I've recently completed a short film, No Exit 2, which is currently in submission for film festivals. No Exit 2 stars Cricket Arrison, Scott Burke, and Lucia A. Treasure. The screenplay for No Exit 2 was commissioned by Gregg Wilhelm for CityLit's 2014 FreeFall Baltimore program, entitled Geo-Poe: A Literary Geo-caching Adventure. 

An other narrative comedy short, Here's To Living Alone, premiered in 2017 as a segment of Exquisite Corpse, the Melissa LaMartina-produced experimental collaborative feature film. Following digital release of the full feature, Here's To Living Alone will be made available to the public via my Vimeo channel. Pending digital release, links to my short will be made available upon request by emailing me at [email protected]

On deck for 2018 are narrative music videos for the Baltimore-based band Quattracenta, and my band Santa Librada. If awarded the Baker Artist prize, funds will go immediately towards supporting these videos, as well as furthering my multimedia memoir project mentioned elsewhere. 

In March I released an album of solo guitar and voice songs, 50'♀ In The Raw: Live from the Magpie Cage. 

To celebrate, I performed a single album release show with Lady Hatchet & Jeff Waters at Zissimo's

50'♀is a popular music experiment by Rahne Alexander, both solo and in collaboration with other artists. 

50'♀contributed a recording of "Came So Far For Beauty" to Last Year's Man, a Baltimore tribute to Leonard Cohen, in 2017. This recording, made with pianist/vocalist Christina Reitemeyer, was a featured selection in a City Paper article in the summer of 2017, and performed live for the first time at the Baltimore Transgender Alliance's Trans March of Resilience Banquet in November 2017. 

Selected Additional Past & Present Music and Performance

While these projects are currently hibernating, every project rekindles from time to time. 

MUSIC
Flaming Creatures (rock & roll fun in collaboration with filmmaker Kristen Anchor)
The Degenerettes (an institution of queer feminist rock & roll music in Baltimore since 2005)
Guided By Wire (perhaps the only all-trans Neko Case/Guided by Voices cover band in the world, in collaboration with Jack Pinder of Manners Manners)

COMEDY
Standup comedy (occasional standup sets, pending booking with the 2018 Freeze Peach festival) 
Everybody All The Time (live talk show with Fiona Crowley, ran intermittently at Windup Space from 2013-2015)

In 2018 I expect to finish a years-in-progress multimedia memoir project, focusing on parallels and distinctions between my own journey as a transsexual woman artist and that of my mother, a resilient autodidact artist whose capacities were progressively diminished by multiple sclerosis.  

This as-yet-to-be-titled memoir which will feature several components, including a bound book, an experimental video, and an album of recorded music and spoken word. If awarded, Baker Artist funds will go directly to expedite this memoir. The album is intended to be the first piece of this project to be released, with final mixing and mastering in fall 2018 and a target album release performance in winter 2018-19.  

Some pieces of this narrative memoir have already seen publication in some print and online periodicals, including the City Paper, What Weekly, and Queen Mob's Teahouse. 

One essay for this memoir, "Puzzle Box," debuted in The Resilience Anthology from Heartspark Press. Said to the largest collection of writing from transwomen and AMAB non-binary people to be published to date, The Resilience Anthology was published in December 2017. 

Selected video & exhibitions
At my October 2017 Signal Culture artist residency in Owego, NY I began to build a new body of experimental video work based around my tarot practice. This is work-in-progress and I am excited to see what is in the cards as this continues to take shape this year.  Click on the thumbmail image to see the animated gif in action. 

In 2016, the Baltimore Museum of Art awarded me the opportunity for a year-long collaborative installation, which became Queer Interiors/The Baltimore LGBTQI+ Home Movie Quilt (2016-17). It was an amazing and unique experience, and it was covered by Cara Ober for Hyperallergic and Kate Drabinski for the City Paper. 

Highlights from my Vimeo channel 

Oh Amelia (2017) 
"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization." - Amelia Earhart

Equal+Opposite (2009) 
From the early silents of Lubitsch to The Crying Game and beyond, gender-variant characters persistently provide cinematic shock upon the revelation of their "true sex." Turning the focus away from the gender-variant body, "Equal+Opposite" instead explores the range of physical and emotional reactions by "protagonists" to transgendered bodies, from curiosity to revulsion. Premiered at MIX21 Queer Experimental Film Festival, October 2008.

Simoom (2009)
Communication breaks down in the wake of disaster. Based on “MS. Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allan Poe. Commissioned for Baltimore Museum of Art Poe Anniversary exhibition, December 2009

Let's Get Out of Here (2006)
An homage to Hollywood's allegedly most-uttered line. Awarded "Way Cool Film Geek" Jury Prize at Microcinefest 2006. Noted in the New York Times Magazine 18 Feb 2015. ("Should We Stay Or Should We Go?", Virginia Heffernan, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/magazine/should-we-stay-or-should-we-go.html)