Today we’d like to introduce you to Kacy Boccumini. She and her team share their story with us below.
Kacy Boccumini is a studio executive, writer, and producer in Los Angeles. She was also featured on Season 2 and 3 of Showtime’s The Real L Word. While playing on a women’s recreational basketball league, she met Scout Durwood, a chanteuse comedian with numerous stage and screen credits, including a starring role of MTVs Mary + Jane.
So began a great creative partnership based on their shared love of music, film, and the desire to create meaningful content. However, they quickly discovered that they didn’t see eye to eye on one very important thing: To Scout, NY had a better nightlife scene than LA? Kacy vehemently disagreed.
After many rounds of discussion (and drinks), Scout convinced Kacy that Los Angeles lacked the live performance space where performers and audience can connect and create unique once-in-a-lifetime experiences. In defense of her beloved city, Kacy threw down the gauntlet: Kacy and Scout would join forces to throw a party in Los Angeles that would rival New York. Everybody GoGo was born and is now a monthly neo-cabaret on the second Tuesday of every month at The Virgil in Silverlake. Our June 11th show will be our 1-year anniversary.
We’ve also expanded our management team. We are now Scout Durwood and The Business. Scout aka, Lady Scoutington hosts, Kacy aka Thom Cruise, (pronounced Tom Cruise, with an H) is COO, Catherine McCafferty aka Bruised Peaches, of the comedy show Truth or Dare, heads up social media, and D’Andree Galipeau aka Chaka Van Sansul is our Maître d’ and patron experience curator. We are the perfect storm of work hard, play hard.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Scout was absolutely correct. Los Angeles is very hard place to throw a party like this. We have a very fun and sexy show, but our nudity is about celebrating the ownership of our bodies to do with as we please. We want to encourage our audience to hoot, holler, have a fun interaction with a burlesque diva or normal-bodied GoGo dancer where we shake it and they give us $1. There are no extra points for throwing a hundo, there is no bottle service, and there is no room for possession or judgment.
Getting people out of their comfort zone is hard in a city where everyone is putting in maximum effort to look a certain kind of perfect. Everybody GoGo is about ripping off those shackles of uniformity and letting your freak flag fly.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Everybody GoGo – tell our readers more, for example, what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Everybody GoGo stemmed from us working together to produce Scout’s digital series called Take One Thing Off. The series is a fictionalized semi-autobiographical tale of Scout’s journey from NY cabarets to stand up in Los Angeles and learning to translate a live act on the Internet. The spirit of the series is about quieting the numerous complaints about the way things should be and throwing a better party instead. Catherine and D worked on the series with us, and we fell into a very natural rhythm that extended after production.
Every Monday, Scout and I host Writers Night, where we open our space for writers from different genres with the goal of carving out space in our lives solely for creative expression. Many of the players in Take One Thing Off are from this group. In Scout’s words, we want to create a Femme-pire. We are a group of creative entities producing content from a feminist mindset that is funny, unique, smart, challenging, and entertaining. We are not all women, but we all believe in the value of women’s voices and perspective and narratives… all women’s voices, in all spaces.
In April, Kacy began My Best Guy Productions, which provides us more of a platform to create content and experiences that will change the discussions around hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and representation, set it to music, sprinkle it in glitter and set it on fire.
So, what’s next? Any big plans?
Our plan is to take over Los Angeles, and then the world. We want to take Everybody GoGo on the road, engaging all of the unique local talents this world of freaks, queens, kings and clowns has to offer. And, we’re currently working on the follow up to the digital series, expected out later this year.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKNdKGCB80&list=PLXmMtP8TGcDx3_zGCpnbMqRzPsHadJxn5
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: @Everybodygogola
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/everybodygogola
- Twitter: @everybodygogola
Image Credit:
@danieljsliwa_Photo
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