Rachel Clausen is an actor/educator based on the east coast. She specializes in heightened texts and original movement devising. She is a graduate of Muhlenberg College and Brown/Trinity Rep. Recent credits include a reading of ‘Natitoches’ by Seth McNeill at The Dramatists Guild, ‘Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley’ with Pioneer Theater, and ‘Love’s Labours Lost’ with Elm Shakespeare Company. She is thrilled and humbled to be performing Corseted and Beheaded at Dixon Place!  clausenrach.wixsite.com

Kelly McGowan is an anarcho-futurist who talks to ancestors. During the Tumblr blog boom, her 80s fanzine personae Pati O’Poser demanded to be revived, which resulted in the compilation They Can’t See the Vagina. In preparation for the impending great grid crash, she is a proponent of cataloguing queer wisdom via storytelling. Kelly is delighted to bring her first ‘narrative transport’ offering, Sensible Shoes, to Dixon place.  www.goingupstream.net

This Dixon Place Literary Program is supported, in part, with private funds from the Axe Houghton Foundation, with public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.