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LESLIE CUYJET AS SOLITA SOLANO

A MIDDLE-CRUST MIDWESTERN BLACK DAUGHTER, ARTIST, FRIEND, LOVER—dreamer of water, drawn-out water, recurring orcas—Leslie Cuyjet was born left-handed on Valentine’s Day, 1981, and voted the most talented in high school. Her childhood was spent conducting an independent search for knowledge (1920s Paris, 1970s New York) and obsessing over music her parents enjoyed in their youth (a memory: the purchase of that first Nina Simone album, the first Madonna album). These interests were cultivated at the Montessori School of DeKalb, Illinois (a memory: the first period arriving during Bill Clinton’s inauguration) and later she earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Today she is a web producer for a digital agency in Brooklyn and performs for various New York choreographers and artists (a memory: that first art/dance film that gave you a big paycheck and the courage to pack and move to New York City).  In the Ladies Almanack, Leslie plays Solita Solano.

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VICKY LIM - U.S. INTERN

It is said that Virgos have a love of Knowledge and Know­-how, of that which is, and that which may be. Vicky Lim is a sleuth, a skilled gumshoe, a journalist of imminence and for the Ladies Almanack she is our Tumblr Blurbr.

Writing a profile is like giving a haircut, she says, I do not want to turn you around to the mirror to see what I have done.

Vicky Lim Squints Hard into the text already written to find the Text-soon-to come, or what we need to hear. Salve to our ears, though she prefers the silent chatter of the chat box space and sets the closed caption for subtitles English to English so she can see the words on screen.

This Virgo rising Leo Lunar Sagittarian, of twenty seven years is a self-declared intern whose zine Abstract Door will make your all time favorite list the moment you read it. She is a reader and a reader into-er.  “A Woman of No Fashion” whose candor and notepad will steal your heart.

Are you gonna ride this midnight sleep deprivation high?

Vicky works best in a panic, internal deadlines coinciding with the full moon. An informal information-age midwife delivering news that will save your budget, links that will save your soul, and frozen green peas encrypted especially for those in the room, about to traverse an ocean.

She knows-how a computer is a portal/ for a scribe of old time/ hunting down a word/ used in a witch’s t.v. show/ scriving/ sighing/ with her pen

feels so good to cross stuff off~~

She knows-how the internet is a place. There, she asks you in one-to one threads

How can I create my own confusion?

There, in the realm of midnite edits and  all-day brainstorms

feel free to spam me, she says

Her lexicon, brimming with evidence of a LiveJournal coming of age. At twelve, thirteen, fourteen, already finding a “there” in the net a “where” in the web full of teen girl writers, poets, artists, message boards and fan pages on which to Speak Up. Moderating only because she wanted to run something.

Vicky, so empathetic she will dream anxiety dreams for you. Supplying both the problem and its solution. She will dream you out of reach from your long reach stapler, then will steal one from her office to replace the dream-lost-tool.

Like light waves/particles, simultaneously invisible and solid. A chimerial self, conjured to comment on the spongy water-cheesecake of life, always in reach of magic and poetry, always in wonder and whispering joy. Concurrently she is a grid, a spreadsheet, a sieve, catching every detail with unilateral judgment, free from hierarchy, pulsating with logic.

While filling out the Proust questionnaire she realized she wants to die in motion, in some kind of spiral, bringing her into another dimension.

I'll be invisible if you need me

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DENNIS PREWITT - COSTUME

Dennis Prewitt, the designer of Natalie Clifford Barney’s magnificent silky silver midnight astrological robe used in the film, is a twenty-four year old, gay, African-American millennial who identifies as a dreamer and a creator. He was born a Pisces rising Saggitarius in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and grew up as a military brat, primarily in Memphis, Tennessee. He is colorful, cocky, compassionate, and known by many to be a total goofball! His sociable personality was acquired in childhood from moving around so much, since his family would be stationed to a new city every two to three years, and it wasn’t until middle school that he had a friend for longer than that time span. He likens himself to an owl: observing, intuitive, clairvoyant. He continuously reads expressions, gestures, and tones and nurtures an indecisive, inquisitive side. His life has been shaped by some pivotal moments that include becoming homeless for a while with his mom and sister after the divorce of his parents; losing his aunt to colon cancer in 2006 which turned him into an angry person; joining the marching band in high school that led him to explore art as storytelling; meeting and being challenged by his best friends at Columbia College, where he graduated in 2013 with a degree in Fashion Design; and being introduced to his favorite TV series, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, which gave him the aspiration to pursue the study of animation, design, and narrative. In the last couple of years, he has managed menswear boutiques and designed products for Peter Field. Currently he is living in Chicago, busy with freelance work, and having this recurring dream that he is being chased by rhinos?? As soon as they get close enough to shred him up, they blink into flowers, populating the whole open field. ★

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NATHANAËL AS MATHILDE "MISSY" DE MORNY, THE MARQUISE DE BELBEUF

“Je veux l’intraduisible. I want what no language holds.”

THE (SELF-)TRANSLATING AUTHOR OF MORE THAN TWENTY BOOKS, NATHANAËL WRITES IN BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH.

Recent works

An essay on untranslatability, Sotto l’immagine (2014), the bilingual score, Sisyphus, Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal (2012) and a book of polylingual talks on translation and photography, Asclepias: The Milkweeds (2015).

Extrinsic translations

Works by Édouard Glissant, Catherine Mavrikakis, Danielle Collobert, Hervé Guibert and Hilda Hilst (the latter in collaboration with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). Texts by several poets from the Americas into French, including Trish Salah, John Keene, Reginald Gibbons, and Rachel Gontijo Araújo.

Awards

The recipient of the Prix Alain-Grandbois, for …s’arrête? Je (2008), Nathanaël’s translation of Murder by Danielle Collobert was a finalist for a Best Translated Book Award. Her translation of The Mausoleum of Lovers by Hervé Guibert was recognized by fellowships from the PEN American Center and the Centre National du Livre de France.

Project/s

In spring 2015, the publication by Nightboat Books of The Middle Notebookes and Asclepias: The Milkweeds. In 2016 the publication of FEDER: A SCENARIO or “The living themselves” (Nightboat). Translations include Rapjazz by Haitian author Frankétienne, for Nightboat Books (2017). An anthology of transgender poetries, Épiscènes: Poésies transgenres des Amériques for Recours au poème éditeurs (Cluny, France, 2015) and In the Environs of a Film by Danielle Collobert for Litmus Press (2016).

Influences

N: This is like asking me to look into the sun and then to describe it. I would report blindness and a searing heat fore and aft of my skull.

Childhood memories

N: What, I wonder, is a childhood. Is there such a thing. Among the many castigations one might level at human culture(s), the primacy granted to this construct may be chief among them. (Remember Cioran, paraphrastically: it is not that one is propelled toward death but rather that one flees the moment of one’s birth.)

Turning points

N: A steam ship I only read about. A marsh I sank into. A sea that drowned my best intentions and returned me as a castaway. A small bird that went extinct, over and again.

Dreams / Nightmares

N: The Third Man. Sequenza del fiore di carta. Gilda. Banshun (Late Spring). Resa dei conti / The Big Gundown / Colorado. Shadow of a Doubt. Yoidore Tenshi (Drunken Angel). Night and the City. Muerte de un ciclista. The Stranger. Les mains négatives. Kodō.

Some wishes, and which came true, which did not

N: Anecdotalism is the worst form of narcissism.

A distinct physical feature

N: My hands are never the same distance from your face.

On playing the role of Missy

N: I prefer to think of Missy as Oncle Max. Somewhat perverse, slightly irascible, and perhaps charming to compensate for a bad manner. But perhaps I am describing a version of myself (an aversion to myself). I am looking forward to wearing a dinner jacket, especially since it is against my proclivities in usual society to do so (nothing usual about society; I prefer not to have anything to do with it if I can help it). But it does seem, in retrospect, that despite wearing suits, the thinkers of the early twentieth century were far more revolutionary than anything the lax contemporary can offer up in terms of resistance. I am not idealizing the past, it was likely at least as wretched as now. But the present is truly uninhabitable.

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TERRY CASTLE AS GERTRUDE STEIN

Terry Castle is a Writer, Artist, and Scholar, born in San Diego, California on the morning of October 18, 1953. She spent her childhood growing up between Southern California and London, England, and having been cast early on as a misfit with no social life, she had a lot of time to read and develop obsessions (the first World War, late 19th and early 20th-century theatrical and musical performers, animals, romantic French cards from the 20s and 30s, exotica, esoterica, collecting tintypes of “Old Weird America”). Books were the most reliable escape, they were familiar, they had weight. She once read twenty-two novels by Iris Murdoch in a row and named her cat after the author. What kind of advice would a career counselor give to someone with this type of inclination? A future miniature daschund enthusiast? There was always the possibility of joining the navy, her stepfather kept reminding her, and she had bizarrely entertained thoughts about becoming a police officer (it must have been an interest in either the uniform or the fingerprinting), but she ended up becoming an English major at the University of Puget Sound and later an English Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota. Since 1983, she has been teaching literature at Stanford as the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, specializing in the history of the novel. She won the Lambda Literary Editor’s Choice Award in 2004 for her anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism , her tribute to Susan Sontag was published in the London Review of Books in 2005 to wide attention, and her most well-known book, The Professor and Other Writings (2010, Harper Collins), was a Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her style of play and depth makes her our perfect Gertrude Stein in The Ladies Almanack.

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JAMES TATE - ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

James Tate, born in Atlanta, Georgia in the Year of the Monkey, spent his childhood in his Imagination. His education was evenly divided between Montessori and public schools, and now he is a student of his own placement on "the scale in the present."  He is a pessimist in the near term and an optimist in the far, but those who know this frequently bearded character have described him as much more: friendly, collaborative, sensitive, insensitive, selfish, rude, thoughtful, thoughtless, careful, foolish, and that one time—"Employee of the Year." He is a Tinkerer and a Technician and has worked on video documentation for ATOM-r and Manuel Vason. He was the Assistant Director on "The Tyrant" directed by Daviel Shy and has taken up that role again for The Ladies Almanack. 

His intention is to progress through humility. His destinations, like his wishes, will be so altered by the journey that in his current perspective of the object and origin, he may not quite realize once he has made his arrival ★

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BERNADETTE SCHWEGEL AS JOELLA LOY

Meet Bernadette Schwegel, a warm, insightful fifth grader at the Skinner North Classical School in Chicago, who just celebrated her golden birthday this year, turning 11 on February 11 (a master number in the Tarot deck used for the card of Strength, or Justice). She does not like wars and bloodshed, but she does like revolutions. Her favorite subject in school is Social Studies and she sharpens her pencils with two brassy presidential sharpeners: one of George Washington and one of John F. Kennedy. If she could elect anyone in the world to be the next president, it would have to be her father, the wisest person she knows. No one can be quite so sure of the future, and of that she is fully aware that one day she wants to be this and the next, that, but her vision includes becoming a doctor, drawing comics for a newspaper, working on a cartoon for television, and designing as well as physically constructing a building that will be tall, fat, and made of blue glass, a nonchalant color that carries happiness and sadness at the same time, and she would complete the architecture with Roman murals and pillars. She is interested in anime, reading, and drawing, and has written one book so far in kindergarten about a transformative venus fly trap named Greenie who wished to be a rose and a petunia. She credits her mother for her creativity. In the Ladies Almanack, she will play our Joella Loy, the daughter of Mina Loy.

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NESSA NORICH AS ROMAINE BROOKS

Nessa Norich is a Light-bearer (sometimes the Sun, sometimes a household appliance) who was born a Pisces rising Libra in Teaneck, New Jersey in 1986. She is also, in alphabetical order: an Actor, an alien, a Bronco captive in the hull of a ship in the middle of the ocean captained by a one-eyed hermaphrodite who is also her (according to a Psychic), a co-founder of the Crank Theater Company, a co-producer of the world-wide Morning Gloryville dance movement (sober morning dance party), a Director, a fish, a fox hunter, a founder of Tremor Theater Collective, a new ice cream flavor no one knows what to do with, a lioness, a New York Neo-Futurist, an owl, a Partner-in-mischief, a Performer, a sister, a magic squirrel, a wild boar-playmate, a Writer. She was reared a biblical scholar and Zionist and musical theater geek, ripened at a public high school and pursuing performance passions while surrounded by hip hop culture music dance fashion, then pursued higher education with Ivy-Leaguers who felt out of her league, until she found her tribe with Fannie Sosa while studying at Jacques Lecoq and there, she began to chip away at what would become the form of her Truth. Her primary interest is in the transcendental and ritualistic function of the theater. She is a facilitator and designer of experiences that challenge the “normal.” She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, and she does not live in Detroit, New Orleans, Paris, London, Vancouver, nor Edinburgh, but there are pieces of her walking around all those cities.

In the Ladies Almanack, Nessa will play Romaine Brooks (both being dark-eyed observers with the same nose)

Brooks’s childhood cast a dark Shadow on her life

Nessa has experienced a great deal of Light

Together they will produce the beloved hue of grey often used in Brooks’s work to a melancholic effect but meanwhile, glowing ★

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STEPHANIE ACOSTA - PRODUCER, ART DIRECTOR, MERCEDES D'ACOSTA

So much of Stephanie Acosta is born of the Prarie. The plains are powerful, she said, the horizons are hard on the spirit. She was born a Saggitarius rising Capricorn on the morning of December 4, 1980 in Miami, Florida and was raised by her Mother, a "Peter Pan child,” her Abuela, and her Abuelo. She is a multi-disciplinary Artist and Curator, and in this film she is the Producer, Art Director, and makes an appearance as Mercedes d’Acosta, a writer, who is possibly a distant relative as both their families arrived to Cuba from the same part of Spain! Her work involves unseen histories, performance, and experimental film and radio. She studied Directing, Religion, and Philosophy at the Webster University Theatre Conservatory in St. Louis and later, Performance at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Among her influences are Jerzy Grotowski, Georg Büchner, and the show, “Oh My Goddess,” put on by Michael Clark, set to PJ Harvey’s songs. Sometimes it is the despised substance of divinest show that will teach the most formative Lessons, shaping the contour of one’s current Vision, as was the case when Stephanie worked on her first production after College: gutting, with a group of suburban fearfuls, a magical Spanish text, an unheard Voice, featuring a variety of mind-benders—until there was nothing left but a title that no longer means what it used to. That experience has been informing the themes and issues of Identity, Self-Tokenizing, Biography, and Nationality in her first solo work: a series of pieces titled “Is This What You Wanted” (a question she yelled out during an argument at Art Basel in 2013). A way to be Thoughtful is to set up an Altar, like Stephanie’s: her favorite Tara Healing Tibetan incense is slowly burning over a curation of stories held in glass, crystals, beads, rocks, ceramic, lil bells, holy dirt from the southwest, plants, atop a telephone table her grandmother positioned beside the couch her whole life.

Objects cycle in and out, but the lesson learned is to protect & preserve the Mission. That is the

Vision. “All this sacrifice to make a shell

of a thing & be grateful the white old

bitches like it?” the question posed hot & clear til it got bored. “No thanks,” she said.

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#stephanie acosta #mercedes d'acosta #ladies almanack #djuna barnes

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BRIE ROLAND AS NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY

Brie Roland—an Actor, a would-be Wizard, a Sommelier, and someday, a Playwright—was born a Libra rising Pisces in Kirkland, Washington in 1984. As a child, she wished to never grow up as well as to become a famous actress. As an adolescent, she performed in renditions of children's fairy tales in her community theaters. As a teenager, the School of Environmental Studies placed her life into perspective. As a prospective college student, she nearly chose to study theater at New York University but decided instead to study the world and human experience and thus received her degree in Peace, Conflict, & Global Studies, Writing, and Gender & Women's Studies at Northland College where she also started The Fourth Wall theater company and directed her first play, You Can't Take it With You. She remained involved in community theater when she moved to Bayfield, Wisconsin and this time, played the aspiring ballet dancer, Essie, in another production of the Moss & Hart play at Stage North. She then moved to Minneapolis and joined Theatre Coup d'Etat, playing roles such as Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Horatio in Hamlet (it was winner of Ivey Award for Direction) and Christine in Strindberg's Miss Julie (she was winner of Lavender Magazine's Best Classical Supporting Actress). She currently lives in a cute, vintage house in South Minneapolis near the Minnehaha Creek with her husband, Dustin, and their two cats.

As Natalie Clifford Barney—or Dame Evangeline Musset, who was in her Heart one Grand Red Cross for the Pur- suance, the Relief and the Distraction, of such Girls, who was a Pioneer and Menace in her Youth, who dispensed generous wisdom & was elevated to Sainthood upon death—Brie will bring alive the centerfold of our Almanack with her beliefs in storytelling, diversity, safe spaces, & her qualities as Den- Mother, Creator, Dreamer, & Lover ★

#brie roland #natalie clifford barney #ladies almanack #djuna barnes

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DAVIEL SHY, WRITER AND DIRECTOR

INTO THE PSYCHIC LANDSCAPE OF DAVIEL SHY—a writer, performer, and filmmaker, born on April 14, 1984 in Panorama City, California, she grew up on the west and east coasts with five siblings, spending her childhood with them playing ongoing imagination games like "Teen Hall" that would last years, or otherwise drawing all the time and locking herself up in the family RV with a My Little Pony coloring book, coming out of the vehicle parked in the hot Los Angeles driveway, sweat-drenched but with a beautifully finished book ! As an Aries rising Pisces, she possesses the trademark fire qualities of high Energy, Ambition, and Impatience, pinballing across the intersection of a Six-corner Fever and slowing necessarily, deliberately, into privacy, where thoughts often make behind-the-scenes progress until they are ready to Appear, or Shine. In every piece of work is a dedication, implicit or explicit, and in hers, they are clearly love songs for women who have been continuously left out of the story. Her approach begins with historical research and ultimately seeks to revise the canon, blending in her own experiments and fictions, and holding strong to luddite beliefs that aged tools are not dead tools. Daviel currently lives and works in Chicago, hosts a monthly film screening called Lesbian Movie Night Ongoing Project (L.M.N.O.P.), will eventually complete her tattoo series of five wolves, and is working on a novel. She is the Writer and Director of The Ladies Almanack, which will be her first feature film. 

     She is not afraid DAVIEL OF THE SPIRITS      looking sunward,              winks                ★

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SOA DE MUSE AS ARTHUR CRAVAN

Soa de Muse, who will play the striking Poet and Boxer, Arthur Cravan, is a surreal source of Inspiration just like his character. He is a hybrid Performance Artist, a Boylesque Dancer, an Actor, a Dreamer, un Enfant Terrible, whose solarly fierce movements secretes a tropical mixture of Magic, Madness, Melancholy, and Mystery. Born an Aquarius in Fort-de-France, Martinique in 1989, he stepped on stage for the first time at age thirteen. He dropped out of Paris 8 University in his first year and studied theater at L'École Miroir instead. A dance workshop at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and his first pair of heels marks a couple of the major events in his life. By luck, he discovered the Burlesque world, and by night, he shimmers into different creatures of masculine and feminine powers. His work, influenced by the Carribbean and RuPaul, explores tales, loves, roots, messages. Happiness is good health, a joint, a cup of tea, his boo, and a good movie. He currently lives in Villejuif in Val de Marne, a suburb of Paris. His birthday, January 31, is coming soon. Which of these wishes will take place next? To dance for a metal band? To see the greatest burlesque show? To travel someplace new in the world? To début himself to the U.S. audience? To learn to breathe fire? ★

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MARINA MILIOU-THEOCHARAKI AS MARINA TSVETAEVA

Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, who was born 24 years ago in Athens, Greece, is a Taurus rising Aquarius, an Artist, an Educator, a being of unbelonging, who enjoys airports and delays, swimming nude, derives, flamenco, sewing her own clothes, chanting, stretching latex, and walking barefoot on damp soil, who admires blue whales, Anne Carson, Sappho, Ana Mandieta and Eva Hesse, who aspired for many years to become a professional Dancer, who has frequent dreams of being stalked by a thin, hairy, sweaty man who tries to whisper in her ear, who once broke a bone in her spine and wore a medical corset, which she named Lazarous, for a year, whose best friend is her grandmother who knits her radical underwear and scarves and mails her olive oil and nuts, who received a dual degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Visual and Critical Studies, who is a member of the Chicago-based artist collective: Collective Cleaners, who approaches Places as containers of her body and People as extensions of her limbs, and with a tongue that has been cut and a language that has been tamed, she uses the Voice of her body to relate to her surroundings and thus views her Practice as composed of her history, her form, her limbs, her flesh, her hair, her fluids, always questioning notions of cultural Identity, pulling information from social Urgencies, placing them into Poetry, bridging the Past to the Future, and in the Present, she is still traveling, and in Ladies Almanack, she makes an appearance as Marina Tsvetaeva, the poet.

#marina miliou-theocharaki #solita solano #ladies almanack #djuna barnes

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ANTOINETTE SUITER - PROSTHETICS

Antoinette Suiter, whose prosthetics will be featured in the film, was born on December 15, 1982 in Dayton, Ohio. She grew up in Tipp City, Ohio, with a wonderfully strange, idealistic childhood, in which she received a Montessori education and started acting lessons at the age of four. A good portion of her early years was spent riding from school to school, surrounded by props, in her mother’s mini-van, as she followed an acting troop for children based on Grotowskian methods that also incorporated song and dance. At six, she watched a televised re-enactment of her father’s heart attack and coma on Rescue 911 (she is the Punky Brewster look-alike at the end of part two). At nine, she mummified a bird with her best friend for a project.  At fourteen, she discovered her grandmother, no longer alive, marking her entrance into adulthood and obsession with nostalgia and wallpaper. At sixteen, she quit acting. As of age twenty, her self-portraits always turn out to be balding, middle-aged men with sad eyes and beer bellies. At twenty-two, she graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with a BFA in Sculptural Studies, and at thirty, she graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with an MFA in Sculpture. Her work investigates notions of nostomania, an outdated psychological term used to characterize a harmful, extreme form of nostalgia. Her material choices highlight the discomfort within familiar, everyday, domestic supplies. Currently, she teaches special effects, makeup, and prosthetics to high school students at Marwen and foundations and sculpture at SAIC.

In her thirties, she hopes to figure out how happiness and sadness are tied up in doing work and having adventures with friends. She thought she would have made a 3D movie by now. Her favorite color is red. Her spirit animal is a cat. She is influenced by Dario Argento and her favorite book is The Invention of Morel. Her teeth fall out, recurringly in a dream. For more Antoinette trivia, you must catch her while she waits for her mold to cure ★

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GUINEVERE TURNER AS LIANE DE POUGY

Guinevere Turner was born in Boston, Massachusetts as a Gemini rising Capricorn with her Moon in Aries in 1968. She is an Actress, Writer, Director, and Producer who made her film debut in Go Fish, the 1994 lesbian classic. She had a role in The Watermelon Woman, co-wrote the adaptation of American Psycho, and was a staff writer / editor and recurring character on The L Word. She is great at playing women who are gorgeous, spoiled, yet loveable, thus in Ladies Almanack, she will be our Liane de Pougy, who was notorious throughout Europe as a lady of the Underground and known to be the greatest of "Les Grandes Horizontales." In real life, Guinevere is bold, honest, and punctual. She is also easily distracted and inherently impatient. Her Work, driven by a revenge Fantasy in which her Success inspires jealousy in the souls of those who had wronged her, actually requires plenty of focus and patience over a span of years until a project is done. At the Heart of her work is the intention to find the strange, familiar, Universal Truth buried deep within our ugly selves and our brutal vulnerability that forms the mundane and disturbing parts of relationships we have with each other. She is currently writing an adaptation of Ed Sanders's The Family which will explore the psychology of the young women who followed Charles Manson. Meanwhile, Happiness is not an absolute, a goal, nor a place, but learning to recognize, in the Present, a series of Moments—such as finding yourself at Home alone in the morning after being away for a long time, or having a dinner Party with great conversation that includes Everyone, or even one time, getting a residual check for $25k—and remembering to tell yourself, "I am Happy right now."

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Trying to push consciousness - penetrating a membrane The worst is to dream you woke up then still dream I’m rescuing my younger brother and two sisters Or, everyone is turning into weird pod people If the lamp isn't mine, I'm not awake yet If the lamp isn't mine, I'm not awake yet. Why is everyone turning into weird pod people? I’m rescuing a dream from still dreaming penetrating a membrane Pushing consciousness I think of it as being a dream warrior like this is bull shit, I’m go ing good bye ! ★

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WANDA RIVIÈRE AS LADY UNA TROUBRIDGE

Wanda Rivière is a Daughter of the Aquatic, an Actress born in 1988 in Colombes, France, a commune six-point-six miles northwest of Paris, named after doves. She is a handy Do-It-Yourself type and was never meant to follow the clear order and trajectory of Academia, so upon finishing High School, she let her good sense of Intuition and desire to Act guide her to her own source(s) of Knowledge. She started working with a director and his theater company at age nineteen, where she learned how to perform her roles through a process that involves being very present. The productions blend multi-media creations, dance, and theater. She has completed five shows and continues to work with the same group. Currently she lives in a House of Love with Fannie Sosa, Quentin Leroy a.k.a. MadRey, Alejandro Ramirez, and Natacha Stolz. She has made music with Valentin Bigel as Public Love, a cold wave // warm heart genre of sound. In Ladies Almanack, Wanda will play Lady Una Troubridge, a British sculptor and translator best known as the long-term partner of Radclyffe Hall.

"What is Happiness?" the Mermaid was asked. "Not having to think!"  she said on her bed

Dreaming underwater    Drizzle of rain Drinking nonstop  Gold champagne Shapes  Shards  Shakes  Sharks She is Capricorn rising Aries values Balance & Justice cold water hot shivers Moon in Gemini S h i n e s ★

#wanda rivière #una troubridge #ladies almanack #djuna barnes

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DEBORAH BRIGHT AS RADCLYFFE "JOHN" HALL

Our Radclyffe “John” Hall will be played by the independent and forward-thinking Deborah Bright, whose other roles in life include that of a Photographer, Writer, former Professor at Rhode Island School of Design and the current Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1950 as an Aquarius rising Virgo with a Moon in Pisces, thus characterized by a progressive mind, an intelligent and reserved aura, and a remarkable intuition. How did she reach this assured destination of white hair, black suit jacket, and a playfully tilting bowler hat, assuming the classic resolute pose of one hand resting on the hip? Well, in the mid 70s, while she was a graduate student in Painting at the University of Chicago, she was preparing the photographs of Walker Evans for an exhibit in the studio gallery. Captivated by his sophisticated storytelling through images, she realized: “That’s my medium.” Since then, her photographic work has explored landscapes where particular histories have been obscured, hidden, mystified and misrepresented for political reasons. Her queer projects, like “Dream Girls” (memories of girlhood afternoons watching old Hollywood movies) and “Being and Riding” (memories of a childhood obsession with horses) address questions of erotic identity formation. In 1998, she edited The Passionate Camera: photography and bodies of desire, a groundbreaking collection of images and writings on photography and queer politics. In 2010, she was named Honored Educator of the Year by the Society for Photographic Education.

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