Alexander Lambie
Alexander Lambie (he/him) is an artist from Intervale Avenue in the Bronx whose work is primarily focused on drawing attention to marginalized people and new play development. He is a member of Middle Voice Theater Company, an alumnus of Atlantic Acting School as well as The MCC Youth Company. He is also known as Gina Cakestand, a drag persona living in the kitchen on the intersection of anime and the black experience. Works include: Get Cooking With Gina (BAAD), Gina’s Holiday Lasagna (BAAD), The Enclave, and dir. Victor Cervantes (Rattlestick), Orpheus, and the Berkshires, dir. Laura Savia, Accidents Waiting to Happen, dir. Padric Lilis (Stable Cable) and The Parlour, dir. Daniella Heart.
During his time in residence at Hi-ARTS, Alexander will continue the development of a one-person show performed through his drag persona Gina Cakestand. So Wittiness!, Gina's trial of the soul as she struggles (elegantly, stylishly, lithely, and majestically) to discover not who she is, but why she would ever give in to the temptation to be anything BUT who she is. Also… why is everybody eating sweet potato pie?
“I’m interested in the ways in which gender expression and roles interact with survival. The biggest heartbreaks I have known have been caused by seeing men I grew up with get squashed by the ideology of the “masculine male” and become someone that I never expected them to be happy with. With all the alternative expressions of manhood embraced in pop culture, there is still an insidious adherence to the stoic, emotionally inept, macho bro in my everyday networks. I’m dedicated to making art that attempts to creatively address that disconnect between the way we culturally want to understand expressions of manhood and what we have internalized to expect from masculine-presenting people.”
— Alexander Lambie
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