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A goddess Reborn
Marla Lou debuted their auto-biographical cabaret, A GODDESS REBORN, on Jan. 16, 2023 to a full house at Green Room 42.
Produced by a team of powerhouse creatives and backed by a full live band, A GODDESS REBORN charts the Goddexx’s monumental voyage from birth to their life-changing win at the Jimmy Awards. Marla Lou recreates a myriad of tumultuous chapters in their life by singing through doo-wop, contemporary, gospel, soul, Haitian traditional folk, and even more genres with ease.
Marla Lou is a once-in-a-lifetime performer alight with the flames of liberation; from the first note of A GODDESS REBORN, the audience knows they bear witness to the birth of a phoenix.
On July 12, 2023, Marla Lou performed a 20-minute continuation of A GODDESS REBORN — “In Pleasure” — as commissioned by The Wild Project’s second annual Soundstage series.
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Film And Theater
Marla Lou's creative adventures began as a child attending after-school art programs offered by NYC public schools (PS166, MS54, The Beacon School) and dance academies made possible through scholarships (Ballet Hispanico, Shuffles Tap).
Menace’s professional career began after they won the 2015 Best Actress Jimmy Award for their portrayal of Caroline in Caroline or Change. Since then, Marla Lou has toured North America with Hadestown and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
They are a producer of community-oriented performances and events designed to make revolution irresistible outside of commercial theater’s limited parameters.
Modeling
Marla Lou scored their first modeling credential in 2019 after leaving the Broadway tour of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Pharaoh has since booked three runway NYFW shows alongside photoshoots in Vogue Italia, GROWN Mag, Mob Journal, and more.
Committed to intentionality in their work as a freelance model, Marla dreams of representing brands aligned with their practices of abolition, Black-Indiegenous sovereignty, and urgent direct action.
Claim Our Space Now
When the murder of George Floyd radicalized social media platforms and led to national actions in 2020, Marla Lou saw a supersaturation of information siloing, which created mass removal of nuance surrounding abolition politics and practices. Unable to physically participate in New York City-based actions, Goddexx dreamt up a centralized online space that could build and sustain movements dedicated to the design, consolidation, and execution of accessible survival practices.
Claim Our Space NOW was born to elevate individual action to communal practices structured around the dismantling of white supremacy. Today, the organization works as an intersectional resource and activation hub invested in the community action necessary to save all Black and otherwise oppressed lives. Its work is as dynamic as its founder and acts as a one-stop shop for deliberate change beyond hashtags and cyclical internet outcry.
