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Back by popular demand!!! Dred brings back her one woMan show : "D.R.E.D. Daring Reality Every Day!!!"

Dred is the world’s foremost drag king, and is one of the most sought after artists for LGBTQQIA, Black History, and Women's History Month events.

Through her performances she draws attention to how society domesticates us into our preconceived notions of sexuality, race, and gender. Her life, humanity, and spirituality, brings us a bit closer to recognizing and unlearning constraints, prejudices and stereotypes. She's received non-stop raves at numerous events, from campuses including Yale, Penn State, Vassar, MIT, NYU, and Smith College; theaters such as NYC’s P.S. 122 and Harlem Theater Company, and conferences such as Creating Change and True Colors.  Dred has performed internationally including, Korea , Australia , Croatia , Austria , Switzerland , Germany , and Brazil .
 

The smooth-headed, internationally known Haitian-American, multi-spirited performance-artist, and gender-illusioning woman, Dred has been seen on HBO, MTV, Oxygen and one of the stars of the award-winning film "Venus Boyz”. Using theatre, dance, humor, and cultural history, Dred plays with gender roles and social/racial stereotypes to inspire all audiences to think about race, gender, identities. Her shows are not just about imitating the "opposite" sex, they are about freedom of self-expression and crossing/breaking boundaries. Using theatre, dance, humor, and cultural history, Dred plays with gender roles and social/racial stereotypes to inspire all audiences to think about race, gender, identites. Her shows are not just about imitating the "opposite" sex, they are about freedom of self-expression and crossing/breaking boundaries. She inspires people to honor and accept the differences in their selves, and each other.

Dred's performance has been written about in books including The Drag King Book and Female Masculinity, and also has been published in the anthology Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater.

WORKSHOP:

Emanation of Self Love:Embracing and Creating from Your Pure Loving Selves.

In a creative, fun, safe and nurturing environment, and using meditation, yoga (no need to be an expert, divineness, creativity, performance, music, dance, female and male energies,and group discussion, MilDred guides participants into a journey of self love through exploring their pure loving selves as they embrace their blessed uniqueness. Participants use what they discovered to create performances that are healing and fun. They find love, appreciation, and freedom of their unique genderfull and beautiful selves.  This workshop also includes an excerpt from MilDred's Latest showbringing to life unforgettable and life changing female, male, and all energy manifestations used as gateways to individualized healing.  Come with something you have been working on and/or been hesitant to share whether a poem, speech, story, song,dance, movement, anything, or just be spontaneuous! Enjoy freeing yourself up through self love, as you share it in a new way in which you will create!!! HAVE FUN LOVING ALL OF WHO YOU ARE!

" Performance Art has been lying somewhat dormant since the mid-90's, but now thank goodness it's being revived by the art-as-life/life-as-art gender-warping, heart-breaking, toe-tapping, libido-zinging work of Dréd.  Dréd is poetry in motion, sexual energy incarnate, and paradox in person. Ze is the front line of the new wave of performance art, and hir work demands to be seen..

"Dréd is sexy, charismatic and incredibly talented. Watch her perform on stage and be exhilarated .

" To her work, whether in drag or otherwise, MilDréd brings a sophisticated understanding and insight into issues or race, gender, ethnicity and using the medium of theatre and dance to break boundaries. I have often brought activists from developing countries (with whom I work at the U.N.) to her performances when they visit New York. They are unfailingly fascinated and elated by her performance... .

" Her sophisticated blend of styles raised the bar of expectation and anticipation for drag king performances .