Gideon Jacobs stages a technospiritual crisis at EARTH
...Veronica Thomas, played by Emily Allan. A live feed of Jacobs’ face, projected in close-up behind him, gives the scene a surreal doubling effect. Allan’s...
At ‘Montez Got Talent,’ karaoke is a competitive sport
...called ‘queer rap,’” they remark, quoting their own Wikipedia page after Emily Allan performs Eminem’s “8 Mile,” “you are the Joan Didion of rap.” These...
Emily Allan’s ‘Steps to Destruction‘ propels listeners on a serpentine journey
...clarity.” How hard does the serpent fight? Mitchell sings about a “split tongue spirit” who tells the singer that “your serpent cannot be denied.” Forty-seven...
Fine Print: Poetry by any means necessary
...Thing, published by anonymous). I settled on a floor cushion for a bout of Jell-O wrestling equally psychoanalytic and psychedelic between Emily Allan and Betsey...
Mara Mckevitt’s cult of persona
...Emily Allan plays her in Mckevitt’s short film, Val, the New York premiere of which my publication The Whitney Review is presenting at Metrograph on...
Erin Grant celebrates her New York premiere with a night of cinematic illusions
...Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey displayed the 2021 piece they’d written and directed, Byron and Shelley: Illuminati Detectives. As the title suggests, it depicts the...
50 years at church with the Poetry Project
...with you, Emily Allan,” gushed Gentili, the hour’s host (each hour is helmed by a different poet). Later Allan wrote to me about the fraught...
