My Whorizontal Life

A few months ago, I had the privilege of meeting Isadora O’Boto, author, actress and escort.

She hired Drama Queen to create the graphics for her upcoming one-woman show, My Whorizontal Life adapted from her book of the same name (She uses the pen name Sephe Haven btw.) I always read my client’s work before embarking on a project. This particular reading experience was a sheer delight. I could not put the play down.

After experimenting with a number of different graphic approaches for the show, we settled on something fairly straightforward. We wanted a graphic that was simple, eye-catching and that highlighted Isadora as the writer as well as a performer. The tone of the play is comedic and yet it deals with some fairly serious themes so we didn’t want to be either too comic or too serious.

We utilized the same type of treatment as Isadora's book in order to keep some branding consistency between her various properties. The color is fun but also sophisticated. Just like the play.

We also opted to use more than one portrait on the digital and print graphics. We think it’s a fun approach for a fun show, plus it allows us to reveal a little bit more about our leading lady. With regard to branding consistency, we reasoned that we could change the portrait and still maintain the integrity of the brand because the background design/color and type treatment are so distinctive.

The play is not yet published, but you can see the world premiere of the play in Chicago in September.* And you can get the book (which just one Honorable Mention at The Los Angeles Book Festival!) on Amazon.

I pasted text from Isadora’s site below. It does a better job of explaining her work than I can.

* subscribepage.io/mywhorizontallife

BELOW: The Puritans at Facebook wouldn’t let Isadora show the actual title!

From the Author

Oh so long ago I began as an actress, then I got into Juilliard and was an actress!

But when I graduated, to my surprise, Hollywood said there was no place for me. I wasn’t “pretty enough”. (Well. It was the 80s)

I found myself not only disillusioned … but disillusioned with lots of debt and student loans to pay.

There began my journey of how to be an artist in a practical way. 

I became an Escort. Not just an Escort, but the #1 Escort in the Country.

I was living two separate lives, always determined to get back to the stage, so I started writing a solo show.

I believed the only way I would be seen in the entertainment industry was by creating my own work. 

So I wrote and wrote. On trains, buses, in journals, on napkins, with eyeliner, with lipstick pencil, in between clients, upside down and horizontal. I wrote the life I was living as an actress and a courtesan. 

Decades later, it’s finally complete. I'm scared. I haven't been on stage in many years. And I'm scared to go public with the story I'm telling. But, it's a story that deserves to come out from beneath misconceptions, misperceptions, and be told truthfully. 

I want you to take my hand and let me lead you underground into the secret life of Courtesans. It's fun, it's funny, and I'd wager so much different than you imagined. 

So come on you curious human, you got this far! You know you want to know! Join us!