Bio Archive
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Maggie Cee is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and sequins. She performs regularly with Boston’s Traniwreck and Works in Progress at the Theater Offensive. She recently appeared at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, at the Femme2008 Conference, and as a guest artist with Body Heat. In 2006 Maggie was named one of the Advocate’s Future Gay Rights Leaders. Her choreography has been featured throughout the Boston area. Her poetry has been published in Gertrude, The Connecticut Review, and The Emerson Review. Maggie Cee |
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Havalah 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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Ariel Federow Performer. Ariel is a NYC-based choreo-director, performer, and spectacle-maker. She has been seen recently in Big Moves’ Gargantua, Kosher ChiXXX, the JFREJ/Workmen’s Circle Purimshpiel, in the 5768 Sukkos Mob, and she recently turned in her crown as Miss Jew-S-A. She’s a dancer by training (BA, University of Washington) and originally from Seattle, where her work with Ying Zhou and Amy Bollinger was seen in Ladyfest Seattle, Velocity Dance Center’s Under Construction Series, and in 12 Minutes Max at On the Boards. She throws great parties that raise money for even better causes, does trapeze tricks on the subway, and has been known, in the right circumstances, to play with fire. |
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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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Mallory 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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Sassafras Lowrey Performer/Blogger. Sassafras is a genderqueer high femme, militant storyteller, author, artist, performer, and activist. Ze believes that everyone has a story to tell, and that the telling of those stories is essential to creating social change. An accomplished storyteller, ze was an original member of “The Language of Paradox” founded and directed by Kate Bornstein and was honored as one of Portland’s top emerging writers by In Other Words feminist books and resources in 2004. Hir first book GSA to Marriage: Stories of a Life Lived Queerly is scheduled for release Summer 2008 from the queer publisher Homofactus Press. Additionally, Sassafras is the editor of the Kicked Out anthology also from Homofactus Press which is bringing together the voices of current and former LGBTQ youth from around the world who were forced to leave home as a result of their sexuality and/or gender identity. Sassafras lives in New York City with hir partner, two puddle-shaped cats, and a princess dog. |
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Kate McDonough Filmmaker. Kate recently graduated from Emerson College where she earned a double degree in Film and Political Communications. She currently works as a political organizer and enjoys making campy films in her spare time. Past works include fun little films such as Heterosexual Danger (Emerson College 2004), Tooth Incorporated (Emerson College 2005) and Lusting for Relief (Women in Motion 2006). Kate is super excited to be a part of the Femme Show. Tee Hee was recently featured at the Boston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. |
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Amanda Johnston (aka Alhena) Performer. Amanda has loved playing dress up since she was a little girl in Elyria, Ohio. But a life dedicated to academics, political activism, and reasonableness didn’t offer much room for it – until she discovered Belly Dance in a post-grad-school frenzy in Austin, Texas. Dancing now for more than ten years, Amanda is currently a performer and board member with Big Moves Boston. Big Moves Marina Wolf Ahmad Performer. Marina got her groove back in 1998, when she started taking hip hop lessons and debuted as a dancer at a fat feminist gathering in San Francisco. She got her femme back (after 11 years in hiding) in 2002, when she began performing burlesque with Heather Macallister’s Fat-Bottom Revue. The founder and artistic director of Big Moves, Marina is fully committed to being the biggest, baddest power-femme fattie to ever storm (off-)Broadway. Big Moves |
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Peggy Munson Performer. Award-winning writer and editor, Peggy Munson wrote the Project Queerlit Award winning novel, Origami Striptease, and edited the acclaimed anthology, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Her poetry manuscript, Pathogenesis, was a finalist for the Dorset Prize, the Winnow Press Open Book Award, the Tupelo Press First Book Competition, the Word Works/Washington Prize, and the Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series. She has also been a finalist for the Astraea grant and the Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editor’s Prize. In addition, Peggy was a winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian Fiction Contest, and she is the most-published writer in the Best Lesbian Erotica series. Peggy Munson |
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Parker Phillips Performer. Parker is a New York City-based conceptual artist who does everything but nothing in particular. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Ruckus Muckus Performer. Ruckus Muckus is a costumer, stage and street performer. She makes dance, movement, character, living statue, and circus work. Most recently she has performed with Emperor Norton’s, Ten31, and Silver Swimmers. Silver Swimmers / Ruckus Muckus |
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AB Commendatore Web Designer/Production Manager. AB is a freelance Web Designer & Stage Manager. She’s currently nominated for a DASH Award in Stage Management. AB has worked with many companies around Boston including Boston Theatre Works (BTW), WERS 88.9, CentaStage, The Longwood Players (TLP), The Boston Children’s Choir, The Súgán Theatre, Handel & Hayden Society and Emerson Stage. Recent credits: BTW’s Elliot Norton Winner Angels in America, IRNE Nominee The Importance of Being Earnest (TLP) & last summer’s 4:48 Psychosis (FPTC). Upcoming Productions include: The Heidi Chronicles (TLP) in November. AB holds a BFA in Production/Stage Management from Emerson College. AB Commendatore |
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Lyndon Cudlitz Vendor. Maker of magnets, patches, and light switch plates that are fun, queer, feminist, sex-positive and progressive. Lyndon’s work has been seen at the Vagina Monologues, Translating Identity Conference (Burlington) , Southern Maine Pride, Reproductive Rights Conference, and an Earth Day fair. |
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Katie Diamond Logo Designer/Vendor. Radical Feminist Comic Artist. She strongly believes in the direct cross-over of art and politic, and uses this dogma in her every-day art practice. She’s done many illustrations and cartoons about gender, sexuality, and sex education. She’s also designed many pamphlets, flyers, and posters for various local organizations. Katie will be offering comic books and hand-printed t-shirts. Katie Diamond |
