Dixon Place and Ping Chong + Company present Bad Husband //\\ Bad Homo Ryan Conarro
About This Show
Main Creator Ryan Conarro
Collaborating performers and co-creators Kirya Traber, Will Atkins, Jimmy Crowell
Costume designer Paul Spadone
Stage manager Aoife Hough
Can a poster boy for gay marriage become a pioneer of gay divorce? In BAD HUSBAND//\\BAD HOMO, Ryan Conarro achieves the gay American dream of the 21st century: he gets married, only to see that fantasy turn into a nightmare when his marriage falls apart. But Ryan was never a good gay in the first place. Scared of the scene and the men he wanted to want, he steered clear of hooking up, partying, or wearing angel wings in parades. Now, in this poignant, unfiltered comedy of errors, Ryan’s picking up the pieces: hitting (and missing) the scene and searching for his inner gay diva, with the help of Kirya Traber (a recently-married gay) and dancing queens Jimmy Crowell and Will Atkins.
About the Artists
RYAN CONARRO
Ryan Conarro is a performance maker, educator, and community engagement facilitator. He’s a 2020 University Settlement Artist in Residence with collaborator Celeste Staton. And he’s Collaborator in Residence at Ping Chong + Company, where projects include ALAXSXA | ALASKA (co-directed with Ping Chong) and the ArtPlace America project and podcast CIHA Stories. His work has been seen at the Kennedy Center; La MaMa; National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian; Perseverance Theatre; Oregon Contemporary Theatre; Stonington Opera House; and Gainesville Theatre Alliance. www.ryanconarro.com
KIRYA TRABER
Kirya Traber is a nationally awarded playwright and performer. She is an Artist in Residence with Lincoln Center Education, a co-host of First Person PBS, and her musical, If This Be Sin, will be featured in HI-Arts 2020 Critical Breaks Residency series. She is the recipient of Robert Redford’s Sundance Foundation award for Activism in the Arts, and an Astrea Foundation award for Poetry. More at www.kiryatraber.com
WILL ATKINS
Will Atkins is a NYC based actor & performer. He studies with the New York Butoh Institute, and regularly keeps up his movement practice at the NY Movement Company. In addition to collaborating with international performers and costume artists, Will has been lucky to create solo performance art pieces shown in NYC and Philadelphia. His butoh/needle play performance “La Sangre,” curated with his Queer Butoh residency with Vangeline Theater, was selected for the 2019 United Solo Festival. He is also a part of the body hook suspension team, Anchors Aweigh. www.willTatkins.com
JIMMY CROWELL
Jimmy Crowell is an actor. choreographer, and dancer. A Texas transplant, he moved to NY to attend The NY Conservatory of Dramatic Arts where he received his degree in Television & Film. He has had the pleasure of being signed to Clear Talent Group; ensemble/co-choreographer of The Bridge, directed and choreographed by Natalia Roberts; and other forms/adaptations of theatre and film around the city.
JAN 3, 4, 10, 11 2020 7:30PM
General Admission
$20 in advance
$23 at the door
students / seniors / ID NYC
$17 in advance
$20 at the door
75 min
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