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Maggie Cee (artistic director) is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and sequins. She performs regularly around Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, Transcriptions, at the Femme2008 Conference, in Boston’s Traniwreck, and at the Stonewall Inn. Her essay, “notes to a young not-yet femme” was recently published in the anthology Second Person Queer. |
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Johnny Blazes is known throughout the country for hir gender-blending, genre-bending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Johnny is notorious for flamboyantly combining clowning with burlesque and drag, glitter with sophistication. Ze performs and emcees regularly at variety shows around New England, and occasionally tours with the fierce performance troupes The Femme Show and The Tranny Roadshow. Ze is currently touring hir one-performer show entitled wo(n)man show to colleges and venues around the country. Johnny’s writing on gender and performance has been published in the anthologies Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and Encounters with Contact Improvisation. To keep up with Johnny’s doings, check out www.johnnyblazes.com |
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Frenchie is a kinky Quebecois Femme who has been writting smut for 15 years. She is also a Queer activist, a body modification enthousiast and an amateur chef! Her bacon caramel chocolate cupcakes is stuff of legends. She hails from Montréal, Canada, place of all things pleasurable and risqué but is quite happy performing her provocative and filthy work, whether it’s in Boston or Montréal. Her art mainly focuses on fat sexuality, body politics with a dash of funny mixed into the blend. Frenchie is very honored to be part of the Femme Show for a second year, sharing the stage with such an amazing cast of performers. |
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Alicia Greene has been a performance-loving, femme dyke diva since she was 10 years old. Spoken word, dance, comedy are some of the stages you may have seen her on. Training at Kansas State University, the Improv Asylum, Improv Olympic and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-NYC to just to name a few. Some past performances include: The Chicago Improv Festival, Montreal Fringe Festival, Company One, Big Moves dance troupe, street corners, comedy clubs and open mikes near you. She has also been an announcer for the Boston Derby Dames Roller Derby League as “Lady Oshun-The Announcing Orisha” since 2007. www.bostonderbydames.com |
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Mallory Hanora is an organizer whose work focuses on building power + solidarity amongst Boston women and resisting racism, particularly within our (in)justice system. As an artist, she utilizes poetry, movement, drag, burlesque, and more to tell stories. In the Femme Show, her hope is be brave, honor tough femmes, and wrestle with femininity. Mallory also performs as Madge of Honor, drag royalty of the wilder, shinier, more macabre variety. Follow the hoopla here: www.twitter.com/madgeofhonor |
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Rachel Kahn is a freelance writer, poet, and performer, but spends the vast majority of her time pretending to be a therapist. Her work has been heard at a variety of venues, including the Apocalypse Lounge, the Ear Inn Poetry Series, and The New York Writers’ Coalition ‘Writing Aloud’ series. She has performed at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, and makes trouble on and off stage up and down the East Coast. One upon a time, she was the second runner up for the esteemed title of Ms. JewSA. Rachel is not ashamed to tell you that she wrote a young adult novel, but will never let you know what name she used. |
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Stella Swingline is an activist, performer, radical librarian, and writer. Onstage, she regularly performs and stage manages for TraniWreck in Boston. Her performance history includes doing femme burlesque, drag king, and genderqueer acts with the Royal Renegades in Columbus, Ohio, and co-founding and performing in Fe-Male Trouble, a drag king and genderqueer troupe in New Orleans. Offstage, she is a reference librarian, a member of the Boston Radical Reference Collective, and a novice letterpress printer. |
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Ms. Lolita LaVamp is a proud Puerto Rican transgender female haling from New York City and it’s fabulous Ballroom Scene & The House of Ninja, residing currently in Boston. Ms. LaVamp has been involved in HIV Prevention & Education and Social Justice Activism/Organizing for the past 14 years, advocating for LGBT2SGNCQ individuals. She has been dancing and performing since high school, has worked as a professional Domme, and was featured twice in the PBS Lesbian and Gay television news magazine “In The Life”. Most notably known for her vogue-lesque stylings, Lolita has also performed for Boiling Point Burlesque, The Slutcracker: A Christmas Burlesque 2009 and Bent Wit Cabaret: Identity. |
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Amy Rain travels the streets of Portland in flip flops or flats tackling mountains! …or just Munjoy Hill. Her work deliciously describes femme gender and always draws from personal experience. Amyrain grew up a visual artist, ‘zinester and feminist, so when she stumbled into dance and performance art her friends were very encouraging and The Femme Show scooped her up like vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. Amyrain can be spotted in the cat section at the grocery store or in a dirty veggie-garden. She’s always up for an autograph or a good tarot reading. Check her out on Blogger: Delicious Femme Fortunes |
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Adelaide Windsome Over cups of tea, stacks of cardboard, and piles of scrap metal, Adelaide Windsome builds delightfully cryptic and poignant puppet theater with a whimsical fervor. Her work confronts the confines of identity and space leaking from galleries and venues to street corners. Adelaide has performed nationally with the Tranny Roadshow and showcased visual work across the country including Defying Gravities through Fresh Meat Productions. She lives in Philadelphia where she performs regularly and works as an art educator and street performer.Geppetta.weebly.com Stitching tentacles |
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Lea Robinson and Elizabeth Whitney live in New York City as partners in life and crime, where they were recently featured in GO Magazine’s 100 Women We Love. Together they have brainstormed pioneering performances of gender, such as the butch-femme country-western drag act, “Sissy & Cocoa Chaps: The Urban Cowdykes,” and the soon-to-be world famous hooping duo, “Bitches With Barrettes.” Boston audiences may recognize “Bitches” from the Works in Progress series at The Theater Offensive and of course from the oh-so-glamourous Femme Show. Elsewhere, Robinson and Whitney’s collaborative work has been seen at Dixon Place (NYC), Femmetasia! (Seattle), Dixon Place (NYC), Great Small Works’ Spaghetti Dinner (NYC), Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto, ON), DramaRama (New Orleans, LA), Broad Vocabulary Books, Woodland Pattern Books, with the Miltown Kings and at Darling Hall (Milwaukee, WI), Utah Pride Center (Salt Lake City, UT), and The National Communication Association Conference (San Antonio. TX). In their parallel lives, they work collaboratively on The Miscegenations Project (www.miscegenations.org), a digital storytelling workshop that explores intersections of race, gender identity, and sexuality. More information about their individual performance work is available at www.learobinson.com and www.elizabethwhitney.com. |
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