A DP TV PROGRAM Spanking Machine Livestreamed performances by Marga Gomez
Directed by Adrian Alexander Alea
About This Show
In “Spanking Machine” GLAAD Award-winning writer/performer Marga Gomez shifts across gender, latitudes and generations in a darkly comic memoir about the first boy she ever sloppy-kissed and how it made them gay forever. “His real name was Agamemnon Perez Jr. but he shortened it to “Scotty” because he thought Agamemnon sounded too Cuban.” By turns funny and disturbing, Gomez recounts growing up brown and queer in Washington Heights, sadistic nuns on poppers, tender vampires, childhood misdemeanors, parental post-nasal drip, fear, assault and suppressed memory. The 70-minute show will blend Marga performing live from her “virtual stage” with footage from Spanking Machine’s final invited dress rehearsal before the pandemic.
This Dixon Place commission is made possible, in part, with public funds from the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs with the City Council and NY State Council on the Arts with the support of Gov Andrew Cuomo and the NY State Legislature; and private support from donors like you.
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Fifty percent of most ticket levels were donated to 5 outstanding non-profit organizations dedicated to providing Black and Brown LGBTQ people with empowering opportunities: Ali Forney Center, Audre Lorde Project, Destination Tomorrow, INCITE!, and Marsha P Johnson Institute.
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About The Artists
Marga Gomez is the writer/performer of thirteen solo plays which have been presented nationally, Off-Broadway and internationally. In 2015 Dixon Place commissioned her critically acclaimed premiere of “POUND” (directed by David Schweizer.) Her acting credits include theatre roles: Campo Santos San Francisco production of “Translating Selena” (January 2020) Off-Broadway Ars Nova production of “Dr. Rides American Beach House” (November 2019) television: “Sense8” (Netflix) and film: “Sphere” (Warner Brothers.) Marga teaches solo performance online and in San Francisco at The Kearny Street Workshop, A.C.T and Brava. NBC named her one of eleven “Out Latinos you should know.” Selections from Gomez’s work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (Crown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge.) For more information visit margagomez.com
Adrian Alexander Alea is a creative director and producer raising the social consciousness of humanity through storytelling in non-profit and commercial industries and is the upcoming Creative Associate for New York City Center’s ENCORES!. Upcoming: The Palacios Sisters (Brava Theater Center). Thoroughly Modern Millie (Assoc. Dir, ENCORES!). Recent: HERCULES (Assoc. Dir, Disney Theatricals and The Public Theater), Henry VIII translated by Caridad Svich (Play On, Classic Stage Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), STAND by Caridad Svich (New Dramatists), Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks (Yale University), and Spanking Machine by Marga Gomez (Syracuse Stage, Solo Artist Residency). Jennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas Residency at Planet Hollywood and the Ain’t Your Mama Music Video (Management Associate). BA (Columbia University). MS (Northwestern University). adrianalea.com
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