Sissy Boyd studied with Martha Graham and has danced with many diverse and avant-garde companies in NYC. She has appeared in the video art of Peter Campus, the films of Mark Rappaport, and several Allison Anders films. She studied poetry with Holly Prado, and playwriting with John Steppling. Several of Boyd’s plays have been produced, including: The Definite Child, directed by Wes Walker and Green Shoes, which she directed (an LA Weekly Pick of the Week). Her play Liddy was the text for Guy Zimmerman’s short film by the same name. Boyd is a former member of Oxblood Theater Company and a current member of the Evidence Room Theatre Company and Ken Roht’s Orphean Circus. In 2005, Boyd was featured in Fearless Women (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Her book, in the plain turn of the body make a sentence, Two Plays by Sissy Boyd, was published in 2006 by Les Figues Press.
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EPISODE 1
DREAM TIME: Artist/Curator Anne Austin Pearce
What does the dream world have to do with the art world? BLEED host, Debra Di Blasi, talks with visual artist, Anne Austin Pearce, who is also director of Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University in the new art center of the US, Kansas City, Missouri.
Anne Austin Pearce studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Brighton England Polytechnic, and University of Kansas, where she received a BFA in printmaking. In 1996 she completed her MFA in painting and Drawing at James Madison University. Currently Anne is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rockhurst Universityi, and director of Greenlease Gallery of Art. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely in U.S. galleries and abroad, and reside in many private collections. |
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EPISODE 2
SMART LIT: Sissy Boyd, Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place
Who's writing (and publishing) the future's literary classics? Actor and playwright Sissy Boyd, Les Figues publisher and novelist Vanessa Place, and Les Figues editor and novelist Teresa Carmody. Debra Di Blasi meets up with them outside the Pod Hotel in New York.
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Sissy Boyd studied with Martha Graham and has danced with many diverse and avant-garde companies in NYC. She has appeared in the video art of Peter Campus, the films of Mark Rappaport, and several Allison Anders films. She studied poetry with Holly Prado, and playwriting with John Steppling. Several of Boyd’s plays have been produced, including: The Definite Child, directed by Wes Walker and Green Shoes, which she directed (an LA Weekly Pick of the Week). Her play Liddy was the text for Guy Zimmerman’s short film by the same name. Boyd is a former member of Oxblood Theater Company and a current member of the Evidence Room Theatre Company and Ken Roht’s Orphean Circus. In 2005, She was featured in Fearless Women (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Her book, in the plain turn of the body make a sentence, Two Plays by Sissy Boyd, was published in 2006 by Les Figues Press. |
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EPISODE 3
SOUTH AFRICAN URBAN: Writer Lauren Beukes and Publisher Michelle Matthews
What are literary women doing on the other side of the globe? With a winter ocean rumbling outside the windows of a Cape Town flat, Debra Di Blasi talks with two South African women: fiction writer and co-writer/founder of the hit animation series, URB, Lauren Beukes; and hip, young publisher of Oshun Books, Michelle Matthews.
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EPISODE 4
SOWING BOOKS: Writer Davis Schneiderman
How many years does it take to grow a book? Debra Di Blasi meets up with writer, professor and "book farmer" Davis Schneiderman, at Lake Forest College just outside Chicago, Illinois.
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EPISODE 5
MONSTROUS WOMEN OF THE AVANT GARDE
An interview with editor, Nava Renek, and seven writers included in the anthology, Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers of the 21st Century. Debra Di Blasi sits them down at the April 2008 &NOW Festival of Innovative Literature and Art, in Orange, California.
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