Résumé

PLAYS WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY LULU LOLO:

  • 2008 Uptown/Downtown, The Gatehouse at Harlem Stage/DNA, scenes from Obits: An Exercise In Limitation, http://www.lmcc.net/grants/services/uptowndowntown/2008.2uptowndowntown/index.html
  • 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
    http://lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2007/index.html
  • 2008 Italianamericannetwork.com, Italian Superstitions, video episodes http://www.italianamericannetwork.com/ianet/?page=superstitions
  • 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

THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES:

  • 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:

  • 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”

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

LECTURES:

  • 1998 School of Visual Arts, NY MFA Fine Arts Department


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

ART EXHIBITIONS

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS:

  • 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)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

  • Nytheatre.com review, Richard Hinojosa, “Twainathon”, January 17, 2007
  • Townonline.Com The Cape Codder, Stephanie Foster, “All the World’s a Stage”, Aug. 11, 2006
  • Nytheatre.com review, Martin Denton, “Metropolitan Playhouse Poe-Fest”, Jan. 18, 2006
  • On the Purple Circuit, Bill Kaiser, “2004 Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival”, November 1, 2004
  • Greenwich Village Gazette, NY, Arlene McKanic, “Macaroni and Mal Occhio”, November 15, 2002
  • Greenwich Village Gazette, NY, Arlene McKanic “LuLu LoLo at Tenement Museum”, July 9, 2001
  • Biblia, #11, Portugal, 4 pages photo images, “The Fabulous LuLu LoLo”, March, 2001
  • NYArts International Edition, Vol.5 no. 5, page 34, photo image, April 2000
  • Biblia, #8, Portugal, 4 pages photo images, “The Adventures of Insect Exotica", March 2000
  • Islip Bulletin, Islip, NY, Sarah Hartmann, “Getting Batty About Bugs” January 27, 2000
  • The New York Times, Helen A. Harrison, “Beyond Eewww!’: A World Of Insects and Spiders”, Feb. 13, 2000, color image
  • Newsday, NY, Peter Simunovich, “Honoring Spirits of the Past”, October 13, 1999
  • The New York Times, Holland Cotter, “Think Pink”, March 13, 1998
  • The New York Times, Holland, Cotter, “Home is Where the Art is, or, Hybrid Affairs”, August 2, 1996
  • The Village Voice, NY, Kim Levin, Choices, “Home is Where the Art is, or Hybrid Affairs”, July 23, 1996

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, www.cityreliquary.org

RESIDENCIES:

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writers Residency, 2007-2008; Far, Field Artist Residency space, http://lmcc.net/art/residencies/workspace/2007/_lolo/index.html

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