Sex Werque: Notes from the Field is a 60 minute, auto-biographical solo show about working as a stripper. Ella-Gabriel Mason explores how we perform eroticism and consume intimacy, both in the club and at home. Through theater, dance, and filmed interviews with other sex workers, they unpack the world of sex work: the emotional and economic forces, the movement vocabulary, the masks, and the moments of authentic connection. Throughout Mason demonstrates the complex artistic labor strippers and other sex workers put into their performance work.


Script, Choreography, and Performance by Ella-Gabriel Mason
Music by J.F. Winkles and Ricki Weidenhof
Videography and Editing by Liz Barentine and Ella-Gabriel Mason
Creative Support by Mae West

Premiered at Fidget Space in Philadelphia, PA in 2023 as part of the Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Sex Werque: Notes from the Field is an update and adaptation of Mason's previous piece Sex Werque which premiered in 2017