Archive: Frisky Friday Performers

These are some of the artists who have graced the Moisture Festival’s stages over the years. To book an artist for your event, please contact them directly. Opening their bio will, in most cases, provide a website link.

Please note that the biographies that appear on this page have not been updated since the artist last appeared at Moisture Festival, which in some cases may have been many years ago. Therefore, some of these acts may no longer be performing, and some links to the performers’ websites may no longer be current.

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Stephanie Layton is a multi-instrumentalist & vocalist from Olympia who recently returned to the PNW after a long stint in NYC. Her main gig is fronting jazz band Eden Lane, with recent...

ACTin’ Up

ACTin’ Up (she/they) is “Thee Unshod Fae”. They are an international and award winning performer, trained in over 10 styles of movement. A stan of handstands and force of floor...

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

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...

Booby Trap Players

The Boobies have giggled audiences from Seattle to Vegas, while performing new and old burlesque comedy sketches.

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...

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...

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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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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 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...

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...

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...

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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...

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 variety theater as a performing artist, rigger, choreographer, producer and costume designer. In 2002 I became part of the American circus community...

Emma D’Lemma

Emma Foster is a dancer, choreographer, aerialist, burlesque, and variety performer. As a choreographer and performer they are known for bringing a unique and quixotic movement quality to the stage....

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,...

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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

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...

Giuseppe Boppi

Giuseppe Boppi is a Seattle-based burlesque performer known as a “chain-smoking clown” who features in local, sometimes collaborative, performances. Associated with unique and, at times, comedic stage acts, he has been...

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...

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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...

A white woman with brown hair wearing a cropped, sparkly, sleeveless top and striped shorts with yellow ruffles smiling and spinning hoops on her outstretched arms as she sits on the shoulders of a white man with short brown hair, beard and glasses. He's naked from the waist up, smiling, holding hsi partner's legs.

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....

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...

Jan Damm

Jan (“Yahn”) Damm has been touring in the U.S. and internationally as a circus artist for 20 years; He specializes in clown, juggling, acrobatics, balancing and eccentric skills. Originally from...

Jane Air and Karen Marie

Jane Air and Karen Marie are resident performers at Tacoma Cabaret, where they have been captivating audiences together for more than two years. With over two decades of combined experience,...

A white woman in red jacket, pants, and bra-top, balancing on one foot as she spins red hoola hoops around her knee, foot in the air, and each of her outstretched arms atop a light blue circular platform and a blue silk hanging from the ceiling and fanning out behind her. The room is fairly dark with light illuminating some fog in the room.

Jesse Patterson

Hailing from Dallas, Texas, Jesse is a variety 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...

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...

Jonathan Burns

Blessed with the gifts of flexibility, curiosity, and goofiness, Jonathan Burns combines these unique talents to astonish audiences around the globe. Jonathan has wowed the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT judges, called “Absolutely Fabulous”...

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...

Keara Fox

Keara Fox is an Olympia-based aerialist and movement artist. With 10 years of artistic gymnastics experience, Keara enjoys experimenting and fusing a variety of circus disciplines into a unique and...

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...

Lavender Sinclair

Lavender Sinclair is a nonbinary force of nature who brings bold energy, magnetic charisma, and fearless creativity to every stage. A trained dancer and high-voltage GoGo artist, Lavender fuses neo-camp...

A white woman in a white sports bra and shiny silver pants hanging horizontally from a black strap. Her legs are straddled and one arm reaches out while her second arm is wrapped behind her back, grasping the strap as her only point of suspension.

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 Cirque...

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...

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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...

Louie Foxx – don’t use

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...

Louie Foxx – dont use

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...

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...

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...

Mademoiselle Amelia

Mademoiselle Amelia is a tantalizing treat to be witnessed. Her mesmerizing stage presence combined with her larger than life glamour makes every performance a new tease to tickle your fancy....

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...

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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....

MP Letourneau – OLD BIO do not use

MP (Mary Pat Letourneau) is an award-winning choreographer and performance artist with 8 years of experience performing nationwide as a contortionist, pole artist, aerialist, and dancer. In this capacity, she toured the...

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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...

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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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!

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...

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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...

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...

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...

Rocky Horror Glambona Show

Mona Trombona & Glambo are international burlesque artists based in Portland, OR. Mona (the tall drink of water with the longest instrument) and Glambo (that one volunteer curly fry in...

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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...

Sailor St. Claire

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

Sara James

Sara James puts the DARE in DERRIERE as an aerial + burlesque performer based in Portland, Oregon. Drawn to the glitz, glamor, and sensual empowerment, she is known for her...

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,...

Skirt Vonnegut

Clawing their way out of an Appalachian holler, Skirt Vonnegut is the sketch comedian of burlesque, here to satisfy your wildest nerdy fantasies. A classically trained dancer with over 15...

Snatch Adams

A childhood spent traveling with the circus has produced the burlesque babe of buffoonery! Combining classic skills such as knife-juggling and unicycling with the art of the tease, internationally-known Snatch...

Two white women in platinum white wigs and intricate silver costumes seated back to back in a silver cube frame, heads turned up to the sky legs crossed and silk swags draped to the sides of the shot.

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...

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....

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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...

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 represented America...

Suitcase Dance Theater Company

In the midst of the pandemic’s isolating grip, Suitcase Dance Theater Company emerged as a beacon of hope and creativity. Founded by Veronica and Mark Mendonca, the company grew from...

A white man with brown hair and glasses wearing a light blue shirt, grey pants, and dark blue shoes giving a vigorous thumbs up as he holds on to the top of a cyr wheel. His knees are bent up, like a cartoon-character caught in mid-air. He appears to be outdoors, with a yellow field and dusty hills in the distance.

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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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...

Veronica Blair

Veronica Blair has studied with prominent artists including LaNorma Fox, Ringling Bros. African-American Aerialist Pa-Mela Hernandez, and the renowned Gérard Fasoli of Centre National des Arts du Cirque / Cnac. Her...

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...

Xochitl Sosa

Xochitl Sosa is a versatile performer. Specializing in Dance Trapeze, her original work has won such praise as an Isadora Duncan Award, and most recently won 2nd place at Vivafest...

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