LISICK & LENNON PRESENT:

DEAD DARLINGS: MAYDAY EDITION!

Hosted by AMANDA DUARTE

A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY CREATIVE SEANCE...ARTISTS MAY “KILL THEIR DARLINGS” BUT ART NEVER DIES

“Welcome to the cult of Amanda Duarte. The dark queen of satire assembles her own team of creative freedom fighters at this forum for scrapped projects, cut pieces and lost art.” - Time Out New York

SATURDAY 5/30

DOORS 5PM

SHOW 5:30PM

$15 ADV/$20 DOOR

AMANDA DUARTE

Amanda Duarte is a writer-performer currently vibrating in carbon and recently seen as a perineum in Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It's That Time of the Month at Soho Rep (Obie Award). Other shows include Staying Alive and Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It at Joe's Pub and the long-running cult favorite Dead Darlings (Absolute Best Reading Series in New York- NY Mag) at Judson. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Out New York, Town and Country and High Times, among others. She is proud to be included in the Museum of Hoaxes for her work with Mike Albo on the "Hurt Locker: The Musical" Playbill for Hedwig on Broadway, and to be an Oxford Word of the Year nominee for #PussyGrabsBack.

SPECIAL GUESTS:

DAVE HILL

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland, now living in New York City. He has appeared on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", "Girls5eva", "Joe Pera Talks with You", "Inside Amy Schumer”, among many others.

Dave is a regular contributor to public radio's "This American Life" and "Live from Here with Chris Thile" (formerly "Prairie Home Companion") and also hosted his own radio show, "The Goddamn Dave Hill Show", on WFMU. He plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song "Go" is the theme song for HBO's "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death) and founding Witch Taint, most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana. Dave has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney's, among other publications, and is author of four books, most recently "The Awesome Game: One Man's Incredible, Globe-Crushing Hockey Odyssey", was published by Doubleday Canada and Triumph Books in the fall of 2023. He also smells really great you can ask anyone.

GRETA KLINE

Greta Kline is the songwriter and guitarist/singer of Frankie Cosmos. For the past 15 years she has been sharing her songs, releasing with labels (her most recent albums have been on Sub Pop Records) and self-releasing on Bandcamp, where she has over 50 albums ranging from solo demos to studio recordings with a full band. She spent the majority of her twenties on tour, performing all over the world. When not on the road, Greta is most often found working on new music and collaborating, as well as dabbling in visual art, poetry, and other artistic endeavors. Kline’s art tends to explore small moments and examine personal relationships, and Jenn Pelly (via Pitchfork) dubbed her “a savior of indie pop and the poet laureate of New York City DIY”.

MICHAEL SCHULMAN

Michael Schulman, a staff writer, has contributed to The New Yorker since 2006, writing primarily about arts and culture. His Profile subjects have included the comedian Bowen Yang, the director Ridley Scott, the talk-show host Wendy Williams, and the actors Patti LuPone , Adam Driver, Elisabeth Moss, and Jeremy Strong. He has written more than two hundred Talk of the Town pieces and has contributed long-form interviews with such subjects as Linda Ronstadt, Robert De Niro, Fran Lebowitz, Maya Rudolph, and Mel Brooks. He is the author of the best-selling biography “Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep” and “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears,” a New York Times Notable Book of 2023.

ABOUT LISICK & LENNON

Another fabulous comedy event presented by Beth Lisick and Jodi Lennon, the duo who brought laughs to Ulster County with their More Than A Feeling Comedy Festival in Saugerties, Unitard’s Holiday On Thin Ice in Kingston, Eric Drysdale’s Time Travel Adventure in West Hurley and Our Reservoir Hour variety shows in West Hurley.

Follow them on @MTAFComedy on Instagram for all future event info.

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