Neal Medlyn

...Her's a Queen

…HER’S A QUEEN is Neal Medlyn’s fifth pop-star opus and the first installment in a two-part Britney Spears/Hannah Montana extravaganza, built around the idea and music of Britney Spears, purity, and nonsexual touch. Additional items involved include overlapping stories and bears and abstinence and unwashed hair and dance moves and knives and snakes and laptops and cuddle parties and babies.

The show is being presented in an early form at TBA. It features Carmine Covelli and musical contributions from Farris Craddock and is being written in consultation and under the supervision of Kenny Mellman.

…HER’S A QUEEN is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency) the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

www.nealmedlyn.com

Mr. Medlyn is a chameleon, knowingly slipping on one outré pop persona after the next; he also remains irreducibly himself: the ultimate outsider, nose pressed unabashedly to the window of celebrity and fame… The split is just one duality in a rich welter of identity games, yet the strange power his art possesses depends on it. The New York Times