Prose, Writing

Interviews

While writing for The L Magazine I began conducting interviews with various figures working in art and performance around New York City. I have since published these interviews in other publications. These interviews serve not only as a way for artists to speak for themselves, but also help capture moments in time in the artistic life of the city.

Here’s a selection of interviews that I’ve published:

Holly Hughes, performance artist and professor

Karen Finley, performance artist and professor

John Fleck, performance artist and actor

Tim Miller, performance artist and teacher

Black-Eyed Susan, actor

Martha Burkirk, Scholar & Critic

Sarah Benson, Artistic Director, Soho Rep

Molly Smith, current Artistic Director of Arena Stage and co-founder of Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre

Steve Cuiffo, Performance Artist

Daniel Alexander Jones, Writer, Performer, & Scholar

Alison Fleminger, Curator, Performance Project @ University Settlement

Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director, PS122

Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company

Young Jean Lee, Writer & Director

Theresa Rebeck, Playwright

Claudia Rankine, Poet

Robert Lyons, Artistic Director, Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theater

David Herskovits, Artistic Director, Target Margin Theater

Maria Striar, Artistic Director, Clubbed Thumb

By Alexis

Alexis Clements is a writer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her creative work has been published, produced, and screened in venues across the US, Europe, and South America. Her feature-length documentary film, All We’ve Got, premiered in the fall of 2019 in New York City and has since screened around the US and internationally. Her play Unknown also premiered in October 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other plays of hers have been produced, published, and anthologized across the US and the UK over the past two decades. Her prose writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Bitch Magazine, American Theatre, The Brooklyn Rail, and Nature, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic. In addition to her writing and filmmaking, she is currently serving on the Executive Board of CLAGS, the Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a co-founder of Little Rainbows, a queer story time for children and their caretakers.

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