Stacy Makishi is a Hawaiian-born performance artist, physical theatre and live art specialist.
[1] Her work often involves combining autobiographical experience and comedy with inspiration from fictional sources, such as Hollywood movies or novels.
With this Arthole, I will have time and resources to: make it, avoid it, study it, wrestle it, do it, explore it, hate it and love it.
[10] Salad of the Bad Café (1999) is a cabaret written by Makishi, Peggy Shaw, and Lois Weaver.
It uses the lives of Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishima as inspiration to explore themes around race, gender and regional stereotypes.
[2] She created a solo show which centred around the film, telling the story through themes of deceit versus truth with comedy and pranks.
[15] Makishi created a large scale audio walk called And The Stars Down So Close that took place in Islington in 2012.
[18] Under The Covers (2015) is a performance directed by Makishi with Nathaniel J Hall and Nathan Crosson-Smith and produced by Contact.
[20] The Comforter (2017–2018) draws inspiration from American Drama series Twin Peaks, Ingmar Bergman and '80s and '90s pop culture in her solo piece.