2025 Performers: Frisky Fridays (18+)

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Frisky Fridays

Adults only! Enjoy a more risqué version of our beloved variety show which includes burlesque. Expect the unexpected as we feature satire, bawdy humor, striptease, jugglers, magicians, aerialists, acrobats and more.

Below is a listing of the artists who will be performing at the upcoming Moisture Festival on Frisky Fridays. Please check back, as this page will be updated as performers are confirmed.

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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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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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Cabaret Atelier

Cabaret Atelier is an adult dance studio that hosts sensual cabaret dance classes and events. We love creating performance opportunities for performers of all levels, and a supportive growth oriented...

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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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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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Cybele León

Cybele León is a cross-disciplined movement artist and burlesque performer combining her circus training and kink cabaret dance experience into her own blend of cabaret dance. After launching her burlesque...

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Donovan x Oroki

Oroki is a Seattle-based aerial instructor, performer, and producer. Starting their circus journey at Emerald City Trapeze Arts, they train internationally at École de cirque de Québec.  They now teach...

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Duo Rose Trapeze

The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless flow of highly technical skills and intense passion creates a fluid aerial ballet...

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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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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

Ty and Maureen Monroe started hooping together in 2015.  By combining juggling, partner acrobatics, and tandem hooping they have created a unique and fun act that has evolved over time....

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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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Kiki The Crab

Kiki Cosmosis is an interdimensional ecdysiast from Seattle WA. Since 2011 she’s been transforming cosmic inspiration into sensuous acts of artistic elation. This award winning multi-undisciplinary artist is known for...

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Leah Jones

Leah Jones is a ballet trained aerial straps artist who has been training, teaching and performing straps for the past twelve years. She received her training under the tutelage of...

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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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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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Lucia Démone

Locally grown on Vashon Island and newly residing in Los Angeles, Lucia Démone is thrilled to be returning home for this year’s Moisture Festival. She lives to tell stories with...

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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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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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Pinay Grigio

Pinay Grigio is a Filipina American burlesque performer and dance educator based out of Seattle, WA. She is the producer of “The Halo-Halo Cabaret”, an all Asian, Native Hawaiian, and...

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Quantum Tease

Now we know that Moisture Festival audiences count on us to teach them important science concepts like the Quantum Entanglement, quantum measurement,  Decoherence and the like and we know that...

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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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Sailor St. Claire

Sailor St. Claire is a curvaceous redhead with learned mind and an A+ anatomy. With her scintillating wit and copious charms, Sailor channels academic excellence into burlesque bravura as a performer...

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Scarlett Folds

Scarlett Folds

Scarlett Folds — Miss Folds if you’re nasty — is THE raunchy red-lipped lady. Scarlett knows love can be tough sometimes. She also knows you like it that way. This...

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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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Space Oddity

Space Oddity is a Seattle-based eclectic arts organization that celebrates quirky and enigmatic performance art, transforming opulent spaces into realms of creation, connection, and uninhibited expression. They are the creators of Ambrosia and...

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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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Steffon Moody

As a founding member of the acclaimed UMO Ensemble and performer for New York’s Big Apple Circus, Steffon is embedded in a network of amazing performers and artists, and has...

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Tall Ty The Circus Guy

Ty’s Cyr wheel act will have your head spinning. A graduate of the National Circus School of Canada, Ty has toured his wheel internationally. By infusing his work with character...

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The Swan

The Swan

Annett Mateo believes anything can be a puppet! For over 20 years she has made all kinds of puppets out of all kinds of materials. In her career as a...

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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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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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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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