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Holly Vander Hyde (she/they) is a queer artist hailing from Palmdale, California. Since stepping out into the theatre scene in Seattle she’s been lucky to work with companies like Showtunes, Dacha, Greenstage, Jet City, NOW, and WET. They have most recently appeared in Jet City’s “Selling Seattle” and “Not Renewed.” When not on stage, you can see her spending her time agonizing over how to best spend her time (and housing pasta).

Anamaria Guerzon (She/They) is a mixed race Filipino-American Theatre Artist, specializing in playwriting, acting and dramaturgy. Their work seeks to explore humanness, with an emphasis on marginalization within hierarchy, and the legacy of ongoing colonization. Within this, they center Brown folks, particularly Filipino people, as this reflects their heritage and identity. They believe in the power of specificity. They also believe in the inherent magic of the human experience, and seek to represent this lived reality through the fantastic and strange. They blur the lines between this magic and the mundane, with the understanding that both exist, and life is full of inherent contradictions. Their plays have been developed in a workshop/readings with The Playwright Realm’s Scratchpad Series, and Seattle Public Theater’s New Works Distillery, Village Theater’s Northwest Creator’s Program, and Copious Love’s Plays On Tap series. They have also been honored by the June Bingham Playwright Commission (Finalist), Ashland New Play Festival (Semi-Finalist) and Origins New Play Festival (Semi-Finalist/pending). They have been acting locally for the past few years with theaters such as The 5th Ave Educational Touring Company, Reboot, Book-It Rep, Pork Filled Productions, and more. They received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, from Pacific Lutheran University (2021).

Pussy Willow is a full-time Seattle-based burlesque and draglesque performer celebrated for high-concept, camp-infused acts that fuse glamour, humor, and storytelling. Known for commanding the stage with both sultry power and playful mischief, she has become a fixture in the Pacific Northwest nightlife scene as a resident cast member of TUSH, Live Nude Mammals, and a frequent guest performer at Dreamland Drag Brunch. Beyond her work as a performer, she has also brought her eye for detail and showmanship to Queerbar and Seattle Pride Festival as a showrunner and stage manager. With festival credits including Seattle Pride, PNW Burlesque Festival, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Bosco’s Grindhaus, a halftime performance at Lumen Field and Kitten N’ Lou’s J’Adore at The Triple Door, Pussy Willow has proven her ability to captivate audiences of every scale. Always evolving and expanding, she is ready to bring her artistry to stages near and far.

Thistle Thornbox (they/them) is a queer performer and maker of enthusiastically strange objects and moments. Bolstered by a background in sculpture, drag, and being the loudest person in the room, their tasting notes include camp, creep, curiosity, and cultivated chaos, with a refreshingly sharp passionfruit finish. They can be found always doing a little bit too much for outlets like the 14/48 Projects, Fussy Cloud Puppet Slam, Annex Theatre, and Washington Ensemble Theatre, often with their ever-sticky co-conspirator Glambrosia Salad. Together they’ve clocked years of manicured mayhem under their artistic ethos of “yes, and… can we make it weirder and does it maybe also need a shrimp?”

Glambrosia Salad (aka Sasha Bailey) is a playwright, inter-disciplinary performer, and co-artistic director of WET! Interests include: Magical realism, controlled chaos, puppets, puppies, and various gummy candies. You can catch Glambrosia Salad gadding about town and making a polite mess on stages across the city.

Claire Idstrom is a Gregory Award winning composer, working in theater and film around Seattle. Outside of scoring work, you can hear her own music wherever you stream music, What Planet Am I On and Zodiac Killer out now, with a music video on her YouTube. Love to Dylan, more love to Klaus.

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