Unhinged performance artist Jinny Jikkyl has the ultimate solution for fame and fortune: mounting a solo show about her childhood incest for a big-time agent. Sending up every solo show you've ever hated. The imbalanced performance artist, Jinny Jikkyl, creates insane characters for her one-woman show, one of which is a half-wolf/half-girl character who anxiously attends auditions, performing the chorus of the Ani Difranco song " Untouchable Face. " Terry, an ex-stripper who works part-time at the Suicide Prevention Hotline, and who is Jinny's sponsor from Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, inspires Jikkyl to look at her issues with men, causing Jikkyl to hit bottom and choose lesbianism. Karen Value, a dyke who works in the light booth at the theater in which Jikkyl is rehearsing her one-woman show, sees Jikkyl's unique inner beauty and falls hard for her. Original smooth jazz tunes about rape, toe shoes and lesbianism gently rock the audience as Jikkyl's roller coaster journey to achieve stardom, through putting on her strange and bad one-woman show for an agent, unfolds.
Prior press quotes:
"Katzberg takes a more sinuous turn, using her natural litheness and elasticity of expression to show her state of mind." – Firebrandtheory.com
"Katzberg is lovely…with her unusually large, light-blue eyes always wide open, she looks rather like a slightly demonic angel.” – Offoffonline.com
Biography:
Kim Katzberg earned her BFA in Theater from The Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. In May 2009 she graduated with her MFA in acting from Columbia University. Collaborating with fellow actors from The Experimental Theatre Wing, she created Eat Me which was performed at the Kraine Theater in the 2000 NYC Fringe Festival. She originated the role of Tuesday in Tom X. Chao's Cats Can See the Devil that had a run in the 2003 NYC Fringe Festival, and was extended at Under St. Marks Theater through The Horse Trade Theatre Group. Kim played Wanda in Michael Scott-Price's stage adaptation of Venus in Furs at Collective: Unconscious . In the performance art band “Narcissist,” she performed an original character ‘Gail' at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Knitting Factory. Off Broadway appearances include Alison in Richard and Anne at the Arclight Theatre and Benvolio in Classic Stage Company's Romeo and Juliet directed by Tony Speciale. Roles at Columbia University include Marianne in Tartuffe directed by Andrei Serban, Winnie in Happy Days directed by Ulla Wolcz and Ariel in The Tempest directed by Niky Wolcz. Katzberg was an Artist-In-Residence at Dixon Place where she workshopped Penetrating the Space .
http://www.kimkatzberg.com
John Harlacher (Director) is currently the Co-Director of Nightmare, New York's famed haunted attraction each year. His recent acting work includes the indie feature Love Simple, directed by Mark von Sternberg; Off-Broadway's Dog Day Afternoon, adapted by Francisco Solorzano; and the revival of Israel Horovitz's Rats. Both stage productions were produced by The Barefoot Theatre Company, of which he is a member. Directing work includes Cats Can See the Devil, written by Tom X. Chao; the Miami version of Nightmare: Ghost Stories, created by Timothy Haskell, and the feature film Urchin, which he also wrote. Released theatrically and distributed worldwide, Urchin was banned in Malaysia as a “threat to culture.”
Maia Cruz Palileo (Animation / Sculpture)
is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in installation, painting, and animation. She received a BA in Studio Art from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and a MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Among her group exhibitions are those at Bronx River Art Center, CUE Art Foundation, International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Wave Hill. Palileo recently participated in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace Program and the New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation six-month residency program in Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in Contemporary Art Philippines. She is recipient of the 2008 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the 2009 Astraea Visual Arts Fund Award from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. www.maiapalileo.com
"Penetrating the Space" was developed in Matt Hoverman's solo show workshop: createyourownsoloshow.com
This production is a part of HEREstay, HERE's curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.
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