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The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
Interactive Experience
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Pack Your Baggage, The Future of Queer Art Awaits!
Welcome to the Bearded Ladies’ Hairport, an interactive installation series built on 16-years of accumulated baggage from a queer cabaret company devoted to art, care, mess, and community. While you’re waiting for a flight that may never take off, unpack your baggage and rifle through some of ours. You may recognize something as your own, or find something you never knew you were carrying.
Made for anyone who has ever lost a bag, gotten stuck, or missed a (metaphoric) flight, this trans(formational) installation asks: how do you know it’s time to move on when you don’t know where you’re going?
The Hairport is an interactive, immersive installation filled with costumes, cardboard props, and other ephemera from the Bearded Ladies Cabaret’s 16-year performance history. Visitors will make their way through a sprawling multi-room space made to look like a fantastical, metaphorical “airport”. Visitors will be invited to interact with components of the installation and may encounter docents in guiding roles. The experience will culminate in a “lounge” space full of “Bearded baggage” which will also serve as the performance site for the Now Hoarding: In-Flight Entertainment live event series.
It will take visitors approximately 60-75 minutes to view the entirety of the Priority Hoarding installation. Groups of 6 will enter the installation, at 15-minute timed entry intervals. An opportunity to ride a Surrey bike is offered but not required.
Looking for the related Live Event series? Click here for dates and details.
The Hairport will be open after the Fringe Festival ends—visit beardedladiescabaret.com for tickets October–December.
SUPPORT
Producer
Christine Frost Red and Michael Wax
Co-Producer
Rosanne Sarkissian
Salem Shuchman and Barbara Klock
Shelley Green and Michael Golden
Priority Hoarding has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Image (c) Emma Lee/WHYY
September 10, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 11, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 12, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 13, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 16, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 17, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 18, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 19, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 20, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 23, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 24, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 25, 2026 4.00pm
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 4pm–9pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 26, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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September 27, 2026 11.00am
PWYC $16–$35 in advance. PWYC from $0 at the door. Entry every 15 mins 11am–3pm. Approx. runtime 60-75 minutes.
444 N. 3rd Street
General Admission: $25
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About the Artist
The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is a queer arts organization that sits on your lap and sings you a story. Whether it’s an opera, a home-made cabaret, a musical walking tour, or a show on a truck, we employ song, spectacle, storytelling, and heart to welcome audiences into moments of joy, healing, and subversion. Through sharing our original pieces and creating bespoke platforms for performance at home in Philadelphia, nationally, and abroad, we nurture artistic connection for a community of misfits, rabble-rousers, chanteuses and the people who love and need them. Their work has been seen all over Philadelphia including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Eastern State Penitentiary, Opera Philadelphia, the Wilma Theater, FringeArts, and the Delaware River Waterfront and they have brought their cabaret revolution to Miami, Seattle, Paris, Washington DC, New Zealand, Provincetown, Maryland and Delaware. In New York their work has been seen at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, La MaMa Etc, Works & Process at the Guggenheim and Lincoln Center. Their signature programs The Beardmobile and LATE NIGHT SNACKS together have provided a stage for over 500 queer and nightlife artists. Find the Beards at www.beardedladiescabaret.com or on Facebook/Instagram @beardedladiescabaret
Bearded Ladies Staff
Founder and Artistic Director: Rose Jarboe (she/her)
Associate Artistic Director: Sally Ollove (she/her)
Managing Director: Wesley Flash (he/him)
Production Manager: Taylor Jedlinski (she/her)
Marketing Manager: Elena Faverio (they/them)
Staff Producer: Carlos Diaz Stoop (he/him)
Operations & Facilities Coordinator: Kat Wilson (they/them)
- Rose JarboeCo-Conceiver
- Director
- Co-Scenic Designer
- Sally OlloveCo-Conceiver & Dramaturg
- Rebecca KanachBeards Resident Costume Designer
- Co-Scenic/Installation Designer
- Taylor JedlinskiProduction Manager
- Carlos Diaz StoopStaff Producer
- JT NewmanProject Producer
- Jaime MejiaAssistant Scenic Designer
- Lian BrodyStage Manager
- Christopher AshFilmmaker/Video Consultant
- Michael LongFilmmaker/Editor
- Taj RauchProjections Creative Designer
- Alex DembnerProjections Systems Designer
- Michael LambuiTechnical Director
- Kate McGeeLighting Designer
- Bless RudisillAssociate Lighting Designer
- Elizabeth Atkinson & Natali MerrillCo-Sound Designers
- Emily SchumanSuitcase Lead
- Andrew SimonetParticipation Choreographer
- Naila FrancisGrief Counselor
- Heath AllenMusic Director
- Philip McFee (Flying Hand Studio)Graphic Designer
- Andrea Arts
- Kelly McLaughlan
- Miss ThingSuitcase Fabricators
- Arielle DeVitoProduction Assistant/Scenic Crew
- Teresa BurnsScenic Crew/Electrician
- Clare WislarScenic Crew/Painter
- Ivan Dellinger
- Aram Mouradian
- Calla Nelles-sager
- Gladys Nobriga
- Joseph Nolan
- Izzy Price
- Fletcher Rabin
- Zain SScenic Crew
- Ethan Paone & Xander SetchkoLighting Crew
- Cait FosterLead Electrician
- Ophelia EvansSound Crew Lead/A1
- Carson PhillipsSound Crew
- Veronica Chapman SmithAssociate Artist
- Jess CondaAssociate Artist
- Cookie DiorioAssociate Artist
- Daniel de JesúsAssociate Artist
- Messapotamia LefaeAssociate Artist
- Anthony Martinez-BriggsAssociate Artist
- Jackie SoroAssociate Artist
- MK TuomanenAssociate Artist
Accessibility & Content Considerations
Contact the Fringe Festival Box Office for up to date accessibility information.
This event is appropriate for ages 13+
Adult Language
Audience Interaction
Fog/Smoke Effects
This installation is an immersive, interactive experience that will involve walking between spaces, navigating uneven surfaces, steps, and low light areas. We have done our best to offer accessible options wherever possible. For more detailed information on accessibility, please contact The Bearded Ladies at BeardedLadiesCabaret@gmail.com
Covid-19 Safety policy
This event does not require masks to be worn
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(at Race St.)
Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Tickets: 215.413.1318
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