Performing Your Life with Michelle Tea January 25, 2010

Celebrated author Michelle Tea will guide writers through the processes of generating, creating and performing work inspired by real life, as well as coach through the pitfalls of transforming personal experience into public performance. This workshop is open to writers and performers of all skill levels and backgrounds who are interested in experimenting with the convergence of performance and text. Participants should be prepared to share work publicly. The final class includes a performance for an invited audience.

Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the award-winning Valencia and the illustrated Rent Girl, as well as the novel Rose of No Man's Land and the poetry collection The Beautiful. She co-created and single-handedly revived the notorious all-girl performance tour Sister Spit, currently traveling the world as the multi-gendered Sister Spit: The Next Generation. She is the executive director of RADAR Productions, which runs a monthly reading series at the SF Public Library, an annual writers' retreat outside the country, and the Spit tours. She writes for magazines including The Believer and McSweeney's, and is at work on a book.