About the Artist

Butch Mermaid Productions is a company that focuses on creating LGBTQIA+ work that emphasizes queer joy and the voices of gender diverse artists. BM has produced work in New York and New Zealand, and most recently toured two shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The company's more recent work is Antonio!, a musical about Shakespeare’s queerest character. Recent works include Too Much Hair, a gender euphoric musical cabaret; Exotic Blooms, a drag installation in the Auckland Botanic Gardens; queer ballet Sapphic Late; and Into the Bush, a queer circus-theatre project.

Artistic Director Ania Upstill Ania (they/them) is a queer and non binary performer, theatre maker, teaching artist and award-winning clown based in New York City. Ania is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Professional Training Program). Outside of BM's work, Ania most recently appeared in War and Play, a production in the 2023 Criminal Queerness Festival produced by National Queer Theater and Today’s Mess, a clown show about diversity, at Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theater.

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