Connor Kizer 1123 Gorsuch Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218 [email protected] (443) 800-0280
Collaborative Projects
2003-2012 Ram Ones
2004 Wham City's Beauty and the Beast – Lumiere, Wham City (Copycat location), Baltimore MD
2005-2012 Santa Dads
2005 Sad Little Pony – the Sire, Current Gallery, Baltimore MD
2006 A New Play – narrator, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD
2007 Wham City Theater Night – various Baltimore Theater Project, Baltimore MD
2007-present The Creepers
2008 They Should All Be Destroyed: A Jurassic Park Play – Muldoon, Northeast Tour
2009 “Letters” (co-writer) – Reality and Revenge Ten Minute Play Festival, Leg, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2009 Matsukaze – voice of Matsukaze, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2009 Wham City and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – various, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto ONT
2010 Collinsport (co-writer) – Man in the Iron Mask, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2011 Tlon (writer/director/performer)- Artscape, Baltimore MD
2010-12 Wham City Comedy Tour - various
2012- Less Miserable - Thenardier, Missoula Oblongata, Northeast Tour
2014 Chronotony – (writer/director/producer) E.M.P. Collective, Fields Festival, Baltimore MD
2014 Potatoes of August – Potato. E.M.P. Collective, Baltimore MD
2015 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman – Grandpa, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2015 Behold! The Man – (writer/director) E.M.P. Collective, Baltimore MD
2015 The Magic Flute – Priest, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2015 Seasonings: A Musical Menu – (co-writer/director) Mondo Festo, Baltimore MD
2016 Adam’s Run – (co-director) Rodney Richards, Rhymes with Opera, New York City, NY
2016-present The Flowery
2016 The Flower Queen – (writer/director/producer/performer) Monster, Zodiac, Baltimore MD
2017 Fruits – Zane, Feral Woman, Baltimore MD
2017 A Good Man Is Hard to Find – (writer/producer) Bailey, Feral Woman, Baltimore MD
2017 (pending) Trool Day – Gurgiev, Adult Swim, Atlanta GA
Theater
2004 Wham City's Beauty and the Beast – Lumiere, Wham City (Copycat location), Baltimore MD
2005 Sad Little Pony – the Sire, Current Gallery, Baltimore MD
2006 A New Play – narrator, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD
2007 Wham City Theater Night – various Baltimore Theater Project, Baltimore MD
2009 “Letters” (co-writer) – Reality and Revenge Ten Minute Play Festival, Leg, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2009 Matsukaze – voice of Matsukaze, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2009 Wham City and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – various, Deleon White Gallery, Toronto ONT
2010 Collinsport (co-writer) – Man in the Iron Mask, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2011 Tlon (writer/director/performer)- Artscape, Baltimore MD
2010-12 Wham City Comedy Tour - various
2012- Less Miserable - Thenardier, Missoula Oblongata, Northeast Tour
2014 Chronotony – (writer/director/producer) E.M.P. Collective, Fields Festival, Baltimore MD
2014 Potatoes of August – Potato. E.M.P. Collective, Baltimore MD
2015 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman – Grandpa, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2015 Behold! The Man – (writer/director) E.M.P. Collective, Baltimore MD
2015 The Magic Flute – Priest, Annex Theater, Baltimore MD
2015 Seasonings: A Musical Menu – (co-writer/director) Mondo Festo, Baltimore MD
2016 The Flower Queen – (writer/director/producer/performer) Monster, Zodiac, Baltimore MD
2017 Fruits – Zane, Feral Woman, Baltimore MD
2017 A Good Man Is Hard to Find – (writer/producer) Bailey, Feral Woman, Baltimore MD
Film
2016 Adam’s Run – (co-director) Rodney Richards, Rhymes with Opera, New York City, NY
2017 (pending) Trool Day – Gurgiev, Adult Swim, Atlanta GA
Lectures
2005 “On Temporal Dimensions” – Wham City Lecture Series – Wham City (Copycat location), Baltimore MD
2005-9 “Slitherpuss Stories” – various
2008 “Emergence of Consciousness into the Noosphere” – Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD
2008 “Emergence of Consciousness into the Noosphere” – Wham City at the Walters Museum, Baltimore MD
2009 “Connor Kizer and His Psychopomoi” – Transmodern 2009 Fundraiser, 5th Dimension, Baltimore MD
2009 “Connor Kizer’s Cosmology” – Fluxus Festival, SUNY Purchase
2009 Transmodern 2010 Fundraiser co-host – Floristree, Baltimore MD
2009 “Nazi Ice World Cosmology” – Wham City Lecure Series – Zodiac, Baltimore MD
2010 “The Pain of Words and Names” – WORMS Reading Series, Zodiac, Baltimore MD
2012 "Alien Advertising Effects Us All"- Wham City Educational Seminar, Northeast Tour
2013 “Pseudohistories” – Wham City Lecture Series, Zodiac Baltimore MD
2013 “Cosmology” – Wham City Lecture Series, Zodiac Baltimore MD
2014 “The Hope of Televsion” – Wham City Lecture Series, Zodiac Baltimore MD
2016 “Cultures That Never Were” – Wham City Lecture Series, The Crown Baltimore MD
2016 “The Dangers of Vigilantism in Tentpole Blockbusters” – Johns Hopkins Film Festival, Baltimore MD
Curatorial
2006-2012 Wham City Lecture Series
2007 Wham City Christmas Spectacular (co-writer) – Load of Fun Theater, Baltimore MD
2008 Dreamteam performance – Wham City (Calvert Street location), Baltimore MD
Publications
2005-present Infomorph: Project Psychopomp, issues 1-4 – philosophical texts, self-published
2006 “The New Gender” – short story, Catatac Magazine
2008 “The Incomplete Dictionary of Zasaa” – lexicon, Wham City Box Set #1, Whitney Museum
2009 “Connor Kizer’s Cosmology” – powerpoint/DVD, Invisible College Productions
Music
2003-2012 Ram Ones
2005-2012 Santa Dads
2007-present The Creepers
2007 Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings (Car Park Records), studio musician (vocals)
2009 Dan Deacon, Bromst (Car Park Records), studio musician (trumpet)
2016-present The Flowery
Awards, Honors, Residencies
Resident Director – E.M.P. Collective 2015
Best Lecture Series – Wham City Lecture Series- Baltimore Magazine 2009
Best Non-Musical Bar Act – Wham City Lecture Series – City Paper Best of Baltimore 2009
Best Hive – Wham City – City Paper Best of Baltimore 2006
Enhanced Awareness Honors – Teller of Tales that Tingle - 2012
Resident Director – E.M.P. Collective 2015
Press
"Crazy Diamonds" - Arts section feature on Wham City - March 16, 2007
"The Sound and the Furry" - Arts section feature on Santa Dads - City Paper, April 4, 2007
“Out of Speech” – Arts section feature article on Wham City Lecture Series – City Paper, March 2, 2010
“Connor Kizer's play imagines all time as a single moment” – Arts section feature article on original play Chronotony – City Paper, April 30, 2014
“Childhood goes dark in 'The Flower Queen'” – Arts/Stage, City Paper, October, 9, 2016
“ENTER THE REALM OF THE FLOWER QUEEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLISON CLENDANIEL AND CONNOR KIZER” – Theatrebloom.com, October 18, 2016
“REVIEW: THE FLOWER QUEEN AT YELLOW SIGN THEATRE” – Theatrebloom.com, October 20, 2016














