Audrey Johnson (she/her) is a dance artist and plant worker with roots from Detroit, MI/Anishinaabe land, currently based in Oakland, CA/Ohlone land. Audrey’s work centers ritual, embodiment, and communion; her performances have been presented by CounterPulse, FRESH Festival, Queering Dance Festival, 2727 California Street, RAWdance, and Sidewalk Arts Festival Detroit. Audrey has collaborated and performed with artists including Gerald Casel, Jennifer Harge, Biba Bell, Stephanie Hewett. She is a co-founder of Collective Sweat Detroit, and holds a BFA in Dance from Wayne State University.

audreyjohnson.space

Cheetah Biscotti is a staple of the Bay Area performing arts scene. They are well known within the OASIS community for their appearances in shows including SQREAM (2022), The Rocky Horror Show (2021), Princess, and Reparations, HEXSF and Nasti. Cheetah is everyone's favorite clown, drag royalty, dancer, actor, singer, roller skater and performance artist extraordinaire.

@cheetahbiscotti

Erin Mei-Ling Stuart is a multidisciplinary theater maker. She directs, choreographs, devises, acts, dances, makes videos, and plays a little music. Recent projects include co-directing Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 at Shotgun Players and acting in The Headlands at American Conservatory Theater. Her next big endeavor is directing and acting in Eugenie Chan’s The Truer History of the Chan Family, a film slated to release in 2024. Erin is proud to be a company member of Detour Dance and Shotgun Players, and is so happy to be building houses here with Detour!

@erinmeilingstuart erinmstuart.com

Alex is a Black biracial, queer Glamputee, audaciously creating and celebrating the representation they want to see in the world through art and activism guided by disability justice.

Alex offers flamboyant Leo fire to dance and drag scenes alike. With Churro Nomi, they created a short film for “Up on High” (‘21). Last year, they were a featured artist in the FreshMeat festival and recently earned a finalist spot in the Pillows Pageant. Glamputee can regularly be caught hopping through Clutch the Pearls or rollerblading at Rollin with the Homos with their drag fam, The Solid Gold Dancers.

@glamputee glamputee.com

Kat Gorospe Cole is Queer Filipinx artmaker whose works invoke subtlety and spectacle through film, performance and drag. They have the pleasure of co-directing Detour with Eric Garcia in many fantastical performance shenanigans and are excited to be with the company again in this work. Her short films have screened in over 25 festivals including NewFest, CAAMFest and Hot Docs, and they received an Artist Fellowship from California College of the Arts. He can also be seen late nights as the drag king Sir Acha.

katcole.works

Lisa Frankenstein is the rainbow nightmare you never knew you needed. She has a generous amount of experience in theater, clown, and drag and co-hosts Princess every Saturday with Kochina Rude at Oasis.

@itslisafrankenstein

Melissa Lewis Wong (they/she/他 - AKA Deuce Lee) is a queer, biracial Chinese American artist working with working with mixed lineages, mother tongues, tube tops, Bruce Lee and drag. Their physicality comes from a background of traditional Chinese folk arts, Western modern dance, and martial arts—with contemporary performance as a place for their intersections to meet. They have been working in Yelamu (San Francisco) since 2010 with a few dance companies (detour dance, Fog Beast, Megan Lowe Dances) and many wonderful friends!

@lemelissa @brucelee___deucelee @asianbabegang

melissalewis.art

My name is Mudd. I am a two-spirit bipoc/latinx artist originally from central California. I use my art form to push the agenda of representation in multi-faceted and intersectional identities and the narrative of artistry for people who have had to identify as an “other”.

@muddthetwospirit merch

Quinn Dixon is a multi-disciplinary artist and a certified Ilan Lev method practitioner living in Brooklyn NY. They use dance, music, performance, clothing design, poetry, crafts and photographs to communicate their interpretations of life on Earth.

In addition to their independent creative work, Quinn is committed to being in process with many different friends/artists on performances, films, music videos, and other projects.

@qmanji qmanji.tumblr.com

Saharla Vetsch (she/her) is a Somali American independent dance based artist born and raised in Minnesota. Now residing in the Bay Area, Saharla has earned a degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice with a concentration in dance from the University of San Francisco. Her work centers intersecting identities and how they relate to one another. Her drag persona Major Hammy (he/him) seeks to spread joy and love by being the life of the party, and bringing the freedom of self expression he experiences through dance to others.

@the_major_s

Syd Franz / Les B Frank is a dancer, drag king, and graphic designer with a soft spot for ballet class. Based in Brooklyn & SF, their work explores identity, maximalism, community, and queer joy with an emphasis on collaboration, creative play, and the fabulous. Lately they’ve been digging into devised theatre, dreaming up highly choreographed group drag numbers, and exploring the fundamentals of mime theatre. They’re grateful for the teachers and collaborators who have shaped their work, including Summer Lee Rhatigan, Eric Garcia, Christian Burns, Rosalynde LeBlanc, and John Todd.

@lesbfrank @sfranz sydfranz.com

Wiley Naman Strasser is a biracial Armenian American actor, dancer, musician, and drag artist. He splits his time between coasts working with companies including The Civilians, Stairwell Theater Company, Chicago Dramatists, Ashland New Plays Festival, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Bay Area collaborations over the past years include work with Golden Thread, Hope Mohr Dance, SF Playhouse, Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Rep, and Crowded Fire. He received his degree in theater from UCLA and has also trained with Teatr Zar, Teatro Yuyachkani, and Pig Iron, among others.

@wileywhy wileynamanstrasser.com

Eric Garcia is a San Francisco-based devised dance-theater artist, drag queen, community organizer, and the Co-Director of Detour. He creates immersive and site-responsive performances that straddle nostalgia, radical futurism, collaborative ensembles, and queer maximalism. Eric is rooted in the queer nightlife and drag performance scene as Churro Nomi, and produces/hosts Clutch The Pearls, a drag cabaret on the first Sunday of every month at Make-Out Room in the Mission District. Since 2010, Eric proudly serves as Managing Director for both Fresh Meat Productions and the SF Transgender Film Festival.

@churro_nomi @clutchthepearlssf

Cornelius works as a choreographer, dancer, Drag queen, performer and community activist. They combine high theory, low entertainment and rigorous theatrical training- making performance in the borderlands between theater, nightlife and dance.

Their shows look like drag, look like poems, look like dance, look like theater, look like experiments, look like parties. They have shown in different places in the U.S.A as well as Europe.

In 2020 they were on the YBCA 100 which prompted the performance I was paid to be here. They will premiere Colossus in 2021 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

@vivvyanne_forevermore bigpoetic.com

Maurya Kerr is a bay-area based choreographer, poet, filmmaker, and the artistic director of tinypistol. Much of her work—across the disciplines of movement, language, and film—is focused on racialized people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian.

@tinypistol tinypistol.com

Raised in San Francisco, Chuck is a choreographer, performer, teacher and the Artistic Director of UNA Productions. They are genderqueer, second generation Queer and a proud pup parent. Chuck is currently on faculty at the LINES Training Program and have taught, created and set repertory for universities, training programs, professional companies, youth companies, high schools, and professional dancers. Chuck’s work through UNA has been presented in San Francisco, NYC, Maryland, Colorado, San Diego, Massachusetts, Tokyo and Kaga Japan, Montreal, Vancouver and Rural BC.

@chuckwilt www.una.productions

Brian Thorstenson is a San Francisco based writer and teacher. Brian was a founding member of The Z Collective, a former Resident Playwright Program at Playwrights Foundation, and a founding members of 6NewPlays. His last series of projects included Dearly Gathered with choreographers Rowena Richie, Christy Funsch and Chris Black, Weather to Whether with Erin Mei-Ling Stuart/EmSpace, Fugue with Detour Dance and Wakefield with 6NewPlays. He is a Senior Lecturer at Santa Clara University and has an MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU.

@bthorstenson brianthorstenson.com

Jaren Feeley (he/him) is a musician-composer currently based in Brooklyn. As a pianist, he records and tours internationally with the art-rock band SPELLLING. As an organizer, he has curated seven iterations of MOONSTRUCK, an arts festival that asks audiences to undertake a four-mile moonlit hike to a secret performance location. Recent dance compositions have been presented by Whim W'him, Amherst University, and Lincoln Center Film. His first solo album will be released in summer 2023.

@jarenfeeley jarenfeeley.com

Jules Indelicato is a musician and sound designer based in San Francisco, CA. In addition to being a familiar face in the Bay Area music scene, Jules is an empathic grassroots community organizer who is deeply committed to driving positive change by advocating for the people and places working to make our communities more inclusive, equitable, and magical.

@itsbeenalovelyay

Hi, I'm Del Medoff, the Lighting Designer for this experience. I am so happy to be working with these fabulous humans, some of which I have worked with for over a decade! This project has really felt like re-finding my community after being separated for one reason or another for so long. It has filled my heart and soul to the brim and more, and I am very thankful.

Jessi Barber (she/her) is a lighting designer, stage manager, and producer who has been working with Bay Area dance artists and organizations for 10 years. Originally from Maine (Wabanaki territory), she is a co-producer of the Queering Dance Festival and loves collaboration, karaoke, and plants.

Designer, educator, artist, entrepreneur and community connector born and raised in Puerto Rico. It was on the island where Abdiel was introduced to theatre from a cultural lens, working with local performing arts companies. In the last 14+ years Abdiel has collaborated with organizations around the United States, Puerto Rico and expanding internationally. Excited to be in San Francisco and collaborating with Detour whose work is of extreme importance centering diverse and queer narratives. Gratitude always towards my queer family, students and mentors. ¡Gracias! Dare to be you.

@abdiporta abdielcreates.com

Amanda Vigil Is a San Francisco-born and raised filmmaker, educator, & performance artist. Her work has been seen locally and internationally in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Berlin, Germany. Amanda believes in the power of the audience, through her work as a Stage manager, facilitator, director, and curator. She understands media as an access point for conversation and collective change. She holds a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Film/Video and has proudly focused her talents as the Youth Media Program Manager for KQED.org

@analeash.b amandavigil.com

Jax Blaska (they/she) is a San Francisco-born creative collaborator. As a theatremaker, they create work that is collaborative & curious, queer & feminist, and balances ritual & spectacle. They work in production and administration across theatre, dance, performance art, and installation, with Bay Area artists and organizations including FACT/SF, EyeZen Presents, Cutting Ball Theater, and Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens. They hold a BA with honors from Yale University, and perform in drag as Nasturtium! the flower alien. This is their first show with Detour and are so thrilled to join the team.

@jax_blax