Artists & Projects Directory
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
Kathleen Russo (Co-director) is the producer
for IN THE MORNING and THE SONG IS YOU on WLIUfm/Southampton, NY. She
co-founded Washington Square Arts in New York City in 1996 representing
numerous artists from David Sedaris to Eric Bogosian. In 2006, Kathleen
co-directed and conceived with Lucy Sexton Spalding
Gray: Stories Left to Tell which toured around the US and had a 6 month run
at Minetta Lane Theatre, NYC. She is the widow of Spalding Gray and mother of their three
children Marissa, Forrest and Theo. She resides in Sag Harbor, NY and
Manhattan.
Lucy
Sexton (Co-director) has worked in theatre in different
capacities for more than two decades. She recently developed and directed the
critically acclaimed Talking Show: the Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien
Comic by Tom Murrin at Performance Space 122. In 2007, Kathleen Russo and she
developed and directed the Obie-Award winning Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell which ran off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater
for six months. Sexton has recently been appointed the producer/director of The
Bessies, New York's
Dance and Performance Awards. In film,
Sexton produced Charles Atlas' documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery for the BBC and Arte, and is currently
at work on Atlas's new film Turning featuring
the band Antony
and the Johnsons. With Anne Iobst, she co-created the Bessie Award-winning
dance-performance group DANCENOISE, which has performed extensively in New York and around the
world since 1983. They have been commissioned by such notable venues and
festivals as Serious Fun! At Lincoln Center, Glasgow's Mayfest, Jerusalem's
Phenomena Festival, New York NOW in Osaka, the Salzburg Szene Festival, Vienna
Fest Wochen, the Alice B. Theater Fest in Seattle, and the Whitney Biennial
(1993). DANCENOISE was honored for their contributions to dance and performance
by Movement Research at their Spring 2010 Gala. Performing as The Factress for
the past 10 years, Sexton hosts a randomly occurring live talk show, The Lucy Show, with co-host Mike Iveson, aka Vendetta
"Baby Asparagus" K. Starr. The Lucy Show has performed at Performance Space 122, the Bristol Old Vic Theater
(UK), and the Jungestheatre (Germany).
As a performer she has appeared in the work of Alien Comic, Charles Atlas,
David Gordon, Jo Andres, Mimi Goese, Heidi Dorow, Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone
Jr, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Richard Move, Sarah Shulman, and Alain Buffard among
others. She has taught performance at the Center for New Dance Development in
the Netherlands, Cornell University,
Movement Research and Harvey
Milk High
School in NYC.