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Jennifer Blowdryer's BITCHES GUIDE TO THE LOWER EASTSIDE
One New Year's Eve, Jennifer Blowdryer was out of 'The Neighborhood', as New Yorkers call their own neighborhood, meaning in this case the East Village, sponging free drinks at the Plaza's classic Oak Room and feeling inordinately out of place, when she and her bitchy friend Gerry Visco started brainstorming about hack writing projects so they could pay their rent. Instead, Blowdryer ended up writing up a typically jarring and uncommercial 'Bitches Guide to the Lower East Side', covering such wide ranging topics as bed bugs, gleaning, and Couch Creatures. Appearing with Jennifer tonight will be Shecky Beagleman, doing her historic 'Crack Dance', and Anne Hanavan, who will fill everybody in on the drug bodegas of yore, and photographer Jean-Paul Niko will project the LES photos he's been compulsively shooting of these once mean streets and the people who love them. Door proceeds to benefit The Actors Fund for HOWL! HELP. JENNIFER BLOWDRYER has lived in the EV since 1987. It all started because her bag lady grandmother spent 45 years or so living in Alphabet City, and out and about at the well-stocked food pantries of yesteryear. JB got a cheap apartment andthe rest is subsistence level survival history! While here, she's performed too many times to count, recall, or enumerate, and written for New York Press, Maximum Rock n' Roll, and had a few books published by various Indy presses, from 'White Trash Debutante' (Galhattan, NY) to 'Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages' (Manic D Press, SF). She lives on 2nd Street between Avenues A & B and hopes that the landlord of Nicky's Vietnamese across the street, doesn't keep dicking them around about the rent so they can stay. ANNE HANAVAN moved to NYC in 1985. ? She started off striping at the Pussy Cat Lounge, did a few stints in some Brothels, and because of a major dysfunction brought on by a huge heroin habit, she hit the strolls of the lower east side and stayed there for just under a decade. ? After kicking the habit 11 years ago Anne started making experimental sexually explicit videos were the artist aggressively confronts her past. Hanavan continues to take steps towards self absolution by writing were she takes the reader inside her head to see, from her perspective, her? experiences of? street walking, tricking, rape, robberies, jail, and the many people she interacted with along the way... JEAN=PAUL NIKO: International chess champion at eighteen years old, junkie, street hustler, and ex-con by twenty-two, Jean-Paul Nikó was born in Munich, Germany but grew up on the streets of New York City, leaving home when he was fourteen years old to travel the world and build an empire. Somewhere along the way, he picked up a camera... SHECKY BEAGLEMAN has been around the neighborhood for a dog's age. Well, longer than, say, your average boxer lives. She's a scarily precise physical comedian who will be sure to spark horrified nods of recognition as she reenacts her famous Crack Dance... 'Shecky Beagleman has a killer bit about an anatomical slang term that would have Gloria Steinem marching in the streets for joy.' -- Donna Coe—New York Post 'Shecky Beagleman, writer and performer from USA'S UP ALL NIGHT... The next Imogene Coca, she'd make a great wacky Character on some sitcom.' Amelia David—Back Stage
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LocationTheatre 80 ST. MARKS
80 Saint Marks Place
New York City, NY 10003
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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