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After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in Studio Art in 1990, Nancy Agabian moved to Los Angeles, where she wrote and presented the poems and solo performance
texts collected in Princess Freak. Her writing has also appeared in numerous anthologies. With Ann Perich she formed the folk-punk duo Guitar Boy; their CD
Freaks Like Me was released in 2000. In that year she also received the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann fellowship to attend Columbia University’s writing program,
from which she graduated in 2003. Her master’s thesis, Me as her again, is a memoir that explores the influence of her Armenian-American family on her
coming-of-age. Since Dec. 2002, she has been coordinating Gartal, a literary reading series for Armenian writers at Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village.
A teaching artist-in-residence from 1994-99 at Beyond Baroque in L.A., she currently teaches creative nonfiction writing at Queens College in NYC.
Email: nancyagabian@yahoo.com
Agent/Manager: Richard Abate/ ICM, 40 W. 57th St., NY NY 10019, 212 556-5792, rabate@icmtalent.com
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PRODUCTIONS
WATER AND WINE - deals specifically with the refusal of the Armenian Apostolic Church to ordain female priests and draws on the author's maternal history and conversations with members of the Armenian-American community. The Club, Yerevan, Armenia Sept. 15, 2005
HOMEBODY, HOMEFIRE — based on a trip the author took in 1998 to Turkey to find the village of her genocide survivor grandmother; it was performed in a vacant lot in downtown Los Angeles and questioned connections to land and finding a home. - Finding Space, Los Angeles, CA - May 6-9,1999
WANT — explores the conflicts of wanting to be in a romantic relationship and utilizes an inflatable doll and slide projector as props.
- Glaxa Studios, Silverlake, CA - July 5,6,11-13,18-20, 1997
- Open Letter, Glendale Public Library, Glendale, CA - Mar. 29, 1997
- LACE, Hollywood, CA - Feb. 10 & 11, 1997
- arcade, Culver City, CA - Dec. 15 - 17, 1996
- Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA - Sept. 17, 1996
I'M GOING TO BE MY MOTHER
- Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA - May 17, 1996
- Housework, Los Angeles, CA - May 12, 1996
MY GAY FAMILY - addresses identity issues of a young Armenian-American bisexual woman who grew up in a predominantly white town in suburban Massachusetts with a gay brother, lesbian sister and homophobic parents.
- Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH - Aug. 17 & 18, 1996
- L.A. Women's Theatre Festival at LACE, Hollywood, CA - Mar. 21, 1996
- arcade, Culver City, CA - Mar. 1 & 2, 1996
- Glaxa Studios, Silverlake, CA - Jan 3 & 20, 1996; Dec. 9 & 16, 1995
- Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA - Aug. 3 & 4, 1995
AIRPLANES ARE FOR ADULTS
- UC San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA - Mar. 23, 1996
- Luna Sea Performance Project, San Francisco, CA - Sept. 13 & 14, 1995
I SURVIVED ANIMAL NIGHT
- Highways, Santa Monica, CA - Sept. 12, 1994
THE CROCHET PENIS - the author wears white pajamas, crochets a phallus from a red ball of yarn, and recites six poems which describe the blocks to sexuality she discovered in the aftermath of her grandmother's death
- L.A. Women's Theatre Festival, Hollywood, CA - Mar. 18, 1995
- The Museum Cafe, Pasadena, CA - Aug. 19, 1994
- Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA - Aug. 5, 1994
- The Iguana Cafe, North Hollywood, CA - June 25, 1994
- Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA - June 18, 1994
- Perimeter Arts Collective at Hollywood Moguls, Hollywood, CA - Apr. 22 & 23, 1994
BRAS & BRAINS
- L.A. Women's Theatre Festival at LATC, Los Angeles, CA - Mar. 24, 1994
- Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA - May 28, 1993
- Women Speak:Other Voices at Midnight Special Bookstore - Jan. 17, 1993
AWARDS
Brody Arts Fund Fellowship for the Performing Arts, California Community Foundation, 1996
PUBLICATIONS
PRINCESS FREAK, Beyond Baroque Books, 2000 (AIRPLANES ARE FOR ADULTS, THE CROCHET PENIS, MY GAY FAMILY and excerpts from WANT)
EXCERPTS
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