Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Alexander Scelso AKA Sitanya Face.
TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn.
TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s ICARE Initiative. ICARE stands for Increasing Community Awareness through Relevant Education. ICARE Programs are generously funded by The Greater Pike Community Foundation.
Alexander Scelso First-Person Bio:
My name is Alexander Scelso, and I am a multi-hyphenate artist. I am an actor, published poetry writer and performer, a drag queen in NYC, and a teaching artist for special needs and regular education children grades 1 thru 5. I’m a proud Brooklyn born and raised queer, Latine, Italian spiced Jew. My mission as an artist has always been to connect with audiences in a way where they can simultaneously escape and be transported into something to free their spirit and bring great joy, but also allow their present emotions to wash over them and feel as if they have grown from the theatrical experience. The hope is that they have learned about a new part of themselves. We are not meant to be and do only one thing in our lifetimes. We are multi-talented and multi-faceted humans with different sides to us that create one whole, so why not explore all those things. Through my art, I hope people understand that they are more than capable of doing and practicing so many things, free to travel more than one stream-lined road in their lives. You never know where you’ll end up! Drag came into my life after a lot of consideration in my early 20s, but it took the ending of an engagement to free that drag persona and reveal her to the world. Alex took pain and turned it into art and subverted the idea that gender is simply a binary and that is how we live our every day. Vulnerability showed a way for Sitanya Face (yes the pun is what you think) to connect with audiences. Alex could be the actor and poetry writer, which has been in practice since age 4, while Sitanya could be the drag poetess that encourages the audience to foster the growth of their most authentic, vulnerable and open selves. Art can be healing, especially if it can be communicated in the most truthful of ways while having fun in the process. If we examine what makes us unique and we can be proud of however we choose to identify, we can grow closer as a community. My art is for everyone, but especially those queer humans who never quite fit into one box. I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to be confined to any box.
The Unicorn That Discovered Self-Love:
Evolved synopsis for The Unicorn That Discovered Self-Love: The Unicorn That Discovered Self-Love is a semi-autobiographical poetry play about a drag artist who has endured a broken engagement. Their ex-fiancé is getting married to someone else very soon after the crumbling of this ongoing roller coaster of a long-term relationship. So, in hopes of seeking much denied closure, the drag artist comes to the wedding for vengeance, but ends up discovering more about themselves instead. It explores the stages of grief and deeper understanding of identity and accountability in mourning that relationship, as well as the stripping away of wallowing in victimhood. The audience is essentially the menagerie of wedding guests, where the story is told through stand-up comedy style monologues, original poetry, and lipsyncing (maybe live singing this time around). It evolved from a solo show as myself, into a fleshed out story with the art of drag at the forefront. This poetry play has been performed at Don’t Tell Mama in 2021, Pangea NYC and The Green Room 42 in 2022, summer and winter respectively.
Next production is Thursday June 13th, 2024 at 930pm at The Green Room 42.
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