Boys Don't Fight

Chris Giarmo is an artist and designer living in New Orleans, Louisiana, working in the mediums of music, typography, and drag, amongst others. As a performer, he was most recently seen as a dancer and vocalist in David Byrne’s American Utopia (on a world tour, Broadway, and in the feature film directed by Spike Lee), in Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s epic queer rock opera Bark Of Millions at the BAM Harvey and the Sydney Opera House, as well as numerous pieces created by Annie-B Parson/Big Dance Theater. He’s composed music for and sound designed theatrical productions by the likes of Tina Satter/Half Straddle, Young Jean-Lee, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Mac Wellman, Trish Harnetiaux, Ariel Stess, Jess Barbagallo, and Sibyl Kempson, with whom he recently collaborated by performing in and sonically staging the radio play version of her play The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. He’s also the creator of anti-consumerist drag queen and YouTube beauty guru Kimberly Clark. Her recent How to Stop Shopping in Five Easy Steps is a six-part video series describing her practical and holistic methodology to combat the current trend of rampant over-consumption.

Jess Barbagallo is a theater artist, teacher, and writer based in New York City. His work has been presented at Dixon Place, La MaMa, BAX, New Ohio Theater, the Poetry Project, Performance Space New York, Incubator Arts Project, New York University, The Brick, Abrons Arts Center, The Park Avenue Armory (studio presentation: Prelude 2023), and Luv Story Bar. Directing credits include Pony (Portland Theater Festival), It’s That Time of the Month (Soho Rep.), and The Last Podcast on Earth (The Tank). He has published writing in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, them, Movement Research Journal, The Cincinnati Review, 53rd State Press, and Spectrum Literary Journal. He has acted in many things, most recently Misha Brooks’ adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone (The Barn at Lee). With producer/performer John Hoobyar, he co-curated Prelude 2024, an experimental theater festival, at the Martin E. Segal Center of the CUNY Graduate Center. He was recently awarded a 2025 New York State Council on the Arts grant to continue development of his short story collection Cherry and The Others.

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