Penny Arcade (a.k.a. Susana Ventura) is a performance artist, writer, poet, and experimental theater maker. With a career spanning over 50 years, Penny debuted in 1968 at age 18 with New York’s Play-House of the Ridiculous, and became a Warhol Superstar at 19 featured in the 1972 Warhol/Morrissey comedy, “Women in Revolt.”  With her highly-quotable writing, compassionate yet unflinching honesty, and focus on community-building as the goal of performance and on performance as a transformative act, Penny Arcade has influenced generations of artists all over the world, making her an icon of artistic resistance. She is the author of over 16 full-length works and hundreds of solo performance pieces. Bad Reputation, a hardcover book on Penny’s work, was published by Semiotext(e)/MIT in 2010. Since 1999 with longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner she has co-helmed the oral history video project Stemming The Tide Of Cultural Amnesia: The Lower East Side Biography Project, where she interviews highly self-individuated people then edits herself out to create a one-on-one experience for the general public. It has broadcast and streamed weekly since 1999. The LES Bio Project along with much of her work—plays, talks, poetry, and special livestreamed events—are available by donation on her Patreon site (https://www.patreon.com/Penny_Arcade). She is currently writing her much anticipated memoir. You can find her on www.pennyarcade.tv, Instagram: penny_arcade_forever, Facebook: pennyarcadesuperstar, and Twitter: #pennyarcadenyc.