Looking for Tiger Lily
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Portland Center Stage: Ellyn Bye Studio
LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY PRODUCTION ELEMENTS
Under the newly formed ART: Mercury Company, the completion of set and costumes for the Table|Room|Stage World Premiere production (dates TBA) of Looking for Tiger Lily by Anthony Hudson, which was postponed three weeks before the beginning of rehearsals by the pandemic.
A Table|Room|Stage World Premiere Commission
by Anthony Hudson
directed by Michael Mendelson
Carla Rossi – Portland’s premier drag clown – has taken over Anthony’s life and Anthony would like it back now. Anthony’s identity is a confused tangle of Native American/white/queer, and Anthony grew up looking to the Indian princess Tiger Lily from Peter Pan for cultural guidance. Looking for Tiger Lily is a kaleidoscopic, funhouse trip, following Anthony’s quest to find validation as a real Native artist – where the artist and the muse can coexist.
Awards for Anthony Hudson
2019 Individual Artist Fellowship in Performing Arts from Oregon Arts commission
2018 Creative Heights Award from Oregon Community Foundation
2018 Native Arts & Culture Foundation National Artist Fellow in Artistic Innovation
2018 Inaugural cohort of the Western Arts Alliance’s Native Launchpad program
2016 Regional Arts & Culture Council Grant
