Penny Arcade with Nick Bennett

Penny Arcade is an internationally respected performance artist, writer, poet and experimental theater maker known for her magnetic stage presence, her take-no-prisoners wit, and her content rich plays and one liners. She is the author of ten scripted performance plays and hundreds of performance art pieces. Her work has always focused on the other and the outsider, giving voice to those marginalized by society. Her willingness to speak truth to power at the expense of career concerns has made her an international icon of artistic resistance. Her decades-long focus on the creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance and her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original in American theatre and performance.

Writer Nick Bennett was the Special Projects Editor of the Brooklyn Rail. As Curatorial Assistant at the Rail, he helped to organize the ongoing exhibition Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, which has been exhibited at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Colby Museum in Waterville, ME (2019), and Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ (2017).