Kestryl Cael
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Performer - Writer - Critic - Academic
Male
91 years old
NEW YORK, New York
United States
Last Login: 5/3/2009
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Kestryl Cael's Interests
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| General | academia,
activism,
acting,
anthropology,
artaud,
art,
baking,
books,
boots,
brecht,
butch,
butch/femme,
butler,
buttons,
button-making,
cheese fries,
coffee,
conceptual art,
critic,
damn good cook,
dancing,
directing,
drag,
dykes,
ethnography,
fags,
falconry,
femmes,
flirting,
Foucault,
FRIGID,
fringe festivals,
genderqueer,
gender studies,
graduate school,
html,
institution survivor,
kink,
kitties,
llamas,
leather,
liminal,
masculinity,
masculine,
motorcycles,
multimedia,
new york,
performance,
performance art,
performance studies,
perversion,
photography,
piercings,
pirates,
polyamory,
pomo,
Portland,
postmodern,
postmodernism,
power,
provo canyon school,
queer,
queer theory,
sex,
sideshow,
sociology,
sound design,
stouts,
tattoos,
testosterone,
theatre,
theatre critic,
theory,
toy stores,
transgender,
transgression,
transition,
transsexual,
ugly dolls,
vegetarian,
vegetarianism,
walls,
writing,
zines
| | Music | Ladytron, Mount Sims, Hot Hot Heat, David Bowie, Queen, Sleater Kinney, The Gossip, Ani Difranco, Chris Pureka, Kevin Allred, Le Tigre, Ace of Base, John Cage, The Aquabats, The Specials, NIN, Belle and Sebastian, Superchunk, Quasi, Pavement, Deathcab for Cutie, Postal Service, Bitch and Animal, Blondie, Devo, The Faint, Fischerspooner, Flaming Lips, Goldfrapp, Pink Martini, Yeah Yeah Yeahs... to name a few. | | Movies | The Hours, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Tank Girl, Shortbus, Labyrinth, Marat/Sade, Grease, This is Spinal Tap, Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Ghost World, Pan's Labyrinth, Rocky Horror Picture Show. | | Television | Perhaps the biggest point of contention in Sass and I's relationship: I say kill the idiot box, while ze basks in the glow of media sluttery... err.. "media studies". | | Books | Artaud, Brecht, Foucault, Butler, Halberstam, Minh-ha. Kate Bornstein. Virginia Woolf. Kurt Vonnegut. Ken Kesey. Jack Kerouac. Sylvia Plath. Chuck Palahniuk. Dorothy Allision. Jonathan Safran Foer. Leslie Feinberg. Ivan E. Coyote. Patrick Califia.... and many more that I can't think of at the moment. |
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Kestryl Cael's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Portland, Oregon | | Body type: | 5' 6" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Cancer | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Critic |
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Kestryl Cael's Schools
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Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR
Graduated: 2007
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Sociology/Anthropology and Theatre
Minor: Gender Studies
Clubs: Theatre theatre theatre, Unisex (waaaay back), Improv club, theatre, gender studies symposium
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2003 to 2007 |
Valley Catholic School
Beaverton, OR
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Theatre
Minor: Rabble-rousing
Clubs: Theatre, Band, Orchestra, Choir, freaking out the nuns, getting in trouble for being gay (who knew?)
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2001 to 2003 |
Provo Canyon School
Provo, UT
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Survival, faking it, getting out.
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2000 to 2001 |
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Kestryl Cael is performing XY(T) tonight at WOW Cafe Theater! Closing weekend (only 3 shows left!)
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About me:
When I choose to list my labels, I claim performer, writer, critic, academic, queer, transgender butch, theorist, cynic, pessimistic optimist, activist, and artist at the top of my list. I have a BA in Theatre and Anthropology, and will soon be starting my MA in Performance Studies at NYU. I'm fascinated by the performance of Other (in many possible permutations), among other things.
I have appeared on-stage at conferences, colleges, and local theatres. I was an ensemble member in “The Language of Paradox,” a performance group directed by Kate Bornstein. Also, I'm beginning to be recognized as a fresh and insightful theatre critic, with work regularly appearing at stageandcinema.com.
XY(T), my one-queer-show, had it's world premiere in Portland, Oregon in April, 2007, and its NYC premiere as part of the FRIGID Fringe Festival in February/March 2008. Here are some nice things people have had to say about it:
"XY(T) calls attention to the spectacle of masculinity and demonstrates the instability of categories of gender. Kestryl Lowrey gives a provocative performance that forces the theatergoer to consider the effects of a gender construct on an entire nation of people." - - New Theater Corps
"Brave [and] heartfelt... [Kestryl] simply strips away many of the assumptions we hold about gender and identity, and tells us what it's like to live the life he lives. [Kestryl] definitely has a story to tell." - nytheatre.com
"Kestryl's show concerns gender orientation, and by the end of the show, you'll likely be completely disoriented about the subject...excellent, funny, educational, eye-opening, profound and essential." - John Topping, stageandcinema.com
Included in GO MAGAZINE'S The very best of NYC performance,
comedy, theatre and special events. - GO Magazine
Currently, I'm looking for opportunities to bring this show to more cities than Portland or New York (and I'm not opposed to putting it up again in either of these locales either!). If you want to see me soon on a stage near you, lets talk.
Oh, and I in New York City with my partner, Sassafras, two puddle-shaped-cats, and a bratty princess gerbil… err, chihuahua.
And, lest I forget, my website: PoMo Freakshow!
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Who I'd like to meet:
...as I say in XY(T), "queers and queens, fags and feminists, dykes and deviants, perverts, pornographers, and any ladies or gentlemen who have stumbled in here accidentally..."
Also, radicals and rabble-rousers, pirates and pariahs, outcasts, devils and angels, kindred spirits, sideshow freaks and circus performers, shameless folks, fellow performers, poets, dreamers, artists, auteurs, theorists, thinkers, revolutionaries, etc...
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