December 2021 RAW Artists
RAW Presents James Andrew Wilson on 12/4/21
James is a performance artist and writer based in Oakland, California. They trained as a physical theatre performer at the Jacques Lecoq school and as a playwright at SF State. They also hold a doctorate in performance studies from the University of Warwick. They have performed in the UK, Europe, Canada, and here in California. Current interests include overly intimate solo performance, family history archives, and drag. They also teach English at a community college in the East Bay.
My grandmother Betsy was a “difficult woman.” Everyone says so. She was mean, she was spiteful. She glowered and glared. She guilted and mocked her children. She was an angry woman, trapped in the role of mother and housewife. She was always disappointed, always resentful. But she was also an adventurer, a vixen, an independent women who chafed against the expectations that her time imposed upon her. In this show, I—her diminutive, friendly, complexed queer grandchild—perform the bitchy drag queen version of Betsy. I play my love of drag and my femme nonbinary identity against Betsy’s anger and bitterness. Did she feel trapped in her gender? Do I? Are we not so different after all?
Photo of James Andrew Wilson as Jouissance by Daniel Hoffman
RAW Presents SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult on 12/10/21
SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult is an established Bay Area poet and performance artist. Hailing from East Palo Alto, California, and writing since childhood, A 2017 QCC Emerging Artist, her performances are said to be “amazing … thought provoking … and mesmerizing.” This multifaceted artist has graced such stages as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, De Young Museum, and the Brava and Marsh Theaters in San Francisco, California. SevanKelee’s poem “Cucumber” has been seen on HBO Real Sex since 2000, and her poem “Listening to Pain” appears in the spring 2017 issue of Foglifter Journal. In 2020, SevanKelee’s original song and video Hope In The Blues (introducing Cora Holmes) debuted New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco.
Chile! Hood Stories, is a 60 minute multidisciplinary theatre production exploring safe sex, gender fluidity, sexuality politics, and cannabis. Watch El SeVan the drag king, Lucky 7 the poet, and Foxy Loxy retell some classic children’s tales with story lines that reflect a broad range of sexualities, genderqueer and cis gendered characters. Truth be told, fables were meant for adults all along!
Self Portrait by SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult
