Coffeehouse Chronicles #179: Bloolips – Mar 22

ABOUT

Coffeehouse Chronicles is an educational performance series exploring the history of Off-Off-Broadway. Part artist-portrait, part history lesson, and part community forum, Coffeehouse Chronicles take an intimate look at the development of downtown theatre, from the 1960s’ “Coffeehouse Theatres” through today.

CREDITS

With Lavinia Co-op, Jimmy Camicia , Steven Watson, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver
Moderated by Linda Simpson

BIOS

Londons East End to Lower East side. Lavinia Co-op. Foundling Member, 1977 of the “BLOOLIPS”: a Gay Musical Theater Comedy Troupe Touring Europe N.America. Performance Artist. Drag Queen Performed in front of the Pr of Wales, Duke of Wellington, Queen Vic and other Pubs!

Since emerging from NYC’s East Village drag scene in the late 1980s, Linda Simpson has racked up a long list of creative endeavors, including nightlife promoter, writer, actor, gameshow host, publisher of the underground gay magazine My Comrade, and drag her-storian with her touring slideshow The Drag Explosion, which features her photos of NYC’s drag subculture in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Steven Watson is the founder of www.artifacts.movie, an online treasure trove of video oral histories–from Bette Bourne and Lavinia Coop to Quentin Crisp and Holly Woodlawn. He has written six books about the American avant-garde.