"The Lovely And Talented Miss Toni Silver abandoned her short lived acting career (highlight: “extra girl in front row” in ANNIE HALL), and pursued numerous strange but interesting career paths through most of her 30’s (limo driver, garmento, Lauren Bacall’s personal assistant) until her mother’s untimely death caused her to reassess and she started over. She had no illusions about being hired by anyone else at an age when most women were transitioning from being actors to Pilates instructors, so she began to make her own performances, exploring the relationship between autobiography and politics. She wrote about identity, sanity, love, loss, lust, humiliation, triumph and mortality. And that’s how she became...

"The Best Tap Dancing, Middle-Aged, Jewish, Gay Performance Artist in America™"

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