CV
Photo by Misha Penton
Substack
Patty Krawec has tricked me into sharing a Substack with her called Highly Pertinent Digressions. On an irregular schedule (due mostly to irregular me), we take turns responding to each other’s essays, sometimes directly, sometime less so. Take a look and please notice the “subscribe” options.
a work in progress
I've never put together a proper CV. I've always felt too busy to build one, frankly. Here's where I'll start correcting that, but it'll grow gradually, as I come across (remember) things I've done.
education
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, Columbia College Chicago, 2003
M.Div., Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest, 1995
BFA in Theater (acting), Texas State University, 1987
honors
2009 NEA Fellow with the Institute for Dance Criticism at the American Dance Festival
fiction
“Through the Thin Place” in Synkroniciti, Vol. 3 No. 4, November 2021
“Mister Dust” in ImageOutWrite Volume 9, 2020
Cary and John, a novella, re-published by Wipf and Stock/Resource Publications, January 2020
“Roadside Trouble” in InDELLiprose, 2018
“The Disembodied Hand” in InDELLiprose, 2018
"A Love Like Dying Fish" in Corvus Review, Issue 8S'17, 2017
"Doc Shows His Stripes" in Welome to Honeycomb USA, 2017
"Physics for Five Year Olds" in Outer Voices Inner Lives, 2014
Cary and John, a novella, published by Parson's Porch, 2014
"The 25" in The Dying Goose Volume 1 Issue 2, 2013
“Scenes from the Retirement of Henry Spater” in The Blotter, January, 2010
"Skid. Mark. Dream." in MO: Writings from the River Volume 3 Issue 1, 2008
“Vernal Visitation” in Windhover, University of Mary Hardin Baylor, 2007
“Trailing” in NANO Fiction Volume 1, Issue 2, 2006
“Grandfather’s Photograph” in Charmed Lives, 2006
”Likeness” in Asphalt Vol. 1, Issue 1, Writing Center Community Organization, Columbia College Chicago, 2003
“Marla, Missing Roy” in Concho River Review, Spring, 2001
“Summer Pondering,” “Candor,” “House Blessing,” and “Dancing on My Own Grave” in Voice of Many Waters, edited by Kay Snodgrass, 2000
“Roach” in Dreams & Visions, Number 26, 1999
non-fiction
“An Evening’s Prayer” Soul by Southwest, April 22, 2022
“Gully and Bayou” The Dewdrop, January 18, 2022
“The Gay League: Queer Comics Fandom” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Blog, May 25, 2020
“Performance Art, Illness, and My Desert Prayer” in Illness, Resilience and Spirituality, edited by Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard
"Comic Book Pen-Pal" on Gay League, June 2017
'Lost in Houston" in Soul by Southwest. Issue 4, Spring 2017
"In Memory, In Silence" in Saint Katherine Review, Volume 3 Numbers 3 & 4.
"Batman and Other Reminders of Never Again" on The Longbox Project, October 12, 2013
"The Devil and the Dynamite Duo" on The Longbox Project, April 30, 2013
playwright
Trying, published in Synkroniciti Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 2019
Trying, produced by Playhouse 1960, February, 2017 (Preview)
February to August, produced by The Group Rep, summer 2016 (Review)
arts and entertainment writer
Jose Villalobos, Installation & Performance Artist The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide July-August 2022
“Adaptive Dance Moves Students of All Abilities and Ages” Local Profile June 16
“Take a Ride With Open Dance Project’s Bonny & Clyde” (Dance Review) The Dance Dish May 2022
“Artist Apparel” (profile of Zach Paugh, Costumer at Houston Ballet) OutSmart Magazine, May 2022
“From Hardship to Hope” (Dance Review) The Dance Dish, April 2022
“Koresh Dance Company Returns to the JCC” The Dance Dish, February 2022
Profile: Illustrator Sebastian Gomez de la Torre OutSmart Magazine, January 2022
“Superman and Robin Come Out” OutSmart Magazine, November 15, 2021
Daniel Heath Justice, Indigenous Gay Scholar, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, November-December 2021
“The Pilot Dance Project Premieres Lazarus in the Promised Land” OutSmart Magazine, November 2021
Two Gayest & Greatest 2021 profiles: Nikita Bowman & Tiffany Scales OutSmart Magazine, October 2021
Director Jamila Wignot (Ailey documentary) Interview OutSmart Magazine, August 4, 2021
“Gay Cherokee Nation Author Explores the Humble Raccoon” (Daniel Heath Justic) OutSmart Magazine, June 14, 2021
"Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company: 21 Years and Counting” Arts + Culture Texas, May 12, 2021
“Collaboration in the Time of Crisis” (Musiqa and Open Dance Project collaboration) The Dance Dish, February 2021
Review: The Lost City of Heracleon, The Gay League, September 2020
Review: Ashley Horn’s The Long Stay, The Dance Dish, October 2019
Review: Gentle/Men - John Beasant and Dancers, The Dance Dish, July 2019
“Shadow Dappled Relationship” (Core Dance and choreographer D. Patton White) in The Dance Dish, March 2019
“Relationships in the Shadows” (Core Dance and choreographer D. Patton White) in OutSmart Magazine, March 2019
“Experimental Action Performance Art Festival Comes to Houston” (Julia Claire Wallace) in OutSmart Magazine, February 2019
“High-Wire Dance Show Takes on Texas’ Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Choice Political Circus” (6 Degrees Dance/Toni Leago Valle) in Outsmart Magazine, September, 2018
"Dancing Edgar Allan Poe" (dance preview) on The DanceDish February 2018
"Fluid Foremother" (interview with Suzanne Vega on her play, Lover, Beloved) in OutSmart Magazine, February, 2018
Peridance Headlines Dance Month at Post-Harvey JCC on The DanceDish January 2018
Review for Requiem by Jennifer Mabus on The DanceDish August 2017
Review for Once Upon a Time by jhon r. stronks on The DanceDish May 2017
Review for DEEP: Seaspace by Karen Stokes Dance on The DanceDish October 2016
“Keeing it Together Without the Love: Toni Tennille Talks her New Memoir” in OutSmart Magazine May 2016
Review for Tonal Impact by NobleMotion Dance and Musiqa on The DanceDish May 2015
“Moving Motion” (review for Wu Tsang with boychild at DiverseWorks) in Arts + Culture Texas April 2014
Preview for Dashavatar by Samskriti on The DanceDish March 2014
"Dancing Illusions" (Pilobolus Dance Theater) in Arts + Culture Texas, December 2013/January 2014
"Art for Art's Sake", (Hope Stone Kids) in Dance Studio Life, November, 2013
Review of Teresa Chapman's Shifting Spaces, Dance Source Houston, October 24, 2013
"A Body of Collaborative Work," Interview with Bill T. Jones, OutSmart Magazine, September 1, 2013
"SHSU Loses Beloved Dance Teacher" in OutSmart Magazine, March 1, 2013
Review for They Who Sound with Leslie Scates and Nicole Bindler, Dance Source Houston February 2, 2013
“Dancing Illusions: Pilobolus Tours Texas” in Arts + Culture Texas December 2013
“Transposing to the Key of Queer” in OutSmart Magazine October 2012
“The Three Beginnings of a Texas Poet Laureate” (David M. Parsons) in Arts + Culture Texas June 2012
“Interment Camps and Other Musical Ideas” (George Takei part 2) in OutSmart Magazine June 2012
“Hologramps to the Next Generation” (George Takei part 1) in OutSmart Magazine May 2012
“The Little Dog Laughs” (Brazos Bookstore) in Arts + Culture Texas March 2012
“The Camera Tells no Lies - Except When it Does” in Tanz & WahnSinn (Jahrbuch Tanzforschung 21) edited by Johannes Birringer and Josephine Fenger, 2011
“Writing to See in the Dark” (Author Manuel Muñoz), in OutSmart Magazine, April 1, 2011
“How a Book Club Reading Steinbeck Begat a Dance” (Winifred Haun & Dancers) in Flavorwire, October 2009
“NobleMotion Dance at Dance Gallery” (Andy and Dionne Noble) in Flavorwire, September 2009
”Talking to Author Tom Edwards” in OutSmart Magazine, June 1, 2009
religion writer
“Loving Leadership” (profile of Pastor Mak Kneebone) OutSmart Magazine, June 2022
“Kindred Celebrates 100 Years in Montrose” OutSmart Magazine, April 2022
“Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church Celebrates 50 Years” OutSmart Magazine, March 2022
“A Queer-Affirming Spiritual Home for Houston Students” in Outsmart Magazine February 2022
“Restarting at Zero: Introducing the Pastor at Kindred Montrose” in OutSmart Magazine March 2016
"On Liberty, Unity, and Keeping His Cool", Interview with Bishop Gene Robinson, OutSmart Magazine, September 1, 2013
"Witnessing and Blessing" in OutSmart Magazine, April 1, 2013
“We Need More Myster!” Interview with Candace Chellew in The Gay & Lesbian Reivew Worldwide, November-December 2010
“Faith, Hope, and Candace” Interview with Candace Chellew in OutSmart Magazine, November, 2008
comics writer
“Mr. Klinka’s Time Machine” (Dunc and Loo) in Crackajack Comics #2, InDELLible Comics, April, 2021
“Final Shopping Day Eve” (Dunc and Loo) in All-New Popular Comics #5, InDELLible Comics, February, 2021
"Adults" in Voices Against Bullying #1, published by Sword and Labrys Productions
theater-actor
Pantalone/Gepetto, Pinocchio Commedia, directed by Jonathan Gonzalez, The Company Onstage, March 14
The Merry Mortality Mystery Show, written and performed by Neil Ellis Orts, The Houston Fringe Festival, October 29, 2019
Exeter, Henry V, directed by Jonathan Gonzalez, The Company OnStage June 14-July 6, 2019
Alfred the Saxon/Oswald the Unready, The Adventures of Robin Hood, directed by Karla Brandau, The Company OnStage June 16 - July 15 2017
Pa Joad, The Grapes of Wrath, directed by Rebecca Bernstein, Houston Theatre Company (Review) July, 2016
Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing, irected by Kate Pogue, O'Kane Theater, University of Houston-Downtown, October 25 - November 2, 2013
various roles in Bodily Function Follies, written, directed, and choreographed by Margo Stutts Toombs at FronteraFest, Austin, TX January 23, 2013
theater-director
The Quality of Life by Jane Anderson, The Company OnStage, March 16 - April 7, 2018
Poe! Poe! Poe! by Kathryn Schultz Mille, The Company OnStage, October 21 - Novemeber 4, 2017
performance artist
Instagram performances, as part of the #adventword visual calendar annual project, December 2019
Have a Snack on Me, MERGE showcase, Experimental Action 2019, February 21, 2019
Instagram performances, as part of the #adventword visual calendar annual project, December 2018
broken/heart/ache at Houston Fringe Festival, September 9, 2018
Banana Waiter in Bananas by Margo Stutts Toombs at Houston Fringe Festival, September 9, 2018
Instagram performances, 3-part prayer series, July 28-August 20
Instagram performances, as part of the #adventword visual calendar annual project, December 2017
Chorus, Threshold, a site specific new music work, conceived and directed by Misha Penton
Hearts on Fire/Written in Ash, Performance Art Night, Notsuoh, December, 2016
Even So, Performance Art Night, Notsuoh, November 2015
Flouring/Flowering, part of Submission, an evening of durational performances produced by Continuum, Continuum Headquarters, September 6, 2013
Wringing Out Light: Poems & Prayers at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Houston, TX under the Breath & Bone/Orts Performance banner, three performances, July 19-21.
"Coloring the Line", a durational performance at The Hilary and Nikki Show, Hardy & Nance Street Studios, Houston, TX May 17, 2013
ShadowPlace, a performance installation at the Photobooth on Montrose, under the Breath & Bone/Orts Performance banner. Three performances: March 3, 10, and 17, 2013
Tell Me Where It Hurts, a durational, interactive performance at Avant Garden, Houston, TX, part of Continuum Performance Art residency March 1, 2013
Watch How You Watch (or what do you see when you see yourself seeing), a durational performance at Avant Garden, Houston, TX, part of Continuum Performance Art residency January 18, 2013
dance
The Flower Garden of Ignatius Beltran, choreographed by Adam Castaneda, presented at Mind the Gap 15.0, produced by Dance Source Houston, February 18, 2020
film/video performer
Breath and Bone, dance for film, directed and edited by Misha Penton, (solo performer) premiered at the EnCore Dance on Film Festival, Decature, GA, May 24, 2019
Threshold: a new music video, written and directed by Misha Penton, premiered at The Bechdel Film Festival, February 16, 2018
Sidewalk Psychic, A short film written and Directed by Kapil Nair and Margo Stutts Toombs, debuted on YouTube September 9, 2013