Hosted by Willie the Genius
[Virtual]
This event will feature a music performance featuring WILLIE the GENIUS and their band “Dat Damn Band aka The Melanin Orchestra” performing songs from their upcoming EP “Hot Sauce & Honey”.
Tentative Run of Show:
6:00 pm - Crew Call Time & set up
7:00 pm - Talent Call Time
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm : Sound Check
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm : Opening Act
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm : WILLIE the GENIUS Performance
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm : tear down & load out
ARTIST BIO
WILLIE the GENIUS is an unapologetic Afro-Queer performing artist and community resource advocate from Houston, Texas currently residing in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY who creates radical revolutionary art. WILLIE served as a member of the 2021 Transjustice Community School cohort of the Audre Lorde Project. As an artist-in-resident at the People’s Theatre Project, WILLIE the GENIUS is currently producing, writing, and starring in their solo theatre and late-night talk show, “WILLIE GETS NAKED!” and planning an off-Broadway debut Fall 2022 as well as in pre-production of their scripted comedy-drama series “Will of Fortune”.