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!
12.19.2004
SpeakEasily in the news: WOW! We're in the Style section of today's Chronicle! If you can't run out and get a paper right now, read it online here! There's some great pictures of our regular gang of performers and regulars as well. NICE!
