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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1947-04-18 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Kathy Acker

Biography:

Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer. She was influenced by the Black Mountain School poets, the writer William S. Burroughs, the artist and theoretician David Antin, French critical theory, feminist artists Carolee Schneeman and Eleanor Antin, and by philosophy, mysticism, and pornography.

Known For

Acting

2016

Traceroute as Self (archive footage)

2007

1998

1997

1992

Seeing Is Believing as Kathy Acker

1991

IDn4 as Kathy Acker
The Golden Boat as Professor

1984

Kathy Acker as Self

1978

1974

1972

Directing

1974

Blue Tape (Tape 2) as Director

1972

The Blue Tapes as Director

Crew

1985

Variety as Script

Writing

1985

Variety as Screenplay