Beauty Pill

Bio

Beauty Pill is a Washington, D.C. band and art collective that began in 2001 around the songs of singer, guitarist, and producer Chad Clark. On Dischord Records they leaned into cinematic arrangements and electronic textures, starting with the EP The Cigarette Girl From the Future and the album The Unsustainable Lifestyle. Later releases include Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are, Please Advise, and Instant Night. In 2011 they turned Artisphere’s Black Box Theatre in Arlington into a public recording studio for the Immersive Ideal project, and they have also played the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Luce Foundation Center.

The band

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  Chad Clark

  Beauty Pill’s founder, chief composer, and producer. He also works as a producer and engineer for other artists and co-curates the Story/Stereo series at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

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  Erin Mitchell Nelson

  Choreographer, dancer, and vocalist who joined Beauty Pill in 2018. She is co-founder and managing director of the D.C. company Taffety Punk Theatre Company, and she sings and dances in the band’s “Pardon Our Dust” video.