Alexandra Tatarsky

Called “a hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones) and “one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around,” (Artspace) Tatarsky makes work in the unfortunate in-between zone of comedy, performance art, dance, theater, and deluded rant – sometimes with songs. Playing with perceptions of language and narrative structure, their live performances are highly responsive to venue and audience, often breaking the fourth wall to reveal vulnerability and humanity.

Venues include La Mama, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Judson Church, Abrons Arts Center, Skirball, Gibney, New Museum and many bars and basements. Tatarsky experienced fleeting global fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. They have had the pleasure of collaborating as a performer, devisor, and dramaturg with artists including Pig Iron, Aya Ogawa, Poncili Creacion, Trajal Harrell, Lilac Co, Zhe Zhe, David Levine, Marianna Ellenberg, Adrienne Truscott, Josephine Decker, Eva Steinmetz, and Gabrielle Revlock. As curatorial fellow at the Poetry Project, they organized a series on the poetics of rot. 

Tatarsky writes on spambot poetics, bootleg lyrics, and grotesque politics for publications including New Inquiry, Vulture, ArtReview Asia, OIE, Spike, Garlands, Hypocrite Reader, and Weekday. Together with Ming Lin, they form one half of the fictional office entity Canal Street Research Association. Current research interests include bootlegs, hell-scapes, and compost.

Shane Riley

Shane Riley (sound designer and composer). Playwrights Horizons debut. Collaborated with Tatarsky on works including Untitled Freakout (The Kitchen), Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Abrons Arts Center), How to Be Your Selves (Triple Canopy), Buttplug Gnome (Gibney Dance) and DIRT TRIP (MoMA PS1). Website: shanerileysound.org

• “A THRILLING and frenetic mental breakdown of a show!”

  — Naveen Kumar, The New York Times

• “Alex Tatarsky’s physicality is second to none — they are FEARLESS and UNPREDICTABLE. This is a BLISTERING, BRILLIANT show, relentless in its invention and humor.”

  — Kyle Turner, New York Theater Guide