BabyLove-Christen Clifford
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BabyLove - What happens when your infant son becomes The Other Man?
Female
36 years old
New York, New York
United States
Last Login: 9/26/2008
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BabyLove-Christen Clifford's Interests
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| General | Here's some reviews of BabyLove:
Comically provocative! A comfort to other new parents… the uninhibited Clifford delves into some taboo topics with uncommon frankness and disarming charm.
It's daringly personal and, in Clifford's unabashedly generous performance, as engaging as it is provocative.
- San Francisco Chronicle
Taking up big questions, erotic...highly anticipated.
- SF WEEKLY
BabyLove is the most important piece of feminist theatre since The Vagina Monologues.
-kulturevermitterlin
Smart, sexy and funny! Clifford is a wonderful storyteller and is so funny, and she performs with such truth and authenticity, that by the end everyone in the audience wants to be her little one.
-Mladina (like the Eastern European Village Voice)
Christen Clifford is a fabulous writer and performer! Liberating Masturbation was a piece of cake compared to discussing erotic love between a mother and her child. BabyLove goes to places about motherhood that few would dare explore. Speaking the unspeakable is one of my favorite art forms and Christen has the guts to put BabyLove on stage, outing another one of society's dirty little secrets.
- Betty Dodson, PhD, author of Sex for One
A wonderfully moving and inspiring performance! Brilliant! It was brave, provocative, truth seeking, wildly entertaining and funny, painfully honest, tender and very moving. We were all blown away. And touched in our own private ways.
-Candida Royalle, Femme productions,
author of How To Tell a Naked Man What to Do
BabyLove was Pick of the Week on: Urban Baby, New York Cool,
Maud Newton, The Smart Set, Lux Lotus, Girlie NYC, disinfo.com, 96 Hours.
Here's some reviews of me as an actor:
Christen Clifford … brings a bawdy edge to a role that suggests her ill fortune is a kind of divine retribution. The performance makes a cleverly subtle echo of the story's query into the nature of God.
- New York Times
Christen Clifford is a comic highlight! She gives a performance that requires physicality and personal courage; the actress tears up the stage space and adds textures and emotional heft to the play.
- Boston Globe
Performed with delicious candor by the outrageous Christen Clifford.
- Art in America
Christen Clifford generates heat.
- New York Newsday
Christen Clifford is amazingly focused, funny and terrifying.
- Boston Herald
Christen Clifford’s excellent show … provides much honestly and humor. …an emotionally moving, sexual coming of age story.
- New York Blade
Christen Clifford … is somewhere between a damsel-in-distress and fury incarnate. Clifford has the showy role here and knows what to do with it.
-NYTheatre.com
Clifford is amusingly offhand during Romy's initial appearances and she gracefully navigates the play's difficult arc to Romy's more vengeful side.
- American Theatre Web
Yes, I know I need to edit.....
| | Music | Hey Mami- Fannypack, Love to Love You Baby, Baby I Love You (Ramones version), My Baby Does the Hanky Panky (Tommy James and Joan Jett versions), Rick James, Barry Manilow, PJ Harvey, Milkshake, New York Dolls | | Books | Goodnight Moon, The Cat In The Hat, etc, etc....! | | Heroes | my son |
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BabyLove-Christen Clifford's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | writer, performer, mother |
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BabyLove-Christen Clifford's Schools
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New School University
New York, NY
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: MFA Creative Non Fiction
Minor: WINNER 2006 Nonfiction Competition
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2004 to 2006 |
New York University
New York, NY
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Theatre
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1990 to 1994 |
Nichols School
Buffalo, NY
Graduated: 1990
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1982 to 1989 |
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BabyLove-Christen Clifford's Networking
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Theatre - Drama - Acting
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actor/writer/solo performer:: The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Culture Project, WINNER Best of Fringe
more: www.christenclifford.com
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Theatre - Drama - Teaching
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Guest teacher @ NYU, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and MIT
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BabyLove opens Off Broadway, Gothamist interview
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BabyLove runs Off Broadway April 27- June 8th!
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Chicks 'n'Giggles at Mo Pitkins!
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I just got a 2007 NYFA Fellowship!
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BabyLove-Christen Clifford's Blurbs |
About me:
Come see BabyLove from April 27- June 8th
Presented by Hourglass Group, 45 Bleecker, and Mampalooza
More info here:
http://www.babylovetheplay.com
BabyLove
What happens when your infant son becomes The Other Man?
www.babylovetheplay.com
Written and performed by Christen Clifford
Directed by and developed with Julie Kramer
Winner Best of Fringe 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival
Winner Audience Award 2007 Frigid Festival
Here's the PR blurb: From trying to conceive to masturbating holding an infant, from the humiliations of postpartum sex to the eroticism of breastfeeding: in Clifford’s true stories of sex and motherhood she exposes the deepest secrets with candor and humor; by investigating the acutely personal, she illuminates the universal. A solo play with choreography by burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz and directed by Julie Kramer , BabyLove had its world premier in Ljubljana, Slovenia and was sold out and won Best of Fringe at The San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2006.
“Comically provocative! ….a comfort to other new parents….The uninhibited Clifford delves into some taboo topics with uncommon frankness and disarming charm. It’s daringly personal and, in Clifford’s unabashedly generous performance, as engaging as it is provocative.” - The San Francisco Chronicle
As an actor, I have performed at Classic Stage Company, The Culture Project, The Public Theatre, As The World Turns and Guiding Light, etc. I have been a mainstage storyteller at THE MOTH and published personal essays in Salon.com, Nerve.com, The New York Press, and Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (Disinfo Press). I am a member of The Association for Research on Mothering as well as The Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality and I won the the 2006 New School MFA nonfiction writing competition. I LOVE Barry Manilow.
More about me here http://www.christenclifford.com
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