Although her training and background geared her for a life of sitting alone in a studio inhaling paint fumes, southern-born fashion plate Sharon Mama* Spell longed for a life before an audience. She moved to New York City from Hattiesburg, Mississippi (via Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) after earning a BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi in Painting and Drawing. Her visual art has been described as possessing a "fine and distanced beauty that suggests abstract expressionism." It wasn't very long after graduation that she dove headfirst in the cabaret performances, putting her fine and distanced beauty onstage, spouting abstract expressionist humor that everyone can relate to. Her show is more rock-n-roll than stand-up comedy, the kids dig it and you can dance as you laugh along to it (think Steve Martin + Pee Wee Herman + [Liz Taylor / Belle Barthe] = Mama Spell). She dances, tells stories and sings along to Casio tracks she recorded onto her iPod. Spell has performed her comedy at venues across the United States. Currently making her home in New York, she hosts a weekly variety show called Shrink @ Otto's Shrunken Head and in her spare time enjoys painting, being a model, and spending time with her Monkey and Press Agent Pony. |
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