La JohnJoseph
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A perverted polymath of the highest order, La JohnJoseph is an
international performer, playwright, librettist, journalist, actress,
activist and novelist. An ex-model, fallen Catholic and protege of the
legendary Penny Arcade, he has presented readings and performances
across Europe and America, at venues as diverse as The Royal Opera
House (London), the Spiegeltent (New York), the San Francisco MoMA,
The Schwules Museum (Berlin) and Bios (Athens).

Her face has graced the covers of Siegessaule, Boyz, and Dance Theatre
Journal, the pages of The New Yorker, Indie, POP, and MixMag, as well
as The New York Times online and Vogue.com. His writing has appeared in Time Out, Out There, ITT, Next, Bent, AXM, the ‘zines Birdsong, Fat Zine, and P.S. I LOVE YOU.

Educated at a Catholic high school in Liverpool, earning his BA in
American Studies between London and California, and receiving an MA in Performance Design and Practice from Central ST. Martins. he has lead classes on visual culture and performance at the University of
California Berkeley, and Bard College, New York.

She is currently editing his debut novel Everything Must Go and
presenting his autobiorgaphcal retrospectacle performance "Boy in a
Dress" at Stand 3 as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He keeps a
scrapbook of images and fragments of new texts at
www.boyfriendrobotique.blogspot.com

Blog Entries by La JohnJoseph

Virtual Realities Film Week, Kino Central, Berlin

(0) Comments | Posted 7 January 2013 | (12:45)

Last week in Mitte, Berlin, hidden away from the detritus of the city's infamous nightlife, in a back courtyard, in a tiny cinema, mixed- media artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo presented her ambitious and ambiguous film festival, Virtual Realities. For five nights the cinema was filled with the city's collectors,...

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Finally, Finale

(0) Comments | Posted 31 August 2012 | (17:17)

The final curtain has been faced, the show has gone on, darkness has descended on that little corner of the universe where, for the past four weeks, we have cast our spell. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has taken to her divan and closed her eyes in a heavy...

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Psychedelic Groundhog Day

(0) Comments | Posted 18 August 2012 | (01:00)

There comes a time in any artistic process when the rules of time no longer apply, when everything seems to be taking twice as long as it should, or wraps up in half the time expected. Hours and days lose their meaning, minutes and weeks slip and slide over each...

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I am La JohnJoseph, Your Voyeuristic Narrator of Edinburgh

(0) Comments | Posted 10 August 2012 | (01:00)

Bring your eye back dear, to the keyhole, to your private peep show onto the demented and lascivious happenings at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I am La JohnJoseph, your voyeuristic narrator on this journey, and I am here to open your eyes.

Having arrived in Edinburgh with our...

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: The Swimming Pool of Success

(0) Comments | Posted 8 August 2012 | (01:00)

Welcome back to the swimming pool of success, darling, splash about with me, as we enter week two of the Edinburgh festival build up. No dive bombing please, and do remember to keep to the appropriate lanes. This week, we swam off, out of the shallow rehearsal end...

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Edinburgh Festival - Making It Happen

(2) Comments | Posted 30 July 2012 | (01:00)

The great thing about the Edinburgh Festival is that it lays out a great glorious buffet table of theatrical work for the edible delectation of the general public. It's the all-you-can-eat of performance, a seemingly boundless cornucopia of goodies to sample. But did you ever wonder how these...

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