Comedian | Actor | Performance Artist | Writer | Host/Emcee | Armchair Philosopher | Hardest Working Woman in Soulbusiness
OREntertainer/Force of NatureProfessional:
Desiree Burch is a comedian, writer, actress and New York NeoFuturist, and host of the "Smut" Reading and Performance series, Monday nights at Galapagos Artspace.Her solo work has culminated in full-length solo pieces 52 Man Pickup," (Ars Nova) "The Sit-Down Show," (Midtown International Theatre Festival) "Careless" (One Solo Arts Festival, HOT! Festival 2005)and "Greatest Hits," (Yale University, Dixon Place) and has been performed at Joe's Pub, CenterStage NY, Dixon Place, the Marquee, Manhattan Theatre Source, P.S. 122 and in Seattle's Mae West Fest.Her stand-up comedy has been featured at Carolines on Broadway, Gotham Comedy Club, the NY Improv, New York Comedy Club, Boston Comedy Club, the Producer's Club, the Parkside Lounge, Mo' Pitkins, at Bottom's Up and Rockstar in Cleveland, OH, and in the 2005 New York City Underground Comedy Festival and the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival.She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale University. Favorite theater experiences include: "Rip Me Open," co-created with Michael Cyril Creighton, Brian Mullin and OBIE Award-winning playwright Kyle Jarrow (Lucinda Coolidge), "In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel" (Miriam Conley), "Othello" (Emelia), "Romeo & Juliet" (Nurse), "An Ideal Husband" (Mabel), "The Marriage of Bette & Boo" (Soot), "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" (Lady in Red), and "Steel Magnolias" (Ouiser). She has worked with Gorilla Rep, Playwrights Theater of New York, Moving Theater, Afrikan Women's Repertory, Columbia University School of Theater, NYU's E.T.W. and the 24-Hour Plays.
On the "Down to Earth" tip:
I am funny, sweet, cunning, straightforward and kind of bent, beautiful and sad, sexy and vulnerable, but high above and far away while walking through the stink trenches. Friends call that "aloof."
"You really are the Sartre of our times."
--Carolyn Castiglia, superstar comedian, friend of Desiree, and judge of character.
I do believe I will change the world and plan to make my mark an improvement.
To pay for this, I will spend eternity tripping over the minutae of myself.
Silly rabbit--Ids are for Kids.
Although I wax philo-sophical with this junk, I am really someone who has made a mission at poking fun and letting the air out of as many lofty ideas as possible. That way they are on the ground. Where we can get at them.
Just so you know, I only attract freaks, so if you are looking at this, chances are, you are one. If you didn't know this before, sorry for the impromptu intervetion. Someone had to sit down with you and help you through this.
