The Queeps formed in 2023, with the creation of the sexy camp hit “They Were a Dracula,” and followed up with the performance installation “Limbo” in 2024. The company has a roster of veteran creator/performers, collected by Summer Olsson, and oriented toward clowning, melodrama, and the macabre. The highest hope of The Queeps is that an audience member will say “that was weird, and I liked it.”

Summer Olsson is a performer, director, writer, and registered nurse. Her career has spanned touring devised theatre through Europe to playing kids shows across the PNW with a trash puppet rock band. She worked as a second assistant director in stop motion animation, including on the Oscar winning Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Emmy-winning The Tiny Chef Show. Her writing has been published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Art Born Words (Demagogue Press) and others. 

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Local unwell puppeteer and clown Allie Menzimer is sorry for running late and hasn’t finished a book in months. Like the seagulls hovering over her ancestral Bay Area homeland, she spends her time screaming at the ocean and eating trash. Keep an eye out for Odd Year, a story about baseball, showing locally in PDX and touring the Canadian Fringe circuit in 2027. Fuck ICE, free Palestine.

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Mystical AV Club & Schmuppets Puppets

Victoria, Alesandra and Daniela are collaborating for the very first together. Victoria and Alesandra arrive from Arcata, while Daniela commutes all the way from mf Cincinnati, OH.

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Daniela N is a they/them who was born and raised in Bulgaria, EU, but somehow ended up living in Cincinnati, OH. They are a multi-disciplinary artist, puppeteer, draglesque performer and clown who tours the fringe festival waters (and other creative waters). Their artistic style is “finding beauty in the deemed ugly”. Daniela is a lover and a fighter for anything weird, bizarre and soul-freeing, and is currently saving money to move to the PNW.

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Alessandra Russo is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and performer currently based in Arcata, California. A graduate of Dell’Arte International, she is a clown, mask-maker, and producer of ensemble-based devised theater. Her work lives somewhere between ecological inquiry and theatrical mischief: animistic, creature-forward, and driven by a deep love of the more-than-human world… alongside an unwavering belief that stupid shit deserves rigorous attention. She draws on her studies in mycology, botany, and scientific storytelling to create performances that feel equal parts ritual, experiment, and fever dream. 

She is a co-founder of Mystical A/V Club, co-producer of the Ouroborotopia performance festival, and loves creating shows with her ensemble, Magenta Mountain. She is currently completing a self-designed program at Cal Poly Humboldt in Scientific Communication through Visual and Performing Arts, and has been clowning with Dell’Arte’s Healthcare Clowning program since 2024.

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Victoria Timoteo is a performer, theatre artist, and producer with 15 years of experience specializing in clown, physical, and devised theatre. A graduate of Dell’Arte International’s year long training program, they have a desire to continue creating and teaching ensemble work. They co-run Gooseberry Gallery, a private artists studio in Blue Lake and co-founded Mystical A/V Club, a production company that has staged four shows and a performance festival in Humboldt over the last four years. Their five person, international ensemble, Magenta Mountain, is one of their deepest loves whom they continue to create work with.

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Theatre School Dropout Produx specializes in making something out of nothing. We strive to create strange, irreverent live performances for people who like their theatre a little feral around the edges. Starting with mutating written work, we improvise to devise immersive, site-specific work that blurs the line between performance & ordinary life, often using comedy, physical theatre, audience participation, found materials & real-world environments as part of the theatrical machinery.

Our work is interested in the places where performance, labor, absurdity & human connection collide. We like making theatre that doesn't politely wait for an audience to sit down. We would rather meet people where they are, invite them into the world, & see what happens.

Zigzag Sunshine Rhae is upside-down.

Lucy Paschall

At the age of 10 Lucy went to her first acting class and developed acute appendicitis. She never looked back! She is a proud member of ‘People with toe thumbs unite’ and also has 2 webbed toes.

Tony Mendez was born in the middle of a debate on the importance of improv in the modern world.  He has thus gone on to act in many back alleys and ne'er-do-well locations. He would like to thank the continuum for his knack of staying alive.