Résumé
PLAYS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LULU LOLO:
- 2013 Christ the King High School, NY, Triangle Fire Memorial & Award Reception, excerpt from Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2013 WDI’s Women of the Workforce Initiative (WOW) Second Annual Working Women’s Conference, Albany, NY, excerpt from Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2013 Museum at Eldridge Street Synagogue, NY, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, excerpt from Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- January 2013 Metropolitan Playhouse, Founder’s Festival, From Shore to Shore
- 2010, Triangle Factory Fire Forum at Adelphi University's Manhattan Center, NY, Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2010, Judson Church, NY, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, excerpt from Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2009 Smalls Jazz Café, NY, “Obits” work in progress
2008 Uptown/Downtown, The Gatehouse at Harlem Stage/DNA, From Shore To Shore: Aaron Burr and Theodosia Burr Alston
- 2008 LMCC Workspace Open Studios Writers Residency,
92YTribeca and Artist Studios, scenes from
In The Shadows of Ghostly Sightings and Obits: An Exercise
In Limitation
- 2008 Italianamericannetwork.com, Italian
Superstitions, video episodes
- 2007 Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, Sidewalk performance,
116 Street/Pete Pascale Place, One-Person play: Macaroni
and Mal Occhio
- 2007 FAR (Field Artist Residency) Space, NY,
One-Person play: 38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her
Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese
story)
- 2007 City Reliquary Museum, BK, NY, One-Person
play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio
- 2007 Columbia University, NY, Low Library,
Council Member Melissa Mark- Viverito’s “State of
the District Address”, excerpt from Soliloquy For a Seamstress:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2007 Hofstra University, NY, “Day of
Dialogue” One-Person play: Soliloquy For a Seamstress:
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2007 Stony Brook University, NY, Wang Center
Theatre, One-Person play: Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2006 Women’s Week, Provincetown Fringe Festival,
MA One-Person play: 38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed
Her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese
story)
- 2005 Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, One-Person
play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio
- 2005 Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NY,
One-Person play: Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2005 Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY,
One-Person play: Soliloquy For a Seamstress: The Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2004 The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY
One-Person play: Three Sisters in Soul: Saint, Soldier,
Seamstress
- 2004 Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, Columbus, Ohio
Deviant Women: 38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her Love:
The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese story)
- 2004 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Alphabet
City, Lucille Consorti
- 2004 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Alphabet
City, Steve Cannon
- 2003 Provincetown Fringe Festival, MA Wild
and Deviant Women: Sworn Oath For a Soldier from LuLu
LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to The Fair Sex—Unfair Victims
- 2002 The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY,
One-Person play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio
- 2002 Raw Space, NY, Spotlight On Productions,
Halloween Festival, One-Person play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio
- 2002 Bronx River Art Center, NY, One-Person
play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio
- 2002 Leonard Branch, Brooklyn Public Library, NY,
One-Person play: Macaroni and Mal Occhio (Evil Eye) Food,
Faith, and Family—Growing up Italian-American
- 2002 Tenement Theater, Immigrants Theatre Project
and Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, One-Person
play: LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to The Fair Sex—Unfair
Victims
- 2001 Tenement Theater, Immigrants Theatre Project
and Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, American Dreams:
New Plays About New York City and the Immigrant Experiences:
One-Person play: LuLu LoLo Takes Her Hat Off to The Fair
Sex—Unfair Victims
- 1998 Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY,
Tex and Trixie Present: Lost In the Heartland: LuLu
LoLo Insect Exotica
FICTION:
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES:
- 2009 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Another Sky The Straitjacket by Dan Evans
2008 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Mevillapalooza, The Archangel by Dan Evans
- 2007 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Twainathon,
Henry’s Lunchroom by Dan Evans
- 2006 Women’s Week, Provincetown Fringe Festival,
MA, Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
- 2006 Metropolitan Playhouse, NY, Poe-Fest,
Quoth the Raven by Dan Evans
- 2005 Provincetown Fringe Festival, MA, Well
of Horniness by Holly Hughes and Vagina Monologues
by Eve Ensler
- 1997 Milagro Theater, SCV Cultural Center, NY,
staged reading The Beggars’ Report, written by
Dan Evans, “Gypsy Woman”
PERFORMANCE ART:
- 2010 Art In Odd Places Fundraiser, “Side Show” LuLu as Insect Exotica
- 2010 Raccolte Frugone (Museum) Genoa, Italy,” Museum All- Over” John Erickson Museum of Art: Next Chapter and Raccolte Frugone Museum
- 2010 Philadelphia, PA, “Where There is Water Night Parade”
- 2010 LeMans, France, “The Cosmic Grand Prix” “Les Errances de l’eau a Le Mans” Ghost Art Gallery,
- 2009 New York, NY “14th Street NewsBoy”, Art In Odd Places
- 2009 Genoa, Italy, “Collecting Art Museum Dust”, UnimediaModern Contemporary Art, collaboration The John Erickson Museum, JEMA
- 2009/2008 Paris, France, “Dust Collecting Paris Art Museums,” collaboration, The John Erickson Museum
- 2008 New York, NY, The Festival of the Black Madonna, ‘Mother Cabrini”
- 2008 New York, NY “Dust Collecting New York City Art Museums”, collaboration, The John Erickson Museum
- 2008 Campagna, Italy, “Sculpting and Collecting Campagna,” collaboration, The John Erickson Museum, International Multimedia Festival Review of the Water, Spazio Utopia Contemporary Art
- 2007 Paris, France, Mother Cabrini and
the Statue of Liberty
- 2007 Campagna, Italy, Madre Cabrini della
“Chiena”, International Multimedia Festival
Review of the Water
- 2006 Urban Pool, Brooklyn, NY LuLu LoLo and
The Collyer Brothers, City Reliquary “Collectors Night”
- 2003 Xanadu, NY, LuLu LoLo Crowns Xanadu
- 2003 Battery Park, NY, Twyla Tharp, The
One Hundreds
- 2003 Union Square Subway Station, NY, Love
A Commuter Project supported by El Museo Del Barrio, NY
- 2002 The Creative Center For Women with Cancer, NY,
Brazil Night
- 2002 Union Square Subway Station, NY, Love
A Commuter Project supported by Artists Space, NY
- 2000 School of Visual Arts, NY MFA Illustration
Department, Marshall Arisman, Chair, Transformation of Insect
Exotica LuLu LoLo
- 1999 Double Pleasure, NY Performance and
Video Event, Feels Like The First Time
- 1997 CB’s 313 Gallery, NY, I’m
Only 5’1”
- 1996 Ninth Annual 1996 Cleveland Performance Art Festival,
Cleveland, OH, LuLu LoLo Crowns Cleveland
- 1996 John Weber Gallery, NY, LuLu LoLo and
Lucio Pozzi
- 1996 Paris and Luxembourg, Street Performances,
Je Suis LuLu LoLo
- 1995 Whitney Museum, NY opening Florine Stettheimer,
Manhattan Fantastica, “LuLu LoLo’s Homage to
Florine Stettheimer”
ART EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS:
- 2010 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY, Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 2010 Ghost Art Gallery, Le Mans, France, Co/Existences, Co-Résistances.
- 2010, Château de Sacy, Sacy-le Petit, France, “Black Stars On a White Sky”, Adam Nankervis Museum MAN
- 2010 Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland U.K., “Little Wonder” John Erickson Museum of Art: Next Chapter and Golden Thread Gallery
- 2010 Raccolte Frugone (Museum) Genoa, Italy, "Museum All-Over” John Erickson Museum of Art: Next Chapter and Raccolte Frugone Museum
- 2009 Berlin Germany, Bereznitsky Gallery, Reliquaries of Empires Dust
- 2009-2007 Campagna, Italy, Spazio Utopia Contemporary
Art, Mostra Internazionale di Mail Art, International
Multimedia Festival Review of the Water
- 2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, Speed Limit
- 2004 Amsterdam, Holland, Video Spill
Festival
- 2003 Yankaka-Ueno, Japan, Art Link 2003,
sponsored by Yujin, Co.
- 2002 New York University, 80 Washington Square East
Galleries, NY, 25th Small Works, Curator:
Barbara Millstein
- 2002 Sesto Senso, Bolonga, Italy, Yourself,
Autoritratto
- 2002 Exit Art, NY, Reactions
- 2001 Mastel + Mastel Gallery, Bk, NY, The
Gift Show
- 2000 Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, CT; Arcadia University, PA; Snapshot
- 2000 Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Millennium
Bug, Curator: Karen Shaw, (catalog with image)
- 1999 Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY Hallowed Halls: A Hybrid Halloween, Curator: Timothy
D. Bellavia
- 1999 Gale Gates Et Al. Bk, NY Size Matters,
Curator: Mike Weiss
- 1999 Smithsonian Institution Traveling exhibitions,
collaboration with Petah Coyne, Millennium Messages,
organized by the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
- 1998 The Tunnel, NY, La Mama e.t.c.
- 1998 Gallery K, Washington, D.C. Fashion
Happening: Diary of Dressing Curator: Alice Denney
- 1997 CB’s 313 Gallery, I’m
Only 5’1
- 1997 Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY,
Hats for “Nubreed Synergy of the Arts”,
Curator: Mariacristina Parravicini, Cristenerose Gallery, NY
- 1997 Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Altered
Egos, Curator: Reine Hauser (catalog with image, website)
- 1997 Isis Conceptual Laboratory, Inc. West Branch,
Iowa, Looking For the Pieces, (web site)
- 1997 Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY The Chamber Pot Show, Curator: Timothy D. Bellavia
- 1996 The National Arts Club, NY Contemporary
Annual, Home is Where the Art is or, Hybrid Affairs,
Curator: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (catalog with two images)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
- 2004 The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY,
Installation: With These Our Hands: The Artistry of the
Early Italian Immigrants in New York City
- 2003 Xanadu, NY, Window Installation
- 2002 The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, Staten Island, NY,
Installation: Grandma LuLu and Grandma Lizzie—A Remembrance
of Tenement Life
- 1999 China Club, NY, Insect Exotica
- 1998, Life, NY, Blackmailed by Glamour
FEATURE FILMS:
- 1999 D.C. Productions, NY, Clockin’
Green, written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed
by York Entertainment Video, CA
TELEVISION PERFORMANCES:
- 2006 Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Something
To Offer, Host: Anne Marie Offer
- 2003 CBS-TV, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,
Contestant
- 2002 Bronx Net TV, NY, Gary Axelbank
Show
- 1999-97 Time Warner Cable, NY, The Young
and The Stupid, video soap opera series
- 1996 Time Warner Cable, NY Exotica New
York, video taped interview with Eny Hanson
VIDEO PERFORMANCES:
- 2001 LuLu LoLo Productions, NY, The Fair
Sex—Unfair Victims: The Murder of Helen Jewett
- 1995 Holly Solomon Gallery, NY, filmed in
the Lanigan-Schmidt installation for Love Flight of a Pink Candy
Heart, “LuLu LoLo’s Homage to Florine and Tommy”
with Agosto Machado and Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt
RADIO INTERVIEWS:
- 2003 WOMR, 92.1FM, Provincetown, MA Theatre
Week in Review, Guy Wolf, Managing Director, Provincetown
Theatre Co.
- 2003 WOMR, 92.1FM, Provincetown, MA, Magic
Morning Star, Marjorie Conn
PRODUCTION DESIGNER FEATURE FILMS:
- 2003 D.C. Productions NY, Underground
P.D., written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed
by Maverick Entertainment
- 2002 D.C. Productions NY, Lost Money,
written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed by Maverick
Entertainment
- 2002 D.C. Productions NY, Snitch in New
York, written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed
by Maverick Entertainment
- 2001 D.C. Productions NY, Pressure,
written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed by Maverick
Entertainment
- 2000 D.C. Productions NY, Deep Trouble,
written and directed by Juney Smith, distributed by Delta Entertainment
Video
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- "Il 'fenomeno Vito Marcantonio' rivisitato, il 'politico della gente' torna di attualità al Hunter College," Riccardo Chioni, Oggia New York, 30 novembre 2012
- "Ricordando Marcantonio," Riccardo Chioni, Oggia New York, 30 novembre 2012
- "At in Odd Places brings humour, smiles and memories to 14th Street," Nicole Guzzardi, Pavement Pieces, October 5, 2011
- "Coming Full Circle on Triangle Factory Fire Forward", Maia Efrem, The Jewish Daily Forward, January 26, 2011
- "Performance Art and the Newsboy", Kate Kelly, American Snapshots, January 2011
- "Wearing Away Museum Grounds—Dust Bunnies, White Lies, and New Measures" Kelly Cobb and Sean Miller, Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Vol. .8, no. 3 pp. 286-303, November 2010
- "LuLu LoLo put us Over The Top!" Annie Lanzillotto, Kickstarter, August 25, 2010
- "Caretakers of a Culture", Constance Rosenblum, The New York Times, August 22, 2010
- "Collaboration Power: How Are Unions and Educators Joining Forces?", Richard Greenwald, In These Times, June 20, 2010
- "Museum: all-over" / "Museo: ovunque", Genoa Municipality Channel, June 4, 2010
- "Le Mans," Quest-France, April 20, 2010
- "The Artist Known as LuLu LoLo", Art in Odd Places, April 14, 2010
- Sciorra, Joseph (appendix coauthored with Stefania Taviano). "A Lived History under Scrutiny: Italian American Performance Art". Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture edited by Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick . The Modern American Language Association, NY 2010. pp 183-184, 189, 194-95.
- "Les errances de l'eau à Le Mans", Agenda Culturel, marzo 2010
- "LuLu LoLo, Extra! Extra! Read All About 14th Street", Art in Odd Places, October 2009
- "38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her Love...", CurtainUp, August 31, 2009
- “Fringe benefits", Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody, August 19, 2009
- "La Performance", Il Secolo XIX, Genoa, Italy, March 12, 2009
- "Un Nuovo Museo e Una Piccola Collezione a Genova", Ocrablog, marzo 12, 2009
- "Erickson Museum of Art (Jema) - LuLu LoLo / Sean Miller", Exibart, 12 marzo 2009
- "The Joys of Hardship: The City Reliquary Raises Funds by Poking Fun", Adriane Quinlan, March 5, 2009
- "Melvillapalooza Voyage A", Amanda Halkiotis, Theater Talk's New Theater Corps, February 3, 2009
- "What's So Funny about the Virgin Mary?", Joey Skee, I-Italy, September 20, 2008
- "La Madonna Nera tra sacro e profano", Oggi, Magazine, Arte/Fotografia, September 14, 2008
- "Superstitions Italian Style", Madam Lichtenstein's Cosmic World, August 25, 2008
- "Twainathon”, Richard Hinojosa, Nytheatre.com review, January 17, 2007
- “All the World’s a Stage”, Stephanie
Foster,
Townonline.Com/The Cape Codder, Aug. 11, 2006
- “Metropolitan Playhouse Poe-Fest”, Martin Denton, Nytheatre.com review, Jan. 18,
2006
- “2004 Columbus
National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival", Bill Kaiser, On the Purple Circuit, November 1, 2004
- “Macaroni
and Mal Occhio",Arlene McKanic, Greenwich Village Gazette,
NY, November 15, 2002
- “LuLu LoLo
at Tenement Museum", Arlene McKanic, Greenwich Village Gazette,
NY, July 9, 2001
- “The Fabulous LuLu LoLo”, 4 pages photo images, Biblia, #11, Portugal, March, 2001
- NYArts International Edition, Photo image, Vol.5 no. 5,
page 34, April 2000
- “The Adventures of Insect Exotica", 4 pages photo images, Biblia, #8, Portugal, March
2000
- “Getting Batty About Bugs” Sarah Hartmann, Islip Bulletin, Islip, NY, January 27,
2000
- “Beyond
Eewww!’: A World Of Insects and Spiders”, color image, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, Feb.
13, 2000
- “Honoring
Spirits of the Past”, Peter Simunovich, Newsday, NY, October 13, 1999
- “Think
Pink”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, March 13, 1998
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“Home is Where the Art is, or, Hybrid Affairs”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, August 2, 1996
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“Home is Where the Art is, or Hybrid Affairs”, Kim Levin, Choices, The Village Voice, NY, July 23, 1996
LECTURES:
2009 "Return as Artistic Performance" for the conference "The Land of Our Return:
Disaporic Encounters with Italy" John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
2008 School of Visual Arts, NY MFA Illustration Department
1998 School of Visual Arts, NY MFA Fine Arts
Department
EDUCATION:
Apprentice to Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt; BA, Empire
State College, SUNY; School of Visual Arts; High School of Performing
Arts
ORGANIZATIONS:
Board Member, Director of Performance,
City Reliquary, BK
Member of Steering Committee, Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition
RESIDENCIES:
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writers
Residency, 2007-2008
FAR, Field Artist Residency Space
AWARDS:
New York City Council Member 8th District
Melissa Mark-Viverito proclamation for LuLu LoLo’s contributions
to New York City and the community of East Harlem , 2007
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