Rose Cory
Rose Cory is a multidisciplinary artist primarily known for her stage persona Rose Wood. For the last 18 years, Rose has been a featured performer at The Box, a nightclub theatre based in both NYC and London, dividing her time between the two venues. Rose’s short theatre pieces embrace the dark side of human nature- using queerness, otherness, perversity, obscenity, addiction, violence, depraved indifference, and criminal insanity to skewer false idols and restore the humanity that modern life erodes.
Kazuko Hohki
Kazuko moved to London from Japan in 1978 and joined London Musicians Collective where she founded Japanese American Toy Theatre Of London and the alternative pop punk performance group Frank Chickens, which released 5 albums, toured worldwide, had a TV series on Channel 4, was awarded for Foster Comedy God Award in 2010, and still continues to perform with more than 20 members of mainly Japanese women at present days. In 2024, their box set from 80s recordings was released from Cherry Red Record. Since 2016, Frank Chickens has been organising an annual festival “Ura Matsuri “ to celebrate the art and culture of East and South East Asian (ESEA) community in the UK.
She has made several award winning theatre works based on her experience of Japanese woman living in England and has created several site specific shows, collaborating with local communities and schools. She has published 4 books in Japan about her life in England and her first English children‘s book “Dance Off with The Dark” based on an old Shinto tale was published by Rising Stars UK in July, 2024.
Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
Dr Phoebe Patey-Ferguson specialises in the social contexts of contemporary performance, focusing on queer and trans practices in festivals, nightlife and Live Art. Their work considers how countercultural practices by marginalised artists generate community, resist assimilationist narratives and embrace radical methodologies. As a lecturer and Programme Director of MA Queer Performance at Rose Bruford College, they are dedicated to developing queer pedagogical approaches to studying and creating performances. Phoebe co-edited a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on Live Art (2024), co-convenes the Queer Futures Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), is the co-research lead for The Night Club: an international queer performance research network and is co-chair of the board for Duckie.
Tamm Reynolds
Tamm Reynolds is a solo-artist also known as Midgitte Bardot (who is the most glamourous coping mechanism in the world). They have been performing across the UK cabaret, live art, drag, theatre and club spaces since 2016. Reynolds is currently working on 'Shooting from Below', a solo show, having recently starred in Royal Court’s Sound of the Underground (written by Travis Alabanza and directed by Debbie Hannan) in a winter run in 2023.
