1991Nominee
Best Performance
IDn4
Kathy Acker
Actor · Director · Writer
April 18, 1947
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.
Photo
Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1985Nominee
Best Performance
Variety
2020Nominee
Best Writing
Memory Xperiment: Kathy Acker
Career Highlights
1991Highlight
Best Performance
The Golden Boat
1984Highlight
Best Performance
Kathy Acker
Video
Variety
Traceroute
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?