SCUM
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SCUM is fantastical burlesque/alien/cabaret that uses found text, dance, music and devised material in various mediums to look at two female figures: Valerie Solanas and Carolyn Sapp. Valerie shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto, which calls for the extermination of all men. Carolyn was Miss America in 1992. Valerie was a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of her father; Carolyn was a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her fiancé. They have both written rambling pieces of text that give their particular ideas on how to be a woman, but there's something broken inside all that big language. Neither Valerie nor Carolyn can really figure out how to survive as a woman in the world because it is an impossible task. Whether you follow the rules of conventional femininity, like Carolyn, or reject them and construct your own radical, violent vision of how gender should function, like Valerie, the world will still tear you apart.
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Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn (writer/performer) is a performer, theater maker and teacher from Hong Kong. She’s performed her play based on interviews with clowns, I.M. LOST! – a show about clowns and how to be happy, in productions at Princeton University (dir. Ogemdi Ude), Dixon Place (dir. Kat Yen) and Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival (dir. Benita de Wit). She performed in SCUM, her show about radical feminist Valerie Solanas and beauty queen Carolyn Sapp, at a workshop production at Dixon Place this winter. She holds a B.A. in English and Theater from Princeton University. www.elliseinhorn.com
Sam Kaseta (composer/lyricist) is a composer, musician, and sound designer from Hartford, CT. She has worked with theater companies such as Soho Rep., Prospect Theater Co., New Dramatists, New Georges, Everyday Inferno, and many more in the development of new works. She is a music curator at The Tank NYC and holds a B.A. in music from Princeton University. Sam is currently pursuing her M.M. at NYU's Steinhardt School of Music and studies composition with Caroline Shaw. Upcoming premieres will be featured this summer in Ars Nova's ANT Fest and The Tank's queer cabaret series Tankaret.

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Ryan Gedrich (collaborator/performer) is a producer, dramaturg and performer, born and bred in the wilds of New Jersey. He is currently in his second year with Clubbed Thumb. Recent work: directing Turning Inward at Princeton University, dramaturgy for a new play by Rinne Groff, Milo Cramer’s Cute Activist at the Bushwick Starr with New Saloon, Alex Borinsky’s Weird Classrooms at University Settlement, SCUM at Dixon Place. Education: AB in Anthropology, Princeton University.
Maeve Brady (collaborator/performer)
Glenna Yu (collaborator/performer/choreographer)
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Photos from the Dixon Place production of SCUM (December 9th, 2017)
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Video from the Dixon Place production of SCUM (December 9th, 2017)