About the Artist

Kym Priess (“Hawk”) is a multi-disciplinary troublemaker, spectacle maker, rock musician, award-winning surreal comedic adventurer and actor—part clown, part rock frontwoman. A sixth-generation Texan and LA-based world traveler, she creates boundary-pushing work that fuses absurdist clown, character, performance art, rock n’roll, physical theater, and immersive spectacle into wild often cathartic experiences.

Delighting in the grotesque and the buffoon, Kym rarely appears “normal, ” preferring disguise, transformation, and a framework of chaos. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at the renowned Experimental Theatre Wing and has spent more than 30 years training, devising, and performing across clown, improvisation, acting, and rock ’n’ roll with teachers and institutions including Mary Overlie, Chris Bayes, Avner the Eccentric, Second City, ImprovOlympic West, and Lee Strasberg Institute.

As the leader/singer/bassist of the adventure-rock spectacle band STUNTDRIVER, Kym has toured with Peaches and recently released a string of singles including “AI, ” a love/hate anthem for the robot age that earned over 10, 000 Apple Music plays in its first week. The band is currently preparing for an upcoming Las Vegas residency debuting a string of fresh new songs.

Her immersive punk-clown solo show, Loser Lion Party Bus, has toured throughout the UK and U.S., including enthusiastic runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in London, Austin, and Las Vegas, earning four stars from Broadway Baby and Snack Mag.

Kym’s work has appeared on HBO, Amazon and in venues ranging from theaters and galleries to non-traditional spaces and even federal prisons across the world. Once a castmate of Scott Cooper, she has earned comparisons to Pee-wee Herman, Siouxsie Sioux, Salvador Dalí, Laurie Anderson, and Joan Jett.

She has sung on William Shatner’s cover of “Spirit in the Sky, ” is fluent in Spanish, once hitchhiked from Mexico City to Panama which birthed an award-winnin

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This event is appropriate for ages 18+

Nudity

Adult Language

Strobe/Flashing Lights

Audience Interaction

Fog/Smoke Effects

TRIGGER WARNING - Enjoy this presentation in its original, highly sensorial and interactive format. The following is for both mature + immature audiences and may include strong language, mature themes, partial nudity, strobe lights, fog and loud music. Viewer discretion is not advised and audience participation is encouraged; however, if you wish to be ignored please make an "X" with your arms if the lion comes near you.

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This event does not require masks to be worn