La MaMa’s Squirts – June 6-8

ABOUT

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CREDITS

Curated and Directed by Paris Alexander
Produced by Buffy Sierra
Production Managed by Gloria Gomez
Set Design by Devante Melton
Lighting Design by Kate McGee
Imagery by MTHR TRSA and Paris
Modeled by Gloria and Buffy
Funded in part by The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust and the American LGBTQ+ Museum

BIOS

ABYSS X Evangelia VS aka Abyss X is an artist, composer, songstress, director, choreographer, creative director and curator from Crete with an academic background in computer science and the performing arts, including a Central St Martins MA. She has released albums on acclaimed music labels AD 93, Halcyon Veil and Danse Noire and her music has appeared in fashion for the likes of Mugler, Luis de Javier, Anna Bolina, Julius and more. Former and ongoing collaborators include Grammy-nominated producers Rabit and SOPHIE, Chinese-American filmmaker and visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang, New York artist and writer Juliana Huxtable and visual artist and lighting designer Theresa Baumgartner. Evangelia VS has contributed choreography, movement direction and video design to theatre productions by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece, the Mediterranean Biennale and more. Her personal cross-disciplinary work traverses a range of themes including the feminine body, eco-grief, surveillance, monetization of the feminine, the erotic, and post internet life. She has performed and toured her work in Europe, Mexico, USA, Asia and Australia at numerous festivals, art and music spaces including National Sawdust, Tanzquartier Wien, Performance Space New York, Phoenix Central Park, 3537org, La Gaité Lyrique, ICA Miami, Miami Art Basel, Southbank Centre (Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room), La Casa Encendida, Vooruit, the Biennale of Moving Image (Geneva), Small Epidaurus Theatre, HAU2, DOKUFEST, MONOM (Funkhaus), Wysing Arts Centre, Tai Kwun (Hong Kong), Inkonst and more. Evangelia VS is also the founder and curator of Nature Loves Courage Festival taking place in Crete since 2019

GARRETT ALLEN is an artist and director currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. They primarily work through live performance and experiences. Garrett has shown, shared, and directed work with the School of Drama at Yale, Ars Nova, Prelude Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Knockdown Center, Public Assistants, Yale Dramat, The Invisible Dog, Laguardia Performing Arts Center, Jupiter Disco, Spectrum NYC, School for Visual Arts NY, NXTHVN, University for the Arts Philadelphia, and more. www.garrett-allen.com

SARAH SCHULMAN is a novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and AIDS historian.  She holds an endowed chair in Creative Writing at Northwestern University and is on the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Photo by Lola Flash 

VaLeria  is a trans multidisciplinary artist born and raised in the Philippines. Their work explores the intersections of sexuality, race, gender, and spirituality, investigating the role of spiritual traditions in family and broader cultural relationships. They emphasize the theatricality and psychological impact of these traditions, drawing upon a deep appreciation for Pilipino culture and an avant-garde trans creative energy.

Honoring ancestral, trans, two-spirit, and siya heritage, Valeria’s work fuses traditional techniques with influences from the Tausug Region and Ballroom-vogue scenes. Through their artistry, they push the boundaries of trans visibility, fashion innovation, and performance.

Heather Glynis is a poet, performer, and transsexual about town. She’s written and performed for The Poetry Project, Wonder Press, No, Dear, and more. She is from Verona, New Jersey and lives in Bushwick. 

Tyler Ashley is a Dance, Drag and Performance Artist. Ashley has performed for Elizabeth Streb, DANCENOISE, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Sean Donovan, Katy Pyle, and Charles Atlas among others. She is also known as The Dauphine – a nightlife personality, performer, producer, and emcee. Her dance art and/or drag performances have been presented by Performa, The High Line, Times Square Alliance, NADA, BOFFO, and seen at Brooklyn Museum, Bard College, Art Basel, BAM, FIAR, The Kitchen, MANA, New York Live Arts, The Public Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Triskelion Arts, Knockdown Center, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research, Danspace Project and more.

Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders for Paper Magazine

Maxi Hawkeye Canion (they/she) is a Brooklyn based Performance Artist. Through their lens as a Black Queer artist, they distill their life experiences through performance, sculpture, sound, and garment. Their work illustrates the nuances of intimacy, failure, the grotesque, and ephemerality, centering on non-linear, autobiographical narratives that focus on intricate personas that serve as metaphorical embodiments of their socio-political stances. As a creator, they are currently a 2024/2025 Fresh Tracks artist, and have held residences at Chocolate Factory Theater, Art OMI, BOFFO Performance Festival 2022, Otion Front Studio, the Galim Moving Artist Residency 2023, to name a few. Their work has recently been presented for the 2024 Les Urbaines Festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, Black Aesthetics at Judson Memorial Church and SFX Festival 2024. As a performer, Maxi has collaborated with notable artists such as Buffy Sierra, MTHR TRSA, Nifemi Ogunro, Dominica Greene, Ella W-S, Akira Uchida, Theo Triantafyllidis, Eve Tagny, Alexandra Waierstall, Ryan Ponder McNamara, Miles Greenberg, Sigrid Lauren, J. Bouey, slowdanger, Shikeith, Monica Mirabile, Richard Kennedy, Young Boy Dancing Group, and Sidra Bell, among others.

Heather Glynis is a writer, performer, and all around transsexual-about-town. She is interested in the ways sex and celebrity both free and confine us, the asymptotic friction of trans identity, jokes, and apocalypse as an opportunity for a vaudevillian coming together. She approaches her work through the lens of a poet, but sees poetry not as an end, but an engine for something more expansive that can integrate drag, narrative, music, and performance into an alternative mosaic theater — though she does occasionally just write poems. She’s written and performed for The Poetry Project, Wonder Press, No, Dear, Parkside Lounge, La Mama, and more. She is from Verona, New Jersey and lives in Bushwick.