One Week from Today

Cheryl B. Presents
PVC: The POETRY Vs. COMEDY VARIETY SHOW

February 28th, 8PM
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
F Train to Second Ave.
$6
www.myspace.com/pvcshow

PVC: The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show is neither an ordinary poetry slam nor a regular stand-up comedy show. PVC is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide. The show brings together the high-paced excitement of a poetry slam with the astute hilarity of smart, observational comedy.


EMCEE: Carolyn Castiglia (Caroline's)

STARRING:

Comedians
Margaret Dodge as Lubka Bubkova (Dodge City)
Giulia Rozzi (Mortified)
Jodi Wasserman (Comedy Central’s Premium Blend)

Poets
La Bruja (HBO/Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam)
Salena Godden (BBC Radio)
Robin Cloud as Angela Davison (Under The Pink Carpet)

MUSICAL GUEST: Adira Amram (The PIT)

Judges
Mindy Raf
Shawn Hollenbach
Ann Carr


PERFORMER BIOS

Comedians
Not-quite-post-Soviet Lubka Bubkova (Margaret Dodge ‘s twin cousin) is a renowned cosmetologist, author, lecturer, and male pageant (mangeant) coach. The global multitasker is gonna drop mad science on your asses, and it is gonna be off tha hizzook.

Giulia Rozzi is a performer and writer based in NYC & Boston. She
worked as a professional comedian at the Comedy Store in LA for over three years before returning to the east coast where she co-hosts and co-produces the monthly sex-themed storytelling 'Stripped Stories" at Mo Pitkins in NYC and the hit national show Mortified in NYC and Boston. This summer you can see her in her second solo show "Save the Date" about weddings, love and lame chicks. As a writer Giulia's been contributor to Glamour, Playgirl and is an associate-editor and contributor in the recently published Mortified anthology. Using her funny powers for good, Giulia also travels to schools to talk about food, fat, and fullness, which is also the topic if the book she is currently writing. www.giuliarozzi.com.

Jodi Wasserman has appeared on Comedy Centrals Premium Blend, BET's Comic View and plays clubs around the city. has appearedon Comedy Centrals Premium Blend, BET's Comic View and plays clubs around the city.

Poets
La Bruja, aka Caridad De La Luz, is a dynamic performer who makes an impact on the lives of the people she touches. On top of being an accomplished poet (she has performed on HBO/Russell Simmon's Def Poetry Jam), she is a rising figure in the music world; her debut album "Brujalicious" has been released to rave critical reviews and has received radio play and video play on Daddy Yankee's nationally syndicated Latin Hip Hop/Reggaeton radio show, "En Fuego", as well as Mun2 and MTV Tr3s and MTV Espanol. She's also an artist/activist who speaks out against racism, sexism, militarism and engages in the education of our youth.

Robin Cloud (as Angela Davison) Brooklyn based comic/actor/writer and host of the gay and lesbian entertainment show Under the Pink Carpet. With partner Karen B. Song, voted one of Go NYC's "America's Most Captivating Couples." Hoorah!

Salena Godden’s stories & poetry appears in such diverse places as underground publications Rising, Drawbridge, Dazed and Confused, The Illustrated Ape, Nude Magazine, Salzburg Review & Le Gun. Her fiction and poems have also been published in many anthologies including Penguin’s IC3, People, Serpents Tail’s Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton’s Oral. Most recently she had a short story depicting the seven-day bender titled 'The Last Big Drinky' included in anthology 'THE HANDBOOK TO DECADENCE' published by DEDALUS. Harper Collins won the auction for her childhood memoir ‘SPRINGFIELD ROAD’ expected in the shops in spring 2008.She is regularly heard reading and performing often on both BBC Radio 4’s Bespoken Word and BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. Renown in the 90’s for ‘taking poetry into clubs’ and nicknamed Salena Saliva - she records and performs in ska-punk-breakbeat duo SaltPeter with Peter Coyte. SaltPeter are currently being championed by both the legendary Charlie Gillet and Never Mind The Buzzcock’s Phill Jupitus and enjoying airplay on BBC 6 and BBC LDN. Signed to hip FRED LABEL SaltPeter latest single next single titled I’m Not Gay (limited edition 7-inch) is out April followed by the long awaited brand new album ‘HUNGER’S THE BEST SAUCE’ out in May 2007.