Radical Comedian, Activist and Performance Artist, Brings Her Latest Work To New York Live Arts

FCA Recipient and 2014 Doris Duke Impact Awardee Adrienne Truscott, the radical comedian, activist and performance artist best know for her blistering satire about rape culture, Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape about Comedy Starring Her P*ssy and Little Else!, will premier her latest work THIS at New York Live Arts. Commissioned by New York Live Arts and presented through its Live Feed creative residency program, performance dates are April 5 through 8, 7:30pm, at New York Lives Arts, 219 West 19th Street, NYC. For tickets and information, call 212 924 0077 or visit newyorklivearts.

Truscott mines her own past and current work - as a choreographer, circus performer, essayist, comedian and cabaret performer - to investigate and inhabit familiar material in unfamiliar places. THIS is an always-evolving work - a physicalized performance of writing (and reading of performance) - that alternates with each performance to reflect the change in context brought by the performance at hand. It is a solo performance, which may not always be a solo.

"Playing around with presence, memory, authorship, narrative authority, linearity, truth, fiction, autobiography, creative sources and what demarcates performance, intention, execution, I mine my own past and current large group and solo pieces for material available for theft and repurposing," states Truscott. THIS is directed by Ellie Heyman (A Ride On The Irish Cream, Boner Killer; Me Myself and Schmerm) with sound and visual design by Carmine Covelli (The Julie Ruin).

Adrienne Truscott is an independent writer, choreographer, performance artist and director whose work straddles the genres of dance, theater, circus, stand-up comedy, story telling, cabaret and live music.

Truscott's blistering satire about rape culture disguised as stand-up comedy, Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape about Comedy Starring Her P*ssy and Little Else! (2013), has been performed, by design, in every imaginable venue-Comedy Club, theater, circus tent, university classroom-and is widely credited with helping to shape the evolving international conversation about sexual assault. Her group choreographic works, such asgenesis, no! (2007), ha! a solo (2011) and Too Freedom (2012;2014) have been presented in New York by the American Realness festival, Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Space 122 and The Kitchen and in Dublin, Ireland, by Project Arts Centre.

Truscott is one half of the boundary-busting circus/cabaret/comedy act The Wau Wau Sisters that has performed on various stages ranging from the streets of small towns; iconic rock venues like CBGB and Irving Plaza in New York and The Roundhouse in London, United Kingdom; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia; and on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Sharon Osbourne TV shows and in John Cameron Mitchell's cult film Shortbus. As a performer, Truscott has collaborated with Sarah Michelson, Deborah Hay, David Neumann, Linda Austin, Circus Amok and DANCENOISE and was a founding member of Sarah East Johnson's LAVA.

Truscott has been named a Doris Duke Impact Award Artist (2014), an Adelaide Fringe Artist Ambassador (2017) and most recently a FCA Award recipient (2017). Her essays have been published in The Guardian and Letters to the Resistance, among others and two anthologies, Between Us: Women of Letters (Viking, 2014) and Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex (Penguin, 2016).

New York Live Arts serves as home base for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the company's sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovative and challenging new work for the Company and New York's creative community. Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music and theater performances in its 20,000 square-foot home, which includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square-foot studios. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people and supports the continuing professional development of artists.

This performance is supported by the Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program with support from Con Edison, the Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Scherman Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation. Public support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

THIS receives additional support from the National Performance Network. Additional residency for the development of THIS is provided by the Watershed Lab residency at Mount Tremper Arts.

Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased at 212 924 0077 or online at newyorklivearts