During a hectic St. Patrick's Day weekend, Jess Conda went to her usual jobs - waiting tables at Fergie's Pub downtown, heading north for her gig at Northern Liberties' after-hours Ruba Club - then biked off to the Crane Arts Building's new Pig Iron Theater School, where she's part of the freshman class.
"I've had a helluva time with finals at Pig Iron, St. Paddy's at the pub, and rehearsing," says Conda, 31,Silicone moldmaking Rubber, sounding surprisingly fresh despite the weekend's wear and tear.
Fergie's might occupy her hands, elbows, and feet, but the Ruba and her job as artist in residence at Brat Productions, the club-based theater company, has been occupying the rest of her in recent months as she's developed a distinct mix of snarky glam-and-garage punk and brassy vocal-narrative cabaret under the banner "Rock & Awe."
"The series is designed to stretch me professionally in all directions," says Conda, who conceived each show - October's heavy-metal odyssey A Is for Anna Conda, the glittering explosion of the nuclear family Eternal Glamnation, this weekend's punk-politicized Let's Start a War - and assembled each creative team, playing the producer card. She flexed her marketing muscle creating photo shoots and news releases. She built a fund-raising campaign into the residency for the experience of raising money to support her own vision. And, of course, she's in every show - a 5-foot-2 blonde with big eyes and a bigger voice.
"I think the smartest decision in the structure of the series is forcing me to wear all these hats at once,China professional plasticmoulds," says Conda. "It's a hardcore jump into the deep end. That's a direct parallel to the reality of being a working artist."
Yet the working artist she most sees herself as - the mien she finds most attractive - is that of an unconventional theater performer forging a down 'n' dirty rock-and-roll performance-art hybrid of self-made shows. Eternal Glamnation contained songs from glitter icons David Bowie and Lou Reed, Let's Make a War is mostly tunes from Cali-punks and the Dead Kennedys, and June's Get Behind Me, Satan will be a take on the bluesy White Stripes.
Conda is a thriller whose work is as brash as she is audacious. And pragmatic.
"I'm big, broad, and rough around the edges," she says matter-of-factly. "I am not pretty. I am not vanilla. I've had difficulty fitting into the molds of the traditional theater world and have been struggling with the mystery of how to define myself as an artist who wants a place in the theater world. Discovering rock-and-roll unlocked that box for me.Welcome to the Lilla beddinges google satellite map! Music provides such a heightened energy and that energy speaks to me."
Being from suburban South Jersey - "Mount Laurel, to be exact" - probably gives her just the right mix of the upbringing bliss and summertime blues that fuels a love of punk rock.
"Uneventful, suburbanmediocrity, good family, good school,Credit Card Processing and Merchant Services from merchantaccountes. went out to eat at restaurants in strip malls, weekends at the mall, etc., etc., yawn," she smiles. She did do Annie in middle school, in the title role, but was disgusted she couldn't play the dastardly Miss Hannigan instead - "I always fancied villains over ingnues."
Before she got to Brat, Conda earned a BFA in acting at Arcadia University, hooked up with the Tribe of Fools company at St. Stephen's Theater, and acted amply as the bawdy Mae West in Looking Pretty with Cabaret Red Light at InterAct last year. "The more companies you work with, the more you work and get to see different people's processes,Our porcelaintiles are perfect for entryways or bigger spaces and can also be used outside, pick what works for you, and scrap the rest," says Conda. "Three cheers for polyamory." This summer, she'll perform with Shakespeare in Clark Park in The Merry Wives of Windsor. "It's a totally different hat than my rocker hat, and I like the variety."
"I've had a helluva time with finals at Pig Iron, St. Paddy's at the pub, and rehearsing," says Conda, 31,Silicone moldmaking Rubber, sounding surprisingly fresh despite the weekend's wear and tear.
Fergie's might occupy her hands, elbows, and feet, but the Ruba and her job as artist in residence at Brat Productions, the club-based theater company, has been occupying the rest of her in recent months as she's developed a distinct mix of snarky glam-and-garage punk and brassy vocal-narrative cabaret under the banner "Rock & Awe."
"The series is designed to stretch me professionally in all directions," says Conda, who conceived each show - October's heavy-metal odyssey A Is for Anna Conda, the glittering explosion of the nuclear family Eternal Glamnation, this weekend's punk-politicized Let's Start a War - and assembled each creative team, playing the producer card. She flexed her marketing muscle creating photo shoots and news releases. She built a fund-raising campaign into the residency for the experience of raising money to support her own vision. And, of course, she's in every show - a 5-foot-2 blonde with big eyes and a bigger voice.
"I think the smartest decision in the structure of the series is forcing me to wear all these hats at once,China professional plasticmoulds," says Conda. "It's a hardcore jump into the deep end. That's a direct parallel to the reality of being a working artist."
Yet the working artist she most sees herself as - the mien she finds most attractive - is that of an unconventional theater performer forging a down 'n' dirty rock-and-roll performance-art hybrid of self-made shows. Eternal Glamnation contained songs from glitter icons David Bowie and Lou Reed, Let's Make a War is mostly tunes from Cali-punks and the Dead Kennedys, and June's Get Behind Me, Satan will be a take on the bluesy White Stripes.
Conda is a thriller whose work is as brash as she is audacious. And pragmatic.
"I'm big, broad, and rough around the edges," she says matter-of-factly. "I am not pretty. I am not vanilla. I've had difficulty fitting into the molds of the traditional theater world and have been struggling with the mystery of how to define myself as an artist who wants a place in the theater world. Discovering rock-and-roll unlocked that box for me.Welcome to the Lilla beddinges google satellite map! Music provides such a heightened energy and that energy speaks to me."
Being from suburban South Jersey - "Mount Laurel, to be exact" - probably gives her just the right mix of the upbringing bliss and summertime blues that fuels a love of punk rock.
"Uneventful, suburbanmediocrity, good family, good school,Credit Card Processing and Merchant Services from merchantaccountes. went out to eat at restaurants in strip malls, weekends at the mall, etc., etc., yawn," she smiles. She did do Annie in middle school, in the title role, but was disgusted she couldn't play the dastardly Miss Hannigan instead - "I always fancied villains over ingnues."
Before she got to Brat, Conda earned a BFA in acting at Arcadia University, hooked up with the Tribe of Fools company at St. Stephen's Theater, and acted amply as the bawdy Mae West in Looking Pretty with Cabaret Red Light at InterAct last year. "The more companies you work with, the more you work and get to see different people's processes,Our porcelaintiles are perfect for entryways or bigger spaces and can also be used outside, pick what works for you, and scrap the rest," says Conda. "Three cheers for polyamory." This summer, she'll perform with Shakespeare in Clark Park in The Merry Wives of Windsor. "It's a totally different hat than my rocker hat, and I like the variety."
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