Alma David Taylor

Performing: Friday

Through storytelling and musical performance I want to share what I refer to as "me songs." They are the songs that I wrote to get me through challenging times, or songs that poured out of me when I felt like I was on top of the world. Songs that I wrote just because I was open to receive and the muses granted me a song to honor an important moment. What all these songs have in common is that they all burst into my mind fully formed, and I was racing against my own memory to try and get them written out.

Maya Russell

Performing: Friday

Maya Michelle Russell is a multi-disciplinary artist passionate about using music and storytelling to connect with people and make a difference. My music is a blend of soul, pop, and rhythm and blues, but beyond genres my music is rooted in emotional authenticity. I love reflecting on my lived experiences with the hope that listeners can find pieces of their own stories within them.

TL Forsberg

Performing: Friday

Between Two Worlds- I Wasn't Cancelled...just confused! (Chronicles of the Not Deaf Enough Girl)

TL Forsberg is an internationally recognized artist, activist, and American Ambassador on Disability. A deaf-ish rock singer known as “The Deaf Lady Gaga” takes audiences on a raw, rebellious, and unforgettable journey through fame, identity, and cancel culture in Between Two Worlds – I Wasn’t Cancelled… Just Confused. Blending original rock music, ASL, storytelling, and theatrical performance, TL Forsberg shares the true story of what happened when she refused to hide her deafness from the music industry — and was dropped for being “too openly disabled.” Her journey, captured in the award-winning documentary See What I’m Saying, launched a decade-long career as a performer, advocate, and artist within Deaf and disability culture. Featuring a Trans and Disabled character as the hero guide, the show challenges gatekeeping and reimagines marginalized identities as sources of power, creativity, and transformation. Described as “TED Talk meets disruptive artist ministry,” Forsberg’s work blends art, activism, and cultural transformation. A sold-out Fringe production, Between Two Worlds invites audiences to question who gets seen, who gets celebrated, and what happens when we stop asking permission to exist fully. With more than 40 appearances at Deaf and disability-focused festivals, Forsberg’s work has received national recognition, including nominations for Hollywood Fringe’s Top of the Fringe, the Ella Turenne ART-ivism Award for Cultural Change, and the Theatre 68 Take the Stage Award. Her productions have earned six Best of Fest honors, a Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship, the Solo Splash Award for Cultural Enhancement, the Deaf Pearl Award for Artist Innovation in Deaf Culture, the Christine Daniels Trans Ally Award, and the LAWTF Rainbow Award for fostering nontraditional and multicultural art forms. Critics have called Forsberg “a force to be reckoned with” and said her story “will shake you to your soul” (Broadway World). Dan Ruth of Hidden Gems praised the production as “Breathtaking! One of the best solo shows at Fringe,” while NoHo Arts described the work as 'a truly spectacular show…one that stays with you long after the lights go down.'

Tricia Buzzard

Performing: Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Tricia has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji. Immersive Piece: Close your eyes. Just notice. What are the thoughts racing through your head?…the unfinished to dos, the parking meter, the discomfort, the sick child, the phone call you’re dreading making, the incessant news cycle? That feeling of being underwater and no matter how hard you kick never being able to reach the surface for air. Enter violin character to take people into their depths of despair/emotion. I’d like to then take people on a journey where from this feeling of isolation/irritation we come through and out with violin accompaniment to awareness of our connection, our gift to be alive. I think there could be an interesting melding of telling my own story of very real depression and suicidal ideation that led to a stint in a mental health inpatient facility and the grasping for understanding, self-care, soothing and everything in between in the years after. Whether through music, movement, adrenaline-seeking, meditation, breath, self-acceptance, the one constant I have had is my violin, and I’ll play her to punctuate the emotions and bring to character the loneliness, the longing, the love, the light that remains to be found. Perhaps I implore my audience to close their eyes and breathe. No, like, really breathe. Collectively inhale together, with me, for 5 breaths. And we open our eyes and look around and recognize that we are all just existing, together, inhaling/exhaling our way through each day. That we are really, never truly alone.

Stephanie Gailing

Performing: Saturday

You’re a Star: Finding your Story in the Sky

Astrology offers a stellar lens for self-discovery. In this interactive workshop, you'll look to the stars to help you further understand your own unique essence. Through creative prompts and insightful discussions, you'll explore some of your personal planetary placements, accessing language that will help you further embrace and embody who you are. We'll explore what makes you shine, what brings richness to your life, and the ways in which you're called to share your voice. The workshop will be beneficial for everyone, from astrology newcomers to lifelong sky-watchers.

Nike Imoru

Performing: Saturday

The Actor’s Way: Dedicated Actors Time (DAT)

The Actor's Way begins with a simple belief: every actor deserves Dedicated Actors Time (DAT) —time that belongs not to auditioning, rehearsing or performing, but to the quiet cultivation of the actor's instrument. This sixty-minute session offers a glimpse into Nike’s signature studio practice. Together, we'll slow down, settle into the body, and explore breath, voice, stillness and reflection through guided exercises and periods of journalling. The practice invites actors to pay attention—to breath, sensation, thought, emotion and imagination—and to reconnect with themselves before connecting with the work or with one another. Wear loose comfortable clothing. Bring a yoga mat, blanket, journal and something to write with.

Josh Carter

Performing: Saturday

The Character of You: Building True Stories That Surprise You

The fastest way to make a true story feel false is to force it to behave. Stories built by asking "what characters and actions do I need to fill this plot?" produce stories with the inner life of a hat rack: load-bearing and agreeably silent. Often in the corner. The takeaway here is that character is not a component of story, in the way that a spine is not an accessory to a body. Character is story.

Yeonshin Kim

Performing: Saturday

I'm a Korean actor, dancer, and theatre maker drawn to “bigger-than-human” scale works: unhinged, shiny, hungry, mischievous, and unapologetically Yeonshin! I create work that excavates uncomfortable truths to generate deeper connection, laughter, and understanding. Growing up in a Korean village surrounded by mountains and rice paddies, I created stories with my village friends from nature, out of nothing. My work comes from that sense of children’s play. Making everydayness special without needing resources beyond other people to play with. In this fractured world, my work insists on proximity. Through play and the bending of space and time, I create encounters where audiences are invited to share breath and mind of each other; not to remain as innocent witnesses, but to bear the responsibility of holding the truth together. By collapsing mental, spatial, and temporal distance, we can stay humane together.

Lauren Drake

Performing: Saturday

Lauren Drake is a singer-songwriter and actor who has been singing ever since she could talk. Her music blends together pop and folk elements with an emphasis on honest storytelling. She’s released 4 singles and one EP with more music upcoming; her latest release is "All Mine." Lauren's performance credits include Seattle Rep, The 5th Avenue Theatre, ArtsWest, 54 Below (NYC), The Vera Project, Bushwick Book Club, and Jet City Improv. She is also a voice teacher with her own private studio and an alumna of Pepperdine University's theatre and music programs. Currently, Lauren is most excited about opportunities that allow her to express herself fully and completely as an artist; allowing her perspective as a singer-songwriter to inform her acting work, and allowing her vocal skill, theatricality and storytelling ability to influence her music.

Gregory Nussen

Performing: Saturday

QFWFQ

Gregory Nussen is a cultural critic and performance artist from Los Angeles. Gregory Nussen’s QFWFQ is a loose adaptation of Italo Calvino’s novel If on A Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979), using the book’s postmodern structure as a canvas for a meditation on the politics of storytelling. Taking its nonsensical title from the name of the ageless and timeless protagonist who permeates Calvino’s iconic and experimental short story collection The Cosmicomics (1965), QFWFQ is a genre-breaking adaptation in the traditions of artists from literature all the way to Charlie Kaufman, where Calvino’s work concerns itself with time and space, QFWFQ instead links together stories from the performer’s life - touching on architectural marvels, improvised jazz concertos, gender identity, and suicide, reckoning with Zionism, Judaism, Gaza, and everything in between. Growing up Jewish and queer, Nussen reflects on the stories they have been told throughout their life, of their cultural and religious heritage, their echoes into the past, and their relationships with the present, asking what the human cost is of silencing certain narratives in favor of others. Who has permission to tell the stories we choose to listen to? QFWFQ is a show that neither begins, nor ends. It works, until it doesn’t. It’s a solo performance structured entirely without a fourth wall. How does it come together? I can’t explain it, but it does.

Tanya Gagné

Performing: Saturday

Tanya Gagné is a pioneer, icon, and innovator of punk rock circus and cabaret who has been wowing audiences around the world for nearly three decades. She is one half of the neo-vaudeville sensation the Wau Wau Sisters and a longtime veteran of La Soirée, La Clique, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and Circus Amok. I want to trace the throughline between a 19-year-old crossing the Atlantic on a tall ship and a woman in her 50s now living in the California desert, towing a circus across America in a horse trailer. Both are about the same impulse: choosing the unknown over the safe shore, again and again, and building home wherever I land. I'll weave a piece of physical skill — likely something on aerial saddle, trapeze or rope — into the storytelling, using my body to show what the words can't quite say about isolation, risk, and reinvention.

Teddy Lim

Performing: Saturday

Teddy Lim is a solo singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist producer based in the PNW, whether at home behind a guitar, at a keyboard, or performing at marketplaces with just his voice and a guitar– he's always engaging with music. He's also fronted two bands and currently leads his group, Starseeker– experience that's sharpened his stage presence into a calm and magnetic confidence. Teddy writes both individually and collaboratively, and brings a genuine curiosity to every creative process he's part of. I make introspective pop music. It blends catchy melodies with raw and relatable lyricism. The chords carry a hint of jazz, and the sound is distinctly original.

Bhama Roget

Performing: Saturday

Bhama Roget is a Seattle-based performance artist, satirist, and composer whose work lives at the intersection of rock theatre, absurdist mythology, clown, and comedic ritual. Her show Mother Nature: The Farewell Tour is a solo rock opera in which a fed-up, darkly funny Mother Nature returns to address her most troublesome creation one last time. Part resignation speech, part apocalypse primer, part love letter to a species on the brink — the show rips open a conversation about the fractured soul of the world and the collective grief that needs to be acknowledged and healed in order for us to move forward. Previously produced as a full-band theatrical production at Intiman Theatre, this festival version features new arrangements in collaboration with composer/arranger Brendan Milburn (Ernest Shackleton Loves Me) and sound/AV artist Evan Mosher (Awesome the Band).

Kim O’Donnel

Performing: Sunday

Bite This: Writing Food for Everyday People

When it comes to food and drinks we all have a story to tell, with prompts all around us in our everyday lives like a pantry waiting to be rummaged. In this interactive workshop, we’ll talk about the countless ways food intersects with this thing called life, and using grocery lists as a prompt, we’ll harvest the extraordinary from the ordinary.

Christopher DeLair

Performing: Sunday

Let's Write a Song - An interactive songwriting workshop.

Chris has been writing songs for as long as he can remember, and is over the moon about the recent release of his concept album, Signs of Life. Check it out now, streaming on all platforms. Join Chris for a one-of-a-kind experience, where he will guide the audience through the process of writing a song from scratch. Your ideas are critical! You will help create the melodies, harmonies, lyrics, and overall feel of the song, with Chris acting as a mediator at the keyboard.

Lani Call

Performing: Sunday

Lani is a graduate from Wayne State University where she received her MFA. She is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on collaborative ensemble training, classical work and rigorous physical theatre. "Desire and the body meet to explore the female, feminine and feminist languages that are revealed when freedom and surrender clash." This is a non-linear exploration of the female body exploring the various ways that women in cultures are veiled, gagged, silenced. These are not victims, they are women who continue to find articulation, expression and sexual desire beyond those oppressive structures. Shifting shelves, I call them, slip sliding, dissolving and reforming to express story and experience through their enlivened bodies.

hannah ramone

Performing: Sunday

hannah ramone is a Seattle-based singer/songwriter, teacher, and music director whose songs explore healing, identity, and transformation. They started writing songs at an early age while being raised in the world of musical theater, helping them develop an early love of storytelling that continues to shape their work. hannah has performed in bands and as a solo artist throughout the Pacific Northwest since 2005. They have released three albums of their original music, directed and starred in a music video, received a 2025 Artist Trust GAP Grant and are currently putting the finishing touches on their fourth studio album. hannah is also a vocal coach and astrologer and teaches songwriting, musical theater, and vocal music at The Northwest School, while proudly parenting their amazing kid Joan and their canine companion, Jupiter. I call it "experiential healing alt-pop". Melody-driven songs with relatable lyrics that take you somewhere unexpected and help you heal.

Anthony Fedorov

Performing: Sunday

What Are The Odds? - An American (Idol) Story

A Ukrainian-born, Russian-American immigrant grapples with the death of his big brother just as he’s foisted into the spotlight of reality television. An American (Idol) story. This solo piece is told through original pop-rock, Top 40 and singer-songwriter musical stylings, and explores themes of survivors' guilt, generational trauma, identity, and the healing journey of becoming a father, whatever it takes. What Are The Odds? - An American (Idol) Story Book, music and lyrics by Anthony Fedorov Book co-written and co-conceived by Jennifer Paz