Miz Jade
1. Sweet Melody
2. Little Sin
3. I Am Changing

Sweet Melody
Performance: Miz Jade
Dancers: Gwen Potter & Emily Gaffga 
Costume: CoQuerty

Little Sin
Performance: Miz Jade
Costume: DV Couture
In Collaboration with: Alice Tolan Mee, Beth Liebowitz, Catherine Lee, Amelia Golden

I Am Changing
Performance: Miz Jade
Costume: DV Couture

Miz Jade is a Black- queer drag performer, event host, and professional dancer. A queen known for her teaching, activism, and quick wit, she's bound to gag you and turn the party. Known throughout NYC, Miz Jade has been described as fierce, sensual, sophisticated, and full of surprises.  

After spending her early years exploring multiple art forms, Jade decided to hone in on her two passions: performance and education. She received her dance training at the world-renowned Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and continues to expand the breadth of her skills through additional workshops and intensives. As an interdisciplinary artist, she has merged her dance background with her nightlife career to become a multi-faceted performer. 

While pursuing her BFA in Dance, Miz Jade entered the New York nightlife scene, regularly rushing from class to a crowded nightclub, dazzling patrons and bar owners alike.  In 2012, she moved to Brooklyn to continue flourishing as one of New York City's top entertainers. She gained further exposure through competitions like  So You Think You Can Drag,  Little Miss Mierce, and  MRS BK,  which led to multiple titles and performance opportunities.  

Over the course of her career, Miz Jade has worked with many high-profile drag artists, such as Thorgy Thor, Sasha Velour, and Bob The Drag Queen. In 2019 alone, she performed on the high seas on Ke$ha's “Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride” and in the premiere of the drag opera, Chimera. A collaboration with Puerto Rican composer, Angelica Negron, and Dutch director, Jorinde Keesmaat, Chimera also featured drag performers Alexis Michelle and Desmond is Amazing. She was also profiled in an episode of Revry’s original documentary series, Queens of Kings,  which explored the duality between her dance and drag worlds.  

Most recently, Miz Jade has joined the incredible team at Drag Story Hour NYC, which fosters children's imagination while providing glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. She is extremely proud of her involvement with Drag Queen Story Hour, as she is passionate about the program’s message of acceptance inclusivity, and diversity. 

She is also the face of a national campaign called ‘The Real Ms Information’. A collaborative effort with GMHC and FCB Health to motivate and educate LGBTQ+ people on the importance of being covid vaccinated.

Miz Jade has been nominated for ‘Best Dance Performer’ at the Glam Awards. She was also nominated for ‘Queen Of The Year’ and ‘Best Performer’ at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards. 

Venmo: MizJade_Davon
Instagram: @MizJade_Davon

Theydy Bedbug
doom scroll

A zoom troll in the age of the doom scroll, trapped in a cycle of iphone overindulgence. Through lip sync, movement, poetry and video projection, Theydy (in collaboration with beefcake) explores the sensation of being stuck inside our cellphones, more connected but less affected. This body is evolving to grip our devices more often than hold lovers' hands; what must that do to connection and can we break out of it? Escape clean through screen cracks?

Created by Theydy Bedbug
Performance: Theydy Bedbug
Projection Design: beefcake
Wig Styling: Angelica Sundae
Music: "fuck me up" by broox

Theydy Bedbug is a draqlesque creature, Mx. Brooklyn 2019, and “the bug bite you beg for.” Since 2016 they have infested drag and burlesque spaces to question gender norms, subvert form, community fundraise, and queer the kids. In them, femininity and masculinity, drag and performance art, poetry and clowning coexist in harmony, in discord, and in the erotic. They facilitate a virtual adult class, “Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender” through BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, which focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag queen, king, thing, between or beyond what we’ve seen.

Shout out: To Miz Jade, a loyal, loving, inspiring Taurus queen. To Trisk for letting me experiment. To beefcake for being a playful collaborator. To Rara for holding my hand through every doom spiral.

Venmo: @theydy
Instagram: @theydy.bedbug

Vigor Mortis
SHE: issue 3, volume 9 How to Hand-le it

Vigor Mortis and Atticus Stevenson have collaborated on what they've fondly dubbed a "video zine" about trying to find some magic in a life that has not found space for it. Using a combination of drag, props, and animation, they tell the story of a tired working person, looking for something more, and finding inspiration in an intergalactic being.

Created by Vigor Mortis
Song: "She" by Alice Phoebe Lou
Videography, Editing, and Animation: Atticus Stevenson of Atticus Media Productions 
Drag, Big Hands, and Illustration - Vigor Mortis

Vigor Mortis is a nonbinary drag king. They have been a proud member of the queer drag and burlesque collective Switch n' Play since 2015. They have performed everywhere from living rooms to Terminal 5, and appeared in several film projects. They are a multimedia maker, death and loss doula, and beeswax candle enthusiast. The most important of thanks for this piece goes to my beautiful brother Atticus Stevenson, who filmed, edited, and animated this video zine. I am unbelievably grateful for your patience, your immense skill, and your willingness to roll with my weird ideas. This is truly a collaboration, and it would have never ever happened without you.

Venmo: @HeyVigorMortis
Instagram: @HeyVigorMortis

Spindarella
Circa 1992

Trigger Warning: domestic violence

Performance of an excerpt of John Leguizamo’s “Manny the Fanny” from his 1991 special “Mambo Mouth”. This performance is a tribute to the girls in the 90s.

Original performance and sound: John Leguizamo
Performance: Spindarella
Costume: Spindarella

An NYC native, Spindarella is the voguing diva of Brooklyn night life. Her aim is to bring authentic voguing to drag spaces through her performances. She runs a weekly show in Hell’s Kitchen called “it’s called a dip” which celebrates the intersection of drag and ballroom.

This is my last performance before I go on hiatus due to injury.

Venmo: @Tipspin
Instagram: @heyvigormortis

Bibingka Mama
Bibingka Prime

This satire performance is a reminder of our history in colonialism and capitalism, and how it has shaped us as Americans. As a product of colonialism we are forced to assimilate, feel ashamed of our culture, and forget about our heritage. But in America we have the ability to celebrate our heritage by capitalizing on our culture and monetize everything, including yourself.

Created and Performed by Bibingka Mama
Collaborator: Kat Lloyd from KB Creative Agency

Bibingka Mama is a Pinay Drag Queen, Baker, Songwriter, and Entertainer, serving Filipino cuisine with a funky twist. Their signature dish, Bibingka, is an ooey-gooey, coconutty Filipino rice cake dessert. After perfecting the family recipe, Bibingka Mama realized that most Americans weren’t familiar with Bibingka and decided to begin building an empire to share the Filipino culture through food and entertainment. They began selling these delicious rice cakes derived and modified from their family recipe at local New York Pop-up events. Their goal is to share the Filipino culture and food with the world.

Venmo: @bibingka_mama
Instagram: @bibingkamama

Special thanks to Kat Lloyd and Jason Yost for keeping me grounding and helping with the nitty gritty details.

Bibingka Mama's next pop-up event is with the Rosemart on April 30th. Go to BibingkaMama.com for event details.

Oliver Herface
The Fight of the Century*

*Trigger Warning: Transphobia, Excessive Binding, Dysphoria, Punching self

Ladies, gentlemen, and those of us who know better... welcome to the fight of the century!

In this corner weighing in at 250 pounds is the scary, the fabulous, the asthmatic... Oliver Herface!

Oliver Herface fights in one of the biggest matches of his life! He must battle his dysphoria, his family, and the transphobia from within his own community to fight to be himself. He fights to love his nonbinary body without alteration and to be seen as he truly is. In this boxing match set to Boy Division by My Chemical Romance we see Oliver fight some tough opponents and he leaves victorious!

Choreographed and Created by Oliver Herface - Drag King
Sound Mix: Oliver Herface featuring Boy Division by My Chemical Romance
Video: The Cake Boys
Boxing Shorts: BoxxerWorld, rhinestoned by Oliver Herface

Oliver Herface is a nonbinary, trans masculine, latine drag king from New York. He is the nasty, punk, queer coded cartoon villain of your wet nightmares! He enjoys stim toys, bad music and plotting his world domination. He loves to push the boundaries of masculine and feminine, bright and dark colors and understanding of performance art as a whole. He is a storyteller, channeling the history of his ancestors on stage. Prepare to question your sexuality (and sanity) with his grotesque high energy performances!

This number has come a long way and so have I! I originally created this number when I was the most dysphoric and hopeless. It originally ended in a more violent way, but now it ends in victory! I am grateful for how far I have come and how many versions of me it took to get here. I want to thank my community of non-binary performers and drag kings for showing me how expansive and trans and true drag can be!

Venmo: @TipOliver
Instagram: @Oliver_Herface

Munroe Lilly
Aeon Flux

Munroe Lilly is like a flame burning in a dark room. Twisting and gyrating to her own bonfire hymn, a lone incandescence. For many years, Munroe has been incinerating stages all over New York City. The black Diamond, rare and beautiful, an unstoppable force of love magic you’re destined to devour.

Thanks to Miz Jade for thinking of me for this project!

Venmo: @munroelilly
Instagram: @Munroelilly

Be kind to each other.

Daphne Always
Seikilos Epitaph

The Seikilos Epitaph is one of the oldest written pieces of music, dating back to the 1st or 2nd century CE. Daphne has translated the original Greek into Latin, the Latin into Italian, and the Italian into English, in order to breathe new life into this ancient song whose lyrics are still terribly relevant! She will be sharing vocals, dance, and lyre harp, while jojoSOUL will be sharing drums and percussion.

Performance: Daphne Always
Seikilos, music and Greek lyrics: jojoSOUL
Rhythm: jojoSOUL
Arrangements: James Sheppard

Daphne Always (née Sumtimez) is a Downtown New York cabaret personality and musician with a background in classical studies. Her shows blend music, philosophy, laughter, and storytelling to create spaces for moments of emotional disarmament among strangers, celebration of the human spirit, and lovingly critical self-reflection.

Thank you so much to jojoSOUL and Agave L'amour for the drum, the flow, and the lots and lots of joy! Thank you to James Sheppard for everything all the time! Thank you to my high school Latin teacher, Mark Anthony Ciabaton for nurturing my obsession with the classical world and my fearlessness to delight in exactly who I am.

Venmo: @DaphneAlways
Instagram: @daphne_always

AND.…Thank you Senator Chuck Schumer for all of your advocacy work on our industry's behalf!

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.