Trav S.D. - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Writer and performer residing in the greatest city in the world, Brooklyn,NY. Author of NO APPLAUSE, JUST THROW MONEY: THE BOOK THAT MADE VAUDEVILLE FAMOUS (Faber & Faber, 2005) and some 50 plays, including COLD FIRE (Joe's Pub, the Brick), HOUSE OF TRASH (HERE, NYC International Fringe Festival), SEA OF LOVE (The Ohio, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory), and COLUMBIA THE GERM OF THE OCEAN(Chashama). (See a full list of first productions of his plays at Doollee.com) He is a frequent contributor to TIME OUT NEW YORK, the VILLAGE VOICE, and numerous other publications. A frequent radio guest and lecturer, he is currently the host of the INDIETHEATRECAST on NYTHEATRE.COM. The intrepid (and the massochistic) are invited to join him also on Youtube, Freindster, Facebook, and at his blog TRAVALANCHE (travsd.wordpress.com).

My Interests

theater, film, television, radio, music, poetry, prose, fine art and dance. nothing else.

I'd like to meet:

Abraham Lincoln

Music:

Everything recorded before 1970, and then some stuff recorded after 1970.

Movies:

The Wizard of Oz, Monsieur Verdoux, the original War of the Worlds, the Poseidon Adventure, the Ten Commandments, all comedies made before 1940, and also about 500 other movies.

Television:

Ernie Kovacs, Steve Allen, the Twilight Zone, certain seasons of All in the Family and MASH, Columbo, and also about 500 other TV shows.

Books:

Moby Dick, Confederacy of Dunces, Geek Love, the Silent Clowns, everything by Kurt Vonnegut, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Look Homeward Angel, anything by Mark Leyner, about 500 other books.

Heroes:

Charlie Chaplin, Oscar Wilde,George Bernard Shaw, John Lennon, Orson Welles, Rod Serling, Jesus (not in that order), Winston Churchill, and about 500 other heroes