KTC presents the World Premiere of MAD WOMEN, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, directed by Ric Montejano. The production opens May 6th and runs Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. at Skylight Theatre – Skylab located at 1816 N. Vermont, LA 90027.
John Fleck’s work received national attention in 1990, when, along with three other performance artists, he became part of what was known as the “NEA Four.†Labeled by some political pundits as “too dirty to be funded†, the NEA Four spearheaded a national campaign against artistic repression and won their Supreme court case against the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 1998, the Supreme Court, with the backing of the Clinton Administration, overturned part of the case and determined that ‘standards of decency’ was constitutional. Soon after, the NEA eliminated all funding for ‘new genre’ categories.
Fleck has won numerous grants and awards, among them 2 NEA’s, a Getty Fellowship, a Franklin Furnace & Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller/NEA- Interarts grant and LA Cultural Affairs funding. He has won 3 LA Critics Circle Awards, 8 DramaLogue, 6 LA Weekly and 2 Backstage West awards, all for outstanding performance.
His past body of solo work includes: Johnny’s Got a Gun, Nothin’ Beats Pussy,Mud in your Eye, Dirt, me, A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, Blessed are all the Little Fishes, PsychoOpera and I Got the He-be-she-be’s.
For more information and tickets ($20 each): www.Katselastheatre.com or call 702-582-8587
