Artist Bios 2006 Tranny Roadshow
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Performance Artists


Jamez Terry


Jamez Terry (alias Vermicious Knid)
- see updated bio

Kelly Shortandqueer - see updated bio


Kelly Shortandqueer

AJ Bryce

AJ Bryce - see updated bio

adhamh roland is a mid-western, homegrown taste of radical shenanigans in a queerly folk fashion. Based out of St. Louis, Adhamh has performed original tunes for over six years and is a founding member of the music collective Riot Folk (www.riotfolk.org). Riot Folk is an anti-profit mutual-aid collective of radical artists and musicians from around the country.

Adhamh has performed in basements, on campuses, in listening rooms, union halls, in living rooms, bookstores, community spaces, coffee shops, bars, and sidewalks all over the country. In the summer of 2005 Adhamh and a fellow musician embarked on a 1,230 bike/folk tour called Gasfast in the Northwest, performing in over 15 venues car-free. This summer Adhamh and fellow Riot Folk member, Brenna Sahatjian, are exploring Southern Missouri by bicycle on their next tour Pedal to The People.

When not playing music, you might find Adhamh working with kids, riding bicycles, brewing beer, performing with the St. Louis burlesque troupe (Benchpress Burlesque ), and living and working on the Community Arts and Media Project in St. Louis.


adhamh roland

Andrew G.

Andrew G. is a first-year student at Oberlin College , Ohio . He likes to act. He also likes being trans, when he isn't pissed off at the binary-gendered establishment for oppressing him and his friends. This is his first public act of deliberate trans activism. An avid environmentalist, Andrew also enjoys searching for true meaning in life.

Citizen Rahne Alexander - see updated bio


Citizen Rahne

Dylan Scholinski

Dylan Scholinski - see updated bio

 Eli Conley is a white transguy poet musician Libra introvert thing from Richmond, Virginia. He strives to do truly multi-issue anti-racist feminist social justice work, currently as part of the small, collectively run Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgender people at Oberlin College. Eli recently changed tranny teams (from genderqueer to FtM), but one thing that's stayed constant is his need for music. When he's not busy trying to figure out what this whole being a white man thing is going to be all about (and that itself is pretty daunting), Eli can be found singing operatic soprano and baking vegan muffins with his boyfriend. Check out Eli's website for information on current projects.


Eli Conley

Ethan Blustein

Ethan Blustein is a Jewish genderqueer activist and resident rebel in B-town, Ethan is excited to be performing with TR for the first time. He is currently an Assistant Preschool Teacher and a Gender Activist. He is moving to Seattle, WA in June, where he plans to work (hopefully somewhere cool), volunteer at Camp Ten Trees, and meet lots and lots of cool people. If you know anyone he should connect with or want to stay in touch e-mail him at redcedartree@gmail.com.

Georgie Jessup has an extraordinary ability to encourage audiences to look deeply into their prejudices and other transgressions. Consequently, audiences tend to respond emotionally, if not always lovingly. Georgie has developed a successful career by challenging musical styles, personal identifications, and storybook history lessons. She has released four CD's: American Holocaust, Red Cloud's Room, Winkte & Crazy Sacred Dogs, and Woman in a Man's Suit (2006; Co-produced with engineer/musician, Billy Kemp, and some of the area's top musicians).

Awards and other events: Austria's own Big City Indian, (for their 2003 release Native Heart Urban Soul), recorded her song, Red Cloud's Room, (from RED CLOUD'S ROOM). Four WAMA Nominations for singer songwriter, vocal performance, and album (Washington Area Music Association) AMERICAN HOLOCAUST Nominated for the 2004 Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA-Milwaukee, WI) Nominated for the Players Club Awards 2004 singer songwriter category (Dewey Beach / Rehoboth Beach, Delaware), Featured performer at the Players Club Awards 2004, Featured performer at the Susquehanna Music & Arts Festival 2003/2004, 2005 Fresh Fruit Awards for live show and nominated for songwriting, 2005 Silver Arrow Award. You can check out Georgie at her website or on her myspace page.


Georgie Jessup

Grady Challis

A Baltimore transplant without roots, Grady Challis is lit up by anything ostensibly wholesome but clandestinely twisted. His current favorite projects include founding a gang, the Fighting Buddhists, and bringing men into the wonderful world of political striptease performance with an act called Bearlesque. He also has the most adorable dogs in the universe and an unqualified devotion to Fred Astaire. He has worked in organizing around trans issues and is the first out trans person to become a court-appointed advocate for a child in the foster care/juvenile justice system. He has previously performed at the Charm City Kitty Club, The Tranny Roadshow 2005 and Dark Odyssey.

Imani Henry, Activist, Writer, Performer.

Since 1993 he has been a Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC), where his work has focused on national organizing of communities of color and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement toward broader social justice campaigns.  His anti-war activism has ranged from opposing US military inventions in Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, Venezuela, Colombia and Yugoslavia to fighting to end the economic blockade of Cuba.  He has worked nationally within the anti-police brutality and anti-death penalty movements as well as fighting the freedom of all political prisoners incarcerated by the US government. Henry is the co-founder of Rainbow Flags for Mumia, a coalition of LGBTST people who demand the freedom of African- American political prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu Jamal.

Henry's writing has appeared in several publications including the Lambda Award-winning Does Your Mama Know and the IAC publication, War in Colombia: Made in USA.  Henry was a featured commentator on the March 2005 segment of the nationally-syndicated PBS monthly newsmagazine, In the Life's "American Gender", hosted by RuPaul.  Henry's multi-media theatre piece, B4T (before testosterone), received an Honorable Mention for Best Play for the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC, June 2005. 

Check www.geocities.com/imani_henry for links to upcoming performances and political campaigns.


Imani Henry

Jacoby Ballard

Jacoby Ballard is a New York-based writer, herbalist, yogi and is constantly looking for more to learn, more mountains to climb, more rivers to swim, more radical spaces to teach yoga, more words to weave. His work involves community organizing, serving as a healer for the progressive community in New York , queer youth empowerment, farming and gardening, and a commitment to loving and healing in the radical queer community. He believes in the potential revolution within our everyday interactions and the fire we encourage in other queers, radicals, writers, performers.

Having toured with the Roadshow last year, he is looking forward to working with more performers in new spaces and expanding on themes and writings from last year.

Jessica Marshall is an Atlanta based performance artist and painter who currently works from a studio in The B-Complex, an artist community located in downtown Atlanta .

Drawing upon a theatre background from the University of Central Florida (UCF), Jessica focuses on challenging conventions of all types via a passionate narrative performance style. While at UCF Jessica gained a variety of theatrical experience, from lead roles to stage management and directing at UCF, Orlando Civic Theatre, and Theatre Downtown productions. After graduating and starting gender transition, Jessica returned to UCF to perform solo in Mariposa: An Image in Three Levels. During the scene that required Jessica to slice sheets in a rage, the knife slipped, requiring a hospital visit, four stitches and a personal vow not to require medical attention for another performance. 

Jessica's most recent Atlanta performance was at The B Complex's Just B art show in November 2005. Jessica's candid performance in Bathroom and Emotions confronted audience emotions and challenged their perspective of every day experiences through were raw expressions of personal, and at times esoteric, Buddhist thought.


Jessica Marshall

Katz / The Athens Boys Choir

 Katz / The Athens Boys Choir - Katz, with his Jewish roots dressed in cowboy boots, has often hailed spokenword as "cheap therapy". His pieces take a brave dive into a deep pool of personal, political, and sexual perspective. Katz performs under the persona of the Athens Boys Choir. The Athens Boys Choir has toured nationally since 2003, performing with such artists as the Indigo Girls, Bitch, The Butchies, Danielle Howle, and Michelle Malone. He has also opened for poets of HBO's Def Poetry Jam on more than one occasion. What started as a true love of writing since childhood has turned into a blissful career.

From a sports bar in San Diego to a sold out crowd at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, the rhymes and rhythms of the Athens Boys Choir have struck a chord in the most diverse of audiences; many whose members claimed they disliked spokenword until the Athens Boys Choir was let loose on them. With one CD already released on Daemon Records and another one self-released, Katz/The Athens boys Choir is a force to be reckoned with. Check out Katz/Athens Boys Choir's myspace page.

Katz has the nuance of an old soul when he does his thing. With the inclusion of class, culture, and race dynamics in transgender politics, Katz makes room for the evolution of a movement. He doesn't shy away from questioning his own community and remembers that humor broadens the most narrow minds. This self aware spoken word artist has potential to be a leader to his generation of queers and a bridge to an older generation if they are willing to listen."  - Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) July 2005

If Freddy Mercury and Cyndi Lauper had had a love child, singer/songwriter Mackenzie MacBride would be this child. All grown up now, Mackenzie performs a lo-fi lounge act with piano, beat box and story songs. With her sometimes ethereal sounding operatic singing she sets out to challenge the, "What's that? I am not used to it. I must not like it," reaction to the unique and the unfamiliar.

Mackenzie has performed at Pride events in Canada and the international Lady Fest festival. She has released and distributed three independent EPs, including the indie favorite, "Ms., Miss or Mr." and two chapbooks, including the title, "Tales of a Half Caste Woman". She has also created a series of "Elle! She! Her!" logod buttons and shirts to promote the ideas of femme self love and people's right to define themselves. Broken Pencil, the magazine of independent arts, said of Mackenzie MacBride, "The secret is out." www.mackenziemacbride.com


Mackenzie MacBride

Miles

Miles is an FTM tranny, born and raised in the Pittsburgh area.  He works for money as a therapist with kids with behavioral health issues, and works not for money on many things including his creative writing (stories, zines, etc.) and researching his family history.

Miles hopes to finish researching and writing a family history while in Pittsburgh, then perhaps attend grad school for creative writing / queer issues / non-profit administration, probably somewhere on the west coast.  With these skills, he wants to return to Pittsburgh, buy a house, and create a place for tranny / queer youth to hang out and learn about relevent issues.  This is one of many dreams that may or may not become a reality for Miles. Miles is currently visiting and working at Oran Mor, an intentional community. He previously was at Sandhill Farm helping with their annual sorghum harvest.

The New Minority is a three piece goth/punk/rockabilly band from Philadelphia, PA, currently signed to Valiant Death Records. They have been playing live for approximately two years and have shared the stage with the World/Inferno Friendship Society, Nina Hagen, Cinema Strange, An Albatross, The Phenomenauts, A Global Threat and many others. They played at the Drop Dead Festival 3 on October 30, 2005, and will soon be playing at A Grave Affair, another "deathrock" festival in Chicago, IL. For more information on The New Minority visit www.valiantdeath.com or www.myspace.com/thenewminority.

The October 30th performance was reviewed by Dan J in Gothic Beauty Magazine, as follows: "...Some of the best band performances this year came from some of the newest. The New Minority, an anarcho-punk band out of Philadelphia, bounced around the place like mental patients with electricity in their veins... " [page 25; Issue 19, Winter 2005]


The New Minority

Red Durkin

Red Durkin - see updated bio

Scott Turner Schofield (formerly Kt Kilborn) is a displaced Southerner in constant transition. Schofield began his performance art career working as a research assistant to Holly Hughes and Carmelita Tropicana at the WOW Cafe in 2000. Now a wandering writer and performance artist, he tours his acclaimed one-trannie shows, "Underground TRANSit" and "Debutante Balls", to colleges far and wide. He continues to create new solo work, while also collaborating on new work with artists and communities, and facilitating performance for social change workshops for teenagers and college students. Schofield believes in the power of performance art as social activism, and was honored as the youngest recipient of a Tanne Foundation award in June 2004.

Check http://www.undergroundtransit.com/homepage.html for links to upcoming performances.


Scott Turner Schofield

seeley quest

seeley quest - see updated bio

Ever since Tab Dansby used frustrated correctly in a sentence at the age of three (and subsequently frightened his mother), words have been his weapon of choice.  He's performed in the US and Japan in various venues as a poet/storyteller and is excited to bring his work to more audiences.


Tab Dansby
Tona Brown

Tona Brown - see updated bio

Traci Klawes is a 33-year-old goth trans-woman living in Milwaukee . In what little spare time she has, she writes short stories and poetry, and is an accomplished graphic artist.  She transitioned eight years ago on April Fools day.  To the best of her knowledge, she may be the world's only MtF drag king, intermittently appearing as a guest performer of the Miltown Kings under the stage name Willie Pfister. Traci's visual art also traveled with the Tranny Roadshow.


Traci Klawes

Vanessa Marie Spitzer

 Vanessa Marie Spitzer - see updated bio


 

Visual Artists

 

Julie Marie Blaine

One Sunday afternoon, as Julie Marie Blaine watched her mother and sister chop iceberg lettuce and red tomatoes for their dinner salad, her five-year-old voice asked : "Mom, can I grow my hair long and be a girl?" She just wanted to be a pretty girl, but her mom laughed, so into safe hiding she went.

Forty-two years later, she was talking to her son about his future plans.  He said: "Dad, you have taught me to follow my heart, my insides, my instinct, so even though my choice is for the less logical and economically viable path, this is the course my heart tells me to undertake."  And then she knew, after much interior debate and wavering, that she must follow her course.  She would transition.

February 26, 2005 , coming out of anesthesia to incredible facial pain, her insides felt so good.  In the midst of this terrible physical hurt, she felt good inside and realized

I  DONT HAVE TO HIDE ANYMORE.

Relatively new to the world of art photography, Kelseigh Nieforth has been shooting for about a year, creating her own style of emotional portraits, incorporating words and images to create highly personal statements. Drawing from her own life, these story/images give insight into a soul sometimes troubled but always surviving. Kelseigh, or Kels to her friends, is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada but has since settled in Ottawa, where she pursues her own MtF transition, now finishing its fourth year. Her online gallery, containing most of her works to date, may be found at http://nezumiworks.deviantart.com/


Kelseigh Neiforth

Melsen Carlsen

Melsen Carlsen - No bio available. Painter.


 
The Feminist Outlawz: are an ever growing group of Artful Activists!
They regularly engage in lobbying and protest/counter protesting; in addition, they use their art to create signz, chantz, and rantz.
The paintingz: Traveling on the Tranny Roadshow 2006, are a collection that was inspired by the current state of the Union... we are all under attack!
We have titled our exhibit simply...  ISSUEZ
 

Clover

Clover is a BITCH, not just because that's what the men on public transit call her, but because she said so. She's a feminist, a radical and a motherfuckin' outlaw!

Clover is a dying breed, they just don't build em' like this anymore. She's an activist and a fierce CUNT. This bitch is something serious. Take notes, you could learn a thing or two.

Sir Jesse of Decatur is a visionary feminist Warrior; fighting for the rights of youth, womyn, transfolk, and men, in order to form a more Beloved Community.

By day, he is a well respected school teacher of studentz who have been adjudicated... many of whom are forgotten wardz of the state... or are actively seeking a thugz life... their tribulationz keep hiz soul restless & their resilience astoundz him!


Sir Jesse of Decatur
Lady Jane

Lady Jane represents the Athens chapter 1st edition of Feminist Outlawz. She is a gender fluid queer-activist that loves snow bunnies, llamas, and collecting Hommies. Always on the move, she finds inspiration in the diversity among people.

A digital multimedia color enthusiast- she silk screens, faux finishes and uses canvas pieces to express her tenacious perspectives on life.

Tommy Le is an introverted college student, who is a native of Vietnam . His interest in art has been expressed in acrylic, pencil, and multimedia.  His artwork can be found on & off campus.

He majors in social service & environmental science. He values his family, close friends, social justice, art, feminism, animals and the environment.

Tommy Le
Ethan

Ethan is a 22 year-old transgender youth activist in Atlanta , GA. He is very involved in the queer community, although lately has not had much time to do much street-level activism because of his busy schedule: ...working at a queer bookstore, studying American Sign Language and performing as a Drag King, "Noah", of www.courtofkings.com. He was very glad to be able to submit an art piece for the Tranny Road Show, so that even while he is busy, he is able to make a contribution to such a fabulous cause.

Dante is a mad man, a troglodyte, and a curmudgeon.When he isn't working on his hideous experiments in his secret laboratory, he ventures out of the darkness and on to the streets to tell the world about his master plan.  

Dante likes the Tesla coil, modern and surrealist art, and chaos theory.  One day, he'll recluse to the Ozarks.

Please send your commentz and questionz to:       
Feministoutlawz@gmail.com
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Dante
Sent(a)mental Studios

Sent(a)mental Studios is a project by artist Dylan Scholinski. For more information, check out the website.