Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Episode 34 - Interview with khattieQ (Actor, Musician) and Jenny Larson-Quiñones (Writer, Theatre-Maker)
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Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music
About khattieQ and Jenny Larson-Quiñones:
khattieQ (they/she/he) is a performer from Puerto Rico. Co-creator and star of 2020 Fringe New Play Prize winner ‘Catalina La O Presenta: Ahora Conmigo’ which features original music. khattieQ was the guitarist and vocalist for punk band BLXPLTN. khattieQ has played as a professional musician with over twenty bands, cutting their teeth on the famous Austin, Texas live music scene. Most notably, they toured as drummer for queer femme core band The Tuna Helpers. Professional credits include Denim Doves and Casta for Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, TX, Heaven Born Wind at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Frank Theatre’s Be-Longing.
Jenny Larson-Quiñones (she/they) is a writer and theatre maker. They served as the Artistic Director of experimental new works company Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, TX from 2008-2019. They have had residencies with the Workshop Theatre, New Dramatist, and the Drama League in NYC. They have trained with SITI company and worked with the Rude Mechs. They have worked internationally (in Bulgaria, Hungary, Russia) thanks to Center for International Theatre Development and Trust for Mutual Understanding. Jenny’s scripts include Catalina La O Presenta (winner of the Fringe New Play Prize 2020), Desperately Seeking Comfortable Shoes (Emerging Playwright’s Unit 2021), and always boy (PTC Digital Dramaturgy Initiative & GVPTA Digital Connections Cohort 2021). Their work has shown in Texas, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Bulgaria, Finland, and New York City.
jk jk, khattie and Jenny began creating together in 2015, officially forming jk jk in 2019. Their mandate is to create work that magnifies the disenfranchised while challenging the status quo. Their work combines khattie’s punk rock aesthetic and Jenny’s experimental theatre training to create stories that centre joy, foolishness, and social justice, in an attempt to get to the heart of the human condition. Their work Catalina La O premieres live in Vancouver in June 2022
About Tara:Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level" (The Georgia Straight).
Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world. Highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season), The River Project with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello and Bassano Italy, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) / East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart
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