Slash Coleman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Slash Coleman
Occupation	Spoken Word Artist
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1967(1967-08-13)
Age	57
Birthplace	Richmond
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Leo

Slash Coleman Biography

Slash Coleman is one of the most popular and richest Spoken Word Artist who was born on August 13, 1967 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Slash Coleman (born on the 13th of August 1967) is an American producer, storyteller and author who was born at Richmond, Virginia. The creator of “The Bohemian Love Diaries,” a personal blog on behalf of Psychology Today, and a yoga instructor He is well-known for his one-man , performance-based storytelling shows that blend clever words, music and poetic observations on love, religion, family relationships, and the struggle to feel a sense of belonging that is common to Generation X artists. The work of his is frequently compared with the work of the author David Sedaris.

Alongside his own solo performances, Coleman began to collaborate with other Richmond performers and directors during the summer of. In the following three years, the duo produced more than a dozen burlesque shows, initially in conjunction with Nouvelle Burlesque and later with his own troupe, The Modern Burlesque Brigade. The shows included: Ballad of the Beautiful Sex Monster, Sex Education and The Death Match of Love. Emphasizing vaudeville, physical comedy, modern dance, and live jazz, Coleman is credited as a writer/producer/performer with helping re-introduce burlesque back into the Richmond entertainment scene for the first time since 1978.

In 2006, PBS/WCVE-TV expressed interest in filming The Neon Man and Me, pending Coleman’s ability to raise the necessary production funding. With the help of a student filmmaker he met on Craigslist, Coleman created a documentary entitled Glow, and began a subsequent grassroots living room tour, traveling throughout Virginia homes for the next two years and taking donations until all $65,000 of the budget was raised.

By 2007, media coverage of “The Neon Man and Me,” had appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine and Backstage Magazine. In the spring of 2007, “The Neon Man and Me,” ran Off-Broadway at Teatro La Tea in New York, NY. Later that year, Samson Trinh (composer/saxophonist) took over as musical director and a jazz trio known as The Neon Man Band began to accompany Coleman on his tour.

As of 2005, the demise of Coleman’s close friend led to his return to his home town in Richmond, Virginia. He created his own solo production, The Neon Man and Me to pay tribute to his dear buddy, Mark Jamison, a neon artist from Roanoke, Virginia, known as the “Neon Man”. The show debuted at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke on October 9, 2005, and ran for three weeks. The show was created through an unnamed patron. It was funded by an anonymous patron. Neon Man and Me began to travel through local churches, art galleries and synagogues, universities, and public schools, before being rolled out in the International Fringe Theatre Festival circuit and was first performed in the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September 2005 in San Francisco, California. The next fringe festival venues were: Washington, DC. Boulder, CO Minneapolis, MN, Long Island, NY, and Provincetown, MA. Coleman donated all ticket sales or towards Jamison family charities or to Jamison family, the host venue or charitable organizations and helped raise more than $100,000 for charities, such as children’s hospitals as well as bereavement and grief organizations. schools.

Slash Coleman Net Worth

Slash Coleman is one of the richest Spoken Word Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Slash Coleman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Coleman was a resident of Portland, OR from 1997-2001. In Portland, he was employed primarily as a massage therapist, but also a visual artist. He sold his work during the Portland Saturday Market and through galleries. He started hosting the Home Grown Theatre out of his southeast Portland apartment. The stage showcased the latest works by Portland musicians, performers and filmmakers, as well as the characters in Coleman’s personal performances that would later be the basis of his stage productions. The year 2000 was the time he established his production firm About Vision Entertainment, with Stash Tea CEO Tom Lisicki who produced more than 12 multidisciplinary products, including a range of teas to drink as well as educational products to the Charkas.

Coleman relocated from Northampton, MA in 2003 and put on his debut solo show “Love in Boxes,” at the Northampton Center for the Arts on February 14th of February the 14th of February, 2004. Coleman played six characters in the show which focused on a boy called Jeffrey Rabbit who practiced a unusual courtship ritual that included providing women with unusual cardboard boxes, while battling his efforts to love and anxiety over rejection. The set was comprised of numerous cardboard boxes. The tour was national and included theaters located in Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Portland, ME as well as Richmond, VA.

In 2006, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Coleman created a public school curriculum entitled “Healing Community: Helping Students Come to Terms with Tragedy, Loss, and Violence.” He based the curriculum on the model he used to create The Neon Man and Me, then with a series of artist residencies through the Virginia Commission for the Arts, he began teaching the curriculum within the Richmond Public School system. In observance of Governor Kaine’s Month of the Grieving Child, Coleman produced a tour of student monologues relating to friendship and loss that was performed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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By the end of 2010, Coleman had been invited to perform at: The Oral History Performance Conference at Columbia University, The LA Storytelling Festival, The League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling and Stonesoup Storytelling Festival.

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Slash Ranked on the list of most popular Spoken Word Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Slash Coleman celebrates birthday on August 13 of every year.

The show, which seeks to illuminate a young man’s challenge with his sense of place in the world after his best friend’s death, included 7 monologues about friendship and an original music score. Underwritten by The Association for Death Education and Counseling and the Wilbert Foundation, the program was distributed by (NETA) The National Education Television Alliance in 2010 and aired on PBS station nationwide until 2012. Paul Tait Roberts was the senior producer and John Felton was the executive co-producer. The story behind The Neon Man and Me was recorded for StoryCorps and included in the archives at the Smithsonian.