Jewbilly is about the experience of growing up in the gap between two cultures. My mother was raised in "Hillbilly" East Kentucky and my father is from a prosperous West Hartford, Connecticut Jewish family. My parents met in the Peace Corps in the late sixties-- my mother truly taking to heart JFK's mission of public service around the world and my hippie father enrolling to dodge the Vietnam War draft. Ultimately, both my parents became public school teachers. As a child, my school year was spent in a posh suburb of New York City rubbing elbows with the offspring of captains of industry and commerce while my summers were spent with my much extended Kentucky family (62 double second cousins) in the holler. Jewbilly is a narrative performance piece, accompanied by a presentation of vintage and new images. This work reflects on the hybridization of identity and the points of connection and dissonance that make up daily life.
Performed: Yale University, New Haven, CT February 2009
One Eye Cafe, Carrboro, NC October 2009
Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA October 2009
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