2025 Performers: Comedy / Variety (all ages)

Below is a listing of the artists who will be performing at the upcoming Moisture Festival Comedy/Variety shows. Please check back, as this page will be updated as performers are confirmed.

Al Simmons

In the tradition of the great comedy kings, Danny Kaye, Spike Jones and Jimmy Durante comes Al Simmons – a man dedicated to the all but lost art of combining...

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Alex Feldman

Alex Feldman is an accidental expert at getting by with few words. His TEDx talk, Primal Talk  is all about not talking. He performs in many countries where speaking English...

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Alex Zerbe

With the energy of 1,000 suns, The Zaniac shines like a comedy beacon as he bounces from one end of the stage to the other like an untamed rubber band....

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Amy Engelhardt

AMY ENGELHARDT fell in love with the Pacific Northwest as the sole female member of Grammy-nominated, Seattle-based vocal quartet The Bobs from 1998-2011. And as Mother Superior of the (satanic)...

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Andrey Moraru

Andrey Moraru studied at Kiev State College of Circus and Variety Art in Ukraine. During his 4 years there, Andrey was taught by Vitold Kuvshinov, a renowned balance teacher. In...

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Avner the Eccentric

Avner Eisenberg was one of a handful of performers, including The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Penn and Teller, and Bill Irwin, who arrived on and off Broadway in the early 1980s...

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Bill Robison

Bill Robison is a physical comedian. His performances are a synthesis of outlandish comedy, an elastic face, a penchant for the absurd and a reckless sense of abandon. He has...

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Chris McDaniel

“Chris McDaniel and his One-man Wild West Show” mixes trick roping and bullwhip artistry with classic Western songs like Rawhide, and a little magic thrown in.  He began singing professionally in...

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Colin Creveling

Colin Creveling: Haus of Wire

A crafty clown with the flair of an escape artist, Colin Creveling will carry you to the mercurial reaches of your imagination. Raised in the heart of the midwest, “Donkey”...

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Corey Black

Cory Black

Cory Black is a soccer freestyle performer with a competitive background, having competed in the USA and the World Freestyle Championships in the Czech Republic. Combining his love for freestyle and...

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Cyara Hotopp

Cyara is an amazing circus artist. After years of competitive figure skating and dance she has made her mark in the worlds of: aerial arts, inline skating, stilt walking, dance...

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Delaney Bayles

Is juggling a performance or a sport?The answer is yes. You’ll see what we mean if you come to the Moisture Festival shows where we present the remarkable Delaney Bayles....

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Doc Sprinsock & the SANCApators

Doc Sprinsock and the SANCApators are the fabulously eclectic house band for SANCA, the Seattle circus school. When Fabio Sprinsock was born on a cold, gray Seattle morning, he was...

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Dr. Owl

Dr. Owl

You guys! … Dr. Owl has nearly 100 species of houseplants! Okay, that has nothing to do with the performances that he’ll present at this year’s Moisture Festival. He has...

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Elena Brocade

I have parlayed my career in circus and varieté theater as a performing artist, rigger, choreographer, producer and costume designer. In 2002 I became part of the American circus community...

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Fremont Philharmonic Orchestra

Originally the Freiberg Philharmonium, the Fremont Philharmonic couldn’t get a gig in town, as everyone in the little Alsatian town was in the band. Neighboring villages suspected with so much...

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Georgetown Orbits

Georgetown Orbits

The Georgetown Orbits boast a heavy regimen of traditional ska and soulful reggae. One of the few bands to pay tribute to the golden era of Jamaican ska and reggae...

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Godfrey Daniels

Godfrey Daniels

Moisture Festival regulars know Godfrey Daniels as one of our own. We’ve met his family and learned his ways. We’ve come to know what frustrates him and what makes him...

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Hilary Chaplain

Hilary Chaplain, actress, clown, physical comedian and teacher, has worked with George C. Wolfe & Patrick Stewart, Aitor Basauri, Bill Irwin, Avner Eisenberg, the Big Apple Circus, on Broadway and...

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Hoop-a-do

My wife Maureen Monroe and I are Hoop-a-do. We started hooping together in 2016 and in 2018 I put a ring on it. To everything turn, turn, turn. ………………………………………………………………………………..Ty Monroe...

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JR Rhodes

J.R. Rhodes

From her first open-mic performances at the O.K. Hotel in Seattle, to her performances at Benaroya Hall, J.R.’s belief in the transformative power of music are distilled into songs of...

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Jesse Patterson

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jesse is a varieté circus performer with a remarkable journey that harmonizes innovation with cherished traditions. Starting her journey at the age of ten, Jesse’s initial...

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Jessica Perry

Jessica Perry is an artist and creator of multi-genre performance art. She graduated from the National Centre for Circus Arts in London in 2017 where she specialized in rope. This...

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Jim Page

The great Utah Phillips once said: “Jim Page’s songs get right to the point. He looks at the world clearly and reports what he sees with compassion, humor and a...

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Lindsay Benner

Lindsay Benner is a beloved staple in the US variety arts scene. She mixes classic vaudeville tricks with a theatrical, seductive spin that gives her audience a unique and memorable...

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Lindsay Culbert-Olds

Lindsay first discovered the circus with Circus Smirkus, a youth circus troupe based in New England. She grew up spending summers touring with the youth company, and during the school...

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Louie Foxx

Louie Foxx

Louie Foxx celebrated his interest in childish pursuits even before the birth of his child gave him “… a valid excuse to go to the zoo once a week and...

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Meadow Perry

Meadow Perry is a Magician, Bubble Artist and Actress who creates breathtakingly beautiful magic out of thin air.  Her internationally acclaimed show, “Bubble Magic” combines skillful bubble artistry, magic, music...

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MP

MP (Mary Pat Letourneau) is an award-winning choreographer and performance artist who performs nationwide as a contortionist, pole artist, aerialist, dancer, and also is a stunt performer for various TV Shows....

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Mr. Lo’s Paper Show

Mr. Lo’s remarkable skill with paper and his coy old-world sense of humor is a sensation when presented in European  Varieté theaters and circuses. Aside from Seattle’s Moisture Festival, I’d...

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Mud Bay Jugglers

Masters of levity is several senses of the term. Mud Bay has brought their innovative approach to juggling for over 40 years now. They’ve passed some of their knowledge and...

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Naked Truth

The Naked Truth show band. Their name? We looked up Naked Truth on the internet and found this story explaining the source of that idiom since the late 1500s: Truth...

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Shoehorn

New Funtones with MR. Woodhead and M.C. Shoehorn

The New Funtones feature character and skill-driven comedy and musical variety with singing, tap dance and eccentric dance!

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Paul Draper

Paul Draper is a Comedy Presenter, Mind-Reader, and Speaker who has appeared on the History Channel, TNT, A&E, HBO, Hallmark, the Travel Channel, HGTV, and shows like Inside the NBA,...

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Ran’D Shine

Magician & Comedian Ran’D Shine is known for performing “Real Magic for Real People.” In other words, no video edits, no actors, just pure mind-boggling magic entertainment A few of...

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Rosemary Le

Rosemary Le is a multidisciplinary circus artist specializing in the aerial cyr wheel.  She grew up with a varied movement background of dance, gymnastics, swimming, and martial arts, but always...

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Shannon Gray

Shannon Gray can be found passing the time doing what many would consider rolling, climbing, releasing, gliding and exploring. She enjoys things which consist of water, mud, trapeze bars, sand,...

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Splinter

Splinter Dance Company

Splinter Dance Company, under the umbrella of ajusticenetwork and the fiscal sponsorship of Shunpike, is composed of a diverse group of professional dancers from Seattle who have come together to...

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Stefano Iaboni

Producer, managing director and comedy host Stefano Iaboni is an international actor/performer/director and teacher born and raised in Rome … yes, that Rome. He moved to the Netherlands and enrolled...

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Tom Noddy

Tom has done something unique in show business … he created a new kind of act. When Tom Noddy first took his performance of Bubble Magic onto the Tonight Show...

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Tony Steinbach

Tony has been yelling and throwing things since he was 12 years old. Now he travels around the world performing at resorts, magic lounges, corporate events and comedy festivals and...

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Trevor & Lorena Comedy Magic

Prepare to embark on an enchanting journey with Trevor and Lorena Watters, a dynamic duo setting the comedy magic world ablaze! Picture this: the comedic charm of The Carol Burnett...

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Trio-HA!

Long time Moisture Festival aerialists Dream Frohe and two of her  friends have a  plan to premiere a new act for us this year and we’re really looking forward to...

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Tyler West

  Tyler West is originally from Tucson, Arizona where his inspiration to become a professional clown came about while he was in 7th grade and went to see a Cirque...

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Uncle Bonsai

Imagine what might happen if Tim Burton and Edward Gorey hijacked the Andrews Sisters en route to a Stephen Sondheim festival with The Beatles and Tom Lehrer in the sidecar;...

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Willem McGowan

Willem McGowan

Willem McGowan began training juggling at the age of 12 in Chicago, USA. After training with different youth circus organizations around the United States Willem later moved to Quebec City, Canada, where...

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Wren the Juggler

Wren has been entertaining audiences of all ages in Northwest Washington for over a decade by sharing his genuine love of juggling from fairs to corporate events, traveling circuses to...

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