Raised by Wolfmanns

Audra is a writer, editor, actor, & filmmaker with an MFA from Mills College. She is the co-writer/director of the short film Souls of Splendor, which is about gay comic book fans in San Francisco. Audra is also known as Odessa Lil: Mistress of Ceremonies. Ever since she ran SpeakEasily, the first-ever weekly neo-burlesque show in Oakland back in 2004, Odessa Lil has been whipping audiences into shape all around the Bay. Catch her burlesque talk show SPEAKEASILY on YouTube!

3.24.2004

Some days you feel like this:

and some days you feel like this:

What the hell am I talking about? I guess it doesn't really matter. I'm in a strange place right now -- I've just got some great news from Manic D Press about an upcoming anthology, but on the other hand I can't move my neck without crying. All of these mixed emotions call for a couch and a screening of My Bodyguard.