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Maggie Cee (artistic director) is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and sequins. Sheperforms regularly around Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, 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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havalah grace backus is a proud femme who is more than honored to be a part of The Femme Show again and to be surrounded by amazing, strong femmes and allies. havalah feels so lucky to be a current BFA Acting student at Emerson College, where she won a performance award for her work in The Femme Show. You can find havalah all around Boston and beyond acting and performing in plays, sketch comedy, improv, performance art and storytelling. havalah also just produced ImprovBoston’s highly successful Queer Qomedy Festival. To see what havalah is up to check out www.havalah.com |
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Johnny Blazes is known throughout Boston’s drag and burlesque scenes for hir genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Ze received a BA in Dance Performance at Oberlin College where ze founded OCircus! and directed the 95-student group for three years. Ze has directed grassroots circus groups across the country including a smaller touring version of OCircus!, The Madcap Rumpus Society and The ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment. Johnny is a regular performer at TraniWreck, the Midway, Jacques Cabaret and colleges across New England. Ze is currently booking a tour of hir one-person evening-length performance entitled wo(n)man show. Follow Johnny’s doings at www.johnnyblazes.com |
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Miss Gingerita is a member of “Boston’s Best Dance Performance Troupe 2009,” Babes in Boinkland. She recently appeared in TraniWreck, and has also performed at Cherry, the Pussy Revolution, the House of Blues with Richard Cheese, the Boston Burlesque Expo, and Jerkus Circus! Her favorite show of all time is The Slutcracker. Miss Gingerita @ MySpace | Friend Miss Gingerita on Facebook |
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Alicia Greene is a black queer educator, activist and performer. She is an alumni of Kansas State University, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-NYC and the Improv Asylum Training Center in Boston, MA. |
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M. Hanora is a community organizer, abortion care provider, artist, and writer. She was recently published in the anthology Queer and Catholic. Mallory has performed in Boston at the Works in Progress series, Boston University, Emerson College, the Boston Common, Jacques Cabaret, at parties and special events, and with the Reflect and Strengthen Street Theatre troupe. She graduated from the Emerson College Honors Program with a degree in Writing and experience in the performing arts. |
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Rachel Kahn A recent transplant to Boston by way of New York City, Rachel 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. After a semi-successful stint pulling the movie screen down for the first Femme Show, Rachel enjoys being on the other side of the stage. She recently performed at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York, and with The Femme Show’s fabulous summer tour. Rachel’s first novel came out earlier this year under an assumed identity. |
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Alana Kumbier is an activist, performer, radical librarian, and writer. Onstage, she regularly performs and is the stage manager 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. She has published articles and critical essays in Bitch, Punk Planet (RIP), HipMama, and Bust. |
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Amy Rain received her BFA in Printmaking from Maine College of Art and hearts Portland, ME. She spends her cat-lady days as an artist, dancer, educator, and plant enthusiast. Amy Rain has taught numerous workshops on art and activism and was the director of Portland’s The Vagina Monologues in the 2008 Global V-Day Campaign. She is also known in Portland for her ‘zinester antics and creation WICAD Word ‘zine (Why Is Cunt a Dirty Word?!) Working from autobiographical narrative, her art investigates many feminist topics including gender, language, class, spirituality and relationships. Read Amy Rain’s Blog at Blogspot | Follow Amy Rain on MySpace |
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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. |
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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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Mylène St Pierre is a kinky Quebecois Femme who has been writing erotica and smut for 15 years. She is also a Queer activist, a community health worker and a sexologist. Mylène hails from Montréal, Canada, place of all things pleasurable and risqué but is quite happy sharing her provocative and filthy work, whether it’s in Boston or Montréal. Her writing and performing has focused mostly on smut but she has also performed locally with Big Moves, a size diversity size troupe. She feels very honored to be part of the Femme Show among such an amazing cast of performer. A special shout out to her baby cub, her partner in erotica. |
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Karin Webb is a character actor who has been performing since she was born, directing since she had siblings, and producing theatre since her first sleepover. She has a BFA in Acting from Boston University, spent some time working on her Masters Degree at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, has toured the country as a puppeteer and mask performer with Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theatre, and co-owns, produces, and performs with the Boston based theatre companies Axe To Ice Productions and All The Kings Men. She spent years producing and performing at the Pan 9 collective and was the creator of ART WhOReSHIP (1-3). It it her intention to make art that strikes a chord somewhere within. |
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