Black Girl Ugly Featuring Ashley Brockington, Lee Avant & Nicole Cain June 11th through June 27th , 2009 Weekends only: Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8pm WOW Café Theater, 59-61 East 4th St. Between Bowery & 2nd Ave, 4th Floor F train to Second Ave. Tickets $10 at the door blackgirlugly@gmail.com; For Reservations: 718-419-1094 It ain't easy comin' up Black not to mention female, in these so-called United States. Have you ever considered how difficult it is to cultivate a healthy self-image growing up surrounded by the superficial din of white media? In Black Girl Ugly Ashley Brockington, Lee Avant & Nicole Cain take you into the collective subconscious of Black Girls trying to hold fast to their love of self. Through movement, poetry and song they contrast growing up surrounded by the "truth" of white girl beauty while living in the reality of Black Girl Ugly. True to their legacy these artists offer no clean endings in this story of black girl victory. The contra-fictions linger and always will.
	Nicole Cain has had multidisciplinary theater training and worked in the theater for 20 years. Having worked and trained in different places from Europe to Africa her skills go further than just Western Theater. Creating, Teaching and Training is what she does, inspired by and inspiring many along the way. She was born in the Netherlands and is living in New York with her husband and two kids for the last 8 years.
Ashley Brockington is a dancer and an athlete. Trained in Modern and West African Dance at the University of the Arts and Howard University, she is passionate about exploring personal history through song and dance. In 2000 she began training in the circus arts and performing with Circus Amok in New York City.		In the past couple of years, Ashley has been throwing her energy backstage and taken up producing small community theater in the Lower East Side. She cut her producer’s teeth at the Rivers of Honey Cabaret, spearheading the 2007 season and continuing to produce as a part of the Rivers of Honey Production Team. Ashley has recently has kicked off a new show, The Cabaret Cataplexy at The Slipper Room with her creative partner, Monstah Black.
Lee Avantis originally from North Carolina, and is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA. Lee began her acting career in Los Angeles where she performed at the Open Fist Theatre, the Evidence Room, the James Armstrong Theatre and many others. She most recently co-starred in a television pilot with the improv troupe The Tenderloins and has appeared in numerous indie films that you will probably never see. This is Lee's second production at Wow and she is happy to be back in this black box.
========================================================================== WOW Café Theater is a women's theater collective in NYC's East Village, which promotes the empowerment of women through the performing arts. Historically, WOW has been a majority lesbian woman's space. WOW welcomes the full participation of all women and transpeople in solidarity with women. WOW especially welcomes women and transpeople of color, and women and trans people who identify as lesbians, bisexual and queer. We provide a working theater space to our members & the technical support to create and produce works, regardless of economic status. We acknowledge the links between different kinds of oppressions and strive to be open to all sexualities and spiritualities, to be multilingual and intergenerational, and to challenge all oppressions including racism, classism, ableism, sexism, ageism, and sizeism. Our weekly Tuesday meeting and collective governance structure provide a space for artists to share their ideas, facilitate the exchange of labor and knowledge, and realize their creative visions. Back to WOW