REED RUSHES
RESUME
EDUCATION
2021 Master of Fine Arts Bard College NY USA
2015 Bachelor Degree with Honors, English and Performance, Queen Mary University London UK
2014 Hunter College NYC USA (Award - 1 year study abroad)
2012 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design with Merit, Sculpture, University of the Arts London UK
SELECTED WORK
2023 Exult, Entrance
2023 Cry, The Park Avenue Armory, Trans Oral History Project
2023 <3 of Matter, The Arts Centre LMCC, Heartbr(ache) Club
2023 The Beach, The Locker Room and Dirty Magazine, Rockaway Beach NYC
2023 CORNDOG, Performance Space New York, Art Omi New York
2022 Reverence, BOFFO performance festival, Fire Island
2022 don’t let worms spoil your apples, Pageant Space, Brooklyn NYC, Otion Front, Brooklyn NYC
2021 Holding *Sighs*, close alternative, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College
2020 Sensitive Plumbing, NOW20 Festival, The Yard Theatre London
2019 FISHY, National UK tour: Live Art Bistro, Leeds UK, Next Festival, The Yard Theatre London UK, The Cube Microplex Bristol UK
2019 Stan and The Sea, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London UK, Vogue Fabrics, London UK
2018 FISHY, Humberton Gallery, Hull UK, Steakhouse Live Festival, Rich Mix London UK
2018 Manly Stanley, Eat Sleep Drag Repeat, SWX Bristol UK
2018 Push It, The Ugly Duckling London UK
2017 Did You Get That From Your Mother, National UK tour: The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton UK, BUZZCUT Festival, Glasgow UK, Camden People’s Theatre, London UK, Artsadmin London UK, Leeds City Museum, Leeds UK, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich UK
2017 Push It, Camden Peoples Theatre, London UK
2017 Manly Stanley, Brighton Pride, The Marlborough Theatre, Brighton UK
2016 Did You Get That From Your Mother, SPILL Festival National Platform, Ipswich UK
2016 Manly Stanley, Metropolitan Bar, NYC, Bushwig, Happy Fun Hideaway NYC, And What? Queer Arts Festival, Hackney Showrooms London, The Glory, London UK
2015 Your Mother’s Milk Latitude Festival, UK, Artsadmin London UK, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club London UK, Peopling The Palace(s) Festival, Queen Mary University London
2015 Lady Vag, Ausform Festival, The Cube Bristol UK, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London UK
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Online Periodicals
Ben Kulvichit: “Review: NOW Week 4 at The Yard”, Exeunt Magazine, 16 February 2020.
http://exeuntmagazine.com/reviews/review-now-week-4-yard/
Jessica Karlsen: “Low Stakes: A Micro Festival Opens this Weekend in London” Cuntemporary,
February 16, 2017. https://cuntemporary.org/low-stakes/
Minnie Stephenson: “Put a Sock In It - all rise for the UK's drag kings”, The Guardian, 23 June 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2016/jun/23/put-a-sock-in-it-all-rise-
for-the-uks-drag-kings
Lyn Gardener: “1972: The Future of Sex at Edinburgh festival review -high price of free love”, The
Guardian, 23 August 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/23/1972-the-future-of-sex-at-edinburgh-festi-
val-review-high-price-of-free-love
Film
2019 My Mama a Man, dir. Helena Middleton, BFI Flare March, London 2020, Margate Film Festival, Margate 2020, Underwire Film Festival, London 2019
2017 Manly Stanley Takes New York, dir. Shelby Coley, Iris Film Festival, Cardiff UK 2017, Won Audience Award for Best Women’s Short, qFLIX Philadelphia 2017, Vivid Glances, Anthology Film Archives NYC 2019
Radio
The Bicast Podcast, “Vivid Glances”, BiNet, 5 March 2019. https://thebicast.org/2019/03/05/vivid-
glances/
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
Blogs
“Queerness & The Anthropocene,” Arts Admin blog, May 13th 2019
https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/q-u-e-e-r-n-e-s-s-a-n-d-t-h-e-a-n-t-h-r-o-p-o-c-e-n-e/
Books
“Dispelling Taboos: Queer Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Sexuality,” 1972: The Future Of Sex, Nick
Hern Books 2019
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Visiting Artist Columbia University
2021 Teaching Fellow Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine
2018 Visiting Professor Ensemble performance MA, Rose Bruford College London.
RESIDENCIES
Can Serrat, Barcelona Spain 2023
Mount Lebanon Residency 2022
Performance Space New York (group residency) 2022
Otion Front Studio New York 2022
Live Art Development Agency London 2018
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2019 Sweat: The Sky Leaks I Leak, Scottish Sculpture Workshop UK
2019 SWEAT, Live Art Development Agency London UK
2019 Drag Personas Fast Forward Feminism Festival, University College London UK
2019 Intuitive Making Centre for Live Art Yorkshire UK
2019 Intuitive Making The Hastings Academy UK
2017 Gut Reactions Live Art Development Agency London UK
2016 The Future of Sex Shoreditch Town Hall London UK
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Low Stakes Party #1 #2 Vogue Fabrics Dalston, London UK
2017 Low Stakes Festival New River Studios London UK
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020 Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grant
2018 Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grant
2017 Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grant
COMMISIONS
2020 The Yard Theatre, performance piece Sensitive Plumbing for NOW20 Festival.
2018 The Yard Theatre, performance piece FISHY for NEXT Festival.