Prose, Writing

The L Magazine

What

From 2008-2012, I wrote regularly about art and performance for The L Magazine, a bi-weekly publication based in Brooklyn, NY.

You can view the entire archive of my work for The L by clicking here.


Below is a selection of my work for The L:

• An in-depth interview with Soho Rep’s Artistic Director, Sarah Benson

• A look at the 2012 exhibition of writing and art by Djuna Barnes at the Brooklyn Museum

• A response to The Builder’s Association show Sontag: Reborn

• A response to and review of a Fluxus art exhibit that was part of PERFORMA 2011

• A brief piece about on protest as an art form

Re-examining the Soho Effect

• An essay on the Sloan Foundation’s science play grant program

• A discussion of the 2011 mid-winter performance festivals that take place in NYC

• Thoughts upon the conclusion of the PERFORMA 09 biennial

• The 2009 revival of Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights

• A discussion of the Public Theater’s 2009 production of The Bacchae

• Roman Ondák’s 2009 performance/exhibition at MoMA, Measuring the Universe

• An article about the closing of the 2008 theater adaptation of The Last Tango in Paris

• The Flea Theater’s 2008 production of Peter Handke’s Offending the Audience


By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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