Neil Marcus is an artist and performer living in Berkeley, California, USA. His books include Special Effects: Advances in Neurology, and Cripple Poetics: A Love Story, and The Princess and the Dragon (a disabled fable). His most performed play is Storm Reading.
Major Influences:
100 million miracles [flower drum song] Dir. Gene Kelley
easy rider
the mothers of invention
re evaluation counseling
love revolution
Cyrano de Bergerac
performance art
storytelling
calligraphy
sprouting
poetry/rhythm
human liberation
dance
body as art
disable/d liberation
touch
idea … weaving
At age 13 I began learning co-counseling. Theories of liberation and oppression. This enriched my thinking. My world. I could live. I could give. I could love. I had a brush with which to touch-up the world. Ideas popping. I was radicalized. I had a vibrant self. I had expression. I had raves.
