Events:

Cake Productions is pleased to announce that we will have a special treat for all guests attending tomorrow night's performance (Tuesday, May 18th - 8pm) of PSYCH by Evan Smith at 64 E 4th Street!

Melissa Febos, the author of Whip Smart will be answering questions following the show and will also take part in a book signing to conclude the evening. Whip Smart is the memoir of a fascinating young woman who worked as a dominatrix in Manhattan for 4 years. Refreshments will be available, as well as copies of Whip Smart, which Melissa will be happy to autograph.

Tickets for PSYCH with this bonus special event are available by clicking here

AUTHOR'S BIO:

Melissa Febos grew up on Cape Code, as the well-loved daughter of a sea captain and a Buddhist psychotherapist. She was first employed as a chambermaid, and subsequently worked as a boatyard hand, babysitter, and dishwasher at a slew of seafood restaurants, despite the fact that she is a lifelong vegetarian, and probably the only person raised on Cape Cod who has never tasted lobster. Despite this luminous resume, the things she has spent most of her time doing, and the only things she has ever been arguably qualified to do, are write, read, and talk (a little) about books. At 15, she dropped out of high school and home-schooled herself for a year. At 16, she moved to Boston and waited tables while taking night classes at Harvard. After moving to New York in 1999, she graduated from The New School University, spent four years working as a professional dominatrix, and received an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has now lived in Brooklyn for over a decade.

She curates and hosts the popular monthly music and reading series, Mixer, on the Lower East Side, and teaches writing and literature at SUNY Purchase College and the Gotham Writers' Workshop, in addition to offering private editing and instruction. In between, she walks the dog, trains for the marathon, and somehow, manages to write.

Her essays, stories, journalism, and the occasional poem have been published widely, and her memoir, Whip Smart, will be published by St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books in March 2010.

Performances of PSYCH run through this Saturday, May 22nd - reserve your seats now! More information is available on our Performances Page