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Khattie Q + Jenny Larson
KHATTIEQ
khattieQ (performer/composer/lyricist/Spanish translations) is a musician and performer from Puerto Rico. She has played as a professional musician with over twenty bands including touring with queer femme core band The TunaHelpers. She was the creator of punk band BLXPLTN, and served as lead vocalist from 2013 to 2015. khattieQ has performed in a number of music festivals including Afropunk in Brooklyn, SXSW in Austin and Pop Montreal. Professional theatre acting credits include Denim Doves and CASTA for Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Heaven Born Wind at the University of British Columbia, frank theatre’s Be-Longing and I Cannot Lie To The Stars That Made Me. They also hosted Rumble Theatre’s Untrue Stories Live Cabaret Series.
JKJK
jkjk is married couple theatre artist Jenny Larson-Quiñones and punk rocker khattieQ. The two began working on their first piece, Catalina La O Presenta: Now With Me, as part of the Interplay Festival (2019) in Vancouver, Canada. The piece went on to win the 2020 Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize, and the performance-film of the piece screened at OUTsider in 2022 and Ars Nova’s ANT Fest in June 2022. Catalina premiered live at the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver in June 2022. jkjk’s other works have received support from The Arts Club, the Canadian Digital Dramaturgy Initiative, the Playwright’s Theatre Centre, the GVPTA Digital Connections cohort, NYC’s Workshop Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre, and the 2022 New Harmony writers conference.
Catalina La O was created with support from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Playwright Theatre Centre, From the Corner Productions and Shanae Sodhi, Rumble Theatre, frank theatre company, Neworld Theatre, and the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival.
Show Description
Catalina’s mother is lost, unable to join her in Puerto Rico for the finale taping of Catalina’s one-hour TV program, “Ahora Conmigo.” Then a destructive hurricane hits Puerto Rico and throws Catalina into her darkest hour. Emerging from the aftermath, wet and wounded, Catalina seeks refuge in her television studio. Though her backing band and television crew have all gone missing, Catalina believes her beloved audience still survives. She sings and performs to them and to herself, sharing stories and songs of heartbreak, resistance, and survival. Catalina La O Presenta is a piece for the queer communities. It is a piece for the colonized body. It is a piece for Puerto Rico. It is a piece for anyone who has experienced heartbreak. It is a piece for survivors. It is a piece that speaks to resistance.
khattieQ (performer/composer/lyricist/Spanish translations) is a musician and performer from Puerto Rico. She has played as a professional musician with over twenty bands including touring with queer femme core band The TunaHelpers. She was the creator of punk band BLXPLTN, and served as lead vocalist from 2013 to 2015. khattieQ has performed in a number of music festivals including Afropunk in Brooklyn, SXSW in Austin and Pop Montreal. Professional theatre acting credits include Denim Doves and CASTA for Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Heaven Born Wind at the University of British Columbia, frank theatre’s Be-Longing and I Cannot Lie To The Stars That Made Me. They also hosted Rumble Theatre’s Untrue Stories Live Cabaret Series.
JKJK
jkjk is married couple theatre artist Jenny Larson-Quiñones and punk rocker khattieQ. The two began working on their first piece, Catalina La O Presenta: Now With Me, as part of the Interplay Festival (2019) in Vancouver, Canada. The piece went on to win the 2020 Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize, and the performance-film of the piece screened at OUTsider in 2022 and Ars Nova’s ANT Fest in June 2022. Catalina premiered live at the Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver in June 2022. jkjk’s other works have received support from The Arts Club, the Canadian Digital Dramaturgy Initiative, the Playwright’s Theatre Centre, the GVPTA Digital Connections cohort, NYC’s Workshop Theatre, Green Thumb Theatre, and the 2022 New Harmony writers conference.
Catalina La O was created with support from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Playwright Theatre Centre, From the Corner Productions and Shanae Sodhi, Rumble Theatre, frank theatre company, Neworld Theatre, and the Vancouver Queer Arts Festival.
Show Description
Catalina’s mother is lost, unable to join her in Puerto Rico for the finale taping of Catalina’s one-hour TV program, “Ahora Conmigo.” Then a destructive hurricane hits Puerto Rico and throws Catalina into her darkest hour. Emerging from the aftermath, wet and wounded, Catalina seeks refuge in her television studio. Though her backing band and television crew have all gone missing, Catalina believes her beloved audience still survives. She sings and performs to them and to herself, sharing stories and songs of heartbreak, resistance, and survival. Catalina La O Presenta is a piece for the queer communities. It is a piece for the colonized body. It is a piece for Puerto Rico. It is a piece for anyone who has experienced heartbreak. It is a piece for survivors. It is a piece that speaks to resistance.