TeatroStageFest hosts a TalkBack with Erika Lopez, author/star of The Welfare Queen, as part of the NYC Latin Media and Entertainment Commission's second annual Latin Media and Entertainment Week. The Welfare Queen is a co-presentation by Monster Girl Media, BAAD and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center.

Show Dates:Sept. 22-24 and Oct. 6-8 at 8PM
TalkBack Date: October 7 at 9:30PM, immediately following the 8PM performance
Venue: Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center
Los Kabayitos Theater, 2nd Floor
107 Suffolk Street,New York, NY 10002
Tickets: $15 - $25. TalkBack is included in the price of admission.
To purchase tickets, click here or call 1-800-838-3006
For more information, call  212-260-4080, ext 11

In The Welfare Queen, Kitten Lopez (Erika Lopez's alter ego) portrays a woman who
once had it all: many lovers, published books, and a life of farting in
silk sheets.When she lost it all, she found herself on the welfare line
having to claw her way out of that abyss. She's now back, proudly
wearing her crown as The Welfare Queen, ready to tell the world that
life with its ups and downs ain't so bad. Each evening features a
different opening act.

ABOUT ERIKA LOPEZ
Erika Lopez is a cartoonist, novelist, performance artist and co-founder
of Monster Girl Media, a multi-media company of books, movies and
merchandise, that published The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir
along with the matching The Girl Must Die: 18 Postcards. Her first book,
Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing, was published
by Simon and Schuster. Lopez is best known for the characters of
“Grandma Lopez” and "The Welfare Queen" which she created when she began
to receive welfare after her fight with Simon & Schuster. She has
performed at locations as varied as San Francisco, Edinburg, London,
Manchester, and Oslo.

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