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Kiki Valentine is a New York City-based writer, producer, humorist, and public speaker. Her material embraces factual, historical, and personal anecdotes through articles, blogs, live monologues, parody, and collaborations with today's leading musicians, actors, comedians, dancers and performance artists. She is well known for uncanny, cutting-edge observational humor seen in her theatrical performances which critics refer to as "the MENSA of variety shows". Outside of the arts she is respected for her work with various non-profit organizations and advocacy groups. In 2010, she was recognized with a "Brooklyn Do Gooder" award nomination.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kiki Valentine )〕 She is credited with placing several Associated Press articles pertaining to her work with (elderly evacuees displaced by Hurricane Sandy ). Currently the President of Valentine Media Productions, she acts as a creative consultant and writer for various companies, non-profits, and individuals. In 2011, she became a wedding celebrant and performs marriage ceremonies throughout New York City. == Journalism, Production & Public Speaking == On September 11, 2001, while living in Greenwich Village Valentine filmed the terrorist attacks and later produced a documentary that chronicles her fleeing New York City with a roommate only to have to return the next day to report to work as journalists. The film, titled "The Runaway Writers", was screened in New York City in Winter 2012 and with Stanford University alumni in San Francisco in May 2013. In early 2003 she became the swing writer in the newsroom of Yahoo!'s Launch Radio Networks covering music and general news. The following year when the company's parent network, United Stations Radio Network, began developing its largest daypart radio program, Nights with Alice Cooper,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kiki Valentine )〕 she became Associate Producer and began writing scripts, news and comedy while appearing nightly alongside Alice Cooper on the program as the character "Mistress Kitty". She also wrote sketch comedy including Kitty and guests Nikki Sixx, Rob Halford, Def Leppard, Styx and others. For several years Alice Cooper proved to be an instrumental and influential mentor, guiding her not only in developing a persona but also nurturing her comedic acting, creative writing, and performance artistry. During this time Valentine also began independently producing and emceeing her own live black box theater shows in Brooklyn, New York incorporating live music, dance, and art. Notable early collaborations span a variety of diverse artists including Afrika Bambaataa, Shepard Fairey, The World Famous Pontani Sisters as well as partnerships with companies such as Red Bull, Adidas, Tylenol and Gibson Guitars. In 2007 and 2008 she appeared as a guest host on ABC News Now's nationally syndicated television program "The Mix" interviewing artists, including exclusives with musicians Iron Maiden and Tegan and Sara. In 2008 she also debuted an underground avant-garde production called ''The Sunday Show'', an acclaimed collective theatrical experiment she wrote, directed, produced, and emceed for four seasons. The uncensored show featured comedy, spectacle and variety acts, and celebrity guests. Although each program was filmed, Valentine's observational material and work has been intentionally kept from the Internet to "preserve the concept, integrity, and artistic value of the live audience experience". She continues to write as well as produce events throughout New York City in addition to public speaking, teaching, and advocacy for a number of causes including the normalization of public breastfeeding. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kiki Valentine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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