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Uzi Parnes has been part of New York's art and performance scene for over 25 years. He has been photographing the performers and architectural ruins of downtown New York since 1980. He has also collaborated with Carmelita Tropicana, co-writing and directing four plays including Memories of the Revolution, Carnaval, and The Conquest of Mexico as Seen Through the Eyes of Hernando Cortez's Horse produced at PS122, DTW and WOW Cafe. All of these included his photographic work as part of the multi-media performance. He also directed and performed in Tropicana's Chicas 2000 and Clamcracker Suite.

Uzi has also written and directed numerous short films and videos shown extensively in international film festivals, Anthology Film Archives, MOMA and PBS. He also has an impressive body of work as a photographer and spent many years working with Jack Smith and shooting countless photos of Jack from 1982-1989.

He was the founder and co-director with Ela Troyano of the 1980's performance club Chandadlier. Worked as Line-Producer on Rosa Von Praunheim's 1995 ground- breaking documentary Transexual Menace and as a videographer for Gay Cable Network.

From 2003 to 2005 Uzi ran the Uzi N.Y. Gallery, in the East Village, showcasing the work of local photographers and painters.

Uzi has also worked as an actor in film and television and has had small roles opposite Al Pacino and Michael Keaton. Downtown, he has created original roles in the theater of Ethyl Eichelberger, Holly Hughes, Michael Kirby, Kestutis Nakas, William Niederkorn as well as Jack Smith. He is featured in Mary Jordan's documentary on Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

Uzi will be showing his slide show I SHOT JACK SMITH-EXOTIC DREAMS in Berlin's "Five Flaming Days In A Rented World" Festival in honor of the 20th Anniversary of Jack Smith's passing in October 2009. In addition his installation at The Arsenal: ALLIUM CHANDALIER a Day of The Dead Altar for Jack Smith, will feature Uzi's "Glamour" photos of Jack. His photos and photo-constructions/photo-chandaliers (sic) have been shown in numerous group shows and exhibitions.

Uzi has a Ph.D. in Performance Studies & M.A. in Drama from New York University.

Films and Videos Krazie, 1979 Loisaida Lust (with Ela Troyano) 1985 Girls Can't Help It! 1986 World Peace 1987 Squalid Salad 1988 Queer Turf 1991 Queer Love Poem 1991 Seven Days With The Same Dick 1992 I Do Exist! 1993 I Wasn't Counted at the March 1993 Happy Mother's Day 1994 Batterer 1995 Yoorzite Carnaval 2001 Video for Big and Extra Cheesy 2003 Video for Ghost of Club Chandalier 2005 The silence of Marcel Duchamp 2009 Video for Allium Chandalier 2009

Performance The Baroness Von Hindenberg Returns 1977 Striptease: A Brooklyn Fantasy 1977 Disco Marcelo/Excess Baggage 1978 Triadic Imagera-The Box 1981 Chandalier Fashion Show 1982 Ucci's Circus Romanus at 8BC 1983 The Ms. Loisaida Pageant 1984 Cheet Chat With Carmelita Tropicana Series (w. Alina Troyano) 1984-86 All New Red Hot (w. Ela Troyano) 1985 Guerilla My Dreams 1989-90 Gender Blender-Beyond The Lavender Door 1991 Big And Extra Cheesy 2002 I Shot Jack Smith 2003 I Shot Jack Smith-The Glitter of Trash 2006 Plays (with Alina Troyano) Memories of the Revolution 1987 Candela Y Azucar 1989 The Conquest of Mexico As Seen Through The Eyes of Hernande Cortez's Horse 1991 Carnaval 1992

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height: 5'11”, 195lbs	hair: salt & pepper	eyes: green
TELEVISION
ED 041 LAW & ORDER S.V.U. 1412 PINERO ONE LIFE TO LIVE	Customer (Featured) Joe Hayes (Guest Star) Submissive (Featured) Dancing Bike	NBC NBC LIFETIME ABC
FILM		Director
GAME 6 PEOPLE I KNOW MENDY GARMENTO SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS LOISAIDA LUSTS	Yehoshafat (opp. M. Keaton) Berger (opp. Al Pacino) Srulik Voice of “Poncho” ad Yom The Director	Michael Hoffman Dan Algrant Adam Vardy Michele Maher Sheila McLaughlin E.Troyano/U.Parnes
THEATER
CORNER GRAND SOR JUANA ME ME ME CHICAS 2000 CANDELLA	Big George Shlemmer The Prosecuter Father/Mother Dr. Igor Louis the Wheezer	New Dramatists Dance Theater Workshop Bottom Line Performance Space 122 D.T.W. & on tour