Prose, Writing

Interviews

While writing for The L Magazine I began conducting interviews with various figures working in art and performance around New York City. I have since published these interviews in other publications. These interviews serve not only as a way for artists to speak for themselves, but also help capture moments in time in the artistic life of the city.

Here’s a selection of interviews that I’ve published:

• Holly Hughes, performance artist and professor

• Karen Finley, performance artist and professor

• John Fleck, performance artist and actor

• Tim Miller, performance artist and teacher

• Black-Eyed Susan, actor

• Martha Burkirk, Scholar & Critic

• Sarah Benson, Artistic Director, Soho Rep

• Molly Smith, current Artistic Director of Arena Stage and co-founder of Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre

• Steve Cuiffo, Performance Artist

• Daniel Alexander Jones, Writer, Performer, & Scholar

• Alison Fleminger, Curator, Performance Project @ University Settlement

• Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director, PS122

• Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company

• Young Jean Lee, Writer & Director

• Theresa Rebeck, Playwright

• Claudia Rankine, Poet

• Robert Lyons, Artistic Director, Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theater

• David Herskovits, Artistic Director, Target Margin Theater

• Maria Striar, Artistic Director, Clubbed Thumb

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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