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Erin Markey creates comedic and conceptual performances, often involving music, for stage and video. She's also an actress. She is the recipient of NYFA's 2012 Cutting Edge Artist Fund Grant. Major works include Puppy Love: A Stripper's Tail (P.S. 122), The Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim by Erin Markey (San Francisco Film Society), and, in collaboration with Joseph Keckler, Looking for Limbo (Lincoln Center Director's Lab). She is a featured regular in the critically acclaimed performance series Our Hit Parade at Joe's Pub (The Public Theater), where she regularly collaborates with Tony-nominated musician Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb). She has shown other work at The New Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum, Michelle Tea's Sister Spit Tour, The Sex Workers' Art Show, and Deja Vu Showgirls and Love Boutique. As an actress, Markey is a company member of Half Straddle, has performed with Young Jean Lee's Theater company and starred in the NYC premiere of Tennessee WIlliams' Green Eyes (Hudson Hotel, Ames Hotel), for which she received Boston's Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress. On television, she was a series regular on Jeffery and Cole Casserole (LOGO Network).She is currently adapting her live show The Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim by Erin Markey into a musical TV series.
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Press
- THE NEW YORKER "Erin Markey has laser-beam eyes, a hair-raising singing voice, and an intense, almost predatory sexuality. Markey’s uncanny self-possession goes hand in hand with perverse, non-sequitur humor that keeps her audience laughing, if unsettled."-On Erin Markey at Joe's PubNEW YORK TIMES "Erin Markey, whose wolfish grin has imbued songs by Britney Spears and Taylor Swift with an element of the demonic in performances online and onstage, brings her magnetic diva aggression to a more suitable character: a superstar wide receiver. At first, she simply appears to be portraying an id run amok, but football fans will recognize the pose of her muscular arms right before the snap, and how they then transform from limp to rigid, as well as the fake indifference she displays when irritated by someone else’s mistake. Most of all, it’s the abandon of her physical performance that is unmistakably part of the game. You often hear soft-spoken players in interviews talk about how they enter an altered state on the field that allows them to gain access to the beast within. Ms. Markey takes this familiar cliché and brings it thrillingly to life.”-Jason Zinoman, On Half Straddle's In The Pony Palace/FootballTIME OUT NEW YORK "There is nothing, nothing she won't say, and despite the obvious eroticism of the performance, no stripshow ever boasted this sense of hilarious menace and unleashed power."-Helen Shaw, On Puppy Love: A Stripper's TailGAWKER "New York-based actress/comedienne Erin Markey takes it to a whole new (and surprisingly entertaining!) level."-Matt Cherette, on Erin Markey in Our Hit ParadeNEW YORK PRESS "A tangled mash-up of humor, horror, brains and balls."- Adam Rathe, Profile of Erin MarkeyMICHELLE TEA "Erin Markey is a maniac who will only keep pushing herself in some sort of breakneck direction, trawling the culture for absurdity and pulling a lot of pathos, sarcasm, sincerity, darkness and joy into her net along the way. Her range is bonkers, able to take on Tennessee Williams, her mother, her younger self, a lollipop kid. I think she is what they call in the biz a triple threat. The night is young, and she lives in the city that doesn’t sleep."-Novelist Michelle Tea, Essay for San Francisco Film SocietyInterview with Erin MarkeySAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN "Markey's show is so unique and unpredictable that it always intrigues."-Lily Janiak, On The Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim by Erin MarkeyTIME OUT NEW YORK- "The two leads—the weirdly matched Markey and Davis—ought to both be stars. Markey in particular delivers her absurdist Valley-girl dialogue with an almost dangerous edge. She bites through her part with bared teeth and increasingly terrifying hair; she's part mean girl, part bacchante."-HELEN SHAW, On Half Straddle's FAMILY
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- The Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim by Erin Markey
Written and performed by Erin MarkeyMusic by Erin Markey and Trystan TrazonRunning Time: 60 minutesThe show is set in the maniacally normal American family environment of Bay City, Michigan. Primarily a portrait of mother Molly Dardy and daughter Kelly, each character is given depth and roundness by the ultratalented Markey. Markey’s strategy is to first slyly disarm audiences by presenting the touching charm of Midwestern home life and then burrow into the frailties, anxiety and even horror that underpin the familial unconscious, made all the more palpable through Markey’s animal magnetism. New York-based Markey’s darkly comedic, surreal performances have garnered a devoted following. Molly’s keen obsessiveness is the perfect vehicle for Markey’s investigation of everyday details.-Sean Uyehara, Curator, San Francisco Film Society Kinotek SeriesPuppy Love: A Stripper's Tail
Book and Lyrics by Erin MarkeyMusic by Rich Campbell and Erin MarkeyDirected by Travis ChamberlainPerformed by Erin Markey with Cole Escola and Julia Sirna-FrestLive Band includes Rich Campbell, Becca Blackwell and Perry SilverRunning Time: 70 minutesPuppy Love is an autobiographical cabaret recounting writer/performer Erin Markey's first paid position after college graduation as a stripper at Déjà Vu Showgirls and Love Boutique in Ypsilanti, MI. Assuming the stage name Bridget, after the patron saint of babies, Erin learns to navigate the transactional lap-dances, lawnmowers, and hot girl-on-girl bromances of southeastern Michigan. Pole-dancing and delusions of diaper-changing threaten to consume Erin’s dreams of becoming an artist as her alterego Bridget falls in love with the money she makes and the dancer who inspired her to make it.Supported by a three piece band and two singing backup storks, Erin Markey's Puppy Love: A Stripper's Tail is a concert of absurdist transformation and shameless theatricality.The Curse
Written and Created by Erin Markey with Bryan HeyboerSet Design by Bryan HeyboerLive-streamed by Cupcake Radiomore COMING SOONLooking For LimboBook, Lyrics and Music by Erin Markey and Joseph KecklerMORE COMING SOONMade of HonorWritten and Performed by Erin MarkeyMusic by Erin Markey, Joseph Keckler, and Jim LeijaMORE COMING SOON
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Media
- Erin Markey covering Justin Bieber's Baby at Our Hit Parade with Kenny Mellman and Emily Emily DavisErin Markey in Half Straddle's Secret Notebooks
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Blog
- I Deserve This is a blog that features writing by Erin Markey and Lorelei Lee. Lorelei Lee is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and porn performer.
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Store
- PostersI Got 101 Dalmatians But A Bitch Ain't One
limited edition risograph, $5In Memory of Erin Markeylimited edition risograph, $5(printing by Caroline Paquita)If you would like to buy a poster, contact sales representative Hardy Dardy at erinmarkey@gmail.com. Paypal is magic.
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Calendar
- UPCOMING APPEARANCES05-03-2013/ Performance Beyond the Limits: Short Works/ NEW MUSEUM/ 235 Bowery NYC 7pm, $12/ Tickets05-04-2013/ Performing Beyond Funding Limits: Final Presentations/ NEW MUSEUM/ 235 Bowery NYC 7pm/ Free05-21-2013/ Erin Markey, Jen Rosenblit and Greg Zuccolo at Movement Research Festival/ Invisible Dog Art Center/ 51 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY 7:30pm, $10/ Info________________________________________________________________________________________PAST SHOWSFriday, March 15, 2013 @ 9:30pmErin Markey at Joe's Pub (The Public)Monday December 10, 2012 @8pmErin Markey introduces Annie (The Movie) at the IFC Movie Theatre. (Tickets and Info)Thursday December 13, 2012 @9:30pmHoliday Edition of The Meeting hosted by Justin SayreSaturday, December 15, 2012 @7:30pmA MURRAY LITTLE CHRISTMASLe Pouisson Rouge (Tickets)
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @10:00pmOur Hit Parade: The FINAL SHOWJoe's Pub, SOLD OUT.Thursday, December 20, 2012 @7pmThe Half Straddle SongbookNew MuseumFriday December 21, 2012 @9:30pmAfterglow Festival BenefitJoe's PubMonday December 31, 2012 @9:00pmStormqueer: A New Year's Extravaganza for the New World Disorder$20 (Tickets)Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St.
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Tweets
- Listening to Elvis sing Danny Boy in my brother's used Lexus. Also, just peed in the ocean again.
- @LordEdith420 @perfectlildani will pick up on my way home
- @perfectlildani I am at bojangles drive thru
- Last night I drank a beer and peed into the ocean on a sand bar on the coast of Sullivan's Island and my hair smells like the moon now.May 23, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @FeldmanAdam: Cole Escola on #SNL is a GENIUS idea. Could someone please send this to Lorne Michaels? http://t.co/7mZEWfab8d
- .@billycheer I wouldn't mind being involved with Night of a Thousand Schmees.
- RT @robdelaney: Trouble is most moms are too lazy. RT @NYMag: Gwyneth Paltrow Says Modeling Is ‘a Perfect Job for When You Have Kids’ http:…
- In honor of @HalfStraddle's Obie and in honor of our Earth's Summer: Secret Notebooks. #Obies https://t.co/PkmGGqN6WAMay 21, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @MissMollyPope: Let's hope my face doesn't fall off before tomorrow @ 7pm. Cause it's almost time for MOLLY POPE, OKAY? #Duplex RTMay 21, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @bridgeteverett: Bridget & the Tender Moments @JoesPub 5/21 w/rocker @mrdavehill. TM's @MattRayMusic @adrock @carminecovelli & mike jack…May 21, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- guess what, honkies! @HalfStraddle won an OBIE!!May 21, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- If you've never eaten a can of beans before raise your hand. That's what I thought. Thank you, cans of beans. for everything.May 20, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I was so caught up in smartphone solitaire, I missed Christmas O' Clock. Feel so selfish.
- Messy Buns For Prez!
- RT @pinesfireisland: TONIGHT at BLUE WHALE: @BenRimalower 's PATTI ISSUES @ 10p with an opening performance by Spicky Hilton & Jacqueline D…May 18, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- My show with @Kennymellman and @Benrimalower got a really awesome surprise review from @evincentelli at @nypost! http://t.co/6uMWvfswWY
- @bluestockings (just playing devil's advocate)
- @bluestockings does it matter to you that if the paper plane gets wet, it loses it's ability to fly? Easier to fly a paper plane on fire.
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