Dan Fishback

Dan Fishback (born November 4, 1981) is a queer-identified, Jewish-American performance artist, playwright and singer-songwriter, born in Washington, D.C. He lives and works in New York City, and is heavily associated with that city's anti-folk movement (The Advocate, April 25, 2006).

Plays

Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in NYC since 2003. He is a recipient of the 2007-2009 Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists. The resulting play, You Will Experience Silence (Stephen Brackett, dir.) debuted to critical acclaim in April 2009 at Dixon Place, where Fishback was an Artist-in-Residence. The following summer, he began a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony to develop two new plays, The Material World and The Mattachine Project.

In 2006, Performance Space 122 presented a mini-festival of his work in NO DIRECTION HOMO: The Many Identical Personae of Dan Fishback. Earlier pieces, including Please Let Me Love You and Boi with an i, have been performed at venues like Galapagos Art Space, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and the Sidewalk Cafe.

Cheese On Bread

Fishback also sings and writes songs in the anti-folk band Cheese On Bread, which has released two albums, Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby (Luv-a-Lot Records) in 2004 and The Search for Colonel Mustard in 2007. The band toured North America in 2005 and Europe in 2007.^[1][2]

Fishback's band, Cheese On Bread, has toured Europe and North America, and released its second album, The Search for Colonel Mustard, in 2007, in the United States and Japan.

The Faggots

While his work with Cheese On Bread is characteristically child-like, Fishback also fronts a darker band, The Faggots, which boasts a harder rock sound. Unlike Cheese On Bread, which has garnered mostly positive publicity, The Faggots have prompted controversy in the press.^[3][4]

Solo Recordings

By himself, Fishback has released one full-length solo album, Sweet Chastity (Luv-a-Lot Records), in 2005, followed by an EP of cover songs, Strange Little Faggots, in 2006, and Calendar Boys (Off-Stage Fright Productions, 2008). He will drop his new full length studio album, "Mammal," in 2010.

He also recorded an audio performance-art piece called Faggotssaywhat? for the 2007 Antifolk compilation album Anticomp Folkilation.

Miscellaneous

In September, 2006, Fishback was the subject of a piece on the PBS newsmagazine program In The Life. His essay, Times Are Changing, Reb Tevye, was published in Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer (Alyson Books, 2004). He regularly visits colleges all over the country to speak on queer and Jewish issues. Fishback has shared stages with Ani Difranco and Kimya Dawson as part of the punk dance troupe Underthrust.^[5]

References

1. ^ "Cheese on Bread's Myspace page". http://www.myspace.com/cheeseonbread. Retrieved 2007-07-31. 
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External links

• danfishback.com
• cheeseonbread.com
• feature in Boog City Newspaper
• antifolk.net
• luvalotrecords.com
• Village Voice
• Time Out NY
• Popnography.com
• Time Out NY

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