Touring

Susana performed at the Encuentro de mujeres Iberoamericanas en las Artes Escenicas, in Cadiz, Spain, October 21-24, 2004. Susana's participation was made possible in part through support from The Fund for U.S Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S Department of State, and The Rockefeller Foundation, with additional suppor from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and administered by Arts International.

Susana performed and taught a workshop in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba and La Plata), March 14-28; this tour was funded in part by ASTREA Lesbian Action Foundation.

100 years of Attitude
Previews: July 1-3, 2004
Performances: July 8-24, 2004
Hot Festival, Dixon Place Theatre

Photos from the show and a review.

Everybody thought there were no lesbians in Macondo.

Susana Cook’s 100 Years of Attitude constructs an allegory of worldly crisis which constantly jumps the divide between the surreal and the commonplace.  

Performed by J. Bob Alotta, Susana Cook, D’Lo, Alex Fogarty,  Lisa Haas, Audrey Kindred, Annie Lanzillotto, Mistah,  Marisa Ragonese, Riley Snorton and  Simba Vangala.
Music by Julian Mesri
Lighting Design by Lucy Mackinnon

Argentina de Exportacion
3-4 October 2003
en la Sala Ernesto Bianco del Teatro San Martin, en Buenos Aires, Argentina el viernes 3 y sabado 4 de Octubre - Magdalena Latina

Performance and Politics in the Americas
Susana participated in the 4th annual Hemispheric Institute encuentro, "Performance and Politics in the Americas: Spectacles of Religiosities," hosted by New York University in New York City, from July 11-19, 2003.Video of Susana's performance is available online at http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/usa/text/NYCevents.shtml. Susana was one of the featured performers for the Encuentro’s "Come as your favorite Virgin" night.

The encuentro strives to provide faculty, artists and participants with the opportunity to initiate a real dialogue about the complexities of performance and politics in the Americas.To get to the newsletter please go to http://www.hemi.nyu.edu/eng/newsletter/issue7/index.shtml.

Dykenstein - Sex, Horror and the Tragedy of the Straight Brain
March 28 - April 19 2003 at WOW Cafe.
Fri - Sat 10pm. Tickets $9/$7.
Reservations: phone 212-777-4280

It was a dark and stormy night, the monster opened her eyes. Dr Dykenstein and her posse of resident doctors drill into the queer - tragically turned straight - brains.

Featuring:
E.J.An, Fanya, Kimberly Gilchrist, Lisa Gluckin, Mika, Mistah, Felice Shays, Melissa Shimkovitz, Chalee Snorton, Stacey Whitmire and Susana Cook.

Images fron the show.

Images from the show.

Women of Word: Spoken Word Performance Art Poetry
September 8th, 2001 at Nuyorican Poets Café
with Aileen Cho, Helena D. Lewis, & Ife Oshun

The Fraud
July 2001, WOW Café Theater

Conga Gorilla Forest
December 1999, WOW Café Theater

Hot Tamale
July & September, 1999, WOW Café Theater

Download an article about Gross National Product by E. J. Westlake, Department of Theater and Drama, University of Michigan.

We Are Faking Our National Orgasm
Solo show; May 1999, The Kitchen

Rats - the fantasy of extermination
October 1998, Dixon Place, NYC

Butches are a Girl's Best Friend
June 1998, Dixon Place, NYC

Parable of the Sour
February 1998, Yale University, Connecticut

Post Colonial Butches - Post Patriarchal Femmes and Other Blessings
October 1997, WOW Café Theater. Commissioned by Feminism and the Academy Conference, Colombia University, NYC.

Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop
July 1997, Dixon Place NYC
October 1997, LLEGO Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico

The Service Economy Vaudeville
1996; weekly performance space for women, WOW Café Theater - Meow Mix, NYC

Gender Acts
1996; presented as part of the GENDERPLEX performance series, the Puffin Room, NYC, January and Oberlin College, November

Tango Lesbiango
July 1996, Dixon Place, NYC

The Title, a parody of opera, angels and tango
January-April 1994, Dixon Place NYC, P.S 122 NYC, Ubu Rep NYC

las Tres Americas
September 1992, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater Stage, Washington DC