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UNTITLED Musical Project Presents ~ D’LOURDES, Lisa Stephen Friday, & Déa and the Drips
A night of togetherness and music, celebrating, and fundraising for the UNTITLED Musical Project Community at the Bureau, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center.
Featuring openings acts by D’LOURDES & Lisa Stephen Friday.
Déa and the Drips will play their upcoming debut album, Transvolution, a project about evolution and revolution. The songs promote authenticity and self-made beauty, and are poetry mixed with pain mixed with pleasure. Ranging from folky introspectives to punk anthems with shades of pop melancholy.
Sit, stand, sway, dance; for it will be joyful.
An interview with Déa about Transvolution:
https://switchbitchnoise.com/interview-dea-thatcher-on-transvolution-the-new-album/
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
UNTITLED is a not-for-profit dedicated to supporting musical theatre writers of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and their intersecting identities by fostering their work from inception. Through writers’ groups, developmental readings, dramaturgical support, and resources aimed to further artists’ professional careers in the creation of new musical theatre, UNTITLED creates a space and community where BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers can create bold, new, and challenging works.
D’LOURDES is a queer Filipino-American music artist who first appeared with the release of their self-titled EP in May of 2022. With the heart & lyrics of a singer songwriter, they blend alternative rock, funk, & RnB to cultivate a type of alternative pop that is purely their own. You can find them at the intersection of Alanis Morrisette, Paramore, and Olivia Rodrigo.
Lisa Stephen Friday (she, her, hers) is a singer, musician, actor, and theater maker based in New York City. Her work has awarded her a New York Voices commissioning for the 2025/26 season with Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Lisa’s work includes her one-woman show TRANS AM the musical, DOLL/GIRL (about the life and work of Greer Lankton), and her latest project: A Musical for Henrietta. In 2022, TRANS AM premiered at the Keegan Theater in Washington DC and was featured in the Hangar Theater’s summer season. TRANS AM made its New York City debut at Joe’s Pub in March. In 2023, DOLL/GIRL had its first public presentation at Judson Memorial Church, where Lisa and co-creator Joseph Ritsch were artists in residence. TRANS AM will be featured at Joe’s Pub in September 2025, thanks to collaborative efforts with the WP Theater and New York State Council on The Arts. From 2000-2006, Lisa fronted and wrote songs for the band Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday. They were a featured act at NYC’s CBGB’s and headlined the monthly party Homocorp and shared the stage with bands such as The Psychedelic Furs, The Motels, and Pat Benatar. Recent theater credits include Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue at The Human Race Theater in the role of Adlene and Pipeline Theatre Company’s World Premiere of House of Telescopes. Prior to her years with Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday, Lisa worked as an actor and singer in NYC, performing in regional productions at theaters like Goodspeed Opera House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Ordway Theater. In 1999, Lisa toured the country with the National touring company of the Buddy Holly Story.
THE DRIPS are a new BK based Indie trio that fuses together a gnarly potion of folk, pop, & punk-rock. The coven is made up of Déa, Aspen, and Caro, who met on a moonlit night in a dunkin-donuts parking lot. Their hex-proof cauldron bubbling with musical musings is specially brewed to seduce queer comrades far and wide.