Morgan Bassichis

Morgan Bassichis
Born	1983 Newton, MA
Website	www.morganbassichis.com

Morgan Bassichis (born 1983) is an American comedic performer and writer, living and working in New York City. ^[1]

Early life

Bassichis was born in Newton, MA in 1983. ^[2] Bassichis actively participated in theater growing up. Their parents were progressive social workers. ^[3]

They inherited political zeal and musical taste from their mother. ^[4] After graduating from college, they worked for ten years as an anti-prison activist and educator in San Francisco. ^[5]

Politics

Bassichis is active in the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. ^[6]

Artistic practice

Performances

• Can I Be Frank? - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club - Directed by Sam Pinkleton - (2024)
• A Crowded Field - Abrons Arts Center - (2023)
• Questions to Ask Beforehand - Bridget Donahue Gallery - Directed by Tina Satter - (2022)
• Don't Rain On My Bat Mitzvah - Creative Time - Rashid Johnson's Red Stage - Co-created with Ira Khonen Temple - (July 4, 2021)
• Nibbling the Hand That Feeds Me - 2019 Whitney Biennial - curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta ^[7]
• Klezmer for Beginners - Abrons Arts Center - Co-created with Ethan Philbrick - (2019)
• Damned If You Duet - The Kitchen - (2018) ^[8]
• More Protest Songs! - Danspace Project - (2018)
• Me But Also Everybody (Part IV) - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - (2018) ^[9]
• The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical - the New Museum - (2017) ^[10]
• Senior Energy - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - (2017) ^[11]
• Me, But Also Everybody! (Part 1-III) - MoMA PS1 - (2015) ^[12]

Grants, residencies, & awards

• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation - 2017 Resident ^[13]
• Art Matters Foundation - 2015 Grantee ^[14]
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - 2015 Process Space Artist ^[15]

Writing

• The Odd Years (Wendy's Subway, 2020) ^[16]
• Essay in the 2019 edition of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (Nightboat Books) ^[17]
• co-ed. Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy's Subway, 2023) ^[18]

Further reading

• Brewer Ball, Katherine (June 22, 2017). "Interview with Morgan Bassichis". BOMB magazine.

References

1. "[WORLD PREMIERE] Morgan Bassichis and Ethan Philbrick: Klezmer for Beginners". Abrons Arts Center. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
2. "Partial View: Whitney Biennial 2019". www.whitney.org. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378. Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 2020-07-01.
5. Brostoff, Marissa (2019-05-23). "Morgan Bassichis's Haunted American Songbook". The Nation. ISSN   0027-8378 . Retrieved 2020-07-01.
6. Black-Jewish Alliance in Conversation: Jewish Radical Futures
7. "Whitney Museum Announces 2019 Biennial Participants, But One Artist Withdraws". Hyperallergic. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
8. "The Kitchen: Morgan Bassichis: Damned If You Duet". thekitchen.org.
9. "Morgan Bassichis, Me But Also Everybody (Part IV) (2018)". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
10. "Morgan Bassichis: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions The Musical, Pt. I". www.newmuseum.org.
11. "Morgan Bassichis and Senior Energy". PICA. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
12. "MoMA PS1: Greater New York: Morgan Bassichis Me, But Also Everybody! (Part II) : Thursday, December 10, 2015". momaps1.org. Archived from the original on March 24, 2019. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
13. "Past Residents". Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 15 October 2014.
14. "Morgan Bassichis". Art Matters Foundation.
15. Studio, Familiar (11 April 2019). "Morgan Bassichis". Movement Research. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
16. Rodney, Seph (2020-10-09). "Documenting These Last Few Years In Order to Survive Them". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
17. "Faggots, Dykes, and Fairies: Welcome to the world of "The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions"". Interview Magazine. 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
18. Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah on the publisher's website