SquidWorks Performing Artists

is a managing network of performing artists who work in multiple community and performance settings with one clear vision: to advance positive social action through quality arts residencies. SquidWorks manages an impressive roster of artists who can bring to your community an exceptional combination of high quality performance and engaging community outreach. The community-based work is valued as a vehicle for individual empowerment, transformation and progressive social change.

Who’s on the Squid Roster?
We are honored to represent: ClancyWorks Dance Company, working to shift perceptions through performance; the hilarious, radical stand-up comedy of Dykes on Mics; the riveting thought-provoking work of women’s theater company, Looking for Lilith, and Plunge! Cabaret, a performance and residency-focused company working at the intersection of art, higher education and community service.

			SquidWorks CONTACT INFORMATION PO. Box 3111 Silver Spring, MD 20918 Phone: 347-534-2204 www.squidworks.org info@squidworks.org

	SquidWorks is a managing network of performing artists who work in multiple community and performance settings with one clear vision: to advance positive social action through quality arts residencies. SquidWorks manages an impressive roster of artists who can bring to your community an exceptional combination of high quality performance and engaging community outreach. The community-based work is valued as a vehicle for individual empowerment, transformation and progressive social change. Who’s on the Squid Roster? We are honored to represent: ClancyWorks Dance Company, working to shift perceptions through performance; the hilarious, radical stand-up comedy of Dykes on Mics; the riveting thought-provoking work of women’s theater company, Looking for Lilith, and Plunge! Cabaret, a performance and residency-focused company working at the intersection of art, higher education and community service.

Squid Facts Squid and Octopus are thought to be the most intelligent invertebrates in the world. Squid live throughout the world’s oceans at all depths. And, the giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. Why do squid have 8 arms and one head? All the better to enable our multi-tasking capacities and the ability to work in multiple environments with multiple populations with one clear vision: utilizing the arts to advance social action. What functions do the tentacles perform? Some of the arms of our artists reach into theater, dance, or stand up comedy. Our tentacles focus on performing in multiple venues: in clubs, warehouses, proscenium stages - both in traditional and nontraditional environments. Other tentacles reach to create arts in education residencies in K-12 settings, University environments and community centers. Why Squid and not Octopus? Squid swim in schools, while Octopus tend to be loners. Our network of performing artists see SquidWorks as the future: artists with a similar vision, supporting one another through management and artistic projects, swimming together to create a unified current in the next wave of the Performing Arts Ocean.
	“Calmness and fluidity combined with Clancy’s intense physicality... Gravity-defying moves, creative lifts and intricately woven phrases...” - The Washington Post about ClancyWorks
		“The stories were so engrossing. . . Told with tremendous dignity and depth.” - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about Looking for Lilith
	“Amy Beckerman, the Jewish gal from Boston, could kill along Judy Garland in any gay bar..” - Comedy Soapbox about Dykes on Mics
		“A potent blend of inspiration and entertainment” - The Washington Post about Plunge! Cabaret
	"Physical and conceptual vigor...Shadow spilled across the stage, bringing mythical dimension.” - The Richmond Times Dispatch about ClancyWorks
		“Jackie Monahan gave us Katherine Hepburn like you’ve never seen before, and Gloria Bigelow closed out the show with insite into the world of black gay rage. What can I say? Gay girls know how to make people giggle.” - About Dykes on Mics
	“A tremendous work. What made is so powerful is not just that it shared so many facts about what was happening at that time, but it showed how people were FEELING about what was happening.” - About Looking for Lilith's "What My Hands Have Touched"
		“Your interactions, I'm sure, have affected people in ways that you would never have dreamed of and probably will never know about.” - President of Women's Service Inc. about the residency work of Plunge! Cabaret
	“The company creates intense stage pictures with balancing acts and lifts that overcome the biggest obstacle of all: gravity” - The Washington City Paper about ClancyWorks
		“The use of imagery and choral work allowed images to be burned into your soul.” - About Looking for Lilith
	“I could tell you planned the program according to your audience, allowing them to maximize everything you had to offer. I have never seen them so focused...” - About a "Freak That Sticks" workshop from Plunge! Cabaret
		“When I tell new people at work that I’m gay, I watch them scan their brains for the right response. They usually confess their one gay experience in college. I never know what to say, so I just grope their tits and head to the watercooler.” - Time Out New York quoting Leah Dubie (of Dykes on Mics) for the Joke of the Week.