FILM AND VIDEO ARTIST, DIRECTOR, ANIMATOR, PRODUCER, ACTRESS AND ARTISAN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA
Bio
Dee Dee Russell is a multi-media-award-
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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and based in San Francisco since the 1980's, Dee Dee is equally at home on broadcast television (behind and in front of the camera), cyberspace, ensemble theatre, solo theatre, and with animation, wearable art, gallery arts, and performance art.
Says Dee Dee: "As a childhood cartoonist my major influence was Mad Magazine and my tween obsession with the music of Stevie Wonder tenderized the satire. At heart I am a colorful satirist with a lot to say and I use multi media to get the point across. I love public speaking and I prefer directing and editing.
Dee Dee has received critical acclaim as an actress, and has written and starred in several of her own solo plays. She is a dedicated bohemian, web designer, expert editor, and radio host, and has a body of prize-winning work featured on Entertainment Tonight, PBS, NBC, CBS, and festivals worldwide. Dee Dee's plays and films have received numerous grants, awards, and critical acclaim, and she has performed coast to coast.
AWARDS:
DEE DEE TV the one and only SF Public Cable Show
"Best Public Access Entertainment Program" award - Media Alliance National Video Awards
"Spirit of Public Access" award - Channel 29 San Francisco
"Conceptual/Experimental"
"MasterMind" award - SF Weekly
"Best of San Francisco" - SF Weekly
...more than 500 weekly episodes, since 1995.
'YES MEANS YES' (No Means No), Dramatic Short Film, written by and
starring Dee Dee Russell
A powerful, interracial date rape drama co-produced with Carol Leigh (Scarlot Harlot). Lighting by Richard Lefrak.
A ground breaking portrayal of sexual assault and a sharp satire on interracial sexual perceptions (Video/Film 8 mins.)
Winner:
"1ST Prize for Fiction" - Visions of US Video Contest , administered by the American Film Institute
"Best Narrative" - Brooklyn Council For The Arts
"First Prize" - Marche' De Amiems (France)
"Black Filmmakers Hall Of Fame"
"Honorable Mention" - San Francisco International Film Festival
"Honorable Mention", Global Africa, sponsored by Peralta College Television
"Honorable Mention", Artswatch festival, Louisville, Kentucky
Featured screenings of YES MEANS YES:
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT (EXCERPT)
PBS (PUBLIC BROADCAST TELELVISION)
PBS (PUBLIC BROADCAST TELELVISION)
DENVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR FESTIVAL (Paris)
MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
"Best of the (Mill Valley) festival," - SENTINEL and SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY
"It's An Honor To Be Nominated", Animation
The crazy cartooned adventures of Art Girl (Dee Dee's alter ego) as we experience her angst and anxiety at receiving a cable TV award nomination, and her impassioned view of the world around her.
"Dee Dee Russell energetically invades the boys-only world of video comics with "It's an Honor to be Nominated!" -SF Weekly
"Best of Festival, Comedy" - Berkley Video Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival (world Premiere)
Film Arts Festival
Bay Area Now Video Series
Free Speech TV
One Woman Plays -Written and Performed by Dee Dee Russell
Nubian Princess Workhorse - Climate Theatre -San Francisco
The Church of James Brown - Footwork -San Francisco
Miss Artsy Boho Diva - Center for African American Arts and Culture -San Francisco
The Adventures of Art Girl - Solo Mio/Climate Theatre -San Francisco
The Adventures of Art Girl - Dixon Place, New York City
The Adventures of Art Girl - Cafe Largo, Hollywood
The Adventures of Art Girl - Afro Solo - San Francisco
Noserings, Motorcycles and Tattoos - New Langton Arts - San Francisco
Super Bad, Super Freaky, Avant Garde Art Mama - (On tour with Cultural Odyssey) Aaron Davis Hall, Harlem New York
Art Girl's Big Art Show - Afro Solo, City College, San Francisco
and more!
and more!
Commedia Dell'arte, Dramatic Acting with
the SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
(private training with Dan Cumbley) |
| As the slave girl Topsy in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's I AIN'T YO UNCLE |
I Ain't Yo' Uncle, San Francisco Mime Troupe Weast Coast Tour - Hollywood, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle (and points between).
...as Slave Girl Topsy.
"Explosive" - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Explosive" - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Russell's Topsy is much more than a figure of comic relief." - Los Angeles Times
INDEPENDENT FILMS
Welcome to San Francisco - Racial satire about the effects of gentrification in the Haight/Filmore district of San Francisco in the 1990s featuring a cast of SF Mime Troupe actors. Funded by San Francisco's Film Arts Foundation
It's An Honor To Be Nominated - hilarious quasi-confessional video comic book about the after-effects of losing at an awards ceremony (ironically this piece about losing an award, won awards!).
The LaToya Jackson Experiment -video collaboration with Scarlot Harlot about a woman being dosed with a drug that makes her act like LaToya Jackson. Shot on location at San Francisco's Ocean Beach
And many more underground films and comical skits!
And many more underground films and comical skits!
Notable Quotes
"Much more than a figure of comic relief" - Los Angeles Times
"Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Saul Zantz aren't the only prizewinning movie makers around here, Dee Dee won first prize for fiction from the prestigious American Film Institute in Hollywood" -Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle
"I love you!" - Roseanne Barr
"If you hear of see that Dee Dee Russell is performing, go!" -Fad Magazine
"In TV, Dee Dee is must-see" - San Francisco Examiner
"Explosive" - Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Dee Dee tells it like it is" - SF Weekly
"Art Girl, able to animate her way through the legendary San Francisco arts scene in a single bound" - Mill Valley Film Festival
"I've watched you speak" - Craig Newmark, Craigslist
"Destined to become a star" - SF Guardsman
Featured Performance, Stand Up Comedy Celebrity Judge, and Anti-Fashion Shows
San Francisco Straights - With Tony Sparks at 7 Mile House, Brainwash, and The Blue Room Comedy
San Francisco Straights - With Marga Gomez, The Marsh, Berkeley
Opener for The Cramps - San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco Straights - With Marga Gomez, The Marsh, Berkeley
Opener for The Cramps - San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium
Celebrity Judge, John Waters Xmas - Castro Theatre
Celebrity Judge, Slims -
Faux Drag Queen Pageant -
Featured comedy/performance series:
Brainwash
ATA (Artists Television Access)
Featured comedy/performance series:
Brainwash
ATA (Artists Television Access)
The Blue Room Comedy
The Marsh
The Marsh
Paradise Lounge
The Victoria Theatre
The Victoria Theatre
DNA Lounge - special event performances/productions ('Jesse Helms Nasty Ass Nieces', 'Hand Bag Heaven Handbag Hell', The Anti-Fashion Show', more)
The Bohemian Arts Ball -Jezebel's Joint (curated by Dee Dee with featured performer Dr. Carol Carol Queen)
The Bohemian Arts Ball -Jezebel's Joint (curated by Dee Dee with featured performer Dr. Carol Carol Queen)
SomArts Bazaar
Life On The Water
Life On The Water
The Albion Club
more.
Solo and Group Art Exhibitions (Paintings, Art Ties, Handbag Art)
JELLYFISH GALLERY
ANON SALON
CLIMATE THEATRE
Varnish
Sublounge
Naughty Santa's
Cafe International
Phoenix Inn - Handbag Heaven, Handbag HellJELLYFISH GALLERY
ANON SALON
CLIMATE THEATRE
Varnish
Sublounge
Naughty Santa's
Cafe International
Brainwash
The DNA Lounge
SomArts
Bohemian Chicks Art Show (all female arts show curated by Dee Dee at several galleries in San Francisco including Jellyfish Gallery)
D.I. Y. Do it yourself group Art show@ Tehema Gallery
and more!
and more!
Visions of US at The American Film Institute
Film Arts Festival
East Bay Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
3 Minute Film Festival
3 Minute Film Festival
Women In The Directors Chair (Chicago)
Neighborhood Video Project (Philadelphia)
Black Film Makers Hall of Fame (Oakland, CA)
Women of Color Videomakers's Festival
W.O.W. Cafe Women's Video Festival
Downtown Community Television
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
2nd Annual Multi Cultural Festival.
and more! Thanks for visiting!
Make sure to visit www.69forsix.com our crowdfunding filmmakers pledge drive with 69 videos to 69 celebrities to fund our six new documentary films!
Thank you for visiting.
and more! Thanks for visiting!
Make sure to visit www.69forsix.com our crowdfunding filmmakers pledge drive with 69 videos to 69 celebrities to fund our six new documentary films!
Thank you for visiting.
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