Campfire Queer Storytime

Join host and curator Dusty Lynn Childers aka Duddy Lynn as he brings Campfire back to its spiritual home for the Hot Fest! Join legends Lori E. Seid and Glenn Marla as they share from their Queer souls.

Dusty Childers (née Shoulders or simply DuddyLynn) 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, Dixon Place, Irving Plaza, SoHo Playhouse ,Sony Music Hall, Bushwig, Parkside Lounge, C’mon Everybody, Good Judy, Nowhere Bar and Judson Memorial Church. He has worked with Justin Vivian Bond, Ari Shapiro, Christeene, Penny Arcade, Nayland Blake, Karen Finley, Bitch, Macy Rodman, Austin Scarlett, Justin Elizabeth Sayre, World Famous *BOB*, Charlene Incarnate, Raja Feather Kelly & Miguel Gutierrez. Dusty has appeared in Art In America, Artforum, OUT Magazine,TimeOut NY, Velour Magazine, Next Magazine, Aljazeera, NY Times, and Gayletter.

Lori E. Seid has worked in theaters, clubs and art spaces all over the world as a producer, stage manager, lighting designer and DJ since 1984.

Seid is the recipient of The Obie, A Bessie, and The Theatre Craft International Award all for sustained achievement in theatre, as well as, several Daytime Television EMMY’s for producing music on The Rosie O’Donnell talk show.

Seid’s movie work includes; The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love; All Over Me; and High Art, as well as the doc “For The Love Of Dolly”.

Seid would like to thank her friends who made her write down some of her own adventures.

Glenn Marla is a Brooklyn-based theater artist, writer, puppet maker and art therapist. Mx Marla believes that if you don’t fit in anywhere you can fit in everywhere. This outlook has taken their original visual and theatrical darings to be performed at galleries, museums, theaters big and small, clubs, bars, universities, community centers, and sideshow burlesque venues.

Glenn Marla’s performance work focuses on themes of body liberation, gender, fat, excavating our families and histories, and shifting cycles of trauma. It is Glenn’s goal that their work amplifies a voice in the world that is most often quieted, dampened, or disregarded. Amplified through performance and puppets Glenn’s is a voice that attempts honesty, humor, and vulnerability.