Brittany Newell

Brittany performs in our February 2025 Seriously Entertaining show at Joe’s Pub, speaking on the theme “Look Both Ways.”

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel Oola was published in 2017 at the age of 21 by Henry Holt and HarperCollins. It was translated into German by btb, a division of Random House, in January 2020 and published as Ein Sommer in Big Sur. From 2017-18 she wrote a regular column on gender and sexuality for Dazed Digital. You can find her written work in Granta, N+1, The New York Times, Joyland and Playgirl. In 2021 she was a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist grant for artists serving under-represented communities. Her second novel Soft Core will be published by FSG in February 2025 in the US, 4th Estate in the UK, and Fayard in France. She and her wife Maria Silk run a monthly drag and dance party called Angels at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, one of San Francisco’s oldest queer bars. You can find her on instagram at @frottage_industry

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