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JAMIE SNEIDER Born in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts Lives and works in Los Angeles, CaliforniaEducation: 1998 BFA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, The Experimental Theatre Wing, New York, NY Performance Art Teachers: Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, Dan Hurlin and Carmelita Tropicana
Solo Performance Art (Writer and Performer): 2001 Bad is Bad, Naughty is Naughty, NYC UNCOVERED: PS122 Field Trips curated by Mark Russell at The Copenhagen International Theater Festival (KIT), Copenhagen, Denmark Wow! So This is Denmark…, NYC UNCOVERED: PS122 Field Trips curated by Mark Russell at The Copenhagen International Theater Festival (KIT), Copenhagen, Denmark Bad is Bad, Naughty is Naughty, The Talking Dance Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY
2000 Smore Whore, Here Arts Center, March 2000 Circle-O-Wigwam, Performance Space 122, New York, NY
1999 Brown and Blue, The Red Room Theater, New York, NY
1998 Brown and Blue, The New York international Theater Festival, The Kraine Theater, New York, NY Brown and Blue, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
1996 Performance Art with the Living Theatre, Krakow, Poland
Group Performance Art/Solo Shows: 2003 Best Friends Forever, Grove Street Playhouse, New York, NY
2002 Slumber Party, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY Slumber Party, Surf Reality, New York, NY
2000 Miami, The Alien Comic’s Full Moon Show with Jonathan Ames curated by Tom Murrin, Dixon Place, New York, NY Smore Whore, Curated by Vanessa Hidary, Center Stage NY, New York, NY
1999 Spear-O-Wigwam, Avant-Garde-Arama curated by Mark Russel and Sally May, Performance Space 122, New York, NY
1998 A Family Portrait, Preaching to the Perverted, The HOT! Festival Curated by Holly Hughes, Dixon Place, New York, NY Brown and Blue, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium at New York University, New York, NY
1996 Solo Performance Piece with The Living Theater, Krakow, Poland
Bibliography: 2010 Broyles, Addie. “Chatter: June Cleaver’s gift to women, Jewish foodie’s naked calendar…”, THEFEMINISTKITCHEN.COM, November, 2010 Ramsay, Cythina. “Sex ‘n’ religion on TV”, JEWISH INDEPENDENT, October 2010 Verbin, Dan. “The Naked Naches of Jamie Sneider”, SHALOMLIFE.COM, October 2010 Greenwald, David. “Reconnecting Reluctantly”, BRAND X, THE LOS ANGLES TIMES, September 2010 Greenwald, David. “X Questions: Reluctantly Moving to L.A.’s Jamie Sneider”, LATIMES.COM, THISISBRANDX.COM, September 2010
2009 Noxon, Christopher. “The Rise of the Hot Jewish Girl”, DETAILS MAGAZINE, December 2009
2008 Hallock, Betty. “Small Bites: 2009 — Year of the Pickle?”, LOS ANGELES TIMES DAILY DISH BLOG, December 2008 Firestone, Jay. “Jamie Sneider’s ‘Jewish Woman’ Ain’t Your Bubbe’s Calendar”, JEWISH JOURNAL, December 2008 Pauline, Jessica. “Interview: Jamie Sneider, The Sexiest Menorah Ever”, LAIST.COM, December 2008 Lewis, Tom. “Comedian Jamie Sneider”, BOSTONIST.COM, December 2008 Miller, Jeff. “The Year of the Jewish Woman”, THRILLIST.COM, December 2008 Gersten, Lana. “Calendar Girl’s Year”, THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD, November 2008 Edroso, Roy. “Kosher Nude Calendar Girl Gets Play in Forward”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, November 2008
2001 Clancy, John. “The Feral Children’s Crusade”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, December 2001 Dithmer, Monna. “Off-Off Broadway”, POLITIKEN (Danish Newspaper), August 2001 Donohue, Maura. “Searching for Einstein on a P.S. 122 Field Trip to Copenhagen”, DANCEINSIDER.COM, August 2001 Jowitt, Deborah. “Speak to me!”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, March 2001 Yung, Susan: “DanceDanceDance at the Kitchen”, DANCEINSIDER.COM, February 2001 Kourlas, Gia. “DANCE; Movement Leavened With Language”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, January 2001
2000 Werner, Frank. “Naughty Girls: New Obscenity in New York”, BALLET-TANZ INTERNATIONAL, June 2000 Cram, Cusi. “Flying Solo: The Phenomenon of the One-Person Show”, TheaterMania.com, April 2000 Soloski, Alexis. “Pick of the Week, Circle-O-Wigwam”, VILLAGE VOICE, April 2010 Denton, Martin. “Circle-O-Wigwam”, THE NEW YORK THEATRE EXPERIENCE, March 2000 Murrin, Tom. “Wild, Wild West: Jamie Sneider Tackles Her Own Taboos”, PAPER MAGAZINE, March 2000
1999 Murrin, Tom. “Performance Pick: Brown and Blue”, PAPER MAGAZINE, February 1999 Lefkowitz, David. “Jamie Sneider Makes a Splash with Brown and Blue”, January 1999
1998 Glassie, John. “No Chickens Will be Harmed”, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, August 1998 Goodman, Elizabeth. “Comedy: Brown and Blue”, TIME OUT, August 1998 Goodman, Elizabeth. “Paint It Black: Warped Clowns and other dark matter take to the Fringe Festival’s Comedy Stage”, August 1998 Parks, Brian. “Choices Theater: Brown and Blue”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, August 1998 “NY Fringe Festival Picks”, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, August 1998
TV/Radio: 2010 Sex + Religion, Documentary on VisionTV, Directored by Liam Romalis, Episode 104: Sex + Religion on Display, a documentary featuring Jamie Sneider and Leonard Nimoy — artists who combine sex and religion.
2008 Jamie Sneider’s Calendar, KTLA Morning News, November 26, 2008 Night Calls, Jamie Sneider and her calendar, Playboy Radio, Los Angeles, CA, December 4, 2008
Grants/Awards: 2010 Official nominee for a Webby Award for “Reluctantly Moving to L.A.” (www.reluctantla.com) 2000 Jerome Foundation Grant for Performance Art 1998 New York University Founder’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship 1996 Appointed to New York University’s Dean’s Leadership Circle 1995 Shoah Foundation Grant
Other Projets: Creator and writer of “Reluctantly Moving to LA” a performance art blog.