Scratch Night: David Gomez / Kushi Beauchamp / Will Porter

Mission Statement:Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers— acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $1.85 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visitwww.charlottestreet.org.

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An eclectic salon of works-in-progress from KC's most exciting generative artists alongside a unique audience feedback framework

Stern Theater at Charlotte Street Foundation

Three solo performer-creators will present works-in-progress for our multidisciplinary Scratch Series:David Gomez: 'Laundry Day' | A cycle of songs that tumble together as I attempt to iron out the details of faith, friendship, and forbidden love. Every song is inspired by a missing piece of clothing, a local legend, or a long lost lover. Corridos, Rancheros, and Pop Songs combine as I attempt to recall and reclaim all the things that I lost in the wash.Kushi Beauchamp: 'This Is How I'm Crazy' | A seasonal journey of self discovery in the seemingly empty vacuum of a breakup. Is it possible to be your own soulmate? Would you like yourself enough to attempt it? Take a deep breath and lean in; you may encounter destruction, grief, hope, joy, and a little tiny voice that could help us survive the whole ordeal. *Audience members shouldn’t attempt to derive a hidden meaning from this story…period.Will Porter: 'Crutchie, Go F**k Yourself' (Part One) | Extra Extra, the Newsies won the strike! Yay! But Crutchie has a new dream... a fresh start in Santa Fe with his forever best friend slash bedfellow Jack Kelly. After all, he’s been singing about it for long enough. What unfolds sucks for good old Crutchie, but ultimately leads to his own journey of self discovery, sexual awakening, and revenge on the Walt Disney Company for making him such an abysmally lackluster sidekick.--Masks required indoors. For more information about Charlotte Street’s COVID-19 Protocol, visit <a href="https://www.charlottestreet.org/plan-your-visit" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">charlottestreet.org/plan-your-visit.</a>--About the ArtistsDavid Gomez is a Chicane theatre artist who hails from Kansas City, MO, David is currently developing Shoot For The Moon with John-Michael Lyles through support from the Dramatist Guild Fellows Program, and as one of Musical Theatre Factory’s MAKERS for 2021. Upcoming projects include the lyrics to Miss Havisham's Wedding, the libretto for Sugarplum, and the score to Laundry Day: a musical mural. In NYC, his music and lyrics have debuted at 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Don’t Tell Mama, and Birdland. David received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU in 2016. David is invested in continuing the tradition of rancheros y corridos which use lyrics and music to celebrate Latine stories.Kushi Beauchamp is a Level 9 Goober. She cries every day, and she’s darn proud of it. She loves intersectional feminism, cancelling plans, and making new work. After receiving her BA in Theatre from Lewis &amp; Clark College, Kushi has performed locally and abroad, recently appearing in and facilitating a bilingual production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Parrabbola) at the International Shakespeare Festival Craiova in Romania. Credits include Cymbeline (UMKC), The Chekov Symposium (Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble), and The Events (Third Rail Repertory Theatre). Kushi is currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at UMKC, and would like to pet your dog.Will Porter just completed his first year MFA acting student at UMKC. He set his life and relationship on fire before he moved here, which has served as much of the inspiration for this piece you are about to experience. As an actor this is some cool stuff he’s done: CATS (National Tour) A Chorus Line (Tokyo) Bells Are Ringing (Off-Broadway); Regional: The MUNY, Theatre Under The Stars, North Carolina Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO, Berkshire Theatre Company, The Fulton Opera House, The McCarter Theatre, and some other stuff. He helped create / choreographed the touring production of “Chefs: A Sizzling Kitchen Showdown,” which was essentially Magic Mike + Iron Chef + lots of wild moms pulled onstage to participate, as well as “Never Sleep Alone,” for Virgin Voyages. He hopes you don’t regret staying for his show. --About borderlandsKC | A new, cutting-edge live and digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects expanding Kansas City's spectrum for artistic invention. Led by Jay Gilman, recently-returned KC native, Jay previously spent more than a decade as a curator, producer, and civic practice artist in Minneapolis and Philly.

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