Starsky + Cox are internationally best-selling authors of Sextrology and Cosmic Coupling. They have performed at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater,  Ars Nova and The Zipper Factory in New York City and at Club Oberon/ART in Cambridge. They host “The Cosmic Connection” on public radio and are columnists for The Daily Beast and contributors to Paris Vogue, Allure, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Style.com. Real-life consultants, S + C boast many outspoken celebrity fans including J.K. Rowling, Charlize Theron, Megan Fox and Tori Amos who wrote a song inspired by them (which they sometimes perform). Starsky + Cox have been featured on television’s “Live”, MTV’s “The Guy Code” and are recurring guests on “Chelsea Lately” on E! They are founders, with John Cameron Mitchell, of the Afterglow Festival.

for more videos check out: www.StarskyAndCox.com

“Psychics to the Stars”—Vanity Fair   “Wonderfully Dirty”—O, The Oprah Magazine“

“The favored astrologers of fashion insiders”—Elle  “Sizzling zodiac guides”—CNN

“Starsky + Cox will inspire a whole new generation”—The New York Observer

“A word of mouth phenomenon, a rare find”—Time   “Brilliant and sexy”—Vogue

Starsky + Cox’s popularity with the hipperati has made them household names”— Marie Claire

John Cameron Mitchell directed, wrote and starred in the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), for which he received the Best Director and Audience Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.  He was also nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor. He was executive producer of Jonathan Caouette’s award-winning documentary Tarnation (2004). His film Shortbus was released in 2006.  He directed Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman, whose performance was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, was released in 2011.

Singer/songwriter Jay Brannan is a New Yorker by way of Texas, California, and several stops in between. He first made headlines as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell’s indie film sensation “Shortbus”, offering an international platform for his first full-length musical release, entitled goddamned, which made its debut as the No. 25 overall Top Album on iTunes.

One Billboard-charting covers EP, three world tours, and a slew of YouTube videos later, Brannan brings us Rob Me Blind, his second full-length album of originals, produced by Grammy-winning producer David Kahne (Regina Spektor, Paul McCartney, The Bangles, Lana Del Rey, etc.).

Brannan’s tenor voice combined with painfully honest lyrics surrounding taboo subjects has caught the attention of critics at such influential outlets as Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, which proclaimed that Brannan “makes even the saddest lyrics easy on the ear.”

for more videos check out http://jaybrannan.com/videos

John Cantwell (Connie Slocum) is from Tallulah, LA, and started performing in Dallas, TX, after receiving a Bachelor’s of Music degree from a Southern Baptist college. He spent most of the ‘90s in New York City performing in Off and Off-Off Broadway productions (Making Porn, Blood Orgy Of The Carnival Queens) before joining the critically acclaimed sketch comedy trio The Nellie Olesons (Logo’s Wisecrack, Will & Grace).  With the Nellies, John has created over ten popular shows garnering a loyal cult following all over the U.S. and Canada.  The trio has a rich history performing in Provincetown since the 1990′s at venues like The Crown & Anchor, Vixen & The U.U. Meetinghouse.  After moving to Hollywood in 1999, he began working in film (Legally Blonde, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist), television (Pushing Daisies, Nip/Tuck, The Riches) and theater (Saltine Crackers, his debut as a playwright, was performed at Highways in 2005). He is currently at work on Love, Connie 2:  Electric Boogaloo and Love, Connie 3D simultaneously.

“Go!  Lightning speed costume changes and high-energy dance routines… interspersed with sinister, projected mini-movies that feature a black leather-clad stalker with evil designs on Connie’s precious white cat. ”  - LA Weekly

“If you ever wondered what an episode of Solid Gold directed by Dario Argento would look like, see Love, Connie.” – Alonso Duralde, author 101 Must See Movies For Gay Men

“Eerie… Enigmatic…  Unlike any stage performance you’re likely to experience.” – Xaque Gruber, Venice Magazine

“A drag show with a difference…  very Brian DePalma’s Dressed To Kill… all set to raucous ’80′s pop tunes.  Pure enjoyment!” – Pauline Adamek, ArtsBeat L.A.

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DAN FISHBACK has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. Major works include The Material World (2012), thirtynothing (2011) and You Will Experience Silence (2009), all directed by Stephen Brackett at Dixon Place. Fishback received the Franklin Furnace Fund grant in 2010 and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists in 2007. He is a resident artist at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics at NYU (2012), and at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2010-2012), and has enjoyed previous residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.  Previous works include No Direction Homo (P.S. 122, 2006), Please Let Me Love You (Dixon Place, 2006), Waiting for Barbara (Galapagos Art Space, 2006), boi with an i (Collective: Unconscious, 2004), and Assholes Speak Louder Than Words (Sidewalk Cafe, 2004).  Also a performing songwriter, Fishback began his music career in the East Village’s anti-folk scene. His band, Cheese On Bread, has toured Europe and North America in support of their two full-length albums, “Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby” (2004) and “The Search for Colonel Mustard” (2007), the latter of which was re-issued in Japan in 2010 on Moor Works Records. As a solo artist, Fishback has released several recordings, including “Sweet Chastity” (2005, produced by César Alvarez of The Lisps), and his latest, “The Mammal Years” (2012).  He is currently a member of the community group QuORUM (Queers Organizing for Radical Unity and Mobilization), and sits on the Selection Committee for the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.  Dan blogs at thematerialworld.tumblr.com; his regular website is www.danfishback.com.

“Dan Fishback seems so much like a nerdy close friend that audience members have to restrain themselves from responding.” – The New Yorker

“The show is essential as a memorial, ensuring the younger gay community learns its own history and the bold legacy of those they never knew.” – Flavorpill

“The Dan Fishback experience is sort of like the Beyonce experience. Except, with Dan, neuroses replace the wigs, glitz and glamour.” – Gayletter

“‘thirtynothing is smart, honest, and heartfelt. Dan Fishback is also those things, and, it should be noted, funny. Effortlessly, unceasingly funny.” – The New York Examiner

“Fishback has a Kushnerian sense for the complexities of historical memory.” – The Village Voice

“thirtynothing is one of the most powerful performance pieces I have ever seen.” – Kimya Dawson

Cole Escola, aka “the funny guy” (The New York Times), is best known for his TV show Jeffery & Cole Casserole on the Logo Network which came about after a series of internet videos he created (with Jeffery Self) became popular. Cole performs regularly as various older women, himself, or some combination of the two all over NYC (including Our Hit Parade, the almost-Broadway production of YANK!, La Mama presents Jukebox Jackie directed by Scott Wittman, and his one-man nightclub act at Joe’s Pub and Feinstein’s at the Regency), as well as appearing on television (including his Emmy-ignored performance as a special needs teenager on Law & Order). He is the self-described “Mabel Normand of YouTube.”

Erin Markey was recently diagnosed with “magnetic diva aggression” (The New York Times). She starred in the site-specific NYC premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Green Eyes (Hudson Hotel, Ames Hotel), and in May 2012, received Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress.  She regularly appeared on LOGO network’s Jeffery and Cole Casserole and performs monthly in Our Hit Parade at Joe’s Pub. As a performance and cabaret artist, she has appeared at The New Museum, Comix, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Highline Ballroom, and Deja Vú Showgirls and Love Boutique in Ypsilanti, MI. Her solo musical, Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail was produced at PS 122 and toured the nation with the Sex Workers Art Show.  Her newest musical, The Dardy Family Home Movies by Stephen Sondheim by Erin Markey was commissioned by and premiered with the San Francisco Film Society in December 2011. Featured on the cover of The New York Press, her work was described as “a tangled mash-up of humor, horror, brains and balls.”

For another video of Erin Markey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPXQ2s4zacI

For another video of Cole Escola: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8yquVcdbZM

Bridget Everett co-hosts Our Hit Parade,  a monthly revue of current pop hits, with Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) and Neal Medlyn at Joe’s Pub. She starred in the original Ars Nova musical At Least It’s Pink based on her life which she co-wrote with dir.Michael Patrick King (writer/director Sex and the City) and Mellman.  Bridget has performed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs (w/ ADROCK of the Beastie Boys), NY Comedy Festival, HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival  and the Adelaide International Cabaret Festival in Australia.

She has appeared frequently on Time Out New York’s annual list of top cabaret performers, ranking number one in 2010 and was recently listed as one of TONY’S top 50 funniest New Yorker’s.  Film/T.V.: Sex and the City, 2 Broke Girls.  Bridget is playing Joe’s Pub June 14th w/her band, the Tender Moments.

She’s been dubbed “Wynona Judd meets Melissa Etheridge, via the local bar floozy, on a rocket ship out of Twin Peaks” by Michael Musto from the Village Voice.  She has appeared frequently on Time Out New York’s annual list of top cabaret performers, ranking number one in 2010 on a list which included Alan Cumming and Elaine Stritch. Bridget co-hosts Our Hit Parade, a sold-out monthly revue of current pop hits, with Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb) and Neal Medlyn at Joe’s Pub. She starred in the original musical At Least It’s Pink based on her life which she co-wrote with director Michael Patrick King (writer/director of hit tv series Sex and the City) and Mellman which played Ars Nova for 12 weeks. Bridget has performed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs, New York Comedy Festival, HBO’s Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival . and the Adelaide International Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, Australia. She played Lynn Chenney in Taylor Mac’s Red Tide Blooming at P.S.122 and was a regular on Logo’s Jeffrey Cole Casserole. She can be seen as Cathy in the Sex and the City movie and as Shonda in the CBS hit comedy, 2 Broke Girls.  Bridget co-wrote and performed an evening of original music called Bridget and Neal are F*cking and Adam is Watching with Medlyn and Adam Horovitz (Adrock: Beastie Boys).  Bridget can be seen in HBO Canada’s Funny as Hell alongside Horovitz. and will be releasing an album of original music with her band this summer.

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Heloise and the Savoir Faire began in a tiny apartment in the West Village in 2003 when Heloise Williams decided to have Joe Shepard and Sara Sweet Rabidoux, dancers from Boston contemporary dance company Hoi Polloi, back up her electro-bedroom tracks at Don Hill’s.  The Savoir Faire has since been through many incarnations and lineups, travelled around Europe, North America and Japan delivering spectacles and heart-warming dance music to anyone willing to lend and ear and/or an ass.  Heloise and the Savoir Faire are about to release their latest album, Diamond Dust, on Simian Records, and they hope you will dance to it.

Check out http://www.heloisemusic.com/ for more…

“Heloise and the Savoir Faire spearheaded an art-disco renaissance.” The Independent (UK)

“Heloise and the Savoir Faire makes the indie kids stop and stare . . . at the heart of a music scene that often borders on being dour, Heloise and the Savoir Faire are too cool not to dance.” Bust Magazine

“The throbbing sounds of disco and electro-punk get a fresh coat of glitter in the music of Heloise and the Savoir Faire.” The New Yorker

Lady Rizo exploded on to the New York stage with a powerful voice and stage charisma that has made audiences take note. Lady Rizo (nee Amelia Zirin-Brown) co-created the cult caburlesque spectacular Lady Rizo and the Assettes in 2005. In January 2010 she won her first Grammy on a duet with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She also sings and records with multi-platnum recording artist Moby and was nominated for an MVPA for the choreography the video for the single New York, New York featuring Debbie Harry.

She is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the NYC hotspot The Darby which is in the same location as the legendary nightclub Nell’s.  She brings her arrangements there nightly to entertain music luminaries nightly. A proud recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship last year, she has performed her sold out show monthly at Joe’s Pub for coming on three years and her full length piece Ordained, which was commissioned by the Public Theater, premiered in the fall.

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“When she belts the last note, everything is in place. The hand is daintily raised just so, the immobile coiffed hair frames her face and the monstrous eyelashes consume the eyes…you’d barely know what decade it is.”

“[S]he’s a high-class, high-energy belter, who specializes in making old standards sound soulful and contemporary.”

“Sings her songs bewitchingly.”

“Winkingly sexy chanteuse… Lusciously retro vocals.”

“The talented Lady Rizo, who combines glamour, wit, and real vocal chops.”

— Michael Musto, Village Voice