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Chip Duckett
Chip Duckett has produced over 3000 parties and club nights in NYC and in 58 other cities in the United States and abroad. He has produced regular or frequent nights in New York at spaces including the World, Mars, Quick!, Carmelita's, Plaid, Irving Plaza, Discotheque, Palladium, Danceteria, Crowbar, the Pyramid, Bar 13, Sound Factory Bar, Champs, the Roxy, Ace of Clubs, Life, 219 Flamingo, Spa, and Fez. He has also done many celebrity-oriented events, ranging from book parties for Marilyn Manson, Jackie Collins, and Barry White to after-concert parties for Tony Bennett, Duran Duran, and Sarah McLachlan to gold record presentations for Jewel and Duncan Sheik.
He did the national events launch campaign for the TV series Absolutely Fabulous for its third season, with over 51,000 people in 48 cities seeing screenings or attending events leading up to the premiere (the New York party was hosted by Naomi Campbell at the Puck Building with the AbFab cast present).
Chip also produces Joan Rivers in a new-material workshop regularly at the Cutting Room (after working together almost three years at Fez, which closed in 2005 --- with Miss Rivers as the final act in the legendary space). At the Cutting Room, she tries out every new joke she thought of in the preceding week. If you don't know Joan Rivers' history as a comic --- even better. Come, and be blown away.
Chip also DJs the party 1984 at the Pyramid and Pop Rocks! at Bar 13, and has DJed pre-show concerts for Erasure, the Bangles, and Bjorn Again. Chip was born in Atlanta and lives in the East Village.
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Ron Lasko
Ron Lasko hails from Cleveland, OH. He heads the "Public Relations Division" of Spin Cycle. He has worked for numerous clients including BAM's Next Wave Festival, Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center, Ann Bogart, Richard Foreman, Philip Glass, Spalding Gray, John Leguizamo, TWEED, Westbeth Theater Center, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Royal Ballet, the off-Broadway production of Valley of The Dolls, and the recent revival of Mae West's Sex. He is proud to have been a small part in the early careers of artists like Richard Maxwell, Sarah East Johnson, Ben Munisteri and Kiki & Herb, as well as the founding publicist of The New York International Fringe Festival. As a journalist his theater reviews and feature stories have appeared in outlets including HX, Next, Theatermania.com, and Broadway.com. Interesting facts about Ron: he once had a fork lift operator's license (now expired); he has extensive asbestos removal training; he has done construction, automotive repair, and electrical work;
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Ben Wymer
Ben was born in Fulton, MO, near the middle of nowhere. After four years on the farm, Ben moved to the suburbs of St. Louis a bit farther away from the middle of nowhere, but still quite close. After high school, Ben moved to New York to attend NYU. He lived in Paris for 6 months. He met amazing people and made life-long friends. He traveled to Africa, Asia, and Europe. He sipped cocktails with celebrities. He graduated with honors from NYU. After five years working full-time with Spin Cycle, Ben became Coordinator of Development and Special Events at LIFEbeat, the Music Industry Fights AIDS. He contimues to work with Spin Cycle on Joan Rivers' live shows and on special projects.
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Chris Tuttle
Born in Heidelberg, Germany and raised in small-town Irmo, South Carolina, Chris Tuttle accumulated over 5 years experience working in community theatre. Though he does nothing with that experience now, he is thrilled to be web designing for the theatrically savvy Spin Cycle. Over the years, Chris Tuttle has helped organize pride parades, worked for night clubs in the South, was once a youth columnist for the Baltimore Gay Paper (BGP) and wrote a My Perspective column for The Advocate. Today, in addition to running his own growing web design & programming company, Chris also works as a full-time Information & Technology professional for a national education organization which teaches high school students in creating safer, more inclusive schools for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
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