Short-lived Pandemic obsession/hobby:
Writing sing-alongs

New Holiday:
A Celebration of Drag Mothers

Creative Influences:
Our company: Tigger!, Glenn Marla, Stefanie Christian, Machine, Thornetta Davis, w’fang, Timothy White Eagle, Sister Rosemary Chicken, LoVeLee Day, Qween, Romance, Niegel Smith, The Pomegranates, and of course Matt Ray and the band.

An important ELDER in your life:
Mother Flawless Sabrina... you’ll have to watch the show to find that out.

MUSIC DIRECTOR/ARRANGER, PIANO

Hometown:
New York!

Best advice you’ve been given:
To be original, simply play the music you like. No one will like exactly what you like.

Favorite song to dance to:
“I wanna be your lover.”

Dream party guests:
Wanda Sykes, Jeff Bridges, Divine, Quincy Jones

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER/THE CHRISTMAAS TREE

Creative Influences:
Halston, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Sinead O'Connor, The Cockettes, Miss Piggy, and Maria from Sesame Street in the 70s.

Favorite Sauce:
Shaquanda Hot Sauce!! any flavor!!! I also love extra sauce any time.. I’ll order a pizza with extra sauce and then order extra sauce on the side for dipping! Same with pasta.. extra sauce always!! Maybe my favorite sauce is extra sauce!!!

MAKE UP DESIGN & ALBUM ART

Hometown:
Barnaul (Siberia)

Favorite Sauce:
Vodka Sauce

Who was an important elder in your life:
I was raised by my maternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother. Their love is the fuel I'm still running on. Also my adoptive grandfather. Games and mischief we did together was the best thing.

VOCALS

Hometown:
Detroit, but there are several places I feel at home. One of them is Kingston, Jamaica.

Who’s your ideal Santa:
James Earl Jones

Song you love to dance to:
“Drastic” by Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers

VOCALS

Hometown:
Detroit, MI

Dream Holiday:
"Celebration of Music Day" should be celebrated all over the world like New Year's day. Music uplifts and brings people together.

Ideal Santa:
Oprah, she gives great gifts.

Best Advice you’ve been given:
I walked and finish a 26.2 mile marathon and just when I was thinking about quitting another marathoner said to me "KEEP GOING YOU'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION" so in this journey called "Life" I always check to make sure I'm moving in the right direction.

ANIMATION & VIOLIN

Hometown:
Los Angeles

Favorite Sauce:
gochujang

Important Elder:
My piano teacher from childhood, Anita Swearengin. She took me under her wing when I needed it most, and showed me that you could put a whole world into a single phrase of music if you wanted to; that music without words is still storytelling, and that you should always choose what story you want to tell.

ANGEL GABRIEL & THE GOD OF SLEEP

Hometown:
Chicago

Best Advice I Was Ever Given:
Use more lube, take your time, breathe! & enjoy the ride (applies to much more than sex)

Short Lived Quarantine Hobby:
Nightime naked badminton with light-up birdies 

My Ideal Santa:
Glenn Marla & Stacey Abrams!

Photo Credit: Gregory Kramer

SEXUAL CONSENT SANTA

Hometown:
Brooklyn

Favorite sauce:
Pesto

Dream holiday-party guests:
Sweetie, Divine, Penny Arcade, Renee Taylor, Mama Cass, Lainie Kazan, Quentin Crisp, World Famous *BOB, Christine Baranski, Bette Midler, Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Fat Carnie Wilson, Fat Kathy Najimy, Fat Al Roker, Fat John Goodman, Fat Star Jones,

MRS. CLAUS

Hometown:
Gaffney, South Carolina

Dream Party Guests:
Whitney Houston, Reba McEntire, Tammy Faye Baker, Fran Drescher

What’s at the top of your bucket list:
A threesome with Colin Farrell and Adrien Brody

BABY JESUS

Creative Influences:
eartha kitt, sophie tucker, mx justin vivian bond, jack kirby, diet popstitute, gerrit lansing

Best present you’ve ever received:
breakfast at a small-town diner from a transman i had never met before. he sat down at my table and told me he had been spending time with his family, who were less than supportive, and that he had felt all alone, until he saw me.

Worst gift you’ve ever received:
a billy graham book

(ROMANCE) ELF

Favorite sauce:
Patis. Stanky-ass fish sauce that made me lose friends as a kid, but also made me fall deeper in love with my Filipino heritage.

Dream holiday-party guests:
Auntie Mame, Ginger Spice, and Gene Kelly

New Holiday:
A celebration of the different people we've been in the past. Part memorial, part fashion show, part making the same old mistakes all night long.

Photo Credit: Dot

ELF

Hometown:
Santa Cruz, CA

Best advice you’ve received:
"Just get up there and be brilliant." -- Dr. Peter Larlham, SDSU Drama Professor

Worst gift you’ve received:
Gonorrhea

Holiday Song that gets stuck in your head:
'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' by Judy Garland

WISE PERSON

Hometown:
Booneville, Missouri

Creative influences:
Gustav Klimt, Laurie Anderson, Jasper Johns, Steven Sondheim, Pierre et Gilles

Favorite sauce:
Easy. Hollandaise!

Worst present you’ve ever received:
A piece of driftwood with the face of an old man carved into it. Or a piano keys scarf. Both from my mother.

WISE PERSON

Hometown:
Montesano, Washington

Worst gift you’ve received:
A gym membership and diet pills

Best advice you’ve ever been given:
You should buy more of that Apple stock, (circa 2004)

Holiday you’d create:
A National Day of Mourning commemorating the arrival of Columbus

DRUMS

Hometown:
Brooklyn, NY

Best advice you’ve been given:
The World does not pay you for what you know. They pay you for what you do with what you know.

Who is your ideal Santa:
Lebron James

Quarantine obsession:
Taking tap classes, studying the Ukulele

DRUMS

Hometown:
Little Rock, AR

Holiday Song that gets stuck in your head: “Wonderful Christmastime”

Best advice you’ve been given:
Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb

Favorite Sauce:
Tabasco

GUITAR

Hometown: Born in Tucson. Raised in Phoenix. New Yorker all the way now. Still, if you were to shrink down small enough to enter my brain through my eyes, I think it would look like the Sonoran desert.

Song you love to dance to:
Chaka Khan, "I Know You, I Love You"

Top of your Bucket List:
Producing "Thyrana", my spaghetti western musical operetta, space rock opera and utopian lady planet claymation musical comedy trilogy.

TRUMPET

Hometown:
DC

What holiday song gets stuck in your head:
“Let it Snow”

Dream Dinner Guests:
Hungry Kids

Favorite Sauce:
Compassion

Photo credit: William Brown

TRUMPET

Hometown:
High Falls, NY

Dream Party Guests:
Sonny Rollins, George Clinton, everyone from all the Taylor Mac bands and the fun local musicians and crew from the places we’ve been all at once (these tour parties are already often dream parties!)

Top of your bucket list:
Playing a week at The Village Vanguard

TROMBONE

Hometown:
I grew up in Pascagoula MS... my hometown is NYC.

Short Lived Pandemic Hobby:
Synthesizer repair and vintage computer restoration

Best advice you’ve been given:
Every note you play is the first note of the rest of your solo.

CELLO

Hometown:
New York, NY

Best advice you’ve been given:
Perfection is for Assholes. And "The fastest way to get to where you trying to go is slowly . . . surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you coming". (Andre de Shields)

Short-lived Quarantine Hobby:
Follow thru

Photo Credit:
Peter M. Parrella

BASS

Hometown:
Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine Obsession:
Trolling eBay for used clothes - now that thrift store shopping is on pause.

Favorite Sauce:
What it is that they put on Peking Duck. Yum!

Holiday Song that gets stuck in your head:
Winter Wonderland gets stuck in my head year round.

EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY

Creative Influences:
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Patti Smith, Wong Kar-wai, The Munsters, Scorsese and of course David Bowie.

Ideal Santa:
Iggy Pop

Best advice you’ve been given:
In a cafe in Paris, my partner spilled a cup of coffee all over herself. She descended a spiral staircase to clean up. An elderly Frenchman leaned over to me with a smile and a shrug and with infinite grace said these words, “What can one do? Relax and contemplate.”

CAMERA OPERATOR

Hometown:
Freehold, NJ

Short-lived quarantine hobby:
Composting

Favorite Sauce:
Tapatio hot sauce

Important Elder:
My Grandmother Estelle. She taught me how to gamble and loudly say what's on my mind in inappropriate settings.

CREATIVE PRODUCERS

Hometown:
On Tour

Favorite Sauce:
Anything that leaves a stain

Best Advice:
God is in the Details

Dream Party Guests:
All the artists we’ve ever loved