For us,
by us.
Friday 6/26 & Saturday 6/27 @ 7 PM
$15- $30 suggested admission fee
Red Eye Theatre
sold out
arrive early if you wish to purchase the few rush tickets we have!
This interdisciplinary showcase brings together some of the most electrifying MN-based queer performance artists working in the Twin Cities today. Blending clown, stand-up, ritual performance, and experimental movement, the Out Loud Out Here Showcases explores identity, embodiment, absurdity, and transformation.
From comedy that thrives in tension and silence, to the embodiment of pop-spectacle infused with a dash of CULT energy, these performances channel the mystical and the grotesque. Out Loud Out Here each artist offers a distinct entry point into worlds that are as hilarious as they are haunting.
This is a night for audiences ready to feel something strange, to laugh unexpectedly, and to witness work that refuses to flatten the contours of our beautiful 2SLGBTQIA+ complexity.
Generative Writing Workshop
As part of our Queer Voices’ Pride Weekend of incredible cabaret performances and community connection, Queer Voices will also hold a generative writing workshop! We will create around the themes of identity, embodiment, absurdity, and transformation. The workshop will be led by folasade and Sherrie Fernandez-Williams.
Just an RSVP is needed.
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Red Eye Theater (2213 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404)
$10 - $15 Donation (NOTAFLOF*)
*No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds
Come ready to play, move, craft, and do some free writing!
OUR ACTS
Zelia Gonzales – A Minneapolis-based clown and improviser creating physical, unsettling work driven by what goes unsaid. They have co-produced and (sole) hosted the Clown Picnic Variety Show and are aregular performer at Bryant Lake Bowl.
A.P. Looze – Interdisciplinary artist making ritual-as-performance. Work that is mystical, embodied, and rooted in transformation and collective aliveness.
Marcela Michelle – Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and transdisciplinary performer whose work has appeared at Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, and beyond.
Eleonore Olivia – A sharp, emerging queer comic using stand-up to process—and resist—the current political moment.
Tom’s Diner - A tawdry trio of Twin Cities Burlesque and Draglesque hotties bringing range in the style of a juke box musical.
Bailey & Orren – Puppetry, circus, and dance collide in grotesque and tender storytelling about trans identity and becoming.
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A.P. Looze
A.P. Looze (@wahoolooze) is a white transgender interdisciplinary artist. They believe art-making is a sacred technology that opens doors into revelatory places where wounds are tended so new stories of who we are can emerge. They are committed to making work that generates divine experience and embodied revelation—a practice that is an act of service to their own and others aliveness, engages the mystical, and reanimates a multidimensional world flattened by colonialism.
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Bailey & Orren
Bailey (@___bails) and Orren (@repent.for.your.sequins) are Queer performers in Minneapolis. Creating work involving Puppetry, Circus, and Dance. They use images of the grotesque, familiar and absurd to tell stories of their transgender identity. This spring they both worked on Bug Ballet at the Southern Theater and have been itching for collaboration since.
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Eleonore Olivia
Eleonore Olivia (@eleonore.olivia) is a queer, mixed-race comic, writer, and narrative strategist based in Minneapolis. An emerging comedian, she started performing standup in 2025 as a way to cope with the current iteration of racist, queerphobic fascism, and has worked her material at Twin Cities open mics and queer showcases.
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Luma
Luma (@lumanotti) puts the CULT in pop culture. They’re the February AND Ultimate Reveal 2023 winner of Nudie Nubies. Luma was featured in BroadwayWorld.com, sold out her first show, hosted events across the country, and curated the sold out halftime show at MPLS Queer Mud Wrestling, and even opened for John Waters.
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Juankie
Juankie (@lajaunkie) is a trans Latina diva and multifaceted artist with concentrations in illustration, singing, costume design, and music production living in Minneapolis. She has been in The Wiz (2011), Pirate of Penzance (2012), RENT (2013), Avenue Q (2014). Starting drag in 2018, she has worked it around the country: Chicago, the Twin Cities and most recently, the Cumbiathon at Selena Festival in Seattle (2025).
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Rae Radiant
Rae Radiant (@rae.radiant) is a draglesque hottie has been lighting stages on fire since 2023. His versatility, element of surprise, and total commitment to the bit make him a pure ray of fucking sunshine. You’ve seen him at Dragged Out, 2 Dykes Walk Into a Bar, Balentine’s Burlesque, The Dick Von Dyke Show, Golden Garters, and so many more stages across the Twin Cities, and once he hits you with that radiance, you’ll keep coming back for more.
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Marcela Michelle
Marcela Michelle is a transdisciplinary artist+ based on Mni Sota Makoce. Her performance work has been presented by Red Eye Theater, Walker Art Center, Guthrie Theater, Queertopia, Patrick’s Cabaret, and more. She is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (‘23-’25), HTT Teaching Artist (‘20-’22), NIDEC mentee (‘19), and a member of Actor’s Equity.
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Zelia Gonzales
Zelia Gonzales is a clown and improviser based in Minneapolis. Since moving to Minnesota in 2025, they have co-produced and (sole) hosted the Clown Picnic Variety Show, led monthly Clown Basics workshops at the Phoenix Theater, and perform weekly with That Felt Good at Bryant Lake Bowl. Their work is physical, sometimes unsettling, and driven by what goes unsaid.
asl provided both nights.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.