Bridget Barkan is Processing

This is an invitation into Bridget’s creative process. Her metaphysical, metaphorical womb. What started as an idea sparked by an evening on stage with night life Goddess Amanda Lepore, has turned into an art bun in the oven… and now it’s time to share. Join her as she openly crafts this heroine’s journey to find the lost divine feminine, armed with her toolbox of wigs, guitars, rhymes and melodies. She will present excerpts of songs, further hone characters, and play in this grand experiment called live art. Come along for the ride as she seeks to become whole again, and be an integral part of the birth of her big new show.

Bridget Barkan is a native New Yorker whose diverse talents have spanned from childhood to the present, making her an ever changing and adapting figure in the performing arts. From music to TV, Film and Theatre as well as being a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall working with incarcerated teens and teen mothers. As a singer, Bridget is co-front woman of the new incarnation of pop/glam band Scissor Sisters.  As an actress Bridget has appeared on screen alongside Mariska Hargitay, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, with famed directors such as Brian De Palma and Baz Luhrmann. In the theatre, Bridget has performed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, HERE Arts, Peoples Improv Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, originating roles in Dog Sees God, and was in the first workshops of Spring Awakening. She is currently Chanteuse in Residency at Duane Park. Bridget was in the inaugural class of Joe’s Pub Artist-in-Residence Program and developed a series of five one woman musicals alongside her longtime collaborator and director Dusty Childers. One of the shows, Dear Stranger I Love You, was presented at the A.R.T at Harvard and another, The Love Junkie was Best Show at The New York New Works Theatre Festival. Through her multifaceted career, Bridget Barkan continues to embrace the transformative power of art, dedicating herself to personal expression, community connection, and the healing potential of performance.

Dusty Childers (director/dramaturgist) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who has worn the chapeaus of director, producer, dramaturgist,  costumer, and stylist. Dusty’s body and body of work has graced the likes of The Guggenheim, St. Ann’s, The Whitney, BAM, Parsons, Joe’s Pub, Pratt, Sundance, SXSW, Signature Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Town Hall,  Abrons Art Center, NY Live Arts, Wild Project, Irving Plaza, SoHo Rep,Sony Music Hall, Bushwig and Judson Memorial Church.  He has worked with Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Ari Shapiro, Christeene, Penny Arcade, Machine Dazzle,  Nayland Blake, Karen Finley, Miguel Gutierrez, Becca Blackwell, Cecilia Gentili and Claywoman (among others)