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Minivan

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Categories: Cabaret & Nightlife, Clown, Drag, Immersive & Interactive Experience, Music, Theater

Dates: September 12, 2025 - September 13, 2025

Run Time: 60 mins

Venue: Studio 34

Overview

Minivan is the electropop spectacle of genre-defying producer, composer, and theater maker Ron Shalom. Traversing clowning and drag, Minivan careens through character transformations using custom lighting instruments, original music, camp couture, and instructional choreography. Runway, the fifth full-length Minivan album, fuses driving rock and expansive orchestral arrangements. For Philly Fringe, Minivan premieres Millennial Library, a new live show with an accompanying album forthcoming Fall 2025.

Studio 34 is West Philly’s Fringe Hub and a mixed-use yoga/healing/arts spot all year round! Named for the trolley that stops out front, we host art, comedy, dance, drag, music, poetry, puppetry and theatre in our gallery, lounge, and studio spaces, as well as holistic services, 30+ weekly classes, and a wide array of community happenings. Our 2025 Fringe roster features dozens of our favorite artists from all over Philly and around the country, ready to transcend the bounds of DIY performance. Come see one show and stay for the next, all under one roof on vibrant Baltimore Avenue.

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About the Artist

Ron Shalom is a composer, installation artist, electronic musician, and theater maker in New York City. In collaboration with visual artists, he has exhibited internationally and created permanent public sound installations. He is the founder and Music Director of Belly Chorus, a community choir laboratory for ensemble-led vocal works by New York City composers, and he is a co-founder of the Daxophone Consort, a composer's collective reinterpreting the avant-garde canon and creating new interdisciplinary works. Ron is often engaged as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer for film and theater.

Credits

Ron ShalomArtistron.c.shalom@gmail.com
Elizabeth WeinsteinPerformerelizabeth.alexandra.weinstein@gmail.com