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Ann Magnuson

American actress, performance artist, singer

Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by The New York Times in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lily Tomlin does".^[2]

A founding member of the 1980s band Bongwater, Magnuson starred in the ABC sitcom Anything but Love (1989–92). Her film appearances include The Hunger (1983), Making Mr. Right (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Panic Room (2002), and One More Time (2015).

Early life and career

Magnuson was born in Charleston, West Virginia, to a journalist mother and a lawyer father.^{[citation needed]} She had a brother, Bobby, who died in 1988 of complications from AIDS.^[3] She attended Holz Elementary^[4] and George Washington High School in Charleston. After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City and was a DJ and performer at Club 57 and the Mudd Club in Manhattan around 1979 through the early 198

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Feminist Mixtape: Art and Music at Franklin Street Works

Are you a good rock star or a bad rock star?

—Witch in Vandemonium

I, too, have spoken in pious tones proclaiming TheWire as the greatest work of broadcast television ever. But now celebrating my twenty-fifth year of Ann Magnuson fandom, I was well primed to change my mind in the basement of Franklin Street Works in their current exhibition, “Danger Came Smiling: Feminist Art and Popular Music” (through January 1, 2017), alone at last with her twenty-seven-minute video, Vandemonium.

Vandemonium is one of the finer works of Magnuson’s early performance career—or rather, one of the finest early works for which we have a proper record. The video was produced and distributed by HBO/Cinemax, where it aired in 1987. Magnuson was the founding manager, curator, and grand dame of Club 57, the raucous club and art space located in the baseme

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Ann Magnuson is a Los Angeles-based actress, singer, writer and performance artist working in a myriad of media including TV, film and on stage in theatres, festivals, cabarets and art spaces around the world. She has performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Whitney Museum of American Art (where she performed her 5-hour “Tribute to Muzak” in the museum’s elevator), the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYSF/The Public Theater and Joe's Pub; the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, LACE and The Steve Allen Theater; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Walker Art Center, Andy Warhol Museum, and in theaters, clubs and art galleries worldwide. Her performance at The Ice Hotel in Sweden’s Arctic Circle, part of an arts festival curated by artist Jeffrey Vallance, was made into a short film titled “In Search of My Blonde Roots” (in collaboration with director Matthew Amato.)

Ann Magnuson currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, architect John Bertram. Born and raised in Charleston, WV, Ann received a BFA in Theater & Cinema from Denison Univ