What to say about my new friend, Dandy Darkly? It might be easier to let others... for example, Woman About Town Magazine called him "A Gothic, gay monologist" while the Triskelion Arts
Center called him "The Dr. Seuss of Perversion!"
The Villager Newspaper said that he's "An utterly unique and potentially fatal cocktail of mince and menace that's not to be believed... even once he's been seen!" and recently, Time Out picked his last show as "One of Five Things To Do". He's
Dandy Darkly is a master storyteller who mixes the erotic .. and the macabre.. and this Saturday night March 30th at Dixon Place, he'll present a Dandy Darkly’s Easter Blister Variety Event with an all star lineup of storytelling and burlesque style acts!
Get to know Dandy a little bit better before the show, by reading the Performer Profile and watching the video down below!
Dandy Darkly
City You Live In: Brooklyn NY
What Stripe of Artist Are You?: I'm a storyteller. I'm half clown, half monologist with a splash of paranormal pervert.
How To Contact You: Dandy Darkly
Current Project: My most ambitious project to date is just on the horizon! I'll be making my international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the SpaceCabaret with theSpaceUK in my solo show "Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!" I'm incredibly excited. I think the United Kingdom will gobble Dandy Darkly right up... hopefully alongside some wonderfully awful offal. Apart from that, I'm always popping up in variety shows and on cabaret stages across the New York area and Provincetown. I'm potentially heading south to Louisville, Kentucky, a prospect that leaves this Southern dandy tickled as a pickle. And of course October and Halloween are extremely busy months for my particular brand of gay ghost storytelling.
Short Bio: Dandy Darkly is a storyteller of supernatural sleaze and homosexual horror! Dandy cut his teeth (and chipped a tooth) telling tasteless tales of terror down under Provincetown's Dick Dock -- and now, America's humble ghost-lisperer performs before dozens of perplexed patrons across the tri-state area and beyond. Dandy has performed such venerated venues as Stonewall Inn, the 45th Street Playhouse and Dixon Place. Occasionally joining Dandy Darkly on stage is his forever-suffering valet and accompanist, Mister Hookah. (Played by teacher, arts advocate and musician Adam Tendler.) Dandy is making his international debut at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in his solo show Dandy Darkly’s Gory Hole!
Fun Performing Thing You Did That Wasn’t A Traditional Acting Gig: EVERYTHING I do isn't a traditional acting gig. One of my artistic missions is bringing guerrilla storytelling and theatre into spaces that have a historic notoriety for public gay sex. My favorite venue for such is in Provincetown, Massachusetts down under the boardwalk among the spooky shadows and frisky fellows of the infamous Dick Dock. I'll be doing my third annual show down there, armed with my boxes of flashlights and a few dirty stories. (My summer show is still one of Provincetown's best kept theater secrets!) Last year I took some dancers into Fire Island's wooded Meat Rack (we lost one!) and this year I hope to explore The Ramble in Central Park.
Role in a Play and/or Musical That You Can’t Wait to Play: Every role is a gift and with so much success I simply cannot play favorites!
Role in a Movie That You Will Be Perfect For When They Remake It: The bitchy shop girl who condescends to Julia Roberts in a remake of Pretty Woman. (Andrew's note: this is perhaps my favorite response from this whole series of blog posts)
Favorite Compliment a Director Has Given You: I’m much too humble to recall the countless compliments paid during the course of my show business career from the innumerable assortment of top notch directors with whom I’ve collaborated. But if I must -- I do recall a director being quite complimentary of my classically trained ability to faint on cue. That is once I came to with the aid of smelling salts.
What’s On Your Resume Under “Special Skills”?: Can faint on cue.
What Are You Currently Doing Show-wise?: On March 30th I’m producing and hosting Dandy Darkly’s Easter Blister Variety Event at Dixon Place. I just wrapped production on a video short with Trav SD and Jim Moore for the Vaudephone web series (see it below)
Dandy Darkly tells the tale of "Captain Chad and the Mermaid" - A Vaudephone Presentation from Jim Moore on Vimeo.