About Me
With excerpts from Virginia Woolf "A room of one's own" published by Grafton Books, a division of the Collins publishing group. Recorded at ABC Studios Sydney 2000
With twenty years experience in the media and performing arts Wednesday Kennedy has worked internationally in just about every performance environment imaginable. From theatres to cabaret rooms, beer barns, comedy festivals, conferences, universities, weddings, backyards, Buddhist temples, shop windows, Noh theatres, Art Galleries, pubs, jazz bars, cafes, and a converted commie cargo ship in Budapest.
Her poetry prose, essays and columns have been featured in HQ magazine, Black and white magazine, SMH, Meanjin Literary Journal and various poetry anthology's including Short Fuse -global anthology of new fusion poetry and 100 poets against the war. Salt Press and Babylon Burning, Nthposition. Her shows have been performed at The Seymour Centre and The Basement in Sydney and The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York.
In New York she featured at various poetry nights, including the Cornelious Street Cafe and The Bowery Poetry Club before going down like Joan of Arc at the Nuyorican Cafe in a slam where the Aussie poets faced the Nuyorican house team. In Sydney she is a veteran performance poet who has performed many times with poets such as Tug Dumbly, Phil Free, Phil Norton and Miles Merrill. . Since arriving back in Sydney April 2006, she has performed Token Word and Bard Fly's as well as coming in second place for the NSW Poetry Slam at the Broadway Theatre, with a poem that was rejected by Suicide Prevention Australia for being too political and defamatory to John Howard. Wednesday has also performed in Budapest at The International Performance Poetry Picnic and was the Punk Poet Laureate for the Punk Kulture Exhibition at The Sydney Museum where punk was finally buried when her side kick stage dived off the museum balcony three floor onto dry concrete, breaking every bone in his body and frightening the museum staff.
She has performed her One Woman Shows and her Spoken Word album Post Romantic, in Tokyo, Paris, Prague, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Budapest, New York, Salem, Boston, Melbourne and Wagga Wagga
She was a reporter for Simon Townsends WonderWorld and travelled Australia and Britain creating three minute life style stories for television. She has written, produced and performed
a nine track spoken word album Post Romantic as well as sound movies for Radio Eye and The Night Air on Radio National. Her features, most notabley ‘Last Night in New York’ and ‘Telling Stories at the Algonquin Hotel’ were broadcast across NPR America and on Transom.org. She has also written shows for other performers, most notabley Intimate and deadly for Christine Anu.
Reviews.
‘A standard bearer at the front line of spoken word artists. Ms Kennedy, launches an album of spooky and sensual tracks made potent by a masterful sense of timing and post-everything sense of what performing artists should be doing with their sound equiptment and the minds of their audiences.’
Cal Clugston. Seven Flat 5. Revolver Magazine. 1999.
‘Enter Wednesday Kennedy, The Muhammad-ali of performance poetry.’
Georgina Safe. The Australian. Aug 1999
Kennedy is an irresistible performer - truly the "It girl' for the new century. Part wide-eyed girl from the provinces, part glamorous chanteuse, the savvy performer's ironic humor and smoky contralto singing voice held the audience in thrall'.
Off Off Broadway review, August 2000
It’s not only the accuracy of her jibes. It’s the fact that, coming from 10 000 miles away she’s so pluperfectly spot on target. She’s wholly in the moment as parodist. She inhabits everything she attempts, risky or broad. Almost as sharp as the stuff Dennis Miller pulls off in his HBO half hour.
Marion Dreyfus, Theme stream. NY 2000
“She is a kaleidoscope of cultural characters we understand. Kennedy’s outsider spin gives us a wonderful spin on cultural mainstays we take for granted. Welcome to America Wednesday. We’re glad you came around to see us’.
Christine Sparta Showbusiness Review Weekly NY NY Sept 2000.
Last night in New York speaks to the shape memory has taken since Sept 11th.
Jad Abumrad, Radio Lab WNYC.
Smart,sexy playing and writing...a real delight.
Tony McGregor, Radio Eye. ABC radio national.
Reminds me of when we were young and had the energy to create staggering works of heartbreaking
Genius.
Barrett Golding. Hearing Voices.com America
And when not showing, speaking. Speaking in poetry like a life sized breathing magic doll coming from some exotic Australian workshop, the string pulling itself, making her say the lyrics put in there by nobody
else. A sad, personal, optimistic, endearing performance.
Kalman Farago, Fusebox. Budapest. May 2003.
‘Kennedy's perspective helps make the unreal real, and even if we cannot make sense of it, we can sense the making of the America that would soon wage wars in response..It is sensational filmmaking, which is lent an added layer of density by Kennedy's lively spoken material
.John Shand. Sydney Morning Herald. September 7, 2004
LNNY reminded me of a New York that 911 made me forget, the place where millions come in order to be alone together. Kennedy rescues our ideas on post 9-11 New York, rescues them from the neat drawer where most documentaries had kept them filed.
Julian Ninio (Author of The Empire of Ignorance, Hypocrisy and Obedience)
Intimate and Deadly - Christine Anu.
Never has the spoken material in such a show seemed so spontaneous - tribute to Anu's delivery and to the writing of Wednesday Kennedy.
John Shand Sydney Morning Herald. Oct 2004
Listen to Wednesday's work on Transom.org
HYPERLINK "http://www.transom.org/shows/2002/200212.voxpop.html" http://www.transom.org/shows/2002/200212.voxpop.html
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