Lea DeLaria to Headline Dixon Place's 2013 HOT! Festival; Full Lineup Announced!

Dixon Place has announced the 22nd Annual HOT! Festival of Queer Culture, running July 2 - August 3, 2013.

Lea DeLaria will headline the festival with her new one-woman show, The Loudest Show on Earth, for six performances only, July 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, & 27 at 10PM.

Shows include Linda Simpson, Daniel Isengart & Filipe Noterdaeme, Penny Arcade, Flotilla DeBarge, Garrin Benfield, Justin Sayre, Chris Tanner and more. Details below!

Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY. For reservations and advanced tickets: www.hotfestival.org or call 212 219 0736. Prices: Free - $25. Theatre, Dance, Music, Burlesque, Performance Art and Homoeroticism for the Whole Family!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Tuesday, July 2 - 6PM - 10PM

HOT! Opening Night Party with your co-host Dandy Darkly!

Kick off HOT! Festival in the Dixon Place lounge with cool summer cocktails

by Snow Queen Vodka and Bulldog Gin. The first 75 guests receive super HOT! Swag Bags filled with sexy summer gifts from Gun Oil, Max Pro Condoms, Mount Airy Casino, Eboost, Daddy Hunt, Good Clean Love, and many more sponsors!

Free spontaneous preview performances!

Snow Queen Vodka Cocktail Hour - 6PM - 7PM Free!

Wednesday, July 3 at 7:30pm

Fil Vocasek & Xavier Rice

Cabaret performer Mamma Rice and a posthumous Bea Arthur face off in this theatrical throwdown. When the lights come up, these two forces of nature face off, sing songs, shed some clothes and skewer perception of homo history.

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Lounge, Comedy - Horror - Storytelling - Camp

Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm

Dandy Darkly

Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!

Come inside Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole and experience tawdry storytelling certain to titillate, torment (and tickle) ... if you dare! "...an utterly unique and potentially fatal cocktail of mince and menace that's not to be believed ... even once he's been seen!" - The Villager Newspaper). Guest appearances by Adam Tendler & Jeffrey Marsh.

www.dandydarkly.com/HOTFESTIVAL

Free!

Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm

Dance - TRIPLE BILL

Tangle Movement Arts

Invert!

Female WWII engineers, Greek statuary, the culture of Internet self-portraits, and postmodern icons of female strength come together in this aerial dance theater production, presented by Tangle. 20 mins. ~ http://www.tangle-arts.com

Megan Gendell and Laura Feldman

Commas Along the Water

In three short circus pieces, Megan Gendell and Lauren Feldman explore the nature of meetings, connections, and departures

www.megangendell.com - www.laurenfeldman.com

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Intersubjectivity

Borrowing from traditions of circus, dance, and performance art, Intersubjectivity is a scream of queer frustration and connection.~ www.cargocollective.com/licata

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Friday, July 5 at 10:00pm

SPLIT BILL

Jack Shamblin

Fuck Mia

This scathing comedy is Mia Kunter's transformation from exploited cross-dresser to goddess punk anarchist showcases Shamblin's range of five characters in various degrees sanity and gender. - www.jackshamblin.com

*the beautifuls*

*the beautifuls* is a semi-conscious display of the limitless arrogance and endemic ignorance of being young and fabulous. - rdhm.net

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Theater/Performance

Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm

M. Lamar

SURVEILLANCE PUNISHMENT AND THE BLACK PSYCHE

M. Lamar's new music theater piece explores a plantation fantasy from the point of view of a black man condemned to death for the murder of his male overseer with whom he has fallen in love. ~ www.mlamar.com

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Lounge

Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm

Communitas

Curated by Frank J. Miles

Communitas, the new literary series at Dixon Place, captures the times we are in and moving towards - continuing the tradition of a Downtown Manhattan art space where so many parts of the worlds of art and culture and New York City converge.

$6

Lounge

Theater/Performance

Monday, July 8 at 7:30pm

Brad Bradley

B Squared

B Squared is a light evening of silly songs, poignant melodies with friends and queer stories that will make you giggle and smile. Its goes beyond the surface, but honestly not much. Special guest, Patrick Wetzel.

Free

Theater/Performance

Monday, July 8 at 7:30pm

Melissa Li

Interstate

Interstate is a new concert musical following the drama of a queer Asian-American band on their first cross-country tour. www.interstatethemusical.com

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Lounge

Theater/Performance

Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30pm

Croft Vaughn

Penelope Labradoodle Rockefeller

PLP is a feral raconteur, inner beauty consultant, and erstwhile chanteuse wields a fabulous superpower. www.croftvaughn.com

Lounge

Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30

Jason & Jill: CRAFT FOR YOUR LIFE!

Free

Theater/Performance, Music

Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30pm

Daniel Isengart & Filip Noterdaeme

The Mad Lover In Me Is The Crazy Artist In You

A madcap cabaret-style romp based on the real-life adventures of two eccentric expatriates who find love in New York City and transform their private lives into a public exhibit of mischief and art. Featuring Penny Arcade, with special appearances by Phoebe Legere and Flotilla DeBarge.

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Lounge

Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm

Ben Rosenbaum

Space Displacement

Space Displacement is a solo performance piece about reconciling the reality of the physical with the possibilities of the mental. Ben sets out to understand what it means to be a body and a mind, too.

Free

Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm

Linda Simpson

The Drag Explosion

Linda Simpson shows off her photos of NYC's momentous drag scene from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. As The Drag Explosion traces Linda's personal journey-from a newbie queen into one of the scene's leading ladies-it recalls the amazing story of how NYC's wiggy subculture burst from the underground into the mainstream.

www.TheDragExplosion.com

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Theater / Performance

Thursday, July 11 at 10:00pm

Brandon Kyle Goodman

Latrell Live Tonight: A Real Boy!

Slip on your pearls, grab a glass of something boozy, and enjoy the rowdiest talk show around! "Latrell Live Tonight!" is hosted by Latrell Lavene Lebron Lucious Lacrosse Latavier Lactaid Jackson - "The Prophet of Truth" - and he's serving up candid talk on everything juicy, absurd, and stooopid in pop culture. ~ www.ilovelatrell.com

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Fridays & Saturdays, July 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, & 27 at 10pm

THE 2013 HOT! FESTIVAL COMMISSION

Lea DeLaria in a world premiere!

The Loudest Show on Earth

Step Inside "A Conservative's Nightmare" with controversial queer comic Lea DeLaria and her sidekick, Maggie Cassella, as they premiere The Loudest Show On Earth. The duo met at Hartford Pride in 1988 and, because they're rageful, opinionated, Italian dyke comics, they've been yelling at each other ever since. Come share their exploration of the queer urban experience and they promise a funny and musical and F-Bomb filled evening. Bring the kids!

$18 students/seniors - $20 advance / $25 door

Lounge

Theatre/Performance

Friday, July 12 at 7:30pm

Gershwin Live at Dixon Place

St Fortune Presents: Improvisational!

Curated by Michael Wiener and Neke Carson

An improvised multimedia romp through the abstract world of St Fortune's mind.

www.stfortune.com

Free

SPLIT BILL

Friday, July 12 at 7:30pm

Megan Hanley

(check hotfestival.org for show info)

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Kym Bernazky

Plasticland: A Better Place

PLASTICLAND: A BETTER PLACE is a one-woman, experimental, movement theater piece, which brings the audience on a journey to the doldrums of the Pacific Ocean where they encounter a giant plastic trash heap - roughly the size of Texas! ~ kymbernazky.com

$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr

Lounge

Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm

Andie Glik

The Hole Diaries

The Hole Diaries is a reactionary piece pointed at the failures of the Vagina Monologues ~ an honest compilation of monologues written by, and about, all sorts of queer and feminist bodies, rebelling against movements of feminism and body liberation that are deep seeded in what defines a gendered body.

Free

Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm

SPLIT BILL

Dance, Theatre/Performance

Alex Rodabaugh

It Haunts Me

It Haunts Me explores the relationship between choreographer and dancer as a dominant/submissive structure, intertwining my own experience of dom/sub queer relationships.

McJob

People regard being older as being ugly, and everyone wants to be perfect.

Is an artist, writer, film and theatre director. In this last capacity he won many prizes including his movies, The Cell (2010) and The Well (2009), both made when the Moscow-born author held a scholarship at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography.

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May December

May December is a 10-minute solo dance piece that examines a coming of age story of a young man and his intergenerational encounters. Armed with a bedsheet, a pillow, and a flashlight, our protagonist faces his inner and outer demons.

http://projectileimagery.org

Lounge, Music, Performance

Monday, July 15 at 7:30pm

The Millies

The Traveling Millies Reunion Tour

The Travelling Millies return for a whirlwind reunion tour! The weird aunts of country music return with their firestorm of country-bluegrass topsy-turvey insanity~ https://www.facebook.com/TravellingMillies

Free

Comedy

Monday, July 15 at 7:30pm

Monica Hammond

Monday Night Live

Monday Night Live is a mash up sketch comedy show based on the structure of Saturday Night Live. Your fantasy guest host for the evening, Honey Boo Boo Child, will take you through an hour of original comedy. Be prepared for outrageous digital shorts, live sketch comedy, improvised musical performances, and more. www.MonicaHammond.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge, Music

Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30pm

Garrin Benfield

Benfield's shows center on his quirky pop melodies but are stretched by Garrin into improvisational explorations into new territory each night. Familiar songs are often twisted and contorted into gorgeous new mashups that leave audiences breathless. Benfield gained notice in 2000 with his stark tribute to Matthew Shepard in "What You're Hiding." ~ www.garrin.com

Free

Theater/Performance, Literature

Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30pm

GJ Dowding

(Miss)ter Silhouette Man

A poetry and prose driven performance piece laden with music and movement. (Miss)ter Silhouette Man follows a queer boy on a curious journey orbiting around identity and community.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Theater / Movement

Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm

Matthew Pieknik

As Long As You Want

As Long As You Want (Pt. I) uses Sappho's fragmentary poetry to explore the tension between subjective integrity and the eruptions of desire, and between the intentionally said and the unintentionally shown.

Free

Dance

Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm

SPLIT BILL

Anna K. Whaley

Metaphysically ILL

Nevermind permanent healing from the inside. I'm only doing what feels good.

Defiance

Defiance explores the role of psychosis in facilitating deep healing. - www.dommebomb.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Thursday, July 18 at 7:30pm

D'yan Forest

Sexy 'n' Sassy / Bold 'n' Brassy!

Comedic ukulele playing gal with a twist. Hotter than hot with crowd-wowing tales galore. ~ www.dyanforest.com

Free

Theatre

Thursday, July 18 at 7:30pm

Kestryl Cael Lowery & Emily Millay Haddad

Lez Miz

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Theater/Performance, Dance

Thursday, July 18 at 10:00pm

Octavio Campos

The Pig Show

Cabaret performance with song, dance and storytelling and a celebration of Freedom, through the eyes of a Gay Pig stuck in a twisted story of the 50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm

Jessica Halem

Jessica Halem for Mayor - A Queer You Can Get Behind

Jessica Halem unleashes her platform for Mayor, a queer you can get behind.

Free

Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm

Katie Goldstein

Late Capitalism Cabaret

Sally Bowles is a queer artist who organizes a weekly performance event in a neighborhood that's been facing pressure from real estate developers. When queer blogger Cliff Bradshaw moves to town, she and Sally join the coalition of dancers and neighborhood residents organizing to save the Kit Kat Club.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Solo Performance

Saturday, July 20 at 7:30pm

Paul Ricciardi

ANGRY AND OTHER STORIES

A man discovers the joy of being angry, a 16 year old responds to a gay personals ad, and a little boy announces he's becoming a nurse.~ paulricciardi.net

Free

Saturday, July 20 at 7:30pm

Sh!t Theatre

Sh!t Theatre's Job Seekers Anonymous 2013

A unique and humorous exploration of the (un)employment situations in London and New York. Expect song, satire, stories and silliness.~ www.shittheatre.co.uk

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Monday, July 22 at 7:30pm

Colin Zouvi

(check hotfestival.org for info)

Free

Monday, July 22 at 7:30pm

Justine Sayre

The Boy Sonata

Written as a synesthetic exercise, The Boy Sonata, traces the life of a young through 5 specific moments in his childhood. The stories are written in Sonata form, using literary devices to mimic the musical counterpart and eclipse the Boy's growing voice and sense of increasing individuality.

Justin Sayre - best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting* (2012 Bistro Award, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit "Night of A Thousand Judys" - was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as "Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg." In a recent story for Edge New York, Steve Weinstein said "Comedian, raconteur, performing artist, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30pm

John Farrell

3 Lies About Brooklyn

John Farrell dips into his early childhood memories (Ages 2 through 5, primarily) to recover a consciousness far more developed then is generally remembered or understood. Set a half-a-century ago in the orphanages, and foster homes of Brooklyn and Dublin it presents a fictionalized (maybe) world view shaped by cruel theology (Catholic) and animal necessity.

Free

SPLIT BILL

Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30pm

Megan Kosmoski & Gina Femia

Five-Sided Triangle

This is the tale of five women in different stages of love, connected through their love for one another.

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Jess Goldschmidt

(check hotfestival.org for info)

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Theater/Performance

Wednesday, July 24 at 7:30pm

Denis Grawley

Thy Kingdom Come

A non-verbal cautionary tale, with music, about lying in the bed you've made for yourself.

Free

Music, Theater/Performance

Wednesday, July 24 at 7:30pm

Dane Terry

Songs and stories of predatory behavior and shadowy meetings on the moon...failed biological experiments and drunk fathers and everything Dane Terry knows about sex, and then some.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Theater, Comedy

Wednesday, July 24 at 10:00pm

Adrienne Truscott

Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!

Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Adrienne Truscott wants to see what happens when she 'asks for it'. With commentary from George Carlin, Louis C. K. and Robert De Niro, she takes on stand-up, polka-dots, pussy- puppets, & mini-skirts.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm & Friday, July 26 at 8:30pm

Chris Tanner

(check hotfestival.org for info)

Free

Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Dance - SPLIT BILL

Lillie De / Emily Skillings

Using text derived from their sex dreams, these artists explore the bizarre intricacies of modern desire through text and movement.

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Rachel Thorne Germond

Two dances on the theme of love and loss in relationships: the solo Gone Gone Gone... Never Forever and Rejoinder, a passionate duet for two women abounding with energy and grace with live sound effects, music by John Zorn and an aria from the opera Norma by Bellini.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Rick Viete

Glace Chase is Talented?

Since being told by his agent: "you've got the charisma. Now you just need a talent" Glace Chase has been determined to prove to the world (and himself) that he can actually do something. So what will it be: Singer? Actor? Dancer? Comedian? Erotica? Intellectuality???? He needs your help to decide.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Theater/Performance Art

Friday, July 26 & Saturday, July 27 at 7pm

Sacha Yanow

The Prince

A lonely prince prepares to be special while never leaving the safety of her bedroom.

~ www.sachayanow.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Friday, July 26 at 8:30pm

Faux Pas le Fae

CHEZ le FAE

Queer inspired Burlesque, smart Drag comedy and world class Modern Dance are brought together in one evening of twists and twirls. From the heart of Faux Pas le Fae comes CHEZ le FAE: a celebration of the queer, the exotic and the divinely sexy! http://www.kineticarchitecture.org

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Saturday, July 27 at 8:30pm

Dandy Darkly

Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!

Dandy Darkly weaves sinister tale in his signature mincing manner! A peasant girl learns the true meaning of 'fashion victim!' A rural Georgia town hides its most shameful secrets! A zombie plague decimates disco-era dandies! And more! Come inside Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole and experience tawdry storytelling certain to titillate, torment (and tickle) ... if you dare! - Featuring original musical compositions by Adam Tendler and Jeffrey Marsh. - www.dandydarkly.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Monday, July 29 at 7:30pm

Heidi Russell

(check hotfestival.org for info)

Free

Monday, July 29 at 7:30pm

Trevor Bachman

Coromandel

A vibrant musical odyssey for children and adults, sung by the bizarre characters of poet Edward Lear.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge

Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30pm

Ariel Carson

MAMA'S MILK

Come closer. Sit on Mama's lap. And suckle the sweet milk of hilarity straight from the hottest and queerest performers in town. Unfiltered, unbridled, and joyously bizarre, this variety show will leave a taste in your mouth you didn't even know you missed.

http://www.arielcarson.com/news

Free

Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30pm

David Macke

{Your Name Here} presents Fe(lix) Namasté's FIGMENT

A dance-theater piece that explores the worlds of the living, death, and places in-between.

www.YourNameHereQTC.org

Lounge

Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30pm

Leigh Hendrix

Get Away From Me I Love You

A maybe post post modern performance collage with dancing, pop music, lip sync and feelings that is all filled up with leaving: leaving people, leaving places, leaving selves in search of a future transformation that won't stop getting interrupted by the people of the present.

Free

Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30pm

Justin Valhala

What Leaves the Wind Has Laid

What Leaves the Wind Has Laid tells the story of two men who cross paths in an enchanted bath house, ruled over by a mysterious madam. In this archetypal tale of love and loss, the characters struggle to find their way in the steAmy Halls where every corner is filled with fresh temptation and trauma. www.justinvahala.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Lounge, Theater/Performance

Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm

Hari Nef

I Am Your Girlfriend

A young drag urchin inherits "the Goddess within." Using a pastiche of drag performance, confession, and new media, I Am Your Girlfriend illuminates the soaring ambivalence and bittersweet redemption of discovering, exploring, and presenting queer identity without compromise.

Free

Theatre/Performance

Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm

Samantha Galarza and Natalyn Tremblay

Bare Bones Unbound

Two lovers literally bound together, unraveling the complexity of their identities, stories, fears, and desires.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Dance, burlesque, performance art, spoken word

Thursday, August 1 at 10:00pm

Aimee Herman & Essence Revealed

Electrify Gender!

Electrify Gender! celebrates the spectrum of gender and sexualities through burlesque and performance art

Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3 at 8:30pm

Chris Tanner

FOOTBALLHEAD: Tales of Shame and Humiliation

Chris Tanner returns to Dixon Place with Football Head tales of shame and humiliation.True and humiliating stories of the sexual awaking of a nerdy art Queen.

Free

Saturday, August 3 at 7:00pm

Santiago Venegas & Becky Eklund

(check hotfestival.org for info)

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Theater, Performance, Comedy, Dance, Music

Saturday, August 3 at 8:30pm

Susana Cook

We Are Caligula

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

Saturday, August 3 at 10pm

Kristine Haruna Lee

Drunkfish Oceanrant

A fishy fisherman with bourbon in hand, tells an unusual story in Rakugo. What is Rakugo? Quite literally, it means "fallen words": the art of storytelling where one must be seated on a cushion in seiza (that way of Japanese sitting that hurts most Westerners.) He may tell a funny story only using the inflection, tone, and pitch of his voice, and maybe occasionally with the turn of his head.

M'dori

M'dori is a young hustler making a go of it in a global city. www.felipeossa.com

$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors

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