Performance
Between Two Worlds: Who Loved You Before You Were Mine
In this 1-hour show, five deviant queers, their mythical beast secret identities, and all of their ghosts walk into a cabaret. The result is a play about yearning for ancestors, the empty spaces left by the first generation of AIDS deaths in queer communities and the way the next generation is called to fill those spaces. In a culture based on chosen families, which of our desires are inherited?
In this re-interpretation of Yiddish theater classic The Dybbuk, the consensual possession of a lover by the ghost of their beloved is a model for acknowledging the collective loss we hold and reflect in our queer bodies. The cabaret is a love letter to the ghosts among us. More information, photos, and documentation here.
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Annual Purimspiels!
I’ve had the pleasure of co-creating and performing in Purimspiels organized by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Workmen’s Circle/Arbeiter Ring, and Great Small Works since 2004 – always a highlight of my year. more info here!
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a fun event where I performed as queen of honor at Brooklyn's HEY QUEEN party with a John Waters theme
Performing as Strawberry Shortcake, singing Hole's "Doll Parts" with Daria Darkness and Dave End at a benefit for IDA in Philly. photo by karen kirchoff, 2009.
Performer in “An Olive On the Seder Plate” at Times Square Arts Center
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A couple old event postings from my life as Ben Hesherman, bar mitzvah boy metalhead and 1999 Drag King of Philadelphia!
- 2001 Pancake Palooza
- 1999 Filthiest Drag Show in Town
- & featured in HEEB magazine (#3, Spring 2003) article “Liberty Belle”
ben hesh with dotti lu, photo by patrick dunn
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