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Feb 19, 2021 · Jackie Curtis: East Village Superstar, “Pioneer without a Frontier”. Posted February 19, 2021. By Ariel Kates. “I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual – I am just me, Jackie.”. This wonderful declaration of what Jackie was not leaves so much space to explore who Jackie was ...
Overview. Born. February 19, 1947 · New York City, New York, USA. Died. May 15, 1985 · New York City, New York, USA (drug overdose) Birth name. John Holder Jr. Mini Bio. Jackie's friendship and professional association with Andy Warhol began in the mid-1960s.
Feb 26, 2024 · February 26, 2024. Jackie Curtis, 1970. © Jack Mitchell. An homage to the master of camp and the controversial play that defined her work. ——— Jackie Curtis, the playwright and drag performer best known for her outlandish roles in Warhol films including Flesh and Women in Revolt, wasn’t just a Superstar.
Craig Highberger’s documentary portrait, Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis, which opens at New York’s Film Forum this month, takes its title from one of Curtis’s wryly class-conscious self-descriptions. The film would be a pedestrian affair if not for the vivacity of its subject, whose multiple incarnations ...
Jackie Curtis graduated from Hunter College in 1975, with aspirations of becoming a singer. When she couldn’t make a career work on Broadway, she decided to start writing and performing in her own plays. Curtis was also a published poet, whose work appeared in The Poets’ Encyclopedia in 1979.
May 31, 2012 · May 31, 2012. An appropriate air of disorderly fabulousness pervades “Jukebox Jackie,” a scrapbook of a show at La MaMa that pays spirited tribute to Jackie Curtis, one of the pioneering...
May 17, 1985 · Jackie Curtis, a playwright, director and performer, died of a drug overdose Wednesday, according to the New York City Medical Examiner's office. He was 38 years old. The performer, whose real...
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