Underneath The Skin John Kelly
About This Show
Underneath The Skin is a solo dance theatre work-in-progress based on the life of Samuel Steward (1909-1993), a gay novelist and scholar who abandoned his post as university professor to reinvent himself as a writer of erotic fiction (as Phil Andros), and one of the 20th centuries most accomplished and influential tattoo artists (as Philip Sparrow). Stewart also attracted the friendship of the writer Gertrude Stein, was lovers with the playwright Thornton Wilder and became an unofficial collaborator at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research in the 1950s.
Underneath the Skin is a NYU Skirball commission.
About the Artist
John Kelly’s character based performance works focus on the struggles encountered by artists and social outsiders. Subjects include the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, the cross-dressing aerialist Barbette, and Joni Mitchell. He has received Bessie and Obie Awards, fellowships from The American Academy in Rome, and The Sundance Theatre Institute. ‘Underneath The Skin’, based on the life of gay novelist and tattoo artist Samuel Steward, will premiere at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts this October.
Thursday, July 25,2019 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door
Students/Seniors/ID NYC
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
70 minutes
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Photo Credit
Josef Astor