Genevieve Simon. Photo by Julianna McGuirl.
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Co-Presented with The Bushwick Starr
Since 2010, The Bushwick Starr’s annual Starr Reading Series has cultivated a diverse group of writers at all stages of their careers, who approach writing for the theater in thrilling and unexpected ways. Selected through an invited submission process by a rotating committee of curators – currently Jehan O. Young, Elizagrace Madrone, William Burke, and Machel Ross – the selected playwrights receive developmental support for a public staged reading of a new, usually unfinished, work. With The Bushwick Starr’s new permanent home currently under renovation, CPR is partnering for the fourth season to co-present this program, which unites the process-oriented missions of both organizations, and celebrates the incubation of new, experimental work in performance. The Starr Reading Series has previously supported new plays by writers including Whitney White, Clare Barron, Phillip Howze, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Haruna Lee, and many more.
Genevieve Simon: THIS BUG IS GAY
How do you translate your body? Do you secretly know you’re the least favorite child? Why do some words taste so good? How horny was Franz Kafka? What joy can we find by releasing the need to be understood? And how many blueberries can you fit in your mouth at once? All this and more at THIS BUG IS GAY, a solo queer cabaret in German, starring Gregor Samsa from Kakfa’s The Metamorphosis. You disgust me. You’re delightful. Let's be bugs together.
Genevieve Simon (they/them) is an Equity actor and writer who speaks imperfectly fluent German. They're a 2023-24 New Georges Audrey Resident and a 2023 Semi-Finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship. Genevieve’s work has been supported by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Puffin Foundation, The Brick, The Tank, Arts on Site, Shadowland Stages, and The Parsnip Ship.
Additional Spring 2024 Starr Reading Series programs:
Tues, February 27 at 7 P.M.
Deneen Reynolds-Knott: WHILE WE'RE HERE
Weds, February 28 at 7 P.M.
Aeon Andreas: GODSPUNK
Thurs, February 29 at 7 P.M.
Utkarsh Rajawat: lil nagins: a photorealist rendering of the Tutor Time near Yardley, PA circa 1999
Tues, March 5 at 7 P.M.
Avi Amon: MOTHER/ROAD