Since the late 1980s, multifaceted Linda Simpson has soared as as a nightlife hostess, playwright, media maven (including publisher of the gay zine My Comrade), and game-show hostess (Bingo!) Her acclaimed documentary project, The Drag Explosion, features her photos of NYC’s drag subculture of the 1980s and ‘90s. The New York Times calls her “A worldly wit… A kind of mother superior of the New York drag scene,” while Paper hails her as “The thinking woman’s drag queen.”

Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans-genre artist living in New York City. As a performer both on and Off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), the Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2007), The Peter Reed Foundaton Grant, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

V authored the Lambda Literary Award winning memoir TANGO: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels (The Feminist Press, 2011). Films include John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (2006), Sunset Stories (2012), Imaginary Heroes (2004), Fanci's Persuasion (1995), After Louie (2016). Television credits include Difficult People, (2017), High Maintenance, (2016) and The Get Down, (2016).

Solo exhibitions of JVB's watercolors, sculptural installations and live art have been presented by The New Museum as part of the exhibition titled Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (NYC, 2017), Participant, Inc. (NYC, 2011, 2016), Art Market Provincetown (2014), and Vitrine (London, 2015).

Albums include Kiki and Herb: Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall, Dendrophile, and Silver Wells.

"The Godfather of Neo-Boylesque" is a stripperformance artist/actor/dancer who has performed in NYC since 1988 & around the world since 1993. A pioneer in the 1990s burlesque renaissance who won the 1st-ever "King of Boylesque/Mr. Exotic World" title at Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas 2006. He won numerous Golden Pastie Awards, including "Most Likely to Get Shut Down by the Law" & "Most Unpredictable Performer." His act was banned in Rome. He has performed all around Europe, Australia, North America, and South America. 
He has acted in Shakespeare, Apollinaire, Euripides, Wedekind, Horváth, Williams, numerous original theatre works with Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz, Talking Band, Target Margin Theater (where he is an Associated Artist) & other geniuses.

Creator. Destroyer. Shredder and petty thief. Boylesque, draglesque, performance art and puppeteer. A rare carnivorous night-blooming lily - flaunting neither falsies nor realies, this downtown stalwart has been featured in Blacklips Performance Cult, the Jackie 60 factory, and such spaces as the Wild Project, PS122, HERE, St. Ann's Warehouse, the Guggenheim, and (remarkably) both The Cock and The Hole!

Touted by PAPER Magazine as being a “Walking Circus of Creativity” Mr. Olson is indeed at least a  three ring affair, as exemplified in New Stage Theatre’s winter 2017 production of What Elsas Knew In a Peril,  which he wrote, starred in, and designed the costumes for.  New Stage tapped his talents most recently for  the US premiere of Nobel prize winning playwright Elfriede Jelinik’s “Rechnitz” .  Other NST productions he's been in are “Rules”,  “Night”, “Electronic City”. “Jollification/Mortification” and “Hypnotique”.    Art World denizens and may recognize Olson from the canons of Tony Oursler,(  “Imponderable”: at the MOMA among others) Tabboo! (The Glue Factory @ Howl!,  The Nightingale @ Participant, Finokio @ the Gene Frankel) and Ellen Cantor (Pinochet Porn). Along with the late Philly Abe and Penny Arcade, he played Lily the the  in Todd Verow film "This Side of Heaven"  Downtown Disco bunnies surely recognize him as the Ed McMahon to Nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch’s Johnny Carson,  most recently at the McKittrick hotel in Bartschland Follies and in the documentary film: Susanne Bartsch: On Top. Collaborations with Chris Tanner at LaMama Include Etiquette of Death with Everett Quinton,  Up! Up! and More Up!,  and Ravaged by Romance.  At HERE!, Holly's Folly, another collaboration with Tanner, served as the launch pad for the drag career of Taylor Mac,  the two of whom he also performed with in Karen Finley's meditation on 911 "Make Love". 

Across the pond,  Olson performs with the English performance art sensation Jonny Woo, returning in October to be a part of his annual UnRoyal Variety Show.  He attributes the Kaleidascopic nature of the uncharted career path he continues to forge for himself, largely to the mentorship and tutelage of this evenings honoree,  Flawless Sabrina, with whom he had the honor of creating two shows at Dixon place with (A Catwalk Thought and FUCKIFIKNOW!) as well as a brief stint on Mother Flawless's couch between other living arrangements.  

Described as a "heavenly" (New York Times), "gender-defiant" (Time Out New York), "glitter saint" (Village Voice), Nath Ann Carrera has had solo shows at La MaMa ("Death To The Patriarchal Rape Heads"), Joe's Pub, Wild Project, and the Afterglow Festival (“I Don't Want To Throw Rice, I Want To Throw Rocks: The Early Southern Gothicism Of Dolly Parton”), sings as WITCH CAMP with Amber Martin, performs with Justin Vivian Bond, opened for Martha Wainwright at City Winery, and has sung at P.S. 122, The Kitchen, Abrons Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, SFMOMA, and MoMA PS1.

In 1998 DJ Sammy Jo began his career at Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi Valenti's groundbreaking nightclub MOTHER. Soon he was DJ’ing all over downtown NY- with residencies at such infamous places as The Cock, The Slide and Mr. Black- and in 2004 Scissor Sisters' frontman Jake Shears invited Sammy Jo to be the tour DJ for the band which had just begun its meteoric rise. Sammy has spent the last 13 years DJ’ing everywhere around the world both on tour with Scissor Sisters as well as club gigs on his own.

Julie Atlas Muz hails from Detroit and is one of the most acclaimed and prolific conceptual performers and theater makers in New York.  A Whitney Biennial Artist, A Valencia Biennial Artist, Ethyl Eicrhelberger Award Recipient, Lambent Fellow, and a Franklin Furnace Artist, Julie has also been deemed “Royalty of Burlesque” by the New York Times, wining Miss Exotic World, Miss Coney Island and Queen of the Mermaid Parade.   In a first for contemporary Burlesque artists, Julie has franchised her award winning acts in Las Vegas (Absinthe and Zombie Burlesque), Dubai (The Act), France (Cabaret New Burlesque) and Australia (Absinthe).  Last year she was named New York Times New Yorker of the Year for the Panto Jack & The Beanstalk at the Abrons Arts Center that she created with her partner in love, life and showbiz Mat Fraser. Julie performs constantly in the nightlife circuit. You can catch her with Susanne Bartsch, at the Slipper Room, the Box or any number of underground anti-establishments around the globe.

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparen