Do you need a Monster Girl fix? Do you want to see Erika Lopez live and in person? Then check out The Welfare Queen World Tour!
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September 15 to October 8
Limited Run - Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
New York City, NY
September 21
Loree Dance Theater
Douglas Campus, Rutgers
New Brunswick, NJ
September 22
Lecture: The Making of Monster Girls:
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
Douglas Campus, Rutgers
New Brunswick, NJ
October 7
After Show Special Event!
TeatroStageFest: A TalkBack with Erika Lopez, author/star of The Welfare Queen
An Official Event of the Latin Media and Entertainment Week
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
New York City, NY
TeatroStageFest, the Latino Theater Festival of New York, hosts a discussion with Erika Lopez, author/star of The Welfare Queen, a co-presentation by Monster Girl Media, BAAD and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (Additional show performances: October 6, 7, 8 @ 8PM) Kitten Lopez (Erika Lopez's alter ego) portrays a woman who once had it all: many lovers, published books that she herself actually wrote, huge quantities of meat, and a life of farting in silk sheets. When she lost it all, she found herself on the welfare line having to claw her way out of that abyss. She's back, proudly wearing her crown as The Welfare Queen, ready to tell the world that life with its ups and downs ain't so bad. The show is replete with dancing girls and each evening features a different opening act. (Performances in English on October 6, 7, 8 @ 8PM.)
Erika Lopez is a cartoonist, novelist, performance artist and co-founder of Monster Girl Media, a multi-media company of books, movies and merchandise, that published The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir along with the matching The Girl Must Die: 18 Postcards. Her first book, Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing, was published by Simon and Schuster. Lopez is best known for the characters of “Grandma Lopez” and "The Welfare Queen" which she created when she began to receive welfare after her fight with Simon & Schuster. She has performed at locations as varied as San Francisco, Edinburg, London, Manchester, and Oslo.
Admission: Ticketed (The TalkBack is included in the price of admission to the 8PM show)
Organization: TeatroStageFest
Website: www.brownpapertickets.com, http://www.teatrostagefest.org, http://www.thewelfarequeen.com
Tickets to the show may be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006. For more information, call 212-260-4080 ext. 11
