Because my mama told me that I have to. I want to and I should.
1. Riding my bicycle across 9th street over to Christopher street,
then down to the Hudson.
2. Thompson Square Park in June.
3. Circus Amok
4. Pomme Frites on 2nd Ave
5. "Under the Board Walk" subway singers.
6. The Parades (all of them)
Mammy Project
I am a freelance entertainer.Much of my time is spent thinking of new ways
to make people laugh, think and question. Sometimes I can be found on
the largest cruise ship in the world, walking on stilts or juggling or
roaming around as a crazy character. Other times you can find me hanging
out with the cool kids who are apart of The Bindlestiff Family Circus
(yippee,
sideshow and burlesque back in times square!!). In the summer it's all about
Circus Amok! Look out for this troupe of clowns in a park near you.
It was June of 1994, my first day in New York City. I was in a cab
stuck in traffic, somewhere in the West Village near Washington Square Park.
After watching the meter in the cab continue to get higher, while not moving
an inch, I finally asked the cab driver what was going on. He told me that
the "gay people" were marching and that we were stuck until the
parade moved. so I got out of the car and walked across the park, joined
the parade up 5th avenue all the way to Central Park. It was one of the most
amazing days of my life. until then, I didn't know there were so many gays.
I
am broke as hell. I still strive to make something of My one
person show called The Mammy Project.
More than ever, I feel that my purpose is to break stereotypes that are so
ingrained into our American culture. Getting people to think outside of the
circle is my challenge. New York has been everything and nothing to me over
the past 8 years. I am now ready for New York to be something.
