Performing Fruits 2007

Special Events

Can't Prove It On Me:
A Benefit for Fresh Fruit and the Musicians of New Orleans, honoring LGBT Jazz Greats
Featuring Rome Neal, ButtaFly Soul, Linda Oh, Laraine Goodman, and Jolie Garrett.

Going Bananas II:
A Night with the funniest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Comics
Hosted by Murray Hill

The Art Of Drag:
Hosted by Clover Honey
Featuring The Church Ladies For Choice, Samantha Richards, Jacqueline Jonee, Radical Faeries, Millie Shayntwrite, and Lady Maria Chaste Diva

Theatre

• Fading To Grey by Richarf A. Pettey
• Mentor by John S. Green
• Monroe Bound by Lucile Scott
• The Long Ride Home by Robert Gompers
• William & James by Robert Tsonos

Short Plays and Performance Art

• Love Scenes by David Pumo
• The Naked Dead Elephant In The Middle Of The Room
• Lay Down and Love Me Again
• Striped & Teased by Kimberly Dark
• Debutantes Balls by Scott Turner Schofield
• A. Gender by Joey Hateley

Poetry/Spoken Word

• LeShaun Lovell
• Buttafly Soul
• Ainsley Drew

Visual Arts

• Mariette Pathy-Allen
• Isaiah Shackelford
• John Sages
• Daniel L. Malisky

Dance

• Agnes De Garon
• Buttafly Soul

Performing Fruits 2006

Special Events

CAVALCADE OF FRUITS at the Slipper Room:
SONGS FROM A FRUIT RICH SOUL:
Featuring a world of musical imagination with MC: ButtaFlySoul and David Brown, Lisa Jackson and Kathy Valentine with Anne Rebold.
FRUITS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Highlights from this year’s festival and a look at the best of past performances.

TWO SPIRIT EVENING:
Celebrating of the First LGBT People on our Continent
• Produced by Robert Urban
• Featuring Georgie Jessup, Roger Kuhn, John Birdsong, Maurice Kenny and honoring Kent Lebostock receipent of the Fresh Fruit Award for Service to Diversity

Theatre

• Why'd Ya Make Me Wear That, Joe? by Vanda
• To Whom It May Concern by Aurin Squire
• My Mother Told Me I Was Different by Carol Polcovar

Short Plays and Performance Art

• Tokyo Penguin
• Stories From the Big House by Robin Cloud
• Real Smiles by Jon Spano
• The Bottom Line: Sex Politics and Masturbation by JEN/ed and Jen De Wald

Poetry

FRESH FRUIT and WE 3 PRODUCTIONS present
PURE POETRY at the TELEPHONE BAR
• Producer and Host: Robert Urban
• Poets: baron, Tami Beyer, Angelina Lim, Thomas March, Richard Loringer, Amy Ouzoonian, Jack Sheeler, Chavisa Woods, Tamiko Beyer, Robert Urban, Chocolate Waters

Film and Video

OUT TO THE MOVIES

• Queer Duck: The Movie - created by Mike Riess and directed by Xieth Feinberg
• Bright Lights/Out City - prodeuced and directed by Tony Sawicki and featuring Clover Honey

Dance

• Outsider Dancing pieces choreographed by Chelsea Ellis and Sean Dorsey

Development (Play Readings)

• The File on Ryan Carter by David Gaard
• ATA by Nick Mwaluko
  

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Musicals, Musical Revues, Cabaret Performance

• Ain't We Got Fun by Micheal McFaden
• What's Your Problem by Hector Coris and Paul L. Johnson
• Fresh Fruit Cocktail curated and directed by Bob Ost
• The Girl That I Marry, Elaine St. George

Plays

• Waafrika by Nanna Mwaluko
• Pen Pals by Barbara Kahn
• Somewhere in Between by Ronny Almog

Performance Pieces and Short Plays

• The Pamachene Belle by Carolyn Gage featuring Leslie Bernadini
• Calamity Jane Writes a Letter To Her Daughter by Carolyn Gage with Leslie Bernadini
• Diagnosis Jew Pain written and performed by Michael Feldman
• Tender Hooks written and performed by Paige Collette
• Low Brow written and performed by Pedro Angel Serrano

Poetry and Literature

• Fruit ala Mode curated by Vittoria repetto
• Donna Mikowitz reads from her new work

Multi-Media

• Somewhere in Between, Ronnie Almog
• From Brooklyn to Maui, Ayin Adams

Musical Performance (without book)

• Trans/Gender/ Rock/ Explosion curated by Robert Urban presented by Fresh Fruit and
• Urban Productions with Lisa Jackson and her band Girl Friday, Georgie Jessup, Temptress and Vibralux

Spoken Word

• Homo Hip Hop Poetry Jam 2 curated by baron, MC ButtaFlySoul

Video

• From Brooklyn to Maui, Ayin Adams

Visual Art

• Fresh Fruit installation at Blue Heron Arts Center’s Mainstage by Nick Curto
  

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PLAYS

• In the Shadow of a Dream by John Adams directed by Alec Harrington
• Getting It written and directed by Kevin Jones

PERFORMANCE AND SHORT PLAYS

• Tea and Tourniquets written and performed by Keith Angora
• Albee Damned by Kevin Brofsky
• Cucumber Dreams written and performed by Michael Cross Burke
• Bad Habits (Lesbian Nun Tells All) written and performed by Kelli Duham
• Daring and Divine written and performed by Beth Smulyan
• Skinny Isn’t Sexy written and performed by Elizabeth Whitney
• TIMEBOMB written and performed by Derek Zasky

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

• Justin Tranter, singer and songwriter
• Jenn Lindsay, singer and songwriter
• Nhojj, singer and songwriter
• Deina McBryde, vocalist

POETRY

• Susan Sherman
• Rachel Guido deVries
• Jennifer Foltesor
• Beatrix Gates
• Gale Jackson,
• Vittoria Repetto
• ButtaFlySoul
• Maurice Jamal
• Kyana Brindle
• Claudia Alick
• Prince Chulo sean
• Lorraine Sabine

COMEDY

• Pedro Angel Serrano

DANCE

• Experienca Dance Company, Jade Esteban Estrada choreographer

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PLAYS

• The Bald Diva! The Ionesco Parody your mother warned you about, by David Koteles conceived by Jason Jacobs with Jamee Freedus, directed by Jason Jacobs, Dramaturgy by Jamee Freedus
• Forbidden Fruit written and directed by Jeff Bedillion

PERFORMANCE and SHORT PLAYS

• Metamorphosex by Lissa Moira
• My Buddy, Pelleas and Me written and performed by Michael Cross Burke
• Mia Anderson's Drag Kings, Sluts & Goddesses
• R.A.W written by Dianna Son directed by Fides. E. Daruthayan
• Before there words (a poetic reclaiming) written and performed by Maiana Minahal
• Tight written and performed by Mary F. Unser directed by Marie-Louise Miller

MUSICAL PEFORMANCE

• Deian McBryde's, Mabel Dawn Davis: Woman on Stage
• Yolanda accompanied by Robert Urban
• An Evening With Out Music: Jeff Zuckerman, Danny Morita Katz, Jenn Lindsay, Corrine Curcio

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