Dorothy’s Closet San Francisco: “Halloween: the Ballad of Michelle Myers”
November 10, 2011 - This Friday the 13th/Sleepaway Camp/Halloween comedy/musical was charming and entertaining while being funny and a bit scary (and definitely gory with one scene near the end I’m not going to get into detail-suffice to say, the guys in the audience yelped!) and a great show to see for the Halloween weekend! Honey Mahogany, Beatrix Carr and Raya Light as the “slutty sorority girlfriends”, Steven Satyricon, Stephen Palmer and Robert Gammel as the “horny frat boys”, Audra Wolfmann as the “den mother” and Flynn Witmeyer as the new girl with a secret gave it their all under Todd Pickering’s direction. Read more
The Bold Italic: “Drag Races” featuring Virginia Suicide
March 3, 2010 - Virginia Suicide (aka Flynn Witmeyer) took the stage to the tune of “Violet” – not only my favorite Hole track, but also one that could be interpreted as being about a scorned pregnant woman. Her make-up was 50’s starlet-meets-edgy-vamp with hints of Courtney Love….She began with a birthing ritual, gently emerging from a fetal cocoon of purple chiffon, channeling a young studio actress who got knocked up by the married studio head and then discarded. As the song tempo picked up, she abruptly dropped to the ground, banging herself against the floor to “abort her fetus.” She would end her pregnancy as abruptly as her philandering lover had terminated their relationship. Read More
SF 360: “Tweaker with an Axe”
July 1, 2009 - Flynn Witmeyer’s debut feature sports a title you’d expect to see on a one-sheet mockup at the market in Cannes or a grindhouse marquee on Market St. back in the day. Tweaker With an Axe is the epitome of high concept, but its cast of gay and lesbian characters sets it apart from the pack of comedic suspense thrillers. Or does it? “The characters’ sexuality isn’t part of the story,” Witmeyer says. “They just happen to be gay and lesbian. That’s one of our interests in doing this film. Our interest is to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters. We want to see more representation of gay and lesbian characters in cinema.” Read More
SF Weekly: “Pink Slip”
October 30, 2008 - For over a decade, Trannyshack and hostess Heklina wooed us with shocking drag shows and celebrity appearances. But there’s a new sheriff in town and her name is Virginia Suicide (aka Flynn Witmeyer). Rumor has it Trannyshack had some problems enticing a crowd towards its demise, so Pink Slip officially pissed on its territory, claiming Tuesdays [at The Stud Bar] with a rather entertaining drag cabaret variety show….[consisting] of 10 (more or less) acts of drag queens singing (not lip syncing) and viciously dancing to songs with every ounce of passion in their bodies. Between acts, the lovely Virginia Suicide cracked some jokes and primed the audience for the next act. Read More
San Francisco Bay-Guardian: “Beautiful: A Theatre Party”
November 14, 2007 - “Make my world beautiful,” commands the (drag) queen (Flynn Witmeyer) of her corseted courtiers. The incantation naturally has something defiant and (given our location in a loft on Capp near 16th Street) maybe even a little urgent about it, summoning the new Eden as an unruly if royal realm of gender-blurring sexual role play and uninhibited frolic. Naturally too there’s bound to be trouble in paradise, the intruder in this instance being no snake but rather a pair of slithering fish-head waiters. But in theater group elastic future’s Beautiful it’s a party all the same. Read More
SF Station: “Imp of Satan”
August 31, 2007 - The tradition of the midnight movie goes as far back as the 50s, when local television stations would screen genre films often made with extremely low budgets and for extremely late night audiences. There was often a host that would serve as both a guide for the night’s activities and deliverer of ironic asides. It is a tradition that for 10 years has been upheld by San Francisco’s own Queen of the Night, Peaches Christ, and it is about to experience an even newer spin at the hands of Flynn Witmeyer and his film Imp of Satan. Read More
