Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/WikiturgyNYC

Archivists! Scholars! Artists! Dramaturgs! Students! Wikipedians! Join us on February 17, 2015 for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon.

Event information
New and experienced Wikipedians are invited to come together to create, edit, and expand Wikipedia articles on under- or unsung theatre artists--with a focus on artists who are queer, women, people of color, or otherwise underrepresented--as part of a worldwide Wikiturgy Edit-a-Thon. Participating in this event is a way to support artists whose work you know, admire, and feel should have a more publicly visible space online--or to discover new artists and new histories of performance in the Americas. This event is open to all, but RSVP is required. (See below for RSVP details.)

This is the New York City branch of the worldwide Wikiturgy 2015 event. For why we are doing this, see this article in HowlRound.

Organizers of this event include Rachel Mattson (of the Archives at La MaMa ETC), Nancy Friedland (of Columbia University Libraries), Leanora Lange (of the Center for Jewish History) and Megan Wacha (of CUNY Libraries). Special thanks to the Theatre Library Association and Columbia University Libraries for making this event possible.
 * Date: February 17, 2015
 * Time: 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
 * Location: The Studio (Room 208), Butler Library, Columbia University, 535 W. 114th St. New York, NY (Directions to Butler Library)

Light refreshments will be provided. Please bring a laptop with you!

Attendees
Please add your Wikipedia username to the appropriate section below.

If you plan to attend in person, you must RSVP here so that you can get into the venue!

Confirmed

 * Lange.lea (talk) 02:54, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Pharos (talk) 19:04, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Suziehita (talk) 18:18, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Rachmattson (talk) 22:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Megs (talk) 12:51, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * AlisonD64 (talk) 21:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Jeremyb (talk) 22:31, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Palomamcgregor (talk) 22:44, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Rashomondo (talk) 23:33, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Barnardzines Barnardzines (talk) 23:53, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Outcomes

 * Susana Cook - created page
 * Marty Pottenger - created page
 * TWITAS (Third World Institute of Theatre Arts Studies) - created page
 * Taylor Mac - created page
 * James Wigfall - created page
 * Johnny Dodd - edited
 * Ed Mock - edited
 * Theatre Library Association - sandbox page created
 * Tony Stevens (choreographer) - edited
 * Amara Tabor-Smith - created page
 * La MaMa ETC - edited page

Possible articles to edit
Below is a list of articles that would benefit from edits and expansion during the edit-a-thon.

Individuals

 * Jackie Curtis - transgender playwright and performer; a Warhol superstar; a La MaMa regular
 * Helen Hanft - performer, diva; La MaMa regular; Bette Midler notes she stole a lot of her shtick from Hanft
 * Johnny Dodd - queer lighting designer; known as an important innovator in lighting design for the theater; La MaMa regular
 * Jun Maeda - Asian American set designer; longtime resident set designer at La MaMa
 * Cynthia Hopkins - performance artists, composer, and musician. Performs solo (e.g. recently at Abron Arts Center as part of American Realness) and with Big Dance Theater.
 * Carmelita Tropicana - a Cuban-American stage and film actress who lives and works in New York City. In 1999, she received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Performance.
 * Dorothea Baird

Organizations

 * Performance Space 122
 * Saratoga International Theater Institute
 * Wooster Group
 * Performing Garage
 * 59E59
 * New York Live Arts
 * Abrons Arts Center



Other

 * Off-off-Broadway
 * Off-Broadway
 * Experimental theatre
 * Black box theater
 * New York International Fringe Festival

Individuals

 * James (Jimmy) Wigfall - queer African-American performer; La MaMa regular; died at an early age in a traffic accident
 * Magaly Alabau - Cuban writer, performer, director; appeared in several La MaMa productions in the early years including "The White Whore And The Bit Player/ La Estrella Y La Monja" (1973); co-founder of the lesbian theater company Medusa's Revenge with Ana Maria Simo. See Alabau's entry in Spanish-language Wikipedia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magaly_Alabau
 * Ozzie Rodriguez - playwright and performer; Director of La MaMa Archives since 1987
 * Lola Pashalinski - core member of Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theater Co.; 2-time Obie award winner; appeared at La MaMa in Ludlam's "Bluebeard" (1970)
 * Nelly Vivas - playwright, producer; worked as the press representative at La MaMa in the 1970s
 * Maggie Dominic - performer, writer; early Off Off-Broadway-er; La MaMa regular
 * Agosto Machado - queer Asian performer; performed a lot with Jackie Curtis and the Playhouse of the Ridiculous; La MaMa regular
 * Hortensia Colorado - Native American performer; founder of Coatlicue Theatre Company, Inc.; appeared in the 1973 production of "The White Whore and the Bit Player/La Estrella y la Monja" at La MaMa.
 * Kikuo Saito - Japanese set designer; collaborated on several La MaMa productions in the 1960s and 1970s.
 * Valois Mickens - African-American performer; house manager for La MaMa
 * Taylor Mac playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, performance artist, director and producer and general darling of the downtown theater/cabaret scene. Website, which includes press links and awards --working on this one now! Lange.lea (talk) 22:26, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Susana Cook
 * Marty Pottenger - performance artist and director

Organizations

 * TWITAS (Third World Institute of Theatre Arts Studies) - a La MaMa resident company; drew from indigenous cultural and theatrical traditions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
 * Trocadero Gloxinia Ballet Company - All-male "classical" ballet company; members performed under elaborately fake Russian-sounding names.
 * Theatre Library Association - a professional association for librarians and archivists of performing arts. See TLA's website.
 * League of Independent Theater

For further inspiration
See also:


 * WikiProject Theatre
 * WikiProject Musical Theatre
 * WikiProject Stagecraft
 * WikiProject Dance
 * Experimental theatre - although this article itself could be much improved, there are lists of individuals and organizations for which pages could be created or expanded

Tools and templates

 * Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Cheatsheet for editing Wikipedia
 * Writing an article
 * About the Sandbox