ARTIST STATEMENT
"Star Stone is a fearless
performer who connects with her audience and commands the stage. Simply put, she is a PRESENCE'”
Theatre Unleashed
My work exists in the intersection of education and entertainment, using the theater as a classroom and the audience left with a desire for self inquiry or to engage in public discourse.
I merge the disciplines of stand up comedy, musical satire, poetry, and character work to draw social and political commentary. Using comedy as the primary vehicle to address urgent issues, I am currently exploring the ethics of technology, the wellness industry, reproductive justice, and gender equality. I am interested in interrogating our usage of social media and its effect on our mental health. And, I aim to put survivor's voices and perspectives first in all my work and create from this lens and viewpoint.
As an advocate for survivor's of gender-based violence, I investigate internalized misogyny and the perpetuation of rape culture and how it manifests in our culture.
My work as an artist shares the humanity in the unreasonable, the gross, the unthinkable, and the wild, because life exists in each of these things.
May we find the “Lila”- the divine play of it all.
-Star Stone
Bio
Star Stone is a V-day Foundation grant award recipient, poet, actress, writer, and comedienne. Star is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre and a graduate of UCB LA's Improv school. In 2018, Star wrote, produced, and starred in #MeToo, a one-woman show. #MeToo, a one-woman show received its premiere at SOLOFEST and went onto the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Second City Hollywood, United Solo, Theatre@41, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023(recipient of the Spark Award). Star has partnered with the NYC Mayor's Office to ENDGBV and was the host of VOICES: Survivor’s Speak- an evening of healing and transforming through the arts in collaboration with ArtTransforms. In 2023, Star presented at The Beyond the Violence: Stop Domestic Violence Conference and is a member of RAINN's Speaker's Bureau. Star is a former member of the Oakland Slam Poetry Team and has performed at The NYC Poetry Festival at Governor's Island, The New York Theater Workshop, La Mama Galleria, Queensfest at the Bootleg Theater, among many others. Her work has been published in SageWoman Magazine and is featured in Love Letters to the 305 by IndieEarth Publishing. Star is a graduate of Community Word Project's TAP program, a NYC based social justice oriented program for Teaching Artists. Star has worked with The Girl Gaze Program, supporting teenage girls to develop stories for film, as well as taught a variety of programs within the NYC public school system.
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