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Desiree BurchDesiree Burch is a writer, comedian, actress and New York NeoFuturist, and host of the Smut Reading and Performance series, Monday nights at Galapagos Artspace. Her solo work has culminated in full-length solo pieces Sit-Down, Careless, Greatest Hits and 52 Man Pickup, with performances at Ars Nova, CenterStage NY, Dixon Place (HOT! Festival 2005), the Marquee, Manhattan Theatre Source, P.S. 122 and in Seattle's Mae West Fest. Her stand-up comedy has been featured at Carolines, Gotham Comedy Club, NY Improv, New York Comedy Club, the Producer's Club, Joe's Pub, in the 2005 New York City Underground Comedy Festival and the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale University. Favorite acting experiences include "Lu" in Rip Me Open (co-written with OBIE Award-winning playwright, Kyle Jarrow, comedian and actor Michael Cyril Creighton and director Brian Mullin), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Miriam), Othello (Emelia), Romeo & Juliet (Nurse), An Ideal Husband (Mabel), The Marriage of Bette & Boo (Soot), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (Lady in Red), and Steel Magnolias (Ouiser). She has worked with Gorilla Rep, Playwrights Theater of New York, Moving Theater, Afrikan Women's Repertory, Columbia University School of Theater, NYU's E.T.W. and the 24-Hour Plays.
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