Susana Cook

Photo: Marlene Ramirez Cancio

Overlooked - Overworked - Immigrant Soldier - Her blood, sweat and tears are the backbone of our nation - She cleans your toilets - She makes your sandwiches - She walks your dogs - She fucks your wife

Born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a New York based performance artist who has been writing and producing original work for over 16 years. Some of her most recent shows are Dykenstein, Hamletango, Prince of Butches, Gross National Product, Hot Tamale, Conga Guerrilla Forest, The Fraud, Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop, Rats:The Fantasy of Extermination . She performed and taught workshops at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Yale University, Barnard College, The Kitchen, PS122, WOW Cafe Theater, Dixon Place and The Bronx Museum of The Arts. She created and Directed Tango Lesbiango, a monthly series at Manhattan Neighborhood Network in Public Access Cable Television.

See video of Sermon of Seven or More Words, (11 min/256K), NYC, July 2003.