Salley May

Salley May has been a NYC-based performance artist since 1987, a long-time curator of Performance Space 122's Avant-Garde-Arama series, and a teaching artist of theater workshops with mentally disabled populations through Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI).  Salley is also a social worker in the psychiatric emergency room of a public hospital, currently working towards a granted project presenting life narratives of patients in institutionalized settings.  She was a longstanding member of Jennifer Miller's Circus Amok, and remains committed to the work and spirit of Tom Murrin/Alien Comic.  She is currently part of the Performing Beyond Funding Limits Residency at the New Museum.