'The Art of Becoming' Penny Arcade, a Lower East Side artist doing things her own way for decades
Born Susana Ventura, she began her career as a playwright at age 14 during a two year stint in the Sacred Heart Academy for Wayward Girls in Connecticut, which, ironically, was the punishment for running away from home.
It was a call from Ellen Stewart at LaMama that brought her back in 1981, for a role in “Nite Club,” a play about a plague. When her 1990 presentation “BITCH!DYKE!F*GHAG!WHORE!” debuted, it was “a runaway success … but my sold out shows were ignored by the press.” Working with longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner — who describes Arcade as “a feminist who doesn’t hate men” — she has begun the process of a planned multi-part project that references her rock and roll experimental theatre roots.
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