Cecilia Corrigan

Artist Statement

I'm a writer and performer, primarily working in film and theater. My work has led me through many branches of the culture industry—as a poet, tv writer, academic, drag-performer, and comedian. Code-switching between fields has shaped my voice and fueled my desire to engage contextual expectations, which now expresses itself as a commitment to both escapist entertainment and critique. I’m currently working on a horror film that retells the Bluebeard fairytale as a parable about internalized homophobia and anti-aging technology, while exploring the ways the coercive tactics of late capitalism can infect intimacy. I like deploying broad genres such as comedy and horror to play with the tension, irritation, and alienation that animates the queer anxiety at the heart of my work.

Carma with a C, short film poster

Bio

Cecilia Corrigan is an NYC based writer and performer. Her upcoming projects include a contemporary queer adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope, for which she was commissioned by Bedlam to write and perform. The play is Corrigan’s first major off-Broadway production, having previously performed and exhibited her theatrical work primarily in the context of the art and literary world. As Issue Project Room’s 2016 Artist in Residence, she created and developed Motherland, a play and video series, featured in Bomb magazine, which went on to run at The Brick in 2017. Corrigan is also the writer of several tv and film projects which are currently under option or in development. As a poet, she was awarded the Madeline P. Plonsker Prize for her first volume of poetry, Titanic, released on Northwestern University Press in 2014. She is also the author of the chapbooks Cream (Capricious, 2016) and True Beige (Trafficker, 2013). As an academic, she studied Comparative Literature in NYU’s PhD program. She’s written, produced, directed and acted in a number of short films, such as Carma With A C (2022), Le Balm (2017) and Crush, (2016).

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