Iris McCloughan (b. 1988, St. Paul, MN)
pronouns: they/them/theirs
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED PERFORMANCE
2024 I Prefer to Die in This Moment, director and choreographer, Danspace Project, New York, NY.
2023 Drawing in Circles WHY? by Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake, director, Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.
Sad Boys in Harpy Land by Alex Tatarsky, director, Playwrights Horizons, New York, NY.
Sick Sad World, PAGEANT, Brooklyn, NY. Collaboration with Jessie Young.
2022 Distance is Malleable, NYU Skirball Center, New York, NY. Collaboration with Eiko Otake.
Dirt Trip by Alex Tatarsky, dramaturg, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY.
Distance is Malleable, Columbia College Dance Center, Chicago, IL. Collaboration with Eiko Otake.
2021 With the Earth At My Waistline with Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake, dir. Joan Jonas, presented by Danspace Project, New York, NY.
Whale Fall, The Poetry Project, New York, NY. Collaboration with Mike Lala.
2020 Attics (Winter Version), Movement Research at Judson Church. Collaboration with Doug LeCours.
Madeleines: Tell Me What it Was Like, The New Ohio, New York, NY. Collaboration with Mike Lala.
2019 You Are Next to Me, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI. Collaboration with Leslie Rogers.
Attics (Summer Version), 9 Herkimer Pl., Brooklyn, NY. Collaboration with Doug LeCours.
Distance is Malleable, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC. Collaboration with Eiko Otake.
Distance is Malleable, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR. Collaboration with Eiko Otake.
Attics (Autumn Version), The Poetry Project, New York, NY. Collaboration with Doug LeCours.
2018 Flowers, Speak to Me!, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia, PA.
So Many Lips, Subtle Bulges, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA. Collaboration with Avery Z. Nelson.
Terrific Freight with Julie Mayo, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY.
2017 Arcadia, Indiana, Berl’s, Brooklyn, NY; Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; ESS, Chicago, IL. Collaboration with Toby Altman.
Abbot Adam: Matins/Lauds, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.
A Body in Places, The Met Edition with Eiko Otake, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Performa17, New York, NY.
2016 THE TOP, JACK, Brooklyn, NY; Links Hall, Chicago, IL; FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA.
2015 Getting High and Feeling It, PURE O, Los Angeles, CA.
Abbot Adam: Evensong, FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA; Ars Nova ANT Fest, New York, NY.
Abbot Adam: None, FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA.
2014 Museum Highlights, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2013 The Stairwell Symphony, 801 N5TH, Philadelphia, PA; PUREO, Los Angeles, CA.
From the Swamp to the Stars, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. Presented by the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
2012 spaceplay, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2011 DIME, NOSPACE, Philadelphia, PA.
The Beautiful Refrigerator is Empty, NOSPACE, Philadelphia, PA; The Collapsible Hole, Brooklyn, NY; Ars Nova, New York, NY.
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 You Are Next to Me, Public Pool, Hamtramck, MI
2018 You Are Next to Me, Fairmount House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Day Marks, 68 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY
2020 Nobody’s Fashion Week, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2019 What Happens Here Stays With Us, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2018 OPTIONS, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Jumbletron, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
OPTIMISM, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2017 Remembering Fukushima, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
2016 A World Where Flowers Mean Something, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Dad’s Secret Tape, Video! Video! Zine, Chicago, IL
2014 PRESS PLAY PART 2 >> LINE OF SYMMETRY, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Psychedelicatessen, ACRE TV, Chicago, IL
2013 Blind Date, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
CHAPBOOKS
2022 Triptych, greying ghost
2021 Bones to Peaches, Seven Kitchens Press
2014 No Harbor, L + S Press
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 “Mike Lala by Iris McCloughan”, BOMB
“Made of Meat”, Space 538 2024 Poetry Hotline, Portland, ME
2023 “The Arrival of St. Wolf”, Prelude
5 Poems from After the Wild Iris, Tupelo Quarterly
2022 4 Poems from After the Wild Iris, American Poetry Review July/August 2022
“Odette Drops Her Mask”, “Odette Takes Up Her Mask Again”, The Q&A Queerzine
2021 “After Snowdrops”, “After Matins (Unreachable…)”, From After the Wild Iris, Beestung
“Face-Names: The Name”, “Face-Names: The Face”, jubilat #38
2020 “Today I Am” (From After the Wild Iris), The Poetry Project Poems and Texts
“In Search of a Lost Time That Never Existed”, Wax Nine
“AW15”, The Journal
“The Ha-Ha”, “Promissory”, “Attendance”, “Other Man At the End”, “I Decline”, Dreginald
“A Conversation Between Mike Lala and Iris McCloughan”, Denver Quarterly
2019 “At the End of History”, The Poetry Project Poems and Texts
“On the Hill”, Eight Poems
“Haggard”, Gertrude
“Smoke Tree (for Jessie)”, “Midsummer”, “After the Gold Lily”, Opera News Zine
“Schema for Encountering Other Man in Performance”, Queen Mob’s Teahouse
“Unlike Some Boys”, ANMLY, named a finalist in nonfiction for Best of the Net 2020
2018 “Other Man No. 9”, juked
“Manifesto”, muff magazine
“Devotion (Reflection)”, American Poetry Review, Winner of the 2018 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize
2017 “A Lure”, Lines + Stars
“Pastoral”, Sentinel Literary Quarterly
“Restraint”, Off the Coast
2016 “My Last Bad Check”, decomP
2015 “Nonfiction”, “No Horses”, “Temperance”, “Husbandry”, American Poetry Review
SELECTED PRESS
A Healing Performance in the Face of Danger and Trauma, Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic, April 17 2019
Performing Therapy, A Dark Healing Art, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Title Magazine, June 27 2014
AWARDS/HONORS
2021 Finalist, Best of the Net 2020
2020 Robin Becker Chapbook Series, Seven Kitchens Press
2018 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, American Poetry Review
2015 Guest Artist, Department of Dance, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
2014 Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series, L + S Press
RESIDENCIES
2022 Creative Residency with Jessie Young, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
2021 Lighthouse Residency, JACK / BEAM Center, Governors Island, NY.
Governors Island Art Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY.
2020 Ashland Plaza Rehearsal Residency, Downtown Brooklyn Alliance, Brooklyn, NY.
2019 Creative Residency, Macalester College Department of Theater and Dance, St. Paul, MN.
2018 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI.
2016 Developmental Residency, Ars Nova, New York, NY.
Technical/Developmental Residency, FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA.
2015 The Orchard Project, Saratoga Springs, NY.
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI.
EDUCATION
2010 BA in Theater with High Honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.