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(The Live Show!)

special guest narrators

In addition to an 11-piece orchestra, three Foley Artists, and a Castrato, the live version of Brand upon the Brain includes an Interlocutor, or Narrator, who acts almost as another instrument in the sound mix. We have been very fortunate in finding sparkling, independent voices to fill this role.

Tunde Adebimpe

Tunde Adebimpe

Tunde Adebimpe is an actor, director and musician best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band "TV on the Radio". Tunde Adebimpe on Myspace >>

Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson

Called "America's multi-mediatrix" by Wired magazine and a "modern renaissance artist and agent provocateur" by Philadelphia Daily News, Laurie Anderson is a performance artist as well as musician, poet, writer, and visual artist, and altogether one of the most influential American artists of the last few decades.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery

Perhaps America's greatest living poet, John Ashbery has won all three major American poetry prizes (the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as a MacArthur (genius grant). He was Poet Laureate of NY State from 2001 – 2003.

Justin Bond

Justin Bond

Justin Bond is a celebrated queer iconic performer out of New York City. He is most well known as one of his drag incarnations, Kiki, an aging, bitter chanteuse known for her raucous and edgy medleys of unusual cover songs. She performs with her piano-playing sidekick, Herb, as Kiki and Herb. Justin also performs as himself, with his backup band, the Freudian Slippers. Bond also appears, playing himself, in the film Shortbus. Justin Bond on Myspace >>

Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover is both a big-name Hollywood actor (Willard, Back to the Future, River's Edge) and a cutting edge independent filmmaker, author, and musician. His second feature as a director, It is fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Festival and will come to theaters this fall. Crispin Glover's website >>

Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events (under the pen name of Lemony Snicket), a collection of books for children, and three books for adults: Basic Eight (based on a true story of a teenaged girl who commits murder), Watch Your Mouth (a melodramatic satire of family life), and Adverbs. He also wrote the screenplay for the films A Series of Unfortunate Events, Kill The Poor, and Rick. Also an accordian player, Daniel Handler has collaborated musically with The Magnetic Fields. Saturday, 6/9 @ 7:30pm

Edward Hibbert

Edward Hibbert

Edward Hibbert is perhaps best known for his recurring role on Frasier as Gil Chesterton, KACL's pompous, effete restaurant critic. He is currently appearing on Broadway in the musical Curtains.

Anne Jackson

Anne Jackson

Trained at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actor's Studio, Anne Jackson has been a stage actress since 1944 and a film performer since 1950. Her theatre credits include Summer and Smoke, Arms and the Man, Luv, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and Lost in Yonkers. She was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award for her work in Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night. Jackson's screen credits include The Tiger Makes Out, The Secret Life of an American Wife, How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life), Lovers and Other Strangers, Dirty Dingus Magee, and The Shining.

Udo Kier

Udo Kier is known for his piercing blue eyes, and is a staple of both art house films & gore fests. His collaborations with Lars Von Trier in such films as The Kingdom and Breaking the Waves are especially acclaimed. Udo has worked with many brilliant directors over a diverse career, including Quentin Tarantino, Paul Morrissey, Charles Matton, Dario Argento, Gus Van Sant, and Walerian Borowczyk.

Joie Lee

Joie Lee

Joie Lee is a distinctive presence both on screen (in such quintessential NY films as Do the Right Thing and Coffee and Cigarettes and off—her screenplay for Spike Lee's Crooklyn helped make that one of the great films about childhood.

Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Singer/Songwriter Lou Reed's work with the seminal rock band Velvet Underground, and his subsequent solo efforts, make up one of the great songbooks in the history of popular music. Lou Reed's website >>

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini is an actress, author, and filmmaker whose past collaborations with Guy Maddin include The Saddest Music in the World and My Dad is 100 Years Old.

Peter Scarlet

Peter Scarlet

Peter Scarlet is a cineaste and bon vivant. His other job is Executive Directing the Tribeca Film Festival. Before his appointment in New York, Mr. Scarlet served in Paris as Director General of the Cinémathèque Française, the first time a non-French citizen had occupied that prestigious post. Prior to that, Mr. Scarlet served for 19 years (1983-2001) as Artistic Director of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Barbara Steele

Barbara Steele is known as the most beautiful star of the greatest horror master- piece of Italian film La Maschera del Demonia (1960) (aka “Black Sunday”), She is much loved by her fans for her talent, intelligence, and a dark, mysterious beauty that is unique: her face epitomizes either sweet innocence, or malign evil! Friday, 6/8 @ 7:30pm; Monday 6/1 @ 7:30pm

Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach

Eli Wallach is one of our finest actors. He made his debut on Broadway in 1945, and in 1951 he won a Tony for his work in Tennessee Willams' The Rose Tatoo. His many memorable Hollywood films include Baby Doll, The Magnificent Seven, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, and scores more.

Mike Watt

Mike Watt was the “man in the van, with the bass in his hand” for the seminal punk band the Minutemen, who were the subject of the documentary We Jam Econo. His other projects have included Firehose, Dos, the Secondmen, the Missingmen, Banyan, & iggy & the stooges to name a few. He lives in San Pe- dro, California.