Alex Tatarsky, Sad Boys in Harpy Land

Created & Performed by Alex Tatarsky
Live Music by Shane Riley
Directed by Iris McCloughan
Scenic, Props, Costume Design by Andreea Mincic
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Developed with Eva Steinmetz
Dramaturgy by Basie Allen, Lisa Fagan
Stage Management by Payton Smith

Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant, sometimes with songs. Playing with perceptions of language and narrative structure, their live performances are highly responsive to venue and audience, often breaking the fourth wall and embracing humor to reveal vulnerability and humanity. Recent works include DIRT TRIP (MoMA PS1), Untitled Freakout (The Kitchen), Buttplug Gnome (Gibney Dance), and Americana Psychobabble (La Mama, Jacob’s Pillow). They have been a Pew Fellow, a Movement Research artist-in-residence, a curatorial fellow at The Poetry Project, an Independence Fellow, a Jilline Ringle artist-in-residence, and was a featured artist in The Whitney Biennial 2024. Along with artist Ming Lin, Tatarsky is one half of Shanzhai Lyric and its fictional office Canal Street Research Association, with recent presentations at Sculpture Center, Artists Space, Henry Moore Institute, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and Greater NY at MoMA PS1.