Asked and Answered | Justin Bond
By TIM MURPHY
December 7, 2010, 2:05 pm
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/asked-and-answered-justin-bond/Since captivating the downtown performance scene of the 1990s as Kiki, the singing, boozing, yarn-spinning half of the drag cabaret duo Kiki and Herb, the Maryland native Justin Bond has become a witty, kitten-heeled fixture of the New York avant-garde. Bond, who is in his 40s and identifies as transgender, was the mistress of ceremonies in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 indie film "Shortbus," and in October he performed at the Kitchen with his House of Whimsy Players in "Re:Galli Blond (A Sissy Fix)," a self-penned musical spectacle of transgender oppression and uplift. From the phone in his East Village loft, he chatted about his latest project, "Justin Bond: Christmas Spells," opening Dec. 9 at Abrons Arts Center.
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So let's talk about the Christmas show. You've adapted a short story by the venerable transgender performer Kate Bornstein into a mini-play.
She's my friend and a big mentor from my San Francisco days, and she sent me a story she wrote called "Dixie Belle: The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." It imagines Huck Finn as a ->-bleeped-<- hooker in a brothel in New Orleans after the Civil War.
