Saturday, May 30, 2009 * Brooklyn, NY
Gayety! A Queer Comedy Cabaret!
DOORS at 9:20PM / SHOW at 9:50PM* $7 (Cheap like Kelli!)
Re/Dress: 109 Boerum Place
Bevin Branlandingham Femmecees
Kelli Dunham does stand up and maybe strips
And Gayety Guests:
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Joel Derfner!
May’s theme: Super sexy! Because nothing is sexier than adding “super” to the beginning. As always, we encourage the audience to get dressed up, too!! (or dressed down…)

Accessible, interesting, and compelling comedy is just what the doctor ordered!

About our performers:

Rachel Kramer Bussel –Senior Editor at Penthouse Variations, and a Contributing Editor to Penthouse. Rachel has edited or co-edited 20 anthologies, including Naughty Spanking Stories from A to Z 1 and 2, Sex and Candy, He’s on Top, She’s on Top. She has written about sex for the Village Voice, Curve, On Out Backs and come to think about it, just about everywhere.

Joel Derfner, the adorable author of the award winning Gay Haiku and Swish: My Quest to Become the Queerest Person Ever. The last time Joel and Kelli performed at the same show, they both ended up naked. No promises, but we’re just saying.

And of course Gayety regulars:

Kelli Dunham, everyone’s favorite boidyke comic, who once taught a nun to masturbate

Bevin Branlandingham, producer of Femme-Cast and Former Titleholder, Queen of Drunken Texting

Saturday, March 28, 2009 * Brooklyn, NY
Gayety! A Queer Comedy Cabaret!
9:30 PM * $7 (Cheap like Kelli!)
Re/Dress: 109 Boerum Place
Bevin Branlandingham Femmecees & Performs w/
Kelli Dunham
And Gayety Guests:
Loren K!
Dan Fishback!
March’s theme: Anchor’s Away! Okay, so mostly we’re wearing sailor outfits. We encourage the audience to get dressed up, too!!

Gayety Queer Comedy Cabaret had its triumphant return the last Saturday of each month in February–it was amazing.

Accessible, interesting, and compelling comedy is just what the doctor ordered!

Saturday, February 28, 2009 * Brooklyn, NY
Gayety! A Queer Comedy Cabaret!
9:30 PM * $5 (Recession Special)
Re/Dress: 109 Boerum Place
Bevin Branlandingham Femmecees & Performs w/
Kelli Dunham
And Gayety Guests:
Bryn Kelly
Megan Beene
NEDRA JOHNSON!
February’s theme: Halfway to Michfest! Love it or hate it, Fest is part of dyke culture and we’ve all got something to say about it! Bryn Kelly presents a comic retelling of her years at Camp Trans & first time at Michfest in 2008.

Gayety Queer Comedy Cabaret has its triumphant return the last Saturday of each month.

Accessible, interesting, and compelling comedy is just what the doctor ordered!

So what’s the backstory of this wacky comedy cabaret?

Gayety is a queer humor collective. Well maybe not a queer humor collective, since there’s only three  of us here in New York at the moment. Maybe “a couple of friends that also happen to be queer/performance artists/comics and so put on shows that are low-key but high entertainment in comfortable, accessible venues and maybe sometimes there are snacks.”

Gayety started in Bevin’s one bedroom (but nevertheless filled with animals. It’s truly like the cantina bar in Star Wars) apartment in West Philly. It was merely a super fun writing group then. With the helping of founding member R.M. Gayety became a zine, a website and a performance series. After experimenting with a few different venues, Gayety (Gayety the performance series that is) began filling Philadelphia’s Joe Coffee with our strange, hysterically funny and thought provoking little show which brought together funny queers of all performance persuasions. And trivia. Always trivia, with mostly awesome prizes unless Kelli went unsupervised to the dollar store and brought back canned sardines and spam. [Or a partially used roll of duct tape. That happened once, too.]

In 2006, Kelli moved to Portland for a year and produced a Gayety there, which even include a token straightgirl comic (they made her wear a rainbow flag to perform) and outgrew its venue the very first night. In March 2007, Kelli moved back to the east coast, and Kelli and Bevin were reunited (it kind of looked like Miss Piggy and Kermit in the meadow scene in the first Muppet Movie) and decided New York needed Gayety too. We had two successful shows at the LGBT Center in late 2007 and early 2008 and were in the continual NYC connundrum of trying to find comfortable, accessible venues that were cheap enough that we could keep the door price low.

So here we are in 200 and fine, in a brand new amazing venue (Re/Dress–New York City’s only plus size vintage and resale boutique), ready to see if Brooklyn will love Gayety as much as Philadelphia, Portland and Manhattan.

BEVIN BRANLANDINGHAM

Bevin is the Host and Producer of FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life.  She is a flamboyant femmecee, queer high femme, drag king, burlesque and comedy performer. She co-produces and hosts Gayety, a Queer Comedy Cabaret based in New York City. She is a member of NOLOSE, Fat and Queer NYC and Volunteer coordinator for Jersey City Pride.  In 2008 Bevin received a Commendation from the Mayor of Jersey City for her work with the LGBT community.  She was a founding member and producer of the Royal Renegades of Philadelphia, a drag troupe that performed throughout the US and Canada.  Her writing has been featured in the Gender Matters newsletter, Kingdom Magazine, the Gender Bent Zine and many more.  She presented and performed at the 2008 Femme Conference and has presented and performed at several of the International Drag KingCommunity Extravaganzas since 2002.  Her interests include travel, knitting, cupcakes, music, her shih tzu and community building. She blogs at QueerFatFemme.com, The Femme’s Guide to Absolutely Everything and performs throughout North America.

KELLI DUNHAM

Kelli Dunham ( www.kellidunham.com) is a Fresh Fruit award-winning queer comic and blogger based in New York who is always traveling everywhere and never quite certain where she’s left her underwear. She has two comedy CDs to her credit: “I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy” and “Almost Pretty” and is the author of four published books of light hearted nonfiction and a frequent contributor to humorous anthologies. She was featured on Showtime’s Penn and Teller Bullshit and once taught a nun to masturbate.