The Performers
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Layce Lynne Kieu
Circe
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Xavier Brown
Hermes
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Sheherazaad
Stone Nymph
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Joseph Hanes
Helios
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Dedra Tufon
Flower Nymph
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Rudradeep Chakrabarti
Oceanus
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Celeste Decoy Galleria
Wood Nymph
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Imogen
Water Nymph
The Team
Serena JV Elston
Creator and Head of Production
Serena is an ancient futurist. Her art asks: in this modern technological race for the new, what have we left behind that we should weave back in again? As machine-based technology increasingly integrates into every aspect of our lives, we crave experiences that make us feel authentic and spontaneous. Her work leverages that collective loneliness to create a participant-generated mythology that constitutes the changes necessary for our continued existence together on this earth. By recontextualizing our origin stories, her work explodes the axonometrics of narratives that no longer serve us.
Serena is the creator of Siren Island that was featured on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle in August 2019 for her play Apotheosis. Serena is the recipient of the Bay Area Visual Artist Exhibition Production Relief Grant from Ever Gold [Projects]. In 2021 she was the artist in residence at Dream Farm Commons and Tiger Strikes Asteroid and exhibited in Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Baltimore. In 2020 her piece Horn Of Plenty was exhibited in Lucca, Italy by VideoDrome Paris & S.O.F.A.
Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus
Playwrite and Director
Max is a poet, playwright, independent scholar, and performing artist in Minneapolis, MN and is the co-founder of the House of Larva Drag Co-operative. Performing as drag ogress Çicada L’Amour, House of Larva has been producing both small acts and full-length queer performances since 2014. Brumberg-Kraus has done work with the Guthrie Theatre, Lightning Rod, Pangea World Theatre, 20% Theatre, Patrick's Cabaret, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, and the Rochester Arts Center. Brumberg-Kraus is an Artist Connector with Arts | Religion | Culture (ARC), served as an Emerging Leader Fellow with ARC in 2019, and was a fellow with Pangea’s Arts Organizing Institute in 2017-2018. Brumberg-Kraus studied classics and theatre in their undergrad at Beloit College, and received their MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in 2020. Brumberg-Kraus'sart and research explore queer temporality, queer and feminist myth, cosmology, ancient tragedy, theatre & spiritual formation, drag, and reception theory. They are currently working on a book project The(y)ology: Mythopoetics for Queer and Trans Liberation.
@goatboymbk
Angela Lee
Head of Sound
Angela received a B.A in Music Theory/Composition at UC Berkeley. Her interests are architectural acoustics, spatial audio research, music production and composition. She has an extensive background in music orchestration, recording, and arrangement. She will begin her Master's of Arts in Music, Science, and Technology (MA/MST) at Stanford University in the Fall with Jonathan Berger as her advisor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
@earthanglesf
James Lucey
Head of Lighting
James was born and raised in Ireland where he received a degree in Law and psychology. He moved to San Francisco in 2015 and fell in love with large-scale art. Since 2017, he has been a lead lighting designer for Symmetry Labs. He has
performed around the world with live light shows to thousands of people. Previous projects include The Wishing Tree at West Palm Beach Florida and 1,000 year bloom in Hawaii.
@jamesloosey
Solange Stefanelli
Costume Design and Art Department
Solange is an Oakland native. Her esthetic is a cross between an ancient goddess, anime character, and sad clown. She is a stylist and prop maker for photoshoots and video productions. Every costume in Circe was designed and sewn by her.