The Comedy/Varietè Artists Archive

This is a list of artists who have performed at past moisture festival shows.
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A Girl in the Sky

International aerialist, Rebecca Leonard, from A Girl In The Sky Productions is sought after for her strength, grace and humor. Her fusion of theater and aerial arts has fueled her creation of innovative...

Aadams Family

This mother/daughter aerial team are frighteningly good at what they do. Mortuaria (Martha Enson) and Tuesday (Ruby Joyce) Aadams will amaze and astound even while they worry us with their wickedly accurate...

Aardvark Sooner

Aardvark Sooner is a stupid name made up by Paul Nathan so he could be the first performer on our list. Star of The I Hate Children Children's Show, Devil in the Deck, and Dark Kabaret. Unkle Paul...

Acrobatic Conundrum

Seattle's "Acrobatic Conundrum" presents original, extraordinary circus acts alongside moments of absurd and intimate humanity. Collective members Zora Blade, Tanya Brno, Marta Brown, Arne Bystrom, Tyler...

Adrienne Jack-Sands

Adrienne Jack-Sands has been involved in performance art since childhood, playing violin from age six and viola since she was 12. At the American Ballet Theatre school in New York City she trained in classical...

Aerialistas

The Aerialistas are the original aerial girl gang! These inventive and skilled artists are dedicated to bringing glamour, excitement and flirty fun to aerial performance. Poppy Daze, Lillian Dish, Viola...

AerLift

AerLift is a spectacular one-of-a-kind yearly show presented by the aerial community to raise funds for organizations working with populations in extreme poverty. All of the performers and staff donate...

Aileen Wilkie

Aileen has been described as one of the most experienced street performers in the world. She's also been described as gentle and charming as well as amazing and anarchic. Another writer used this phrase...

Aislinn

Aislinn Mulligan began with competitive artistic gymnastics at age 4 and then after competing internationally she turned her focus to dance and theatre training, competing as a finalist at the National...

AJ Silver

Angelo “AJ Silver” Iodice, combines his world class trick roping with bullwhip artistry and boleadoras to create a unique high energy variety act. With his ropes, whips and bolas flying through the air...

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 comedy, with song, dance, magic, sight gags...

Alex Allan

Alex Allan is an Aerialist and physical theatre artist. Born and raised in Australia, Alex completed his Bachelor of Arts in Communication – Theatre/Media. After finishing his undergraduate studies, Alex...

Alex Zerbe

Professional Zaniac, Alex is a two-time Guinness World Record holder who was voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comic. He has appeared on prime-time television in three countries including the hit NBC TV shows,...

Alfredo Fettuccini

The wonderful magic of Alfredo Fettuccini is evanescent and fleeting. It appears in this world only rarely and after great lapses of time, like Northern Lights, or Black Jack Gum, or an onslaught of destructive...

Allie Cooper

Allie Cooper began learning the fundamentals of aerial work in Santa cruz, California in 2008. Her honest style has developed to utilize momentum and natural pathways and to embrace functionality. Working...

Amanda Crockett

Amanda Crockett started clowning alongside her father at age 9, learning the delicate art of making people laugh. Since then, her pursuit of the perfect blend of circus and physical theatre has taken her...

Amanda Huotari

Whether she's being tormented by a box of chocolates, or is tied to the train tracks awaiting her doom, only the audience can save her. At the age of 13, Mandy took her first workshop at Celebration Barn,...

Amy Denio

A pacifist, practitioner of non-violence, and proud member of the ACLU, Amy Denio (rhymes with ‘Ohio’ or ‘gennaio’) is a multi-instrumentalist composer and singer based in Seattle. She’s been creating...

Amy G

Amy Gordon is a revolutionary comedienne (she spins around a lot, anyway). The granddaughter of The Little Giant, a vaudevillian acrobat/ukulele playing song and dance man of little renown but vast appeal,...

An Apple A Day

Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy, Esq.) This theatrical aerial clown duo has been creating and performing together for 25 years. Janet studied with M. LeCoq at Ecoles Jacques LeCoq in Paris,...

Anesidora

Stunning manipulation of physical reality by a mere mortal or are her powers of a higher order? Experts disagree.

Anne Uendo and Dudley Entendre

As you expected from Moisture Festival, this act will deliver just what you wouldn’t expect. Plays like a god, sings like an angel, with songs that bedevil.

Armitage Shanks

Making his 7th appearance at Moisture Festival, Armitage Shanks is one of the most sought after MC/Performers on the International Burlesque, Cabaret & Vaudeville scenes, with performances throughout North...

Arne Bystrom

Arne Bystrom is one of the premier jugglers in the Pacific Northwest. Arne performed in productions in Quebec City, Chile, toured New England with Circus Smirkus, and performed for a variety of clients...

Artis

He’ll deny it (probably from the stage) but he’s a living legend. He turned a charming folksy household percussion instrument, musical spoons, into a performance that blew David Letterman away and produced...

Ashia

blues, and pop/punk . "Pay to be Loved", her debut album, is described as "exuding a dark outlook that recalls Tom Waits and Edith Piaf...her probing lyrics on the underbelly of romance with delirious...

Aviatrix

Aviatrix has presented some stunning aerial displays for Moisture Festival and this year will be no exception ... We're thrilled that they will bring their unique Martini Glass prop and we will sip then...

Avner the Eccentric

Avner Eisenberg was one a handful of 1970s street performers who took their acts into theaters and, along with the Flying Karamazov Brothers and others, gave birth to the New Vaudeville movement. Even...

B.F. Day School

The annual spring effort by the Fremont and greater Seattle community to support the arts-rich B.F. Day School is and has been our concern as well. Moisture Festival organizers and artists donate their...

Baby Gramps

According to an article in the special issue City of Music in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with...

Bellini Twins

"The Bellini Twins take inspired idiocy to new heights" is what Seattle Times wrote about this very unusual act. They have two different fathers but share one mother who was a bohemian trapeze artist....

Big Boys with Pois

That’s right, these guys can handle anything that happens, no matter what catastrophe might offer itself they will maintain their poise and stand strong … in the face of … um, I’m sorry, excuse me, I’m...

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 been touring internationally...

Billy Oskay

Producer and session player Billy Oskay was born and raised in Kingston, NY, where at age seven he first picked up the violin. Beginning in 1970 he studied under Eugen Prokop at the International Academy...

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

Vaudeville East meets Vaudeville West when Bindlestiff appears at the Moisture Festival. Since 1995 the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has traveled the world, bringing its unique hybrid of Vaudeville, Circus,...

Bob Malone

Over the last decade Bob Malone has carved out a unique niche '" burning up a quarter million miles of asphalt a year touring his own national circuit, … pounding out his sound for devoted fans across...

Bobs

The Bobs return to the Moisture Festival this year. Angie Bob Doctor joins Richard Bob Greene, Matthew Bob Stull and Dan Bob Schumacher. This is not your run-of-the-mill a cappella quartet -- not by a...

Booby Trap Players

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

Brent McCoy

For the people who are familiar with Moisture Festival, I have to say ... Brent comes pretty highly recommended: one publication referred to him this way: "charming, sweet and very talented...Bob the Builder...

Brittany Walsh

Brittany Walsh is one of the most sought after equilibrist acts on the West Coast, recognized by The New York Times as “beautiful, exciting, and fun.” Brittany is best known for the manner in which she...

Bronkar and Cyndi

Bronkar and Cyndi have been a joint creative force since 2001. Their variety show is a high energy, multi-instrumental, rhythmic and comedic journey that combines Bronkar's percussiveness and awe-inducing...

Bronkar Lee

Internationally acclaimed beatboxer, drummer, juggler, musician, actor, funny man, and circus performer extraordinaire, Bronkar Lee has taken his skills to thousands of colleges, schools, fairs, festivals,...

Brothers from Different Mothers

They were recently voted Seattle’s Funniest Prop Comics and are also proud Guinness World Record Holders. They perform at over 200 events a year including their own variety show entitled “All 4 Limbs”....

Bruce Wylie

Bruce Wylie is a founding member of the Seattle Mime Theater company. He has created innumerable works during the past 20 years, relishing opportunities as performer, writer, director, choreographer, mask...

Caela & The Dangerous Flares

Caela Bailey’s sultry lead vocals with Katy Webber, Cathy Sutherland and Mari Finch’s smooth and seductive backup vocals are fire roasted. They’re coming back to the Moisture and they’ll make you want...

Caela Bailey

Caela Bailey is a Seattle-based chanteuse, dancer and all around entertainer. A natural performer with formidable stage presence, she’s been performing and touring with her family’s vaudeville troupe,...

Canote Brothers

The Canote Brothers from Seattle, WA, are as renowned for their affable attitudes and humor as they are for their music. Greg on fiddle, and Jere on guitar, and both on banjo ukes, perform zany concerts,...

Carla Ulbrich

Carla Ulbrich, President of the Difficult Last Name Club and former member of the defunct trio Girls Gone Funny is a comical singer-songwriter and guitarist from South Carolina currently living in New...

Carri Andersen

Ms Andersen’s grace, elegant athleticism, and memorable beauty, offers audiences the illusion, that she is not earthbound, but could, at will, fly away in a twinkling visit to the Milky Way. She will dazzle...

Catfish Jack

Harmonica player Catfish Jack (aka Jack Chauvin) grew up in Oakland, California. He was originally inspired by the Chicago blues’ legends Little Walter, James Cotton, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Big Walter...

Cathy Sutherland

Cathy is one of the original Daring Deviante Sisters, a skilled acrobatic duo with an odd sense of humor who brought a new element to the blossoming New Vaudeville scene in the 1980s. Active in several...

Chairboy

Too weird to explain, too cool to miss, I will be watching this carefully, again! Sometime around the turn of the century, in between the heydays of the great medicine shows and vaudeville, there was...

Chairmen

The Chairmen is an act presented by Bob Palmer (AKA Chairman Bob, AKA Flyin' Bob) he is an obsessed individual dedicated to exploring and expanding the world's perception of those white plastic backyard...

Chantall

Born into a show biz family on the other side of the Berlin wall, Chantall formed her own sense of style as she trained to be a contortionist. When the wall came down she brought her act into the exploding...

Charlie Brown

If you catch Charlie Brown off stage and you and he have the time, try to get him to tell you a story of his travels. Some of the experiences themselves would be of interest with anyone’s telling but hearing...

Charly Castors

Charly was born in the heart of Paris to the fifth generation of Castors in show business. Charly and his brothers Toly and Eddy make up the acrobatic trio Les Castors which has entertained audiences around...

Checkerboard Guy

The Checkerboard Guy (AKA David Aiken), beyond being a snappy dresser and regular at Moisture Festival, has also landed the gig of being the Editor in Chief for the Stories from the Pitch podcast - a semi-regular...

Christian Swenson

Performing artist, Christian Swenson, was born and raised in NH. He has an extensive background in dance, mime, voice and improvisation, and is known for his pioneering work in a form he calls "Human Jazz",...

Christopher Phi

Born in and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Christopher Phi began theater and gymnastics at the age of 10. He competed in power tumbling throughout high school, twice becoming national champion....

Cinderella

Seattle's own Fremont Players present Cinderella in a the British Panto style that is familiar to every grownup who was ever a child in the British Isles or many other parts of the English speaking world....

Circus Contraption

Seattle’s beloved one-ring circus offers patrons the following: A captivating Carousel of fanciful Fauna Formations! Audaciously effervescent (and smartly dressed) Dancing Girls! Animated Manikins...

Circus Syzygy

A recent show by Circus Syzygy was described like this: "In an era when technology and information pervade our lives, we are hyper-connected, yet perhaps even our neighbors are utter strangers. Plugged-in,...

City Circus

Sasha Harrington and Chloe Gordon-Murer are San Francisco based performers, with the troupe City Circus. They create doubles aerial acts on tissue, rope, hoop and straps, as well as work as an acrobatic...

Clay Martin's Puppet Theater

Beginning with a street show in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Clay has now performed in theaters and festivals around the world. A master of all forms of the ancient art of puppetry, including hand puppets,...

Cohdi Harrell

Cohdi Harrell is an acrobatic performance maker currently based in the high desert of northern New Mexico. Interested in subtlety more than spectacle, and transition over trick, his unique style of poetic...

Comedy Industries

Comedy and Juggling, Unicycling and Bad Judgment. That's the motto that propels this powerful duo. Scott Meltzer and Katrine Spang-Hanssen specialize in custom scripted presentations for tradeshows, sales...

Correo Aereo

About Correo Aereo facebook share Previous12Next Correo Aereo (Air Mail) is an award winning acoustic multi-instrumental and vocal Latin/World Music Duo. They perform traditional music of Latin America:...

Crockett and Swanson

Shayna Swanson and Amanda Crockett perform their strikingly powerful and unique collaboration on the Aerial Frame. Created in Chicago during the Moisture Festival last year, the act combines the strength...

Curtis Carlyle

With a style all his own, Curtis fuses world class juggling skills and fresh, innovative comedy. A featured performer with the nationally touring Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theatre, Curtis now performs...

Dan Holzman

Through the years the Raspyni Brothers have become Moisture Festival favorites. For some of the days this year we were able to bring one of the two to Seattle. He is variously known as "the funny one"...

Dana Smith

Dana Smith has been entertaining the world since 1974 when he got his start with the legendary Royal Lichtenstein Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus. After touring nationally he settled into a long run at some...

Dangerous

DANGEROUS Theatrical Dance & Drag Troupe is really more of a loose association of like minded crimin. . . .uh, creative professionals. We like to think of ourselves as family. Yeah. A family where blood...

Daniel Forlano

Daniel was born to a pair of robots in the Virgo Supercluster at the outer limits of the Milky Way Galaxy near a star known locally as the Sun on a planet where the food is quite good. To survive captivity...

Daredevil Chicken Club

Welcome to 'The Honeymoon Cabaret' starring Marc and Svetlana Buttersworth. When an American cheeseball loves a Russian mail-order bride, a vaudevillian feast of comic proportions is born! This couple...

David Deeble

With appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Last Comic Standing", David Deeble's "Unnatural Act" is a whirlwind display of exotic skills laugh-out-loud commentary. He kicks coins into his...

Della Moustachella

Della doesn't have business cards, she has fun cards! She's shared her fun through physical comedy/dance/satire at Dream Science Circus, Oregon Country Fair, Moisture Festival, New Old Time Chautauqua...

Delphinia Spit

Whitney acquired a fancy for brazen vulnerability in utero, whilst gurgling french with one foot behind her head. After returning from two years of school in Paris, she has honed these abilities and regularly...

Dirty Fred

This is a rare American appearance for Fred. We're fortunate to be able to make it work. Here's how Fred tells his life story: Born to a Lutheran minister and a former army nurse, my childhood was marked...

Dizzy Calico

This darling daredevil stirs up an aerial cocktail guaranteed to leave audiences reeling! Since joining up with the Aerialistas for Moisture Festival in 2009, Dizzy has swung from rafters in Seattle, Olympia,...

Doc & Stumpy

Doc And Stumpy celebrate the golden age of the vaudeville and burlesque routines that are often forgotten these days. They have been surprising audiences in Las Vegas and Hollywood with their performances...

Doc Sprinsock and 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 so surprised he didn't...

Dr H P Lovecraft

Master Magician, Medicine Man, Prestidigitateur, Conjurer, Witch Doctor, Wizard, Alchemist, Herbalist, Secular Humorist, Parapsychologist, Master of Tai Klown yo-yo, Certified Public Oracle, Rain-Maker,...

Dr. Calamari & Acrophelia

The good but creepy doctor and his cool-skinned lover are remarkably nimble for those who teeter on the brink of life and death. Dr. Loligo Calamari and Acrophelia (A.K.A Jason Williams and Evelyn Bittner),.members...

Dr. Lafitte

The good doctor is known in some circles as a Knight of the Green Cloth. These are circles that you would be well advised to avoid if you're thinking of gambling with this month's rent or the baby's milk...

Dream Frohe

Dream aspires to move like she means it-to approach her art with presence and wonder and offer her audience a uniquely engaging experience. She has been performing aerial dance for the past 5 years and...

Dream Science Circus

Dream Science Circus of Bellingham, Washington brings their acrobatic and sense of wonder and imagination to communities across the Northwest featuring the collaborations of several skilled individuals....

du Caniveaux Dancing Bears

The bears have been doing their sweet dance number now for almost twenty years and they still don’t have it down. No matter, they’ll have you bending over backwards as the four bears simply bend over....

Duo de Luna

Together, Cameron and Marina, as Duo de Luna, relay throughout their movements the duality of light and dark. The duo perfectly represent balance, in the symmetry of their bodies and their movements. The...

Duo Madrona

Ben Wendel and Rachel Nehmer met as biology students at Haverford College. After a successful stint as lab partners, the couple decided to try out a new kind of collaboration--this time in the air! After graduation...

Duo Rendez-vous

Graeme and Lori teamed up almost two years ago, excited to be training under the guidance of their coach, Charly Castors, a premier Parisian circus/Variete performer antipodist (foot juggler). Graeme has...

Duo Rose

The first American circus artists to perform in Havana, Cuba since 1959 The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless...

Duo XY

Thomas and Justin met while working on Cirque du Soleil's "La Nouba" and began to train duo static trapeze. From there they moved to Montreal to further their technique and create Duo XY under the direction...

Dusty Rhodes and her Handsome Cowboys

Do you crave the authentic Western cowpoke experience? The point of view of those who ride the real range and actually work among the herds? Yeah? Why’d you come to a Comedy/ Varietè Festival then? Dusty...

El Gleno Grande

Glenn Singer was born in the year of Sputnik into the home of a rocket scientist, and subsequently raised by dwarves. No matter what humble circumstances he found himself in throughout his childhood, Glenn...

Equilibrium Circus - Paz & Leah

Equilibrium Circus is an award winning duo that specializes in the art of partnering. Paz and Leah are honored to be a part of the 2012 Moisture Festival line-up and will be performing "Caliente" - a...

Eric Apoe

Seattle songwriter Eric Apoe started in the music business as a drummer for Cajun fiddler Doug Kershaw, with whom he toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Later signed as a staff writer for Warner-Chappell,...

Eric Newton

Eric Newton is an accomplished performer, actor & acrobat, making his second appearance at the Moisture Festival. Based in Los Angeles, Eric performs solo, duo and group aerials, ground acrobatics and...

Eric Schwartz

Eric Schwartz's razor sharp, adults-mostly, on-the-spot wit combined with his exceptional musicality have made him a stand-out performer when appearing on the Comedy Central Stage (in Sit'n Spin); with...

Esther Edelman

Esther Edelman of UMO fame is performing at this year's festival as a solo aerialist along with the wonderful Jami Sieber on cello and Esther will join the amazing aerial troupe Aviatrix. Esther has over...

Ezra Weill & Una Bennett

Ezra Weill and Una Bennett, a brother and sister duo, were born and raised in Seattle. They’ve been active in circus arts for most of their lives and got their first tastes of live performance by busking...

Foolz

Two performers: one outwardly calm, the other wound tighter than a spring. If there is a dim-witted innocence about them, it's because their childlike charm permeates their world, placing them in situations...

Frank Olivier

Frank Olivier is bringing his comedy varieté show “Twisted Cabaret” to Hales Palladium, immediately following this year's Moisture Festival (May 2-26). Tickets have just gone on sale through http://TwistedCabaret.com. Frank...

Frankie Fortune

Frankie's juggling will astound you but he claims that it's not so much skill as luck. His patterns change in ways that remind us of notes on a musical scale but we are asked to believe that it's good...

Fred Garbo's Inflatable Theater Co.

Fred Garbo and Daielma Santos will bring a taste of their Inflatable Theater Company to the Moisture Festival this year. Fred got paid for doing a card trick in 1974, and has been a professional performer...

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 talent in...

Fuchsia FoXXX

Crowned the "Hot Pink Habanero" by The Stranger and voted "Seattles' Sexiest Burlesque Performer" (2008) Fuchsia FoXXX is the stand out hybrid of bellydance for the burlesque stage. Entertaining audiences...

Fyodor Karamazov

He spent 20-odd years (some of them very odd) touring the world as a professional juggler with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, then retired to his home in Seattle, his other home in Santa Cruz, and his...

Gabriela Milillo

A trapeze artist whose work on the static trapeze is almost brazenly straightforward. In short, percussive phrases, she reels off a series of still poses, like a stop-action film, cutting each one off...

Gazzo

If you have friends who knows a little about magic performance, tell him them that the British magician Gazzo is coming to Moisture Festival. I can then be silent and let them persuade you to take this...

God's Favorite Beefcake

Okay ... I'll tell you what, click on that link above that will take you to their MySpace page where you can hear the music for this strange Circus Contraption connected band and then YOU try to write...

Godfrey Daniels

Godfrey is quiet on stage but you should hear the tales he tells backstage! His trip to perform on French television is hilarious. His long time companion, Randy Minkler, confirms that the town and the...

Hacki & Moeppi

From Germany, the comedy and energy of this father and son clown duo have been a central part of the festival's original inspiration and a good bit of the imagery and cockeyed outlook that allowed us to...

Hacki Ginda

Hacki was living in West Berlin on the day that the Berlin Wall came down. He went, that day, into the East looking for a place to open a Varieté theater. Working with partners he created there what...

Harlequin Hipsters

The Harlequin Hipsters is a collaborative performance collective whose aim is to honor, celebrate, and continue to evolve the rich heritage of American social dance. Through the synthesis and reimagining...

Hat Trick

What a pleasure to welcome these guys to town! Between them, they have many years in the business ... the business of juggling. We will see some comedy and clowning around but we're also going to see some...

Heavenly Spies

The Heavenly Spies began as a little known cabaret/burlesque group titled: Ultra and the Satin Dolls by a group of eager-to-perform Cornish graduates in early 2004. In 2005 after many changes the defunct...

Helena Reynolds

Helena Reynolds is an aerial artist and contemporary dancer, trained in aerial and contortion at the San Francisco Circus Centre and in Contemporary Dance and Ballet at the prestigious North Carolina School...

Henrik Bothe

Born in Denmark, Henrik Bothe took a turn from the road to becoming an engineer and strayed down the performing lane in 1980. He now engineers clever and unusual ways of entertaining audiences all over...

Hilary Chaplain

Hilary is one of the founding members of the New York Goofs. They performed together in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Space. She has gone on to be recognized as one of America’s...

Hilby

As a boy growing up in Berlin, young Hilby exhibited no particular talents other than making funny faces at strangers and, as Hilby himself describes it, "breezing rhyzmically." When people began to call...

Hokum W. Jeebs

Our longtime friend, Hokum, was scheduled to perform in this year's Moisture Festival but he was tragically taken from us just after Valentine's Day. Hokum W. Jeebs was a one-man musical theater. Out...

Horse Crazy Cowgirl Band

As one of their friends mentioned in a letter posted on their website, they do the things that they sing about in their songs. Horse Crazy Cowgirls sing and swing and have good fun on stage and off stage...

Hot Pink Feathers

"Best of the Bay" dance company Hot Pink Feathers is in it's 10th year of Delighting the World, One Showgirl at a Time. The Feathers spread joy and wonder through their passionate and playful samba burlesque...

Iman Lizarazu

Iman Lizarazu is a world-class entertainer, juggler and physical commedian. People who have seen Lizarazu on Bay Area and International stages already know the Santa Cruz resident is a unique performer. As...

Jack and Jeri Kalvan

This dynamic juggling/acrobatic duo has performed their amazing and odd skills (like synchronized flowerpot manipulation) around the world. Jack Kalvan is a comedy juggler and former mechanical engineer....

Jami Sieber

Jami is a performer that makes transformation appear simple, taking a traditionally classical instrument and morphing it into the source of a multi-dimensional range of expressive works. In the 28 years...

Jan Damm

Jan grew up in central Maine and began performing at age twelve, juggling at children’s parties and events. He studied clowning with Maine residents (and Moisture Festival semi-regulars) Avner the Eccentric...

Janet & David

Janet McAlpin & David Godsey (Teeny & Tardy) As specialists in Entertainment Law, we at Teeney and Tardy, Esq. have been proudly serving the industry for 25 years. In our offices at a former coffee roasterie...

Janet McAlpin

Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years. Janet...

Janet McAlpin & Lynelle Sjoberg

Janet McAlpin trained for two years at the School of Jacques LeCoq (Paris, France), co-founded UMO Ensemble and has been teaching, directing and performing physical theater for over 20 years. Lynelle Sjoberg...

Janna Wächter

"Janna Wächter's sweet mezzo-soprano voice" one reviewer said "can be earthy or refined as she sees fit" and this might be an apt description of her contributions to musical and theatrical productions...

Jason Quick

A One-Armed Juggler combining Circus Arts with Spoken Word to amaze, astound and inspire audiences of all ages. Jason lost his arm in an electrical accident when he was six years old and while recuperating...

Jason Rodgers

Jason Rodgers has been a tap dancer/actor/musician, working professionally since the age of 10. He's worked with Debbie Allen, Donald O'Connor, George C. Wolfe, Eddie Brown, Fayard Nicholas, and Danny...

Jason Webley

The Wikipedia entry on Jason Webley describes his music as a combination of folk, gypsy, and punk. It goes on to say that he quit his day job in the spring of 1998, hopped on a Greyhound bus with the intention...

Jay Alexander

We are sorry to report that Jay Alexander has had to cancel his 2013 Moisture Festival appearances when his grandmother passed away. Our hearts go out to him and his family and we look forward to 2014...

Jeanne Dark

Born into a show biz family Jeanne formed her own sense of style as she trained to join the fun. She brought her act into the exploding European Varietè scene. Jeanne's stage sparkle called for something...

Jessie Sawyers

Jessie Sawyers is a Seattle-based tap dancer, producer, entrepreneur, artist, educator, cultivator of community, believer in our youth, life lover, and music maker. She began tap dancing at the age of...

Jill Schaffner

A modern dancer and former gymnast, Jill works to join those skills and sensibilities in performance as an aerialist. Known to Seattle audiences for her work with ticktock dance company, the Aerialistas...

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 biting sense of irony. And boy! can he sing...

Joey Pipia

Performing magic for children at the renowned Jewel Box Theater or for adults at famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, Joey Pipia can do it all and he can do it with grace and style. Joey is a very funny magician...

John Carney

From out of the darkness, the kid shows, the supermarket openings … comes a force so disturbing, so twisted ... its hilarious! Comic/Magician John Carney presents a very special appearance by Mr. Mysto,...

Johnny Fox

Johnny Fox is a legendary character among street performers, circus folk and the like. He's a New York City illusionist, lecturer, story teller and a famed sword swallower. Many of this generation of street...

Jonathan Rose

Jonathan Rose’s interest in circus arts began in Mexico, where he was a roustabout in a small, family-owned circus. For several months he served as caretaker of the many exotic animals, including Maurice,...

Joyce Rice

Whip cracking, glass spinning, juggling, twirling, and polished entertaining … Joyce Rice is one of the two partners who make up Rice and Renee, a well known mother/daughter team who have been featured...

JuggleMania

Whether walking up a stairway of blades, gliding along a slack rope, juggling pins, spinning crockery on sticks (for no known reason) or offering other circus-style feats Rhys Thomas’ climb-up, lay-down,...

Kamikaze Fireflies

Sexy meets circus! Bludgeoning audiences with wit, crushing them with whimsey, and tearing them a new laugh hole ... It's the Kamikaze Fireflies! Rob Williams is a Moisture Festival favorite. He joined...

Karen Quest

Dubbed "America’s Funniest Cowgirl", Karen has been blazing a trail since 1998 with her one-woman Cowgirl Tricks comedy show. Skillful trick roping, whip cracking and improvisational kooky cowgirl shenanigans,...

Katie Kirkland

After sailing the Caribbean galavanting and traveling, studying with Q'ero Shamans and Ayahuasqueros, chillin with SoulJahs, cruising the Amazon, holding a wild Macaw on the Tambopata, meditating at sunrise...

Kazüm

Kazüm's mission is to push the boundaries of perceived limitations, inspire ourselves and others to actualize dreams and to create more joy and beauty in the world through the medium of acrobalance, adagio,...

Kerri Kresinski

Kerri has been performing for her entire life. She started dancing at age 3 and never stopped. Although her dancing has a foundation of classical and contemporary training, her style embodies an ethnic/urban...

Kevin Brooking

Kevin Brooking presents a mime, music, juggling and magic act whom the French have compared to Chaplin and Mack Sennett (in France, there is no higher praise). Before graduating from Ecole Jacques Lecoq...

Kevin Joyce

Kevin is Creator and Host of the variety show Big Night Out on the Seattle Channel. With his wife Martha Enson he runs EnJoy Productions, which produces live entertainment for corporate and special events,...

Kevin Kent

Kevin was one of the original cast members of Seattle's acclaimed Teatro ZinZanni. He is a writer, director and producer whose work has led him overseas in addition to being a steady presence in Seattle's...

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy’s poetry is exuberant, comic and slightly mad, and comes from a place where stones are alive and potatoes talk. With nods to the beats, the bards, the surrealists and the blues, he accompanies...

Lara Paxton

Founder of the Aerialistas and Circus Contraption, Lara has been performing this last year in Spain and Germany so we are so excited to have her back at the Palladium performing her beautiful mermaid aerial...

Laura Stokes

LAURA STOKES is a zealous movement researcher, educator and performer. Always fascinated by the notion of embodied experience, she was a child gymnast, a teenage ballerina, and at one point, a budding...

Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein

Leapin’ Louie Lichtenstein has performed his unique cowboy comedy show in 21 different countries around the world. You will see slapdash physical comedy and spoken comedy channeled through Louie’s modern...

Legendary Voices in Concert

Larry G Jones, Singing Impressionist - Comedian. The Temptations, Cher, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Elvis, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Rat Pack are just a small sample of the 75 plus voices Larry performs...

Lelavision

The name Lela is more than a play on the names of the founders; derived from two Sanskrit terms meaning "creation" and "creative spark", with references to "play," it denotes the spirit of the performance...

Linda Severt

Linda Severt delivers an engaging, high-energy performance combining juggling, music, puppetry, and physical comedy. Linda has performed in hundreds of schools and at numerous festivals throughout the...

Lindsay Benner

"The joy and wonder of the present moment", that's the phrase that refers, in much of her publicity, to Lindsay Benner's greatest talent ... bringing her audiences to that place. That's a great gift. Lindsay's...

Liza Rose

Since settling in Seattle in 2008, Liza has worked with the Aerialistas, Manifold Motion, the Atomic Bombshells, Lily Verlaine, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Moisture Festival, cellist Zoe Keating,...

Lo-Lo Flamingo

When Lo-Lo takes the stage, the audience immediately becomes caught up in the excitement of it all. As her juggling clubs maneuver magically through the air, nothing of the years of hard work is visible...

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 build forts out of the sofa cushions." He spent...

Luke Wilson

Luke Wilson shows that it is possible to redefine juggling without sacrificing technique. Whether manipulating 1 club or 5, using hands, feet or face; his juggling is laid-back yet dynamic, understated...

Luther Bangert

When he performed at the recent juggling convention in Portland, they listed him simply as "the enigmatic Luther Bangert". While touring India the arrival in town of this six foot juggler atop a unicycle...

Macha

Amanda Crockett and Shayna Swanson are each working solo at this year's Moisture Festival (see their separate bios on this page) working together they will present a Duo Frame aerial performance. The acts...

Magical Mystical Michael

Magical Mystical Michael’s illusive and elusive logic still has some of his closest friends scratching their heads and laughing. You’ll see many of Michael’s friends at the Moisture Festival, he’s an easy...

Majinga the Magician

…You'll be "Wowed" by the Magical World of Michael Stroud, aka Majinga the Magician. Michael is a best-selling magic author, a twelve-time award winning magician and performance artist, and has been featured...

Marco Polo

Renowned 13th century explorer, Marco Polo has been stuck here in the "future" for a few years now, but instead of curling up like a roly poly he has decided to make the best of his predicament by dedicating...

Maria Margiyeva

Maria was born in Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 7 she began her career as an athlete of rhythmic gymnastics on the Club Dynamo of Kiev coached by Vera Kremer. A few years later Maria entered in the National...

Mark Ettinger

Comprehensivist, composer and performer Mark Ettinger plays with music in a variety of genres on an assortment of instruments, from joining Bo Diddley as pianist to conducting the Cincinnati Orchestra...

Mark Growden

Mark Growden is a singer, writer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, visual artist, and workshop leader. Mark has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Saint Judas, which...

Master Payne

A master, indeed! This noted Northwest performer has traveled the world assuming and shedding a series of engaging characters in an unending effort to give a unique and humorous twist to the ancient art...

Matt Baker

Matt Baker is a Guinness World Record holder, was voted Seattle's Funniest Prop Comic and has performed his comedy stunt show in over 14 different countries. He's appeared on numerous television show including...

Matt Gordon

Matt Gordon has been delighting audiences with his fiddle , harmonica, and feet for the last 20 years. He has toured extensively in the U.S.A. , Canada and the U.K. As a member of "Footworks Percussive...

Matt Hall

At 11 years old, Matt was inspired to learn juggling after seeing the Flying Karamazov Brothers on an HBO special. He then set a goal for himself: to make it to the finals in international juggling competition....

Michael Carbonaro

Michael Carbonaro is an American actor who was born in New York, New York. In 2003, he kicked off his film career starring as Mikey Falcone in A Tale of Two Pizzas alongside Vincent Pastore and Frank Vincent,...

Michael Clifton

One the best show drummers on any circuit, ask any of the many vaudeville/Varietè acts who’ve done their turn with his support from the band pit. Michael’s coming in from Berlin for the Festival and,...

Michael Trautman

Variously identified as a visual comic, performance artist, new vaudevillian, mime (gasp), physical comedian, storyteller, magician, and fool, he claims only to be a clown...and not a very traditional...

Miles and Karina

One reviewer called their music "wonderful, ... irreverent, purposefully silly, very sophisticated ..." Another said "these stellar musicians have stepped up and into a musical circle where only a few...

Miss Rose and her Rhythm Percolators

Travel back in time to the earliest days of the Jazz Age with Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators. The Seattle-based quartet faithfully recreates the vintage jazz of the early 1920s to the mid '30s --...

Mme Zazou

AKA Doloreze Leonard European Weekly referred to hers as “a voice that Louis Armstrong would have envied.” Business Woman Magazine called her a “French Canadian girl who blossomed into perhaps one...

Moeppi Ginda

As a young man Moeppi (a German nickname for Myron) left his home in Muenster, Germany to join his father in the family craft ... making people laugh. Moeppi's father, Hacki Ginda (see his bio on this...

Moz Wright

Cold Steel and Hot Licks! Fire breather/sword swallower, Moz, grew up in a family that had been in circus but had settled down by the time he came along. Not Moz though … he contacted an uncle who...

Mr. Spin

This will be his first year at Seattle's Moisture Festival. Mr. Spin is noted in the world of juggling performance for ... wait, let me let Reg Bolton say it: "The legendary Mr. Spin from Adelaide, Australia...

Mud Bay Jugglers

Masters of levity is several senses of the term. Mudbay has brought their innovative approach to juggling for over 30 years now. They’ve passed some of their knowledge and experience on while passing clubs....

Muriel Olivier

Muriel Jasmine Rose Olivier, Age four, debuted her trapeze act at last year's Moisture Festival and is back this year with a new, advanced routine. Having trained on the trapeze since age 1, Muriel currently...

Naked Truth

The Naked Truth show band that will anchor all Burlesque shows and the two Variete shows presented at the Broadway Performance Hall is a new band made up of not-so-new musicians. We expect greatness. Their...

NANDA

The NANDA experience is a high-energy, unrelenting blast of action and excited humor. You will be enraptured by this dynamic show, a tidal wave of acrobatics, dance, juggling and crazy Kung Fu acro-fighting,...

Nate Cooper

He is a natural physical comedian and eccentric dance aficionado. An endlessly talented clogger, tap and swing dancer, juggler, roller skater and clown. Dedicated to the art of play, Cooper explores physical...

Nathan Arnold - Johnny Jetpack Propulsion Labs

Whether he's bringing us gas propelled Johnny Jetpack speeding skyward at 50+ mph (in about one second), or YouTube favorites Flaming Anus or the incredible and hilarious Cordless Drill Breakdance, Nathan...

Neonman

He moves in darkness, this man of mystery. Silent as the shadows themselves and yet we understand him. His mission? To enlighten the dim. Wish to know more? Follow his link.

New Old Time Chautauqua

Their vaudeville variety shows run 2 - 2 1/2 hours and often include everything from comediennes to jugglers and tap dancers, from rap singers to rope-spinners and bubble-blowers and from poets and magicians...

Nich Galzin

A native of Chicago, Nich's skills include several forms of acrobatics and aerial work. He will perform in Burlesque this year on a gymnastic device known in America as the German Wheel. The large rolling...

Niels Duinker

Niels Duinker first thought of becoming a successful international performer when he was 12 years old, and well before the end of his teenage years his dream had become a reality. Niels won a Gold Medal...

Nu Klezmer Army

Nu Klezmer Army brings new life and energy to the traditional music of the yiddish-speaking jews of Eastern Europe. Melding together each player's diverse musical background, NKA brings forth an undeniably...

Onlies

The Onlies are a group of 14 year old musicians from Seattle who have known each other since they were toddlers: Samantha Braman, Riley Calcagno, and Leo Shannon. They "... sing original songs, play several...

Orville Johnson & Casey MacGill

In a recent blog posting Orville Johnson had this to say about performing with Casey MacGill: "I'm getting used to playing rocking' New Orleans style music every Monday night with my pal Casey MacGill...

Paper Doll Militia

Paper Doll Militia are pioneers in original Aerial Theatre who seamlessly weave dynamic physicality, aerial arts, and visual theatre. This unique performance company emphasizes mixing modern and vintage...

Patch Adams

You may have heard of Patch through the film starring Robin Williams. It was about Patch's life in medical school and called simply, Patch Adams. Patch is one of the founding members of the New Old Time...

Paul Nathan

Paul entertains audiences worldwide- from theater festivals in Hong Kong and Australia to festivals all over Europe- including Belgium's "Humorology Festival," Holland's "Limburg Festival," and England's...

Paz of Equilibrium Circus

PAZ has been performing and teaching the circus arts for over seventeen years. His performances have taken him to Asia, Australia, Central and North America, Europe, and the Caribbean and have included...

Peculiärs

Connoisseurs of the peculiar. Seekers of odd musical gems of a bygone era. Fastidious dressers. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Peculiärs.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison's childhood idols were Alexander Calder and Batman, influences that led to training in visual art, juggling, and dance. While a teenager, Peter began his professional career street performing...

Pi Clowns

Pi is a physical comedy troupe devoted to exploring the world and examining life’s mysteries through a lens of wonder. Six clowns currently comprise the ensemble Pi, which was founded at the University...

Pinky d’Ambrosia

Circus Contraption's vocalist, trumpet strumpet, dancer, Opera Diva, costumer and volunteer coordinator is described on that troupe's website as one who "makes men swoon" with her siren song and we've...

PK Dwyer

Many Seattleites, familiar with PK's unforgettable music and stage presentations believe that he's a native of the Northwest. The same could be said of people in the other towns where he's spent time playing...

Poledello

Local pole dance artist Noelle Wood has performed in various events and shows in Seattle and beyond. She has placed in several pole dance competitions, winning first place in the National Masters Division...

Poppy Daze

Poppy Daze (Lara Lee Rasberry) performs locally, nationally and internationally on a variety of aerial apparatus, including her signature anchor. She is the founder and director of the Aerialistas. Considered...

Prince of Pain

Andrew Pulkrabek is the Prince of Pain. Lying on a bed of nails, having a cinder block smashed on his chest, escaping from a straight jacket ... why does he do it? Why did he end up in that straight jacket...

Professor Humbug's Flea Circus

Is it real? Can fleas be trained? Is that a tiny circus? What do they eat? Do you really want to know? After much research into those and other questions this is Rob D’Arc’s educated hunch on the lives...

Professor Martin Shell

We eagerly anticipate the imminent arrival of the good professor as he makes his ambagious way across the country from his home in Springfield, Massachusetts. Noted for his topical and timely instruction...

Puppet Guy

Lee Zimmerman is a multi-talented veteran performer. Well known in the LA area comedy clubs and busking venues, he is known as The Puppet Guy to some and The Etch A Sketch Guy by others (his skill with...

Quiddlers

The Quiddlers are International Ambassadors of Physical Comedy. They started out in the mid-1980s as The Marauding Miners and they are still going strong with worldwide performances of their unique costumes,...

Quynbi

Hailed as “one of the aerial world’s most glamorous artists, with a style all her own” by Aerial Arts International Magazine, Quynbi is a Seattle-based aerialist, dancer, model, multimedia visual artist...

Rachel Strickland

Classically trained in ballet since the age of three, Rachel is a ballerina turned aerialist and innovative variety performer. Modern, belly dance, and lyrical jazz make up some of her versatile background,...

Raspyni Brothers

As one of the most sought after acts on the corporate entertainment scene, they appear annually at over 100 events across America and internationally. Since 1982 their intelligent mayhem has earned them...

Rebecca Leonard

Rebecca, an aerialist and actor, is sought after for her strength and grace in the air. Her 15 years of experience in theatre and aerial arts has fueled her production of innovative aerial theatre shows....

Red Wine Sisters

From Santa Cruz, California, the Red Wine Sisters were spotted by Moisture Festival organizers while performing at an event entitled: Keep Santa Cruz Weird. They seemed to be helping greatly with that...

Reggie Miles

As Seattle's premiere sawplayer, Reggie's exploration into the eerie tones and subtle timbre of the musical saw, and his uncanny ability to flex the hand tool's razor sharp spring steel betwixt quivering...

Reid Belstock

Reid Belstock began juggling at the age of 15, as a way of overcoming gross and fine motor skill impairment. Following high school, Reid went off to study with Ringling Brothers, and Barnum and Bailey...

Reverend Chumleigh

R. Chumleigh is a New Vaudeville legend who performs throughout the civilized world and in the Dominion of Canada. Comfortable in any persona and historical period, Chumleigh is capable of filling any...

Richard Hartnell

Richard Hartnell's contact juggling performance showcases the art form's ethereal fluidity. Currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, this particular sphere charmer shocks and amazes audiences...

Rick Ruskin

Rick Ruskin started playing guitar in 1962 and in just one year became a respected professional musician in his native Detroit, Michigan. In 1964, while still in Jr. High School, he was chosen to open...

Ricochet

Weaving delicate metaphor with jaw dropping spectacle, Ricochet's unique style of poetic acrobatics has taken the world by storm. Based in the mountains of rural New Mexico, they combine lyric physicality,...

Rob Lok

Dynamic Comedy. Comic Stunts. What could possibly go wrong? Rob Lok is an international variety performer and contemporary clown. Slapstick gags and high-octane circus skills have made his shows in demand...

Rob Torres

Whether he's changing his clothes, setting the table, or just sitting down, Rob Torres has a unique way of finding absurdity in everyday tasks. His award winning international comedy has made Rob one...

Rob Williams

No telling what he has planned this time but the last time we saw this character perform at the Moisture Festival his act consisted of removing meat from plastic packages, peeling plastic wrap off of cheese,...

Roberto The Magnificent

Captivating audiences for more than two decades, Robert Stuverud (a.k.a. Roberto the Magnificent) is recognized as one of the nation's most unique variety acts performing throughout the USA. When Roberto...

Rod Ferrone

Rod Ferrone has received critical acclaim worldwide for his unique blend of tap dance, comedy, song and hat tricks. He was 1/2 of the critically acclaimed tap/comedy duo Hot Foot. His company Feet 2...

Ron W. Bailey

There are many people whose hard work and creativity makes the Moisture Festival happen but there is one without whom it wouldn't have been an option. Ron W. Bailey is an entertainer, band leader, singer,...

Ropeworks by René

René Bibaub is a five-time world champion, ESPN commentator and former artist and coach of Cirque Du Soleil. We will present René as the dynamic entertainer that she is but she will, no doubt, carry with...

Rubberband Boy

If the United States grants him a Visa to perform in our country we will proudly present, in 2012, Rubberband Boy. This act of facial contortion and pogo stick straight jacket escapology has been viewed...

Ruby Joyce

Ruby Joyce has performed as the torch bearer for the Olympic opening ceremonies of the Moisture Festival 2008. Her aerial hoop and trapeze acts have been seen at the Oregon Country Fair, Gravity of Kindness,...

Run For Your Life!

Run For Your Life!'s mission is to make people laugh. Their abstract comedy has no malice or agenda, and their satirical dances point up universal human (or non-human) foibles.

Russian Bar Hoppers

Erica, Marta, and Nick met in 2009 while coaching at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts. In their hours between coaching classes they combine their acrobatic and creative talents to put together...

Saffi Watson

Last summer, Saffi Watson completed a run of the family show In Tents at Teatro ZinZanni featuring the band Recess Monkey. She was the only kid in the cast, and performed as a hoop aerialist, a contortionist...

Sally Pepper

Sally has exercised a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with...

SANCA

The School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA) is Seattle’s premier circus school with classes for kids and adult. Founded in 2004 by Executive Director Jo Montgomery and Program Director Chuck...

Sandy

Our darling Sandy is a vaudeville chanteuse, Moisture Festival founding member, and all-around good sport.

Sara Felder

Sara Felder is a solo theater artist, playwright and juggler. While the themes of her plays and performances are serious, her form is comic, engaging, vaudevillian. She strives to integrate personal...

sara sparrow

sara sparrow came to modern circus through a background in gymnastics, music, theater, and visual art. In addition to her ongoing romance with the trapeze, she is one half of 'levity', a quirky duo acrobatic...

Sasha Harrington

Sasha Harrington is a San Francisco based performer who does beautiful solo work when she is not performing with her partner Chloe Gordon-Murer as City Circus (also featured at this year's Moisture Festival...

Scot Nery

Whether Scot is working in theater, at a party or on the small or large screen (he was in Adam Sandler's “You Don't Mess with the Zohan” and Christinea Aguilera's music video “Hurt” among other productions)...

Scott Land Marionettes

Scott Land is a puppeteer at the top of his game. His seasoned performing skills are on display in nearly every scene of Paramount Pictures' Team America: World Police (script by South Park writers Trey...

Shannon Gray

When Shannon Gray performs, one thing is always clear - she loves to move. Discovering circus after a lifetime of movement exploration, it has become the ultimate combination of play, self-expression,...

Shannon Gray and Mark Growden

When Shannon Gray performs, one thing is always clear - she loves to move. Discovering circus after a lifetime of movement exploration, it has become the ultimate combination of play, self-expression,...

Shayna Swanson

Shayna Swanson has been creating and performing aerial works that have been described by the Chicago Reader as “truly heart-felt and creative” for over 12 years. Renowned for her cyr wheel and aerial rope...

Shersten Finley

Shersten Finley discovered trapeze studying aerial dance with Do Jump Movement Theatre in Portland Oregon. She appeared as an aerialist in shows with Do Jump including: Now (2002) and Gaviotas (2004)....

Shoehorn

Shoehorn is an original performance artist who creates music with his feet and dances with his horn. Michael Shoehorn Conley has combined organic body rhythms and sophisticated jazz forms and concepts...

Simon Chaban

Trained in Russian acrobatics since the age of six, Simon is a master performer in the circus ring or a cabaret stage. Born and raised in San Francisco, he chose staff manipulation as his primary art form,...

Simon Neale

Simon Neale- One of the founders of the Festival, gained his sense of humor studying the art of English Music Halls. In his teens working at the Holiday camps, along the British coast, honing his skills...

Sirens of Serpentine

What do you get when you mix one part bellydance, one part Fosse and one part Bond Girl? Leslie Rosen's Sirens of Serpentine! They will shake it! You will be stirred!

Sisters

The Sisters will be joining Moisture Festival this year for the first time. Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters. Never had to have a chaperone, "No sir". We're here to keep our...

Smerdyakov Karamazov

The brilliant vaudevillian, Ed Wynn, once said "A comedian is not a man who says funny things. A comedian is one who says things funny." As, variously, a solo performer (Samwise, Juggler Intraordinaire,)...

Smirk!

Physical comedian and maniacal goofball Reid Belstock and innovative juggling ace and straight man Warren Hammond have teamed up to bring you their hilarious and incredible new show, Smirk! Described...

Snake Suspenderz

Snake Suspenderz, a quartet featuring vocals, ukulele, trombone, guitar, tuba and drums, call their music "cartoon jazz." They play a relentlessly quirky blend of novelty songs and hits of the 1920's...

Sourdough Slim

Ten gallon funny-man Sourdough Slim, transports us to a whimsical world where vaudevillian camp and cowboy lore intermingle to produce grins galore. Slim, aka Rick Crowder, is a well traveled veteran...

Spin Doctor

In Greg Palmer's brilliant PBS documentary, "Vaudeville", he presented a montage of old film clips and speculated dryly "Vaudeville audiences loved watching things spin." He would have loved this act....

Splinter Dance Company

Splinter Dance Company's mission is to extend thought-provoking dance performances to a broad range of audiences; making dance accessible to the public using site-specific work as well as maintaining artistically...

Squirrel Butter

Squirrel Butter are a Seattle duo made up of Charlie Beck and Charmaine Slaven. These two musicians (both are also performers with the band The Tallboys) perform traditional and original music influenced...

Steel Dolls

Steel Dolls is the collaborative effort of Sydney Lovelle, Julia Schimmel, and Allie Cooper. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the trio draws upon backgrounds in dance, circus, and gymnastics to produce...

Stefan Haves

Stefan Haves directed the world-renowned dinner/circus Teatro Zinzanni and is Cirque Du Soleil’s North American "Clown Scout," responsible for casting clowns, conducting workshops, and assistant directing...

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 performed and created in almost...

Stevie Coyle

Stevie Coyle's dear Granny was a pianist in the heyday of vaudeville, his mother played in mandolin orchestras during the 1930s and his father ran a radio station in southern California and brought home...

Stoil & Ekaterina

An award-winning magic act from Europe, Stoil & Ekaterina have performed on a number of TV shows, cruise lines, hotels and theaters all over the world. They present a fast-paced, high energy performance...

Sunga Rose

Sunga was raised on a diet of musical theater, 70s folk revival, funk and the Beatles. In other words, she has been genre-confused since childhood. Then she heard Mildred Bailey and her life was changed...

Super8s

The Super8s are a favorite Moisture Festival band. They are back again in 2013 to smooth out the transitions or make them lumpy if that's what makes more sense.

Sweaty Pies

The Sweaty Pies are a tasty treat being prepared by some of Seattle's premier aerial artists especially for the first year of Georgetown Moisture Festival shows. Working with the unique and challenging...

Tamara the Trapeze Lady

Tamara "The Trapeze Lady" has been gayly spreading love and glitter around the world since 1992. Her aerial education includes early work with Robert Davidson and classes at the San Fransisco Circus...

Tank Karo

Tank is a nimble performer who brings both a wicked and beautiful side of circus onto the stage. She is a dancer turned aerialist, who has travelled clear across the globe in her quest to perform just...

Tanya Brno

A local and international circus artist, Tanya has been an integral and innovative part of the Seattle aerial scene over the past seven years. She has collaborated with many other performers including...

Tanya Burka

Tanya is a professional aerialist and contemporary circus performer based out of Vancouver, B. C. A gymnast since age 9, contemporary circus proved to be a more natural outlet for Tanya's creativity and...

Teresa Tudury

Teresa Tudury is an absolute original. From her San Francisco roots to the Greek Islands to New York and LA where she performs her music and/or as a comedian, she has a loyal following. One paper described...

Terry Crane

Having languished long enough in higher education, Terry Crane finally surrendered to restless urges that lead him to walk calmly away with the circus at the tender age of 20. Since then, his thirst for...

The Cabiri

The Cabiri is a Seattle-based aerial dance troupe, specialize in 'performative mythology', theatrical depiction of tales from folklore and mythology. Utilizing modern and aerial dance, stilt walking, physical...

The Flordigan Can Can Girls

In the 19th century, when specific rules of conduct dictated the behavior of young women, most fell into line willingly. For the famed Can Can dancers, the line formed in quite a different place. With...

Thomas John

Thomas John is excited to be returning to the Moisture Fest after taking some time off to compete in America's Got Talent and tour the German variety theater circuit. Thomas blends comedy and juggling...

Three Left Feet!

Seattle favorites (and internationally known) aerialists Rachel Nehmer & Ben Wendel of Duo Madrona have been working together with the fabulous aerialist Terry Crane (see separate bio under his name) to...

Tom Murphy

Knock 'em down, drag 'em out, laugh till you cry slapstick sketch comedy. Think: Buster Keaton meets Robin Williams. He co-founded two international touring comedy troupes: Mountain Mime and Klown Shoes....

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 in the early '80s (the first of 3 such performances...

Toy-Box Trio

Founded in 2007 by classical composer Harlan Glotzer, the Toy-Box Trio is devoted to helping audiences experience through-composed music in an entirely different way. The pairing of concertina, toy piano,...

Trio Manchego

"Vaudeville audiences loved watching things spin." Greg Palmer

Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey

Baltimore's Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey are an award-winning, acrobatic burlesque superduo who have been making fun sexy and sexy fun since 2002. Described as "smart, funny and dumb in all...

Tune Stranglers

Recently referred to as "a circus that plays music", the Tune Stranglers have been entertaining audiences across the West since 2003. With a smorgasbord of stringed instruments, washboard and the occasional...
UMO

UMO

In the past seventeen years, UMO Ensemble has become known as one of the most innovative, compelling and critically acclaimed performance companies based in the Pacific Northwest. The Ensemble has performed...

Uncle Bonsai

Uncle Bonsai performs original, contemporary folk/pop music. With their soaring and intricate 3-part vocal harmonies and biting humor, accompanied by only an acoustic guitar, Arni Adler, Patrice O'Neill,...

Velone Sisters

An aerial affair presented by Martha Enson of the UMO Ensemble and Cathy Sutherland of the Aerialistas and Du Caniveaux. They mix beauty, poetry, and strength in their stunning act on the vertical rope....

Vic & Nick

Swing into the New Year with the ultra smooth stylings of Vic & Nick, featuring two members of the award winning musical group, "The Bobs"; Vic, also known as Matthew Bob, along with Richard Bob on bass....

Vivian Tam

With dreams of dazzling since she was even shorter than she is now, Vivian began her beef cake aerial training at Hollywood Aerial Arts with Sagiv Benyamin. Previous confirmed sightings of Vivian dangling...

Wang Hong

Wang Hong’s name translates into English as “rainbow” and the spectrum of talents that she employs in her performance are as beautiful and delicate as that ephemeral play of light. She was raised in the...

Warren Hammond

Warren is an exciting performer based in Boulder, CO who seamlessly blends the disparate arts of juggling, comedy and sideshow! After learning to juggle in his hometown of Roanoke, VA he has gone to college,...

Won Israel

Won Israel is recognized internationally for his visual performance style. He is a protégé of legendary Pantomime Artist Marcel Marceau and he has traveled and toured the world performing his brand of...

Yo-Yo People

As seen on David Letterman, they hold a Guinness World Record, a 2008 Yo-Yo World Champion title, and have performed in over 20 countries. Who would have thought you could make an entire show out...

Zebra Kings

As you can imagine, some of the Zebra Kings' band members will miss having their regular springtime positions around the watering hole but most readily agreed that this would be a worthwhile and educational...

Zero Boy

Zero Boy is a Vocal Cartoonist. From his New York base, Zero Boy has written, directed and performed numerous productions on both coasts and Europe, working in traditional theater, stand up comedy, television,...

Zipcode Man

Who out of the 6 billion people on this planet can juggle seven balls, invent very funny stories on the spot, and recite the location of every zip code in America and abroad? Meet David Rosdeitcher, an...

zoom ----- Moisture Festival Volunteer Staff

This is a cropped photo of a fraction of the many volunteers that worked together to staff the Moisture Festival last year. Many of these hard working happy folk will be back to work for the pleasure of...