Performance
I perform under the name, The Plastic Elastic Kitty, or just Kitty for short. I contort, eat fire, dance out of a fat suit, lay on a bed of nails and deliver monologues to the audience. I have performed with punk bands, sideshows, burlesque shows and dancers. I enjoy working humor and feminist ideas into my performance and I love to twist peoples perception on the limitations of the body.
I’ve performed with the Industrial Strength SideShow, The Zoo Crew, Dr. Sketchy’s Philadelphia and in a solo performance at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Recently, I’ve been performing with the Hellcat Girls in Philadelphia. To book the Hellcat Girls for an event, please visit their website at www.hellcatgirls.com.
To book me for a performance, please e-mail me at jrblackwell at gmail dot com. When you e-mail me, please let me know what type of performance you are looking for and the venue or group you are representing. Depending on your event needs, I will be happy to give you a quote.
(Photo courtesy of Prof. Jas Mundie www.flickr.com/photos/jgmundie/)
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About
J.R. Blackwell is a writer, photographer and performance artist.
Her essay “Evidence of a Baker” was published in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in March 2006.
Her stories have been published by Escape Pod Magazine, Aoife’s Kiss, Kaleidotrope, Bewildering Stories, Static Movement Magazine, EMG Magazine, HeavyGlow Magazine and in the first Podiobook anthology “Voices: New Media Fiction”.
She is one of the founding members of 365tomorrows.com which produces a new piece of science fiction daily.
J.R. has produced the covers to the Anthology “Voices: New Media Fiction” and the novels “Playing for Keeps”, “The Case of the Singing Sword” and “The Case of the Pitchers Pendant”.
Her photography has been featured in SubLit Magazine and Flames Rising Magazine.
J.R. holds a Masters of Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, artist Jared Axelrod.
Artists On J.R. Blackwell:
“JR Blackwell is mentioned often when it comes to naming influences. She is brought up quite a bit when we talk of inspirations. I still think it strange that she gets surprised when people recognize her talent. When people want to use her for that talent; whether it be her writing, or her photography, which are both incredible. But it’s that very thing fact about her – how humble she is – that makes me love her all the time. How can a woman like her not realize how absolutely wonderful she is?” -Katie West, Photographer
“If you want to know anything about J.R. Blackwell then I want you to know that she’s nothing if not imaginative. Her photos are experiments with her eyes and ours. We get to see the things we don’t bother to put together when she gets to work. She’s emotion in the most inventive way you can be in everyday life. She’s every afternoon of our lives if we just bothered to take everything in.” -Jack Scoresby, Photographer
” 365Tomorrows was an ideal reaction to sf publishing in new media, the concept of flash fiction and the way the medium works. 100-word bursts of speculative fiction, daily. JR Blackwell’s gotten herself a career out of it. And note how 365 K kept producing and fulfilled its mandate even as sf sites and sf print magazines died on either side of it.” -Warren Ellis, Author
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