Mort Kroos as Wilson
Mort Kroos as Wilson in Peccadillo Theater’s Jane, 2003
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Celebration of the Life and Work of Mort Kroos, 1931-2013:
DADA Clown and Major Mensch

Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (betweeen Rivington & Delancey)
Sunday, February 16, 2014
2:00-5:00 PM

Join us for a tribute performance by DADAnewyork with Be LaRoe, Robert Hieger, Lois Kagan Mingus, Joy Smith Kelly, Michelle Mazzarino, Misha Shulman, John Greenleaf, Rosateresa Castro-Vargas and Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike.

We will also show videos and slide shows, and remember our beloved Dada.

In addition to personal tributes by members of Mort’s family, performances include Amber (actor and poet), Day de Dada, Three Rooms Press, Rosateresa Castro-Vargas (“the Subway Diva”), Dorothy Friedman (poet), John Greenleaf (The Acting Company), John Jahnke (Hotel Savant), Brecht Forum, Lissa Moira and Richard West, Lorca Peress (MultiStages), Valery Oisteanu (zenDADA poet), Misha Shulman (Boundless Theatre Collective, DADAnewyork), Michele Smith (flutist, DADAnewyork collaborator) and Zero Boy!

Excerpts from Charles Mingus III’s play, Words In My Mouth, Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike’s play RelationShifts and Mort Kroos’s Presenting Clifton Webb, will also be performed.