2026 Performers: Comedy / Variety (all ages)
Below is a listing of the 2026 festival performers for the Comedy/Variety shows. We will update this page on an ongoing basis.
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....
Avery Cluff
Avery has been climbing things since before she could walk, so it is no surprise that she fell in love with aerial arts early on. She grew up in Oakland,...
Avner the Eccentric
Avner Eisenberg has been hailed as one of the greatest clowns of all time. Exceptions to Gravity, his one-man show, was the first solo clown show to play Broadway. Avner is...
Bambi Karloff
Valentine Wulf, known onstage as Bambi Karloff, is a drag king, burlesque performer, and one of the fewer than 30 female sword swallowers in the world. Born and raised in...
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...
Cindy Marvell
Cindy Marvell began juggling in New York City at age twelve. She juggled professionally as a teenager and graduated from Oberlin College in 1988. In 1989 she became the first...
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...
Cyara Hotopp
Cyara Hotopp is a professional aerialist and mother of two who has the honor of traveling the country doing what she loves most! She is also a former competitive figure...
Doc Sprinsock & the SANCApators
When Fabio Sprinsock was born on a cold, gray Seattle morning, he was so surprised he didn’t speak for a year-and-a-half. His parents were sharecroppers eking out a living growing...
Elnah Jordan Experience
From the church choir of her Ohio childhood to the streets of San Francisco, and then onto Broadway stages, Elnah’s powerful voice and engaging style have mesmerized audiences worldwide. Her...
Emma D’Lemma
“Emma Foster is a dancer, choreographer, aerialist, burlesque, and variety performer. As a choreographer and performer they are known for bringing unique and quixotic movement quality to the stage. Their passion for...
Frank Olivier
Frank Olivier is a three time world juggling champion, and an award winning magician. His comedy act has appeared on America’s Got Talent, The Tonight Show, HBO’s Just For Laughs,...
Franklin Mendoza
“Franklin Mendoza is a Venezuelan circus performer based in Las Vegas, with over 12 years of experience. He specializes in aerial straps, corde lisse, hair hanging, teeth hanging, aerial pole,...
Go Janes
The Go Janes feature vocal harmonies, harp-like ukes, and guitar on all-original folk, pop and Americana tunes. These veteran performers present insightful beauty and humor from the long view of...
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...
Hayley Dynamo
Hayley is a multidisciplinary circus artist specializing in Cyr wheel, aerial silks & duo aerial. She received a BA in dance from Oberlin College before pursuing a career in circus...
Heather Tipton
Heather came to circus later in life. She’d just had two kids and needed something that was just for her. Heather took her first circus class as a way to...
Iman Lizarazu
Iman was born in a small village in the Basque region of France, Iman is an Eccentric Performer and teacher. She worked around the world with her two 90 min solo theater...
Jack Weinstock
Jack is graduate of the San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory and holds a degree in Technical Theater and Scenic Design. Jack realized that building sets was fun, but not...
Joel Herzfeld
Joel Herzfeld is a Guinness World Record-holding handbalancer and cyr artist based in Boston, USA. Joel has performed around the world. With Les 7 Doigts De La Main, he toured...
Joy and Aaron
Joy and Aaron have been dabbling in the arts of clown, juggling, and acrobatics for more than 20 years. Joy Powers began clowning at a young age with Circus Smirkus,...
Juggle Jawns
Jared is a juggler from Philadelphia, PA. Having started his juggle journey at the RIT juggling club in Rochester, NY, he has traveled around the world researching, teaching, and performing...
JWYOYO
JWYOYO (Justin “Wacky” Weber) is a yo-yo performer and object manipulation act that fuses what most consider a child’s toy with theatrical circus performance. He enjoys incorporating jazz and electronic...
Karen Quest – Cowgirl Tricks
Dubbed America’s Funniest Cowgirl, Karen Quest has been blazing a trail since 1998 with her one-woman, award-winning original comedy act, Cowgirl Tricks. Skillful trick roping, impressive whip cracking, outstanding audience...
Katie Russo
Katie’s performance career began sitting at a piano bench, refusing to practice. Still, she fell in love with music—especially the marching arts—where she performed with world champions Phantom Regiment drum...
Kuzma Karamazov
Kuzma believes that laughter may be the only medicine that everyone can afford. After years of analysis, his theory on comedy can be summed up as follows: Quantity. In 1984,...
Leila Noone
Leila Noone is a multidisciplinary circus artist known for her dynamic presence, technical versatility, and deep commitment to storytelling through movement. Trained across a wide range of disciplines, she performs...
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...
Lucy Juggles
Lucy Juggles is a full time juggler based in the Bay Area. She currently performs a one woman comedy juggling show at Pier 39 in San Francisco, where she does...
Mathieu Bolillo
Mathieu Bolillo is a highly skilled performer with 30 years of athletic and acrobatic experience and an insatiable drive to further his skill and push the human body to new...
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...
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...
Ori Quesada
Ori Quesada is an acrobat and circus performer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began training in 1997 at 7 years old under Master Lu Yi...
Paul Draper
Paul Draper is a world-renowned mentalist, comedy presenter, and keynote speaker who has captivated audiences from the United Nations to Apple, Cambridge to Yale, and Hollywood to Broadway. With appearances...
Puppetlandia
Annett Mateo believes anything can be a puppet! She has made all kinds of puppets out of all kinds of materials for people, projects and theatres both nationally and internationally....
Sandy
Sandy was one of Moisture Festival’s founding members and she continues to find ways to contribute despite the fact that she moved to Denmark several years back. We are so...
Snatch Adams
A trained clown, she joined the circus as a child and never looked back. She is now a globe-trotting variety performer back for her second year at Moisture Festival. If...
Spiderlounge
Spiderlounge is a horn-focused, groove band. Primarily featuring Funk and Soul sounds from the 70s, the band includes a diverse group of musicians with influences from Jazz to Heavy Metal....
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...
Steve Owens
14-Time Award Winning magician Steve Owens has appeared on National TV around the World in places like China, Egypt, Thailand, and NBC Prime time in the USA.. He also represented...
The Amazing MeeZee!
Classic American Circus & Sideshow artist in the modern day. Known as; The Chairman of Cheers, The Clown Prince & The Royal Rogue of Sideshow. MeeZee, hails from the “Golden...
The Belugin Bros.
The Belugin Bros. hail from Vareniki, a small European country located somewhere between here and there. Growing up on their grandmother’s vineyard, they heard their calling at a young age...
Tumbleweed Circus
Tumbleweed Circus is a one-woman, eight-wheeled spectacle who captivates audiences with an exciting blend of physical comedy, roller skating, trick roping, fire manipulation and juggling stunts. Her dangerous and daring...
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