Are We There Yet?
Would you believe I was almost homecoming
queen
football field, fluorescent
light
Miss Congeniality on one
side
Miss Best Dressed on the
other
Blank stares, nervous
laughter?/address>
I gotta tell you some
things
horrifying nightmare of this
night.
excerpt from Underground
Transit
Until about three months ago, I would speak these
opening lines of my first solo performance art effort,
Underground
Transit, and most
audience members would smile at the visual gag of the
introduction: a clearly queer, but obviously female actor standing
before them. They would come along for the ride. Nearly everyone
could believe the queer reality of that iconic high school moment as
I describe it in the performance; no matter how masculine I
appeared, even while sporting a skirt and tiny? at the top of the
show, my woman's voice reassured anyone watching of the probable
truth of my autobiographical story. Then, my voice changed. (pgs. 57-58)
Scott Turner
Schofield began his performance art career working as a research
assistant to Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana at New York City's
WOW Cafe in 2000. Now a full?ime performance artist, educator, and
producer, he tours his acclaimed one-trannie shows Underground
Transit, Debutante Balls, and Becoming a Man in
127 Easy Steps around the world. He has only been censored once,
but boy as that a party! Schofield has been honored with several
ommissions for new work and is the youngest recipient of a Tanne
Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Art.
He currently lives in Atlanta and will always call the South
home.
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