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ImageThe Cornell Department of Theatre, Film & Dance will host with University Lectures the April visit of performance artist and comedian Marga Gomez. Gomez will present "Long Island Iced Latina" on Thursday, April 22 at 4:30 pm in the Schwartz Center's Class of '56 Flexible Theatre. This performance is free and open to the public. This performance is also supported by the Cornell Council for the Arts and the Latina/o Graduate Student Coalition.

Long Island Iced Latina is a fired-up comedy for the dork in every Latino and the Latino in every dork. Award winning comedienne Marga Gomez begins by sharing the cultural confusion and chronic virginity she experienced as the only brown girl in a white high school then she switches gears to deliver an intoxicating manifesto for Latinos who can't speak Spanish, suck at Salsa, and suffer from Blonditis. In 2009 Long Island Iced Latina  was presented to full houses at Miami's South Beach Comedy Festival, New York's Teatro Stagefest, The National Hispanic Cultural Center in New Mexico and Princeton University, Central Michigan University and numerous national colleges.

Gomez, an original member of the Latino performance troupe Culture Clash, was born and raised in Manhattan, the child of a Cuban comedian father and Puerto Rican dancer mother. She is the author/performer of eight solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway and internationally. She is also one of America's first openly gay comedians. Her television appearances include LOGO, Comedy Central, HBO, PBS and Showtime. She is a Drama Desk award nominee and the winner of Theater LA's Ovation Award, The GLAAD Media Award and The San Francisco Bay Guardian Reader's Choice Award for "Best Comedian 2009."

Selections from Gomez's work have been published in several anthologies including Extreme Exposure (TCG Books), HOWL (C 0rown Press), Out Loud & Laughing (Anchor Books), Contemporary Plays by American Women of Color (Routledge), When I Knew (Harper-Collins) and Out of Character (Bantam Books) She has written for the Village Voice, Out Magazine and Velvet Park Magazine.  Gomez was one of eight playwrights to be commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theater Initiative's Amor Eterno project.

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