PAUL OUTLAW
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W H A T ’ S H A P P E N I N G (click on any title for details)
DUET is a new devised performance work exploring boyhood, maturity and mortality through storytelling, movement, masks and audiovisual media.
Original text, dramaturgy and images: Paul Outlaw and Joe Seely
Mask design and construction: Joe Seely
Media editing: Paul Outlaw
Two chances to see the work-in-progress:
”WALKING TO THE EDGE“
Lincoln City Fellowship '24 Artist Showcase
Friday, November 8, 2024, starting at 6pm
Clifton's Republic, 648 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014
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ARTIST RESIDENCY SERIES OPEN STUDIO EVENT
Saturday, November 16, 2024, at 8pm
Davidson/Valentini Theatre, LA LGBT Center, 1125 North McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90028
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ONE INSTITUTE PRESENTS PAUL OUTLAW
To conclude this year’s Pride Month activities, One Institute is proud to invite award-winning performing artist Paul Outlaw for an encore presentation of The Place in Which I’ll Fit Will Not Exist Until I Make It. Unveiled at the inaugural Circa: Queer Histories Festival in 2023, the reading features selections from writings and interviews by queer African American luminaries from the 1950s to the 2020s. Each of the eight Black voices in the reading corresponds to a decade in the 70+ years of One Institute‘s existence. This powerful tapestry not only captures snapshots of queer culture from the latter half of the 20th century to the present day, but also serves as a poignant timeline of our community’s triumphs and challenges.
Saturday, June 29, 2024, 6:00 pm-8:30 pm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mercado La Paloma, 3655 S. Grand Ave. #280, Los Angeles, CA 90007
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the full-length premiere at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater)
Los Angeles, June 20-22, 2024
BBC is available for tour and festival dates.
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In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic disruption began, with the performing arts sector hard hit by shutdowns, losses, and revenue and audiences still lagging significantly today from pre-pandemic levels, even as other sectors of the County’s creative economy are recovering. The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture has announced 40 awards—totaling $1.2 million—to performing arts organizations, individual artists and producers of new or existing artistic work, including dance, music, theater, and folk and traditional arts. This one-time program, the LA County Performing Arts Recovery Grant, provides support to the sector with funding from the former Ford Theatre Foundation, administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation on behalf of the Department of Arts and Culture.
This award will provide funding for the creation, documentation, and presentation of the evening-length version of BBC (Big Black Cockroach).
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W H A T . H A P P E N E D? (in 2022 & 2023)
MIXED BLOOD THEATRE COMPANY (MINNEAPOLIS) PRESENTS CRITICAL MASS PERFORMANCE GROUP’S MARIOLOGY
Paul Outlaw joined director Nancy Keystone and ensemble for the most recent phase of development of CMPG’s current project Mariology, which explores the Virgin Mary as a source of faith and comfort—especially in these harrowing times—and as a weapon of control and colonization.
In a mythical fifth grade classroom, indoctrination gives way to fantasy and rebellion, in a rambunctious spectacle of live music, movement and text. Mariology disrupts ingrained knowledge and inspires imagination about Mary’s roles in systems of gender, power and faith, in order to open possibilities for personal liberation and agency.
Mariology opened the 47th season of Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, with three weeks of performances beginning on October 27, 2023.
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Celebrating over 70 years of service to the LGBTQ+ community, One Institute presented Circa, the first and only LGBTQ+ histories festival in the United States. During October (LGBT History Month), the festival was presented at various venues throughout Los Angeles. On October 3, Circa welcomed Paul Outlaw’s “The Place in Which I’ll Fit Will Not Exist Until I Make It: Eight Black Voices from the Eight Decades of One Institute,” a reading featuring excerpts from writings by and interviews with queer African American luminaries from the 1950s to the 2020s. Their words serve not only as snapshots of queer culture in the second half of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st, but also as a timeline of our triumphs and challenges.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 7pm>>>>Advocate & Gochis Galleries at the Los Angeles LGBT Center>>>>1225 N McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90028
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ACCELERATOR: A POWER GROUP IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE
Los Angeles Performance Project’s ACCELERATOR builds a community of independent artists that are actively seeking to resource and develop a current project. The cohort meets monthly to deepen their producing resources through guest speakers and engaging with our knowledgeable staff. ACCELERATOR serves as an accountability framework to aim for ten firm proposals or actions towards developing & resourcing each participant’s work.
Invited participants will have a demonstrated commitment to longevity in contemporary performance, be based in Los Angeles, and actively working towards developing a specific performance project.
2023 ACCELERATOR artists: Daniel Corral, Alison De La Cruz, Marsian De Lellis, DaEun Jung, Daria Kaufman, Mireya Lucio, Paul Outlaw, Nina Sarnelle, Selwa Sweidan, Anu Yadav, Chelsea Zeffiro.
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WALL BERLINER, WAHLBERLINER is a new theatrical work in English and German for three performers. It tells the story of the self-imposed exile of a queer African American performing artist in West Berlin and and his ongoing relationship with the city over several decades.
Presented as part of IN EXILE. QUEERWEEK22:
“The hard reality of life in Berlin is, at the same time, a wet dream: here the self, lived out freely, constantly encounters alienating labels from the outside, as if being alienated from one’s actual body wasn’t challenging enough. Anyone who, self-confidently estranged from the world, searches for cohesion, will self-evidently be alienated – the never-ending search for security and the question of if it even exists, when escaping from one danger means the next is lying in wait. Alleged and actual safety will be explored in multilingual-speechless and nonverbal ways with performances, dance, parties, theatre, discussions and art exhibitions on queerness in exile and exile in queerness.”
Saturday, September 3, 2022, at 8:30pm Central European Time (live and in-person)
Studio R, Am Festungsgraben 2., 10117 Berlin
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QUEER BIENNIAL presents (IN)APPROPRIATE(D)
Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 7:00pm (live and in-person)
ONE Gallery, 626 N. Robertson Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
Organized by Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
for QUEER DIASPORAS: LAVENDER CITY OF DREAMS.
Inspired by and reflecting on the current state of queerness, gender politics and the rainbow spectrum of identity, the evening’s participants—some of Kuiland-Nazario’s favorite writers and troublemakers*—will be reading a blend of inappropriate, appropriate and appropriated text. Expect some appropriately inappropriate surprises.
*DL Alvarez, Ron Athey, D. Nathan Birnbaum, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Paul Outlaw, Cesar Padilla, Anuradha Vikram
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Getty Villa Theater Lab (Los Angeles), April 30, 2022 at 1 & 4pm, May 1 , 2022 at 2pm
Cassandra knows the future. She can see disasters on the horizon. And no matter what she says or what she does, no one believes her. Her city will fall. Her family will die. And so will she. She could change it all if only anyone would listen. How does one person get the world to hear?
Cassandra shows up as a side character in numerous Greek texts, but never as the central figure. Drawing on the works of Aeschylus, Euripides, Lycophron, Quintus Smyrnaeus and Tryphiodorus, New York’s Sinking Ship Productions weaves a wholly original take on her story. Using contemporary language and dynamic physical performance, the piece asks the questions: How do we think about the future? How do we act?
Cassandra, an Agony is an original work-in-progress of physical theater co-created by director Jonathan Levin, playwright Josh Luxenberg, performer Jin Maley and performer/movement director Nessa Norich. With Maley, Norich, Jen Anaya, Anthony Nikolchev and Paul Outlaw.
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For five consecutive years (2020 - 2024), Paul has been awarded a Lincoln City Fellowship by the Speranza Foundation!
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