Tell All Tuesday: Introducing Allie
June 29th, 2010 maggie
We are so thrilled to introduce our femmetern, Allie! Like a Femme of the Future Allie is telecommuniting from Vermont, where the dandelions are in full seed, and will be on board live and in person in the fall. She was indispensable just a few weeks ago when I needed help to get the word out about our last minute venue change. I basically sent Allie and Lea a bunch of google doc links some phone numbers and told them to figure it out, I had ballet classes to teach. Wheeee! Welcome to the Femme Show!
Tell us about your first experience with the Femme Show.
My first experience with the Femme Show was at the True Colors conference at UCONN. I attended an interactive workshop with some of the Femme Show performers. I fell in love with all of their unique personalities and spirit, as well as the diversity of their performance styles. I knew I had to be a part of it in some way.
What makes the Femme Show so important?
I feel as though we Femmes can sometimes get lost in the big queer picture. The Femme Show is a powerful statement of visibility for all the fierce femmes out here, as well as a place for amazing radical free expression.
What are you most excited about for the Femme Show in 2010?
I am excited to finally have a FULL Femme Show experience! I feel lucky that I am able to be helpful to a group of such a great, crazy, beautiful people who truly care about art. Here in Vermont (my home state) we have artists and performers, but I have yet to find any who are as passionate and unapologetic as I have found in the Femme Show.
What is your favorite thing to do onstage? Least favorite?
I don’t do much onstage anymore, but when I did, one of my favorite moments was imitating a monkey, as well as sporting a one-piece tiger-print swimsuit and heels. My directors always had a thing for making me look ridiculous onstage, but I loved every minute of it. As for my least favorite, I’d have to say it would be singing a duet version of Debbie Gibson’s “Lost in Your Eyes” in my senior musical. Not much more needs to be said about that =P
Sweet or savory?
Hmm mostly sweet, although I do enjoy a nice mix. Things like chocolate covered pretzels or peanut butter and jelly sandwich with chips in it. I’m not really picky though, I’ll try anything twice =)
