Dixon Planet Present PORNING THE PLANET, 12/1

A star is born - porn star that is. Based on the life of porn star Brittany Andrews, this dark comedic solo play follows the metamorphosis of Sensora on a surreal journey from glam porn star to snuff assassinated President to a refugee launched into the galaxy.

Porning the Planet melds Japanese Butoh dance and narrative performance through a multimedia experience to explore how our virtual world interacts with our “realworld.”Conceived from contributed real life interviews, recordings and blog based pornography, Porning the Planet challenges our notion of how pornography has altered our methods of how we communicate and connect with each other and our own consciousness – our creation of a“De-Sensitized Nation.”

Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door, and $10 for students and seniors. For info and tickets www.dixonplace.org

The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during and after the show. Proceeds directly support Dixon Place’s artists and mission.

Performances are December 1 and 8th at 10:00 PM

RAQUEL ALMAZAN (Writer/Performer) B.F.A. in Theatre from U of F. M.F.A Columbia Playwriting Candidate. La Paloma Prisoner w/ La Mama ETC, INTAR and LAByrinth Theatre Company, WPIC Stockholm. The Hopefulness (Theatre Row Reading-Rising Circle Theatre Company) Porning the Planet (Dixon

Place) Glossy Page Pimps (directed by Michael Garces). Death of the Doll, the film(BHLIFilmFest)andNakedAngelsTheatreReadingSeries. SheWolves: Women in Sex, Death and Rebirth, NYC Fringe Festival, P.S.122 Louis O’Gerrits Theatre, Junkyard Food. Ur-Faust that toured to Hyterio Theatre in Athens, Greece. Grants- Ford Foundation, Manhattan Community Fund, and The Artist Access Grant. Nominated 1st annual United States Artists Grant innovative theatre artists. www.raquelalmazan.com

Penny Arcade (Project Director) Legend, icon, wild-hearted demoness bad-girl bitch. It is impossible to describe the juggernaut that is Penny Arcade without entering the world of hyperbole that she not only inhabits but also personifies. www.pennyarcade.tv

VANGELINE (Choreographer) Vangeline is a Butoh artist from France and the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a Dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century. Joyce SoHo, White Wave, HERE Arts Center, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122 Performance Space.  www.vangeline.com

SINDY BUTZ (Costume/Installation) Sindy Butz Fine Art, Art Science and Interactive Telecommunications. multi- media artist and sculptress she likes to initiate discourses between fashion designers, scientists, technologist and artists to conceptualize new possible collaborations within the art; science and business world. www.sindybutz.com

Sandra Powers (Multi Media Artist) Peruvian-American filmmaker Sandra Powers has always had an interest in the fantastical and the macabre. Screenings at different festivals in France, Germany, England, South Korea, the U.S. Art direction for the operatic glam-rock band "Timur and The Dime Museum" and works at Nickelodeon. www.sandrapowers.com

MIMI SETON (Additional Direction) As a theatre devisor (actor, writer-composer and director) her work garnered many press awards. Abbreviated credits include Trojan Women (LA Ovation Award nominee for Best Adaptation); and The Good Person of Sezuan, (Samuel Beckett Center, Dublin) THE FEVER, in London at LauderDale House. The National Shakespeare Company, playing Lady Mac Beth. Improviser with Bru Ha Ha, directed by Viola Spolin. Best Actress awards from LA Weekly (“A New Theatre visionary”) and Drama-Logue for Brain Hotel. She has voiced over 2000 recordings in LA, New York, Paris and London, and has directed voice recordings for TV Animation, film and public service. http://www.mimiseton.com/

FERMIN GONZALEZ (Graphic Design) holds a B.FA. in Visual Arts and Design from University of Florida. His work has been featured at the CELTIC IX Festival Internacional de Teatro, The New York International Fringe Festival, and “The Design of Dissent” a book by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic. Designs for *S,C,P,F (Miami) an international Advertisement Agency based in Spain. Fermin has spearheaded both interactive and print efforts for several artists and enterprises such

ADAM MANSELL (Sound Design) Adam began studying piano, trumpet and voice fervently at the age of 8 and began writing original work. After embracing the music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, his teen years brought forth influences as far and wide as Radiohead and Aphex Twin to Thelonious Monk and Brad Mehldau. Adam completed a long collegiate haul at SUNY Buffalo State with a double major in Music & Psychology as well as film scoring at the Berklee School of Music.  Adam is button-busting proud to work with such an incredible team and feels that Raquel's work is powerful and very necessary.  

MIMI SETON (Additional Direction) As a theatre devisor (actor, writer-composer and director) her work garnered many press awards. Abbreviated credits include Trojan Women (LA Ovation Award nominee for Best Adaptation); and The Good Person of Sezuan, (Samuel Beckett Center, Dublin) THE FEVER, in London at LauderDale House. The National Shakespeare Company, playing Lady Mac Beth. Improviser with Bru Ha Ha, directed by Viola Spolin. Best Actress awards from LA Weekly (“A New Theatre visionary”) and Drama-Logue for Brain Hotel. She has voiced over 2000 recordings in LA, New York, Paris and London, and has directed voice recordings for TV Animation, film and public service. http://www.mimiseton.com/

FERMIN GONZALEZ (Graphic Design) holds a B.FA. in Visual Arts and Design from University of Florida. His work has been featured at the CELTIC IX Festival Internacional de Teatro, The New York International Fringe Festival, and “The Design of Dissent” a book by Milton Glaser and Mirko Ilic. Designs for *S,C,P,F (Miami) an international Advertisement Agency based in Spain. Fermin has spearheaded both interactive and print efforts for several artists and enterprises such as IKEA, COCA COLA, FLOR DE CAÑA RUMS and DR.BRANDT. For the past 3 years, he has volunteered marketing services to a coffee cooperative "Cafe Cocano" located in Port du Paix, Haiti. Member of American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA) www.typegrafix.com

ELIZABETH GOODMAN (Stage Manager) Elizabeth is currently a first year Stage Management MFA student at Columbia. Past credits in New York City include: St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Columbia University). Back home in Canada, Elizabeth’s credits include: Dido and Aeneas, Hippolytos, playGround (York University), Idealism of the Unknown (Paprika Festival) among others. Overseas, Elizabeth has worked on Guilio Cesare (Centre for Opera Studies in Italy) and Scenofest as part of the Prague Quadrennial (as Production Manager).

BRITTANY ANDREWS (Muse/Consultant) Named one of the Top Three Porn Stars by "Entertainment Tonight" & Cosmopolitan. Both from porn and from her stints on "The Howard Stern Show", both radio & on the E! Channel. At PLAYBOY Channel as she has hosted over 10 of their best shows. www.brittanyandrews.com

NANCY KIM (Co-Producer) is a writer/performer and producer. She is a member of Rising Circle Theater Collective, a theatre company bringing artists of color together to develop and create new work. With Rising Circle, she also launched Q Up, a youth arts program for Asian American high school girls from Queens.

MONET HURST-MENDOZA (Co-Producer) is a playwright, producer, and director from Los Angeles, CA. New York producing credits include Playing in Traffic (Women's Project/EST), Miss Lulu Bette (Women's Project), PlayRISE Festival 2011 & 2012 (Rising Circle Theatre Collective), Work(s) in Progress (Bare Bones Ensemble); Los Angeles: The Women (dir. Bob Goldsby), Richard III (dir. Armin Shimerman), and The Young Idea Project with The Antaeus Company. B.A. in Theatre Arts, Marymount Manhattan College. www.angrypatrons.com

AARON SIMMS (Associate Producer) As You Like It, The Golem, Othello, War of the Worlds, The Comedy of Errors, Tombstone Saga of the American’s – The West, The Merchant of Venice, Dracula for Inwood Shakespeare Festival. Deleted Scenes and Alternate Endings for LABryth Theater’s Master Class, Encore ’97 for Ohio Showboat Drama. K Comma Joseph for Up Theater Company. Broadway wardrobe production credits: Sister Act, Evita, Peter Pan, Cirque Dreams, Jersey Boys, Cirque du Soleil’s Wintuk. Off Broadway wardrobe credits: Rent. Regional performance credits include: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, American Stage Theater, Human Race Theater, Theater West Virginia, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, and Milwaukee Repertory Theater. TV: One Life To Live, All My Children, As the World

Turns. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE. He is the Producing Artistic Director of The Back Porch - New York Vaudeville.

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