-rock-musical collective The Discount Cruise to Hell.
Queer Exchange is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Highways Performance Space in partnership with Sushi Performance & Visual Art, and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.
