ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MIZ JADE is a Black-Trans Gender Fluid Drag performer, event host, and professional dancer who’s here to steal your heart and your spotlight. Known for her teaching, activism, and a wit so sharp it could cut glass, she’s guaranteed to leave you gagging and ready to party. Miz Jade is a NYC sensation, often described as fierce, sensual, sophisticated, and full of surprises.

After dabbling in various art forms, Jade zeroed in on her true loves: performance and education. She honed her dance skills at the prestigious Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and continues to sharpen her craft through endless workshops and intensives. As an interdisciplinary artist, she effortlessly blends her dance background with her nightlife antics, creating a performance style that’s truly one-of-a-kind.

While chasing her BFA in Dance, Miz Jade burst onto the New York nightlife scene, dazzling crowds by night and acing her classes by day. She moved to Brooklyn in 2012, cementing her status as one of NYC’s top entertainers. Competitions like So You Think You Can Drag, Little Miss Mierce, and MRS BK have only added to her trophy shelf and her ever-growing list of gigs.

Miz Jade has rubbed elbows and shared stages with the likes of Thorgy Thor, Sasha Velour, and Bob The Drag Queen. In 2019, she set sail on Ke$ha’s “Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride” and debuted in the drag opera, Chimera, alongside drag royalty Alexis Michelle and Desmond is Amazing. She even got a spotlight in Revry’s documentary series, Queens of Kings, which showcased her seamless dance and drag duality.

A passionate advocate, Miz Jade is a proud reader for Drag Story Hour, inspiring children with her fabulousness and promoting a message of inclusivity and diversity. She’s also the dazzling face of ‘The Real Ms Information,’ a national campaign with Gay Men’s Health Crisis and FCB Health Network, championing COVID vaccination awareness in the LGBTQ+ community.

With nominations for ‘Best Dance Performer’ at the Glam Awards and ‘Queen Of The Year’ and ‘Best Performer’ at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, Miz Jade is not just a performer; she’s a force of nature. Catch her if you can—she’s always a step ahead and ready to turn any event into an unforgettable spectacle. @MizJade_Davon

UNTITLED QUEEN is a Boricua / Filipinx drag artist who tells stories through performance, poetry, and sculpture.

QHRIST ALMIGHTY is a new emotion, a nu-romantic dream, a rough old broad from the Bronx, and most importantly, a drag queen in Brooklyn, New York. She started performing at liberal arts college SUNY Purchase (many such cases). She is the co-creator, co-producer, and co-hostess of STR8 TO DVD, one of Brooklyn’s longest-running drag variety shows. She loves the Pet Shop Boys, standing very still, knowing her lyrics, and the color orange.

MARIYEA, is a Brooklyn based actress, performer, teacher and award-winning nightlife entertainer. She has been seen in off-broadway plays at New York Theatre Workshop, The Billie Holiday Theatre and The Tank, among others. Mariyea is a former Breakthrough Artist of the Year through the NYC Nightlife Glam Awards. In addition to her performance work, Mariyea has taught as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York and classes at NYU Tisch. Follow Mariyea on Instagram: @mariyeaaaa for further updates.

GOD COMPLEX (Aeon Wade Andreas) is a transexual, transdisciplinary artist working in the fields of drag, theater, film, and dance. Both in and out of drag, God Complex crafts wild, glittering, pseudo-mystical, atmospheric landscapes about transgender utopia through the collision of dance, theater, cinema, and queer nightlife. He has performed across the world as a dance artist and drag performer in iconic places such as Lincoln Center, BAM, The Chelsea Hotel, Bonnaroo Arts festival, Detroit’s Masonic Temple, Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery, and Berlin’s Mahalla. For 8 years Aeon has performed as the award winning drag artist, God Complex. These days, the ethos of God Complex is to be a distorted mirror- both to Aeon himself and to his audiences. He is a member of the sideshow/theater company The No Ring Circus and of the dance-theater company Witness Relocation. And established educator, Aeon taught movement and devised theater practices at NYU Tisch Drama for many years. He has guest taught at MIT and NYU Abu Dhabi. They have been in countless music videos, documentaries, films, and TV shows. He ha been featured in publications like Dance Magazine, Document Journal, Them, Paper Mag, and Colecta Mag. Culturebot calls Aeon “always rapturous.” Friends call them “hot and difficult.”

MERCY MASALA is a fusion performer specializing in traditional Indian dance styles like Bharatanatyum, Kuchupudi, Bollywood, and belly dancing. Today, Mercy wants to take you on a tour of India, starting in the South of Tamil Nadu, showcasing the 1,000 year old style of Kuchipudi. Today mercy will be paying homage to Lord Shiva, the god of dance. Then, she"ll take you all the way to Punjab, where Bollywood and booty shaking are celebrated )... & yes even the aunties get down in their Sari's. Mercy hopes to inspire other South Asian Queers to follow their creative bliss and showcase their authenticity. Please welcome to the stage, NYC'S South Asian Siren, Mercy Masala.

Mercy is bringing you SAFE fire tonight to comply with the rules and regulation of the space. However, they want you to know every blessed tool/prop they incorporate tonight has been passed down in their family by generations of dancers. Starting with Mercy's grandmother who was a famous Bollywood choreographer in India, to her mother who opened the first Indian dancing school on Staten Island when she immigrated to this country 20 years ago. Now Mercy has the privilege of carrying on their families performance legacy, except she's adding some bolly BUSSY to the mix.

KEKOA is a drag performer currently based in Brooklyn New York. With a background in performance art and design, Kekoa has been cultivating unique experiences through their performances and encourages intentionality and vision in a performance. Bridging the joys and fun of a traditional drag performance yet being able to either showcase technique and skill or vision in execution.

CONNOR SALE is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: The Suite; to begin with no end; ENUF; The Dybbuk Part Two (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), MEOW! (Exponential Festival), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft and What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables are producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.

ANNA WOTRING is a community-minded dance artist, designer, and production stage manager, dedicated to the practice of collaborative leadership. As the Director of Production at Triskelion Arts, Wotring shapes programming that makes production design accessible to movement artists, whether they're starting to explore an idea or deep in research. Trisk serves as a home, allowing artists to materialize their production vision and find imaginative pathways around and through tangible possibility. Wotring holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the Five College Dance Department in Western Massachusetts. She has had the privilege of working with a wide range of dance artists and organizations, including Alvin Ailey Studios, Annie Heath, Attack Theater, Ballet Des Ameriques, BalletNext, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, the Dance Conservatory of Pittsburgh, Dance Place, H2O Contemporary Dance, Jennifer Nugent, Lauren Horn, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, New York Live Arts, the Pillow Project, Prayers of the People, RoseAnne Spradlin, Scapegoat Garden, slowdanger, Time Lapse Dance, and many others. Wotring is deeply grateful and honored to be working, imagining, and making magic with the Trisk team and community.