Chelsea Rector

Chelsea Rector writes and teaches about art, with an MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, Riverside. She keeps poems here: www.crimpingiron.tumblr.com. Chelsea inhabits the theater, as a player in Los Angeles’ own Gawdafful National Theater Company, and performs with Caitlin Adams’ Dynasty Center Dance Project. In 2009 Chelsea began a long-term holiday music project, True Holiday Classic (Vol. I-III), while other original vocal and instrumental music is heard on her 2013 cassette, Popular American Song. In 2015 Chelsea co-formed BEST FRIENDS, an experimental movement and performance ensemble based in Los Angeles.

Productions (as Cast):

“Sorry Atlantis, Eden's Achin' Organ Seeks Revenge”, “Purple Electric Play”, “The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance”, “See What Love the Father Has Given Us”

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Bryatt Bryant, Joe Seely, Kensington Smith, Paul Outlaw, Philip Littell, Zut Lorz

Two actors kneeling on a dark stage, pressing palms together, lit by warm dramatic lighting

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Zut Lorz

Actor with face wrapped tightly in clear plastic sheeting, head bowed, dramatic dark background

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance"

Two actors touching tongues in an intimate theatrical moment, dark stage background, dramatic lighting

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Zut Lorz

Actor in silver polka-dot dress and white jacket performs dramatically on dark stage under spotlights, arms outstretched, fists clenched, mouth open

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance"

Rehearsal of The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: Haruko Tanaka

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Joe Seely

Photo by Marianne Williams.

→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Joe Seely, Kensington Smith, Paul Outlaw, Philip Littell, Zut Lorz

Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber

→ "Sorry Atlantis, Eden's Achin' Organ Seeks Revenge", Joe Seely, Michael Bonnabel, Paul Outlaw, Zut Lorz