Bedlam Theatre

The Next Generation is hitting the road again, with a whole new all-girl lineup of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, slam poets and fancy scribblers. Inspired by the legendary Sister Spit Ramblin’ Roadshow of the 90s, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is hauling a vanload of killer underground female talent across the USA and into your town. The latest gang hits the road in April 2009!, carrying on the tradition of rowdy, raucous literary adventure. As they journey across the USA, they’re joined by a rag tag bunch of special guests – old Spit travelers of yore. Come and meet your new favorite performers!
WHO’S IN THE VAN?

BETH LISICK — author of the books Monkey Girl, Everybody Into the Pool, and Helping Me Help Myself. Nude performance artiste. Filmmaker. Comedienne. banana-for-hire. Beth will make you laugh so hard you get cramps as you hear about her self-help explorations with the likes of Sylvia Browne and Richard Simmons! ARIEL SCHRAG, comics artist who documented her queer youth in a series of graphic novels — one of which, Potential, is being made into a movie by Killer Films. Writer for the television show The L Word. Editor of graphic anthologies. Become filled with wonder as Ariel enacts her hilarious and poignant comics with the aid of modern technology and her fellow tourmates! SARA SEINBERG, poetic powerhouse. Creator of the multi-city K’Vetch Queer Open Mic. Veteran of the first Sister Spit tour ever. Artisitc Director of the past three Homo-A-Go-Go festivals. Photographer extraordinaire. Feel your breathe catch in your throat as Sara charms you with her words and enchants with her visual slideshow! KIRYA TRABER, slam poet superhero. Teacher of poetry to the youth. Organizer of performances exploring queerness, race and more. You will get all revved up with inspiration as Kirya leaps off the page and into your brain with pieces vivisecting language, identity, beauty, the body, and whatever else she feels like! BEN MCCOY, performance artist, novelist-in-progress, force of nature. Whose writings have been made into the short films My Hustler Boyfriend and The Face of God. Who created the one-person show Are You There God? It’s Me, Ben McCoy! As seen on The Sex Workers Art Show Tour. Ben will electrify you with transformative vignettes of gender, heartache and street glamour. RHIANNON ARGO, skater, future librarian, present novelist. Author of the queer tour-de-force The Creamsicle, which takes you into the lives of pill-popping, pole-dancing, heart-breaking, gender-fucking young queers as they try not to get evicted from their San Franciscan flophouses. Rhiannon will make you giggle and gasp with tales of squalor and splendor! Hosted by MICHELLE TEA, co-founder of Sister Spit and the muscle behind Sister Spit: The Next Generation. Author of a bunch of books, including the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, and the coming-of-age-on-drugs novel Rose of No Man’s Land.