Dandy Darkly is New York City’s cult storytelling sensation.
He is an award winning, alt-cabaret performance artist who has astonished audiences and critics at Fringe festivals and theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. His current show Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth! was nominated for THREE 2017 New York Innovative Theater Awards (Outstanding Solo Performance, Outstanding Original Music and Outstanding Performance Art Piece) and recently won Best of the Fringe at the esteemed San Francisco Fringe Festival. Dandy's headed back to UNDER St. Marks for an encore run of Myth Mouth! before concluding his first ever US national tour.
Dandy’s latest show explores themes of religious extremism, addiction and our contemporary worship of media technology via allegorical tales concerning a junkie Persephone, space puppy Laika, virtual reality addiction and humanity's first artist, Cha-Cha the Caveman. Dandy Darkly cites folklorist Joseph Campbell, recent celebrity deaths, his childhood love of mythology and his personal struggles with substance abuse as influences for crafting Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth!
