Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback is an American performance artist, playwright and singer-songwriter who is heavily associated with New York City's anti-folk movement.
Life and work
Since 2003, Fishback has been performing and writing in New York City. His work includes overt, radical politics and humor as well as experimental and musical theater, punk rock, twee-pop, and solo performances based on monologues. Fishback is the Helix Queer Performance Network's director.Theatre
In 2011, he performed a multimedia solo piece called thirtynothing which combines biographical information and content about gay artists who have died. According to Time Out New York, The Material World is about "socialist Jews in the 1920s who share a house with Madonna, Britney Spears and a modern gay slacktivist." The Village Voice compared the historical complexity of You Will Experience Silence to the plays of Tony Kushner.Music
As a performing songwriter, Fishback started in the East Village's anti-folk scene. His band, Cheese On Bread, released two full-length albums, "Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby" and "The Search for Colonel Mustard", the latter of which was re-issued in Japan in 2010 on Moor Works Records. As a solo artist, Fishback has released several recordings, including "Sweet Chastity", "Strange Little Faggots", Calendar Boys, and "The Mammal Years". It featured contributions from Cheese on Bread guitarist Dibson T. Hoffweiler and Pansy Division Drummer Luis Illades. Fishback also fronted a hard rock band, The Faggots, which prompted controversy in the press.Fishback released a full-length solo album, Sweet Chastity, in 2005, followed by an EP of cover songs, Strange Little Faggots, in 2006, and Calendar Boys.
In 2007 Fishback recorded an audio performance-art piece called Faggotssaywhat? for the anti-folk compilation album Anticomp Folkilation.
In September 2006, Fishback was the subject of a piece on the PBS newsmagazine program In The Life.