Lois Weaver

Lois Weaver lectures in Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London and is an independent performance artist, director, and activist. She was co-founder of Spiderwoman Theatre and the WOW Café Theatre in New York City and Artistic Director of Gay Sweatshop Theatre in London. Lois has been a performer, director, and writer with the Split Britches Company since 1980. Her interests include live art, solo performance, feminist and lesbian theatre and performance, and human rights.

Lois tours with experiments in public engagement such as The Long Table and What Tammy Needs To Know, and Split Britches’ latest collaborations, Miss America, Retro–Perspective, and Lost Lounge.

In 2015, the Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books published the long-awaited book The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver, which explores Lois’ collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Featuring a wealth of material that has never previously been published, the book includes contributions from many of Weaver’s key collaborators, old and new, and many of the most important feminist writers, photographers, and performance makers of the last forty years.

To buy The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

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Date Posted: 22 April 2016