FUTURE

9-12 September 2010
Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
Conversation gets its world premiere! The show will be part of the 2010 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The show, written and performed by me (Alexis Clements), and directed by Rosalie Purvis, with production help from Norberto Briceno, will soon be getting the City of Brotherly Love talking. Don't miss it. Get more details and tickets here.

PRESENT

August-October
Along with playwright Christine Evans, I edited a two-volume anthology of plays written by members of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab. Titled Out of Time & Place, the books have been published by the Women's Project and are now available for purchase. Book events will be taking place throughout late summer and fall. Learn more and buy your copies today.

July-September 2010
Enough!, the new pamphlet from New Acquisition has arrived. We launched our first performance (where we distribute the pamphlets) at the High Line amphitheater on July 11. There will be more performances throughout the summer. Click here to find out when and where they will be.

PAST

7-20 May 2010
Please Loiter, a sound collage that I created for The Work Office was exhibited at a temporary gallery space in Lower Manhattan. Artists were given one week to generate "idea-based assignments to explore, document, or improve daily life in New York."

5 & 6 February 2010
Spitting Against the Wind returned! I was invited by curators Abigail Browde and Victoria Libertore to join an evening featuring short works and excerpts at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. I presented an excerpt of this work-in-progress to audiences.

December 2009
My play Three Choices was published in issue #12 of KNOCK Magazine. They published my play Pieces back in issue #8. Buy your copy now.

12 November 2009
Reading of The Typewriter Girls at the Women's Project rehearsal space. Directed by Rachel Chavkin of The TEAM.

20 June 2009
Joined with a group of other artists to help conduct a day-long workshop with University Settlement, The Door, and youth leaders from a number of different programs schools around the city to create a collaborative piece exploring arts leadership in the community.

3-6 June 2009
As part of a group of site specific pieces produced by the Women's Project at the World Financial Center and also as part of the 2009 River-to-River Festival, my piece Place ReImagined was presented. This was a dance piece that I wrote and co-directed with choreographer Elizabeth Montgomery. We worked with seven dancers on the pieces. Read more here.

15 April 2009
A preliminary reading of my new play, The Typewriter Girls, directed by Rachel Chavkin, was held at the Women's Project in New York.

31 March 2009
A brand new piece about Benjamin Franklin, Spitting Against the Wind, starring me as old Ben, was presented at Dixon Place in New York. This one is still a work-in-progress.

28 March 2009
Assistance Without Resistance, was read in Washington, DC, by Doorway Arts Ensemble in Washington, DC, as part of a celebration of SWAN Day in Georgetown. I also participated in a panel discussion with a variety of artists later that day. For more information click here.

23 March 2009
Exchanging Glances, a collaborative theatrical presentation incorporating text by a group of contemporary writers and composers, along with one very dead writer, which was the culmination of my time as part of the America in Play Workshop, was presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York.

7 January 2009
Reading at Bluestockings of "The Relative Importance of Ideas," featured in the latest edition of We'll Never Have Paris

28 June 2008 &
17 May 2008
The next literary pamphlet and performance from New Acquisition, Dance Away Your Debt, launched during the 2008 Dance Parade here in New York in May, following that we participated in FIGMENT 2008 on Governor's Island. For more information about the project click here. For more information about the Dance Parade, click here and for info about FIGMENT, click here.

18 April 2008
A workshop production of my play, Conversation, directed by Dyana Kimball, was presented by
The Performance Project @ University Settlement, New York, NY 10002
Click here for more information

2 April 2008
A brief excerpt of my play Conversation was presented as part of the April 7 People - 7 Minutes show at Dixon Place.

11 December 2007
KNOCK magazine held their latest release party for Issue #8 (Hurt on Purpose) which features my play Pieces. You can purchase copies of the issue by visiting their website.

24 September 2007
An excerpt from Conversation was read at the Dramatists Guild's 2007 Fellows Showcase.

6-16 September 2007
Two performance/installation pieces were produced in association with the launch of my latest literary project, New Acquisition. The first took place from 6-8 September at the 217 East 42nd Street Chashama space in New York and the second was part of the One Million Forgotten Moments project which ran in downtown Manhattan from 12-16 September. Read more about the pieces here.

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