Kate Bornstein, a transgender artist, will perform two shows at the Center for the Arts the first week of April:
Gender Outlaw- April 6
Queer and Pleasant Danger (A work in progress performance) April 7
Students/Seniors $5, Others $10
Purchase online at {http://store.yahoo.com/marylandartsfestival/ap20ev.html}
Kate Bornstein is an author and performance artist whose published works include the books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us; My Gender Workbook; and the cyber-romance-action novel Nearly Roadkill with co-author Caitlin Sullivan. Hir plays and performance pieces include “Hidden: A Gender”, “The Opposite Sex Is Neither”, “Virtually Yours”, “Cut’n’Paste”, and “y2kate: gender virus 2000.” Kate?s books are taught in over 120 colleges and universities around the world; and ze has performed hir work live on college campuses, and in theaters and performance spaces across the USA, as well as in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria.
Kate identifies hirself as neither a man nor a woman. Kate is what’s called a transsexual person, meaning she was assigned one gender at birth, and she now lives her life as something else entirely. She was born male and raised as a boy. She went through both boyhood and adult manhood, underwent a gender change and “became a woman.” A few years later, she discovered that being a woman didn’t work for her any better than being a man had worked. So, she stopped being a woman and settled into being neither.
Kate’s newest play, “Strangers in Paradox,” opened in San Francisco at Theatre Rhinoceros in March 2003. “Too Tall Blondes in: LOVE”, written and performed with Barbara Carrellas, premiered in Boston in 2001. Kate is hard at work on a fictionalized autobiography: Hard Candy: The Tragic Lives and Comical Deaths of Candy Bromowitz. Additionally, Kate is gathering material for a new children’s book, Hello Cruel World, providing viable alternatives to teen suicide.
Kate was born outside of Fargo, N.D., in a log cabin ze helped hir parents build. Hir father was a Lutheran minister, and hir mother was Miss Betty Crocker 1939. Kate has lived in queer communities in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle; ze currently lives with hir partner–sex pioneer, writer and performance artist Barbara Carrellas–in Spanish Harlem, New York City, along with their two pugs, two turtles and one very large kitten named Gizmo.
