Dixon Place’s (Ellie Covan, Founding & Artistic Director) new commission POUND, starring GLADD Award-winner and Drama Desk nominee, Marga Gomez, will begin performances on Friday, July 10th. Once called “Amazing” and “A Lesbian Lenny Bruce” by Robin Williams, POUND will headline Dixon Place’s 24th Annual HOT! Festival, the celebration of queer culture in NYC. HOT! offers theater, music, dance, puppetry, performance and homoeroticism for the whole family. POUND will play six performances only – July 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 24th, and 25th at 7:30PM, at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street). Tickets are $16 in advance, $20 at the door, and $12 for seniors and students. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.dixonplace.org or by calling 866-811-4111.
Written and performed by Marga Gomez and directed by David Schweizer, POUND is a hilarious journey in which Gomez plays herself & a delicious coterie of cinema’s most notorious lesbians. Facing unwanted celibacy, Gomez scours dating sites and fortuitously opens a portal to a cloud-based female-loving Bermuda Triangle where notorious lesbian cinematic archetypes (plumbers, showgirls, murderers and school teachers) hook up in spectacularly “meta” ways.
Dixon Place is proud to host HOT! the oldest annual festival of its kind in the world, as it continues to serve as a model for other queer festivals across the globe. HOT! has become a performance destination for emerging talent in LGBTQ community. Also featured are Michael Cross Burke and MargOH! Channing. The HOT! Festival will present over one hundred participating artists, all soon to be announced.
Marga Gomez, comedian, writer and performer is a triple winner of SF Bay Guardian’s “Best Comedian” award. She also received SF Weekly’s Reader’s “Best Comedian” award and Theatre LA’s Ovation award. Marga started comedy in San Francisco where she honed her high energy, proudly Latina, openly gay, slightly dorky, tragically sexy, laugh-getting act. Her television credits include HBO’s “Comic Relief” Showtime’s “Latino Laugh Festival” and LOGO’s “One Night Stand Up.” Marga is also the author/ performer of 11 solo plays, which have been performed nationally, internationally, and Off Broadway. Her latest show “Not Getting Any Younger,” received the SF Chronicle’s highest rating at the SF Marsh. She is a GLAAD Media Award winner and a Drama Desk Award nominee. Her film credits include Warner Brothers “Sphere” and “Batman Forever.” www.margagomez.com
The Dixon Place Lounge is open before and after the show. Proceeds directly support Dixon Place’s artists and mission.
Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey), in Manhattan’s Lower East Side (By subway: F to 2nd Ave, J/Z to Bowery, 6 to Spring St, M to Essex St).
Dixon Place, an incubator for performing and literary artists since 1986, is a non-profit organization committed to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of dance, theater, music, circus arts, puppetry, literature, performance and visual art at all stages of development. Presenting over 1,000 artists each year, this local haven inspires and encourages diverse artists of all stripes and callings to take risks and push personal and professional limits. DP’s foremost priorities are to serve as a safety net for artists, and to provide vivid experiences for audiences. Many artists, such as Blue Man Group, John Leguizamo, Lisa Kron, David Cale, Penny Arcade, Deb Margolin and Reno began their careers at Dixon Place. In addition to emerging artists, DP has been privileged to present new work by more established artists, such as — Justin Vivian Bond, Taylor Mac, Lily Tomlin, Wallace Shawn, Craig Lucas, BD Wong, John Fleck, Kate Bornstein, Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, Kate Clinton, Peggy Shaw, Big Art Group; A.M. Homes, Rick Moody, Tom Spanbauer and Oscar Huelos; Mark Dendy, Jane Comfort, Douglas Dunn, Sarah Michelson and Yoshiko Chuma; Vernon Reid, Rodney Crowell, Diamanda Galas, Martha Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy and Maggie Roche, Rodney Crowell, and They Might Be Giants.
Ellie Covan, founding director, was a recipient of a Bessie, a New York Dance and Performance Award and a Bax10 Award for her service to the community; Dixon Place received two Village Voice Obie Awards, and an Edwin Booth Award for Excellence in Theater.
This DP commission is made possible w/public funds from NYS Council on the Arts w/the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo & the NYS Legislature, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and private funds from the Peg Santvoord Foundation.
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