Oh, hello there, nice to see you again. Come close, I have some things to tell you, stories both mordant and morbid, and songs of hope and disaster. I will whisper into your trusting ear, or maybe scream in your face.
You know me, that writer of strange performances and performer of mysterious writings. But alas, I must confess, it is all lies. Yet I aspire to lie gracefully, so where you decline me in trust, please indulge me with sympathy. Say to me, "I do not trust you, but I sympathize with you." I will appreciate that, and it will be just enough for me to move on to the next performance. When I speak, it is only about love, death and the future (where memories go to die). I have many theories. I have many songs and dances to accompany these theories. I am a monologist, a writer, a song and dance man.
I have told these lies and moved these fragile hands in many places including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, D.C. Art Center, Baltimore Theatre Project, the Ontological Hysteric Theatre, The Cube Microplex in Bristol, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Warhol Museum and many more.
I am the founder and director of Performance Thanatology, a performance group that has entertained, frightened and confused audiences with their interdisciplinary hysterics since 1999.
I am a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel, I was an organizing member of the Baltimore's largest performance event, the Transmodern Festival from 2004-2009 and was the founding artistic director of The Loft Theatre in Baltimore.
Nice to see you. Take care. Keep in touch. Look at me go.
Upcoming:
Sept 1: I JUST MOVED TO PROVIDENCE. PHD IN PERFORMANCE STUDIES AT BROWN. UPDATES LATER.
Playing songs and telling stories at the opening for DRAWING OUT, an exhibition curated by Lexie Mountain. Hexagon, Thursday July 15. Facebook.
Performance Thanatology presents "There Were One and It Was Two; Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum", at Experimental Music @ The Ontological Hysteric Theatre, July 1, 7pm. HERE.
NEW BOOK!
She Saw Ghosts, He Saw Bodies, a book by Ric Royer with illustrations by Jackie Milad. Published by Narrow House ... See.
What just happened?:
Ric and Lexie as Martin & Lawrence will be opening up for Neil Hamburger, April 25, Detroit.
--- First manifestation of a new piece called Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley shown at The Annex Theatre, dec 12 and 13, baltimore.
Poster by Jackie Milad
Time Machine:
A book about the lady saints, monks and me too.
Published by Slack Buddha Press.
$8.00
