10 Performance Cabaret Artists To Know: 9. Salty Brine

Salty Brine
The Living Record Collection

Salty Brine is a New York-based actor, playwright, and cabaret artist. He is the creative force behindThe Living Record Collection, a series of cabaret performances built around popular albums. Time Out New York has called him “the love child of a Paul Lynde, Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey in Cabaret threeway”. NY Credits: Clown Bar (Pipeline, The Box), How Did I Get Here? (Bowery Arts & Science), Vera; Or The Nihilists (HERE), Shannon Foy (Bowery Arts & Science), The Poor Of New York (Connelly Theater), Backstage At Horror Drag (Animals, Incubator Arts Project), Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! (Ars Nova), The Infernal Machine (CSV Cultural Center), Straight Talk (Dixon Place), Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge (HERE), Oh The Horror! (Naked Angels). Regional: The Elementary Spacetime Show (César Alvarez, Philly Fringe), The Baltimore Waltz (Cape Rep), Dead From New York (Diversionary Theatre). He is co-creator (with Justin Levine) of the vaudeville duo Pepper ‘n Sam (Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub). Salty is currently rewriting the libretto of the musical Kicks (score by Alan Menken). Faculty, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, NYU.