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Current Work
My current touring show, "Clearly Marked," explores and interrogates labels - the labels we choose for ourselves and the ones others stick on us, how they are comforting and how they are dangerous, how they work or play nicely together - or don't. Being whole humans in a world that prefers we choose a single identity marker and stick with it is difficult, complicated, sometimes very amusing, and usually a whole day's- or life's work. |
Short Bio
Writer, performance artist, instigator and ex post papa S. Bear Bergman has published essays, poems, and smut in a variety of books and magazines and is a book reviewer at butchdykeboy.com, as well as a perennial favorite and featured reader at queer spoken word events. “Ex Post Papa” Bear’s first touring solo performance, had its premiere in 2002, and has since traveled all over the US, including stops at the National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival 2002 (where “Ex Post Papa” won the award for Best Socio-Political Play), and the National Transgender Theater Festival 2003, where it was a curated production). "Clearly Marked," Bear's newest show, had its world premiere at the 2004 National Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, where it won Best Socio-Political Play and Best of the Festival before beginning its North American tour. Bear is also a frequent lecturer and panelist at colleges and universities, one of the founders of the first ever Gay/ Straight Alliance, and a longtime activist on behalf of anyone who wants to learn and be different at the same time. Bear resides in Northampton, MA, with hir quantum femme wife, Nicole, among a wonderful tribe of beloved outlaws.
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Honors
Mass Cultural Council Grant for Playwriting '05; Best SocioPolitical Play and Best of the Festival, National Gay/Lesbian Theater Festival 2004; Best Socio-Political Play, National Gay/Lesbian Theater Festival, 2002 |
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Contact
Box 3364
Amherst, MA 01004 |
Artist Location
Northampton, MA
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Art forms
Theater, Other, Performance Art, Literary
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Type of artist
Performer, Writer, Arts Educator, Other
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General Themes
Sexuality, Activism/Social Justice, Feminism/Gender Issues, Aging/Intergenerational, Body Image/Body Size |
Keywords
queer, transgender, trans, butch, family, alternative families, Jews, Judaism, gender |
| Last updated on January 21st, 2008 |
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