Brett
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Master of karate and friendship, for everyone!
Male
35 years old
New York, NEW YORK
United States
Last Login: 7/15/2009
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Brett's Interests
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| General | Game shows, burlesque, contemporary art, film, music, left-wing politics and pop culture, writing about all of the above, and generally in making a personal impact on the social, cultural or artistic fabric of New York City, and then the world.
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Exotic World Burlesque
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Brett's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Oberlin, Ohio | | Body type: | 6' 4" | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Development |
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Brett's Schools
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New York University
New York,New York
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Visual Art Administration
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2001 to 2003 |
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware,Ohio
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Fine Arts (photography)
Minor: History
Clubs: An ill-advised effort to start a co-op house senior year...also, campus paper movie critic! (Geeky!)
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1992 to 1996 |
Oberlin High School
Oberlin,Ohio
Graduated: 1992
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Football team, Art Club, Yearbook, Hi-Y... my God, I was such a geeky joiner.
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Brett will see you at the return of AM GOLD: the softest rock, the smoothest burlesque at Coney Island, July 16!
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Jan. 11-Mar. 3: exhibition in Brooklyn!
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You'll feel dirty and corporate, but you'll have a top 12-24.
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Join Exotic World: support the past 'n' future of bump 'n' grind.
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Exhibition in the Bronx!
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About me:
Ohioan by birth, New Yorker by choice! Non-profit fundraiser by day, nightlife impresario and cultural influence by night. Under my stage name Neil O'Fortune, I'm one half of Casino-O'Fortune Entertainments with the lovely and talented (and multiple award-winning!) burlesque queen, Miss Clams Casino. As such, I'm the co-producer and host of the Gameshow Speakeasy, everyone's favorite downtown live-on-stage guessing game on one Thursday of every month!
Casino-O'Fortune has also produced (often with fabulous co-producers) and co-hosted themed burlesque shows up and down the Eastern Seaboard:
The Costello Show: A Burlesque Tribute to the Other Elvis (Joe's Pub)
Jackson Family Values: Beat It Burlesque! (Joe's Pub)
Killer Queen Burlesque (Zipper Factory Theater)
Bump 'n' Grindhouse (Coney Island USA, Arlington Cinema 'n' Drafthouse in Washington DC, Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ)
Smells Like Tease Spirit: 90s Burlesque! (the Slipper Room, Galapagos Art Space)
T'n'A Q&A, a panel on burlesque history (The Slipper Room)
AM GOLD (Coney Island USA)
Lake Clothes-Be-Gone: Midwest Burlesque (The Slipper Room)
The Shore Thing: A Burlesque Road Trip! (Asbury Lanes)
Battle of the Burlesque Stars (Public Assembly)
Borderline Burlesque: Midnight Madonna Madness! (Zipper Factory Theater)
The 25th Annual Miss Asbury Lanes 1983 Pageant (Asbury Lanes)
...and more!
We are also the producers of the Monsters of Burlesque tour!
Neil O'Fortune can also be found onstage emceeing, performing and special guest-ing in other fabulous people's shows, including Pinchbottom Burlesque, Anita Cookie's Anita's Underground, Sweet & Nasty Burlesque, and more.
I'm an active volunteer with the Burlesque Hall of Fame, and you should be too!
I'm the independent curator of several contemporary art exhibitions, at the Bronx River Art Center and the Skylight Gallery in Bed-Stuy.
You can also find me on my blog about New York life, pop culture and the drama of independent producing: Poundsign
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Who I'd like to meet:
Hey, I'm open to anyone who shares my interests (see above and to the left.) And I definitely want to meet people who would love to be a game show contestant or burlesque show audience member! Or any contemporary artist or somebody with an artspace (or a random, empty space that needs an exhibition in it!) who's looking for an independent curator.
My one request: if we're not friends in the real world or we've never met, please send me a message before you send a friend request and introduce yourself! Thanks.
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