Our Collaborators
We are so excited and honored to be able to work with other talented artists throughout Denver and proud to include them in the Rainbow Militia family. Take a moment to browse and revel in the amazing people that make this great city thrive.
Circus, Theater, and Visual Artists
Rainbow Militia Owner
Amber dreams of one day growing wings and learning to fly. She is a Founder and Producing Director for Rainbow Militia Circus, and has over 15 years of PR, marketing, donor relations, theater, event planning and production experience.
Amber has been practicing the aerial arts for over 10 years, with fabric as her favorite apparatus. When not in the air, she is a tarot reader, bottle walker, actor, and public speaker. She has performed all over the front range but thrives when she is able to perform with live musicians. One of her favorite collaborations was with Chimney Choir at the Levitt Pavilion in a space themed circus extravaganza.
She has been featured in 5280 Magazine, Denver Post, and Denver Westword as one of Colorado’s Creatives and as one of 9 People to Watch in 2021
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Executive Producer, Director & Performer - Thief Queen - Beer Quest - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer - Nemesis - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer- Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Producer, Director & Performer - Las Sombras de las Brujas - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Producer, Director & Performer - Bride of Frankenstein / Ghost - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Producer, Writer, Director - Zabiti - 2019
Skills
Aerial Silks, Tarot, Stilt Walking, Aerial Duo, Aerial Bartending, Rope & Harness, Invented Apparatus, Rock Climbing, & over 20 years of theater experience.
Photo by Michelle Christiance
Ryan is an independent event producer, director, and MC for the Black Actors Guild and various other organizations. He is a jack of all trades, specializing in marketing, creative consulting, sponsorship work, activation, placemaking, A/V, and studio recording. His latest projexts include the empathy museum, the podspace, the #WeAreDenver network and many others.
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Executive Producer + Performer - Barley-Tholomew the Bard - Beer Quest - 2021
Rainbow Militia Owner
Staza Stone does stuff. Swinging stuff, spinny stuff, stilt stuff, sparkle stuff... all the stuffs. She is a multi- faceted performer based out of Denver, CO. She is an aerialist, stilt walker, hula hooper, fire dancer, burlesque artist, and clown. She graduated from Frequent Flyers Productions Professional Aerial Dance Program in 2014 and has been perfirming professionally ever since. Currently Staza can be found performing both nationally and internationally in a variety of circus extravaganzas. Highlights of 2019 including stilt dancing in Japan for EDC Japan and being contracted with Cirque Dreams. She is co-director of Rainbow Militia, a unique circus collective aimed at bringing the community together through artistic collaboration. Staza also teaches locally at several studios. She is known for her short but notorious career as a shopping cart drifter in Tokyo.
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Producer, Director & Performer - Barley-tholomew The Bard - Beer Quest - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer - Aite - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Director, Performer, Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Director, Performer, Curator - Our Room in Their Room - Gnome Away From Home - 2020
Mischevious Fairy - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Marya - Zabiti - 2019
Skills
Hammock, Stilts (Stilts + Aerial, Stilts + Fire), Lyra, Fire (hoop, fans, poi, palm torches, fire eating), Hooper, Aerial Silks, Rope, Trapeze, Rope & Harness, Aerial Duo, Theater, Clowning, Miming, Aerial Bartending, Invented Apparatuses, and much more!
Photo by Nina Reed Photography
Deirdra Angelucci is a multi-disciplined performance artist based out of Los Angeles and co-founder of The Narrators, an immersive clowning troupe that specializes in custom character design. A bonafide Jill of all Trades, she has performed a variety of skills such as character acting, dance, clowning, improv, and aerial silks. She is known for her breakout theatrical performance at age four, where she delivered a monologue from the stoop of her childhood home whilst completely in the buff to a very surprised audience of neighbors.
A background of theater and dance set the stage for her introduction to the circus world, though her primary focus professionally has been creating characters for immersive experiences. She has worked with clients such as Insomniac Events, Coachella Music Festival, Electric Forest, and Global Dance Fest. She’s played many roles in the production world aside from performance, such as drafting character designs, sewing costumes, building sets, writing scripts, and coordinating performers. In her free time she enjoys cooking, painting, playing video games, and passionately attempting to explain the nuances of human existence to her cat.
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Actor & Curator - Locked in with Hansel and Gretel - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Molly Bibeau is an actress from Denver, Colorado who has always believed in the importance of creating theatre wherever you can. Her mother can be blamed for instilling this belief in her after developing Molly’s love for the stage within their own living room from the age of five. Thankfully, that love has never left her, leading her to pursue and receive a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre from Adams State University. There, she was fortunate enough to complete a senior thesis in acting by performing a one-woman show titled, The Last Flapper, and portray her favorite role to date, Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank. Since returning to the Denver area, Molly has continued to pursue acting in whatever way she can. Whether that includes performing on the Bitsy stage, monologuing as Cinderella on the side of a mountain, or even writing her own scripts that she insists her friends help perform - Molly is always willing to explore her avenues, both old and new.
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Actor - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
James Brunt is an actor born and raised in Denver, Colorado most known for pushing the boundaries of what we know about theater with immersive productions in obscure settings and hard hitting concepts that make his audience truly reflect on their views of the world. Playing roles from a cleaver weilding beet butcher, to a zainey detective on the hunt for answers, he loves to create anything that will make his heart beat faster and blood boil up. He recently received the 2019 True West award for breakout actors for his challenging portrayal of taxi driver, Bobby, in Mosque with The Black Actors Guild. Other works recognized were his productions with The Band of Toughs and Control Group Productions. When Brunt isn't taking the stage, he still finds ways to enlighten his audiences by performing oringial slam poetry or creating magical moments as the beloved Santa Claus. He is also an educator of the arts, teaching improv to the youth of Denver with the Black Actors Guild.
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Actor - Professor Barleywine - Beer Quest - 2021
Writer, Director & Performer - Harmonium - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Actor & Curator - Anansi and the Wolf: A Rivalry for the Ages - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Stephen Brackett was born and raised in Denver, Colorado where he regularly interfaces between the music/arts, grassroots movements, and education sectors. As a member of Flobots, he is also a co-founder of the NOENEMIES project, which works within communities to explore the power of protest music, and Youth On Record, a Denver organization that today hosts a state-of-the-art Youth Media Studio and serves at-risk youths with music programs, for-credit classes, and more. Stephen finds bliss in tricksterism, giant toppling, spitting hot fire and clawhammer banjo. He is constantly provoked by Ephesians 6:12.
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Performer - Richard the Frothy - Beer Quest - 2021
Actor, Aerialist, Scriptwriter - Ivan, A Poet - Zabiti - 2019
Meri Burgess is a contemporary circus artist and dancer from Boulder, Colorado. She is known for fusing many styles of movement and creating artistic pole, cyr, aerial, and general dance works. She is a 2015 graduate of the Frequent Flyers professional training program and regularly performs with different companies in the Denver area, including Rainbow Militia! In the last year, she placed first in the artistic professional divisions of Pole Sport Organization Northwest, Golden Gate, and United competitions. By day, she works as a software developer. By night, she does crazy art projects like this show. In "Gnome Away From Home" she will doing a modern day portrayal of George MacDonald's "The Light Princess."
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Projection Programmer - Beer Quest - 2021
Performer, Curator, & Choreographer - Aphrodite - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Light Princess - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Ti Talisin the Ferret - Zabiti - 2019
Bryan Connolly was born both whimsical and bloodthirsty. Naturally this dichotomy led to a career in the circus. It began by learning to juggle from Jon Wee of the Passing Zone, and quickly escalated to acrobatics, stunt work, acting, dance, and worst of all, street theatre. By the time he received his Bachelor’s degree for Theatre Performance from Colorado State University, there was no turning back. He was committed to a life of circus. He has now performed in a plethora of circus shows with companies such as Rainbow Militia, Circus Foundry, Cirque Dreams, even toured with a professional jousting company for a while, and is the second-in-command at Knights of the Tempest.
Despise him if you must, but he will continue to find occasion to bewilder audiences far and wide.
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Performer - Richard the Frothy - Beer Quest - 2021
Performer - Adrestium - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Knives and Knaves - Gnome Alone - 2020
Monster Hunter - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Gregor - Zabiti - 2019
Anthony's passion for circus began while in school for engineering where he used juggling as a way to relax and escape the stress of class. In late 2016, this led him to join a professional circus training program and upon graduation, he and his partner moved to Las Vegas to improve their skills. Not long after moving to Vegas, he and his partner were hired as a professional acrobats for Royal Caribbean International, where they traveled the seas for over a year before returning to Denver. Since then, he has worked to co-found the Circus Foundry and has collaborated with Rainbow Militia and other local artists in various shows. He's excited to bring his unique talents to Zabiti and share them with all of you.
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Performer & Choreographer - Helios - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Monster Hunter - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Circus Performer, Actor - OLEG, A DOMOVOI - Zabiti - 2019
Known as the "Miracle Sisters" in studios around the nation, real life sisters Larea Edwards and Christin Grant are gems of the mile high city. Their voices have been celebrated across the U.S. from California to New York, and even over seas. This multi talented duo has been singing together since birth. They read and write music, they rap, they play instruments, they act, they dance, they do areal, played semi pro football, Larea plays the violin...these ladies do it all. Joined by their sister and cousin, they are the National recording group "Spirit Of Grace" or SOG. SOG produces "Black Music Matters" annually in connection with Vocal Coalition to connect hundreds of children in DPS with local artists to celebrate Black music. They are also active in the community. They sing at churches, rallies, community events, political events, and on famous stages like Red Rocks and the House of Blues.They created the front yard music festival to bring together communities, creating a safe space to allow the opportunity for everyone to connect with open dialogue. They sing for and tour with several bands. Reaching #1 on whatsinstore music last year with their original music with The Deep Pocket Thieves.
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Musicians & Composers - The Muses - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Musicians, Composers, Curators - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Musicians, Composers, Curators - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters — Gnome Away from Home —2020
Siren Singers — A Very Victorian Monster Soiree — 2019
A native to Colorado, Fronzo Gilkey II was introduced to the arts at a young age. Through the years, his enthusiasm for acting turned into dedication and a vessel for exploring many mediums within the craft. Fronzo is now woven into multiple outlets that provide him the opportunities to express and build his talent as a writer, actor, editor, & educator. He has performed in over 100 projects and helped produce over 20 events/shows. Fronzo serves as leading teaching artists & Artistic Director for the Black Actors Guild. When asked the importance on art he said, “Art is creating through provoking discussions for the community to embrace.”
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Actor & Curator - Prometheus - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Born and raised in Denver, CO, Laura Goldhamer is a musician/songwriter/performer, as well as a stop-motion animator & movie director, possessing a particular knack for creating music videos. She has worked with such musical acts as Gregory Alan Isakov, Elephant Revival, Sean Hayes, and Trout Steak Revival to create deeply organic visual art set to their music, while continuing to compose and perform her own songs on guitar and old-time clawhammer banjo. Her multi-media performances often feature live music accompanied by projected motion pictures, and are full of life & laughter, much like the dynamic collaborative process she has cultivated in her filmmaking.
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Musician, Composer, Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Musician, Composer, Curator - The Gnomies & Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters — Gnome Away from Home —2020
Nicholle is an improv and theater actor, teaching artist, military veteran, graduate student, and activist. She is a Teaching Artist with Mirror Image Arts and a Graduate School of Social Work Student Intern at the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative as well as with Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca of District 9. She is also a proud member of the Emancipation Theater Company and the District 9 BIPOC Comedy Team in Denver.
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Actor - Corona Dewshine - Beer Quest - 2021
Kristin is so excited to be joining the Kingdom with the Rainbow Militia collaborators and creators. She is an avid theater lover and creator and serves as the Executive Director of The Wit. Most recently The Wit has been producing Shakesbeer; a Shakespearean play, cut down to about an hour, performed at bars and breweries and all of the Actors drink during the show. She has also appeared on and off stage in the Denver area for the last Decade.
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Actor - Mira + Corona Dewshine - Beer Quest - 2021
Bethel Lindsley is a Colorado Native growing up in Evergreen, she has been doing acrobatics for over 20 years. She was highly competitive in the USA Junior Olympic program for 13 years where she was an accomplished level 10 artistic gymnast. After her club gymnastic career she went to Colorado State University where she created and was captain of the CSU Club Gymnastic Team that was then ranked 7th in the Nation. She graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Nutrition and Fitness. During college she was introduced to the world of circus and performing and fell in love with the stage. After graduation she signed her first acrobatic contract where she performed for a year with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line on the biggest ship in the world The Allure of the Seas. Since then she has worked in small and large shows around the world. She spent 2 years in Wuhan, China working for Franco Dragone as a member of the creation cast of The Han Show where she was a speciality performer. She recently returned from her second contract with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines but this time on The Oasis of the Seas where she was the featured performer and the aerial coordinator. She has worked for Feld Entertainment on the largest stunt show in the world Marvel Universe Live bringing superheros to life. Currently she is the Founder/ Owner of CIrcus Foundry a touring ensemble contemporary circus company based out of Denver as well as the Acrobatic Captain for the Phantom Circus. She is a generalist and has a wide skill range in several different disciplines such as: trampoline, tumbling, partner acrobatics, hand balancing, duo/solo aerial, diving, flyboard, dance and russian swing.
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Performer & Choreographer - Selene - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Coordinator, Performer - Monster Hunter Queen - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Circus Artist, Actor - NEPRA, A QUEEN - Zabiti - 2019
Quinn Marchman is a Senior Producer and Director with the Black Actors Guild, a production and education company. As an actor, he has worked most recently with Holdtight NYC in their immersive production, What Distracts You? and in other productions with the DCPA, Curious Theatre and 5280 Artist Co-Op.
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Writer - Beer Quest - 2021
Actor & Curator - Dionysis - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Sarah is crapping her pants she’s so excited to premier her role as one of your favorite beer wenches in Rainbow Militia’s Beer Quest cast! After having volunteered behind the scenes for ‘Gnome Away From Home’, ‘Death’s Unraveling’, and ‘Celestial Chaos’, she is now lending her singing voice and strange facial expressions to bring you joy and laughter. She performed as Phil O’Danny as part of The O’Danny Girls at the Maryland Renaissance Festival during the 2016 & 2017 seasons. Prior to that, she was a improviser for ComedySportz in Washington DC. You can also find her on YouTube in leading and supporting roles in several comedy sketches and short film projects produced by The Big Honkin’ and Marsden Media.
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Actor - Mira - Beer Quest - 2021
DemiGod - Celestial Chaos - 2020
Death’s Minion - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Gnomie - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Kryssi Jeaux Miller has been attending Rainbow Militia Circus events from the beginning, and is thrilled to now be a part of this show! It is an honor to collaborate with a group of such creative and driven performers. Kryssi Jeaux Miller is the owner and captain of the Knights of the Tempest medieval equestrian performance troupe and competitive jousting team. From a young age, Kryssi has striven to combine her love of animal training with that of theatre. She spends the majority of her time training warhorses, hounds, and felines for performance, swordfighting, and shouting Shakespearian quotations during her fight choreography and stuntwork. Prior to being sucked into the glittering vortex that is the worlds of jousting and circus, Kryssi appeared in film and stage productions. She also spent 5 years performing as the lead singer in the rock band, Delphi LIVE, and now performs music as a solo artist. She attended Colorado State University, where she founded the CSU Jousting Club. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Colorado State University with degrees in Theatre and Psychology. One of Kryssi's favorite roles to play is that of a public school teacher, teaching 8th-12th grade English and theatre. For more information on Kryssi and additional performances, please look her up at knightsofthetempest.com. Creative and empowering theatre is her jam. Thus here she is. To serve you that jam. With your beer.
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Actor - Richard the Frothy - Beer Quest - 2021
An environmental engineer bitten by the circus bug at a climbing gym where he discovered slacklining, Jeff Paley continues to follow the siren’s song of circus and is now a multi-disciplined performer based in Boulder, CO. Through performance, he has transformed into characters such as a 10-foot tall stone spirit roaming the paths of the Denver Botanical Gardens during Glow at the Gardens, a giant bubble-making fisherman at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, and even a bouncing clown on jumping stilts with Electric Daisy Carnival in Zhuhai, China! Taking a pandemic-imposed break from Vegas and the Black Rock Desert this year, he is elated to have this safety-conscious opportunity to share his craft with you.
Rainbow Militia Roles
Fibblesticks Dabbledoo & Technical Director - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Jumping Satyr - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Lindsay is a movement artist currently based in Denver, CO. Her creative work focuses on ways in which edges can soften and blur with regards to people and spaces. Recently, Lindsay was a contributing artist to the online interactive project entitled The PRISM which was presented by the theater company, Les Enfants Terribles of London, England. Lindsay has performed with Rainbow Militia, Control Group Productions, Atlas Obscura Society, Invisible City, The Cabiri (Seattle), First Person Travel (San Francisco), Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company (Kansas City), and Ballet Tennessee. Additionally she is a founding member of Kikimora Collective (Atlanta) and has performed in the works of Michelle Ellsworth, Susan Marshall, Jeanine McCain, Leslie Merrill, and Paula Weber among others. In 2016 she appeared in the immersive theater production Sweet & Lucky, which was created by Third Rail Projects and presented by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center. Lindsay holds a Masters of Fine Arts in dance performance and choreography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in dance performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Performer, Curator, & Choreographer - Oracle at Delphi - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Vampire Minion - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Yana, A Witch - Zabiti - 2019
Rainbow Militia Owner
Cerene Shepard is a performer, production manager, and event coordinator. Born in New Orleans and raised in Salt Lake City, Cerene could never sit quietly...unless she was in a theater. The juxtaposition of the conservative state she grew up in, paired with her passion for live performance, fueled Cerene to become a professional who can understand any client's needs. She has nearly a decade of experience in weddings, live events, and immersive theater and has come to be recognized as a "go-to" Production Manager amongst Event Planners and Directors in Los Angeles.
As a performer, Cerene is an actor, clown, dancer, and character designer. She is a co-founder of LA-based clowning troupe, The Narrators, and has performed with companies such as Lucent Dossier Experience, Meow Wolf, Cirque Berzerk, Nova Han Productions, Electric Forest, Coachella Music Festival, Insomniac Events, and many more. In 2019 and 2020, Cerene was contracted as Lightning In A Bottle's Performance Art Coordinator. She coordinated up to 40 people and curated over 10 hours for programming for multiple stages.
In an age where "insta famous" is the trend, Cerene believes powerful entertainment lies within its roster, working with dedicated artists and building detailed, relatable moments within a production.
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Performer, Costume Designer - Mira - Beer Quest - 2021
Performer, Curator & Producer - Hermes - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer, Curator, Stage Manager - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performers & Curators - Quarantine Siblings: A Hansel and Gretel Follow-up - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Vanessa Valerio is a Moth Story Slam winner from Dominican Republic, based in Denver. She is a storyteller, writer and producer. She is the host and producer of Singleling Podcast, the traveling variety show Foreign and Party of Two Comedy in New York. She has appeared on the Emmy nominee webseries The Feels, NBC Latino and Buzzfeed. She has written for Bust Magazine, Camara Flash and The Singles Spot.
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Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Las Sombras de las Brujas - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Photo by Alex Tabar
Thomas Vincent is a Rambler; Ozark's-bred Hillbilly, self taught wizard, desert dweller, alien abductee, trash rat, who found his way to Colorado years ago. He’s an artist/ fabricator by day and has a background in music production, as well as banging on miscellaneous instruments. He spends a majority of his free time reading, writing and playing music for his partner and their cat, Gizzard.
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Performer & Curator - Tartarus - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Our Room in Their Room - Gnome Alone - 2020
Bad Rat - Zabiti - 2019
Sara VonGillern aka "Mis' Von" is a professional dancer, choreographer, producer and director. Her expertise includes a variety of dance styles (specializes in street styles like Breaking, Locking, Waacking, House and Locking), aerial arts (silks, lyra, hammock and group apparatus), martial arts (wu shu), figure skating (ice and roller) and fire flow arts (contact staff, fans, ropedart, poi and fire eating). She has also produced and directed projects for TV/film, commercials and live performance. She is a dance educator and master teacher who travels internationally to share her knowledge and passion for movement. Sara is excited to be joining creative forces with Rainbow Militia Circus to uplift and inspire. And most importantly, remind our community of the power and magic of live performance!
She most recently can be seen in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid Live,” as an aerialist and body double for Auli’i Cavahlo as Ariel. She showcased her weapon and flow art skills performing her fire speciality, the ropedart, as Go Go Yubari in hit live Femme Fatale cabaret, “Tarantina Show,” in Los Angeles, CA. She competed on MTV's All Star Season of "America's Best Dance Crew" Season 8 with returning champions, We Are Heroes, in 2015. Her versatility was also showcased on Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance: Season 3," as a top 8 finalist and in the 50 city US tour following the show in 2007. She has danced for musical artists like Ne-Yo, Justin Beiber, Usher, Andy Grammar, Vanilla Ice, The Strokes, MC Hammer, LMFAO, Big Time Rush, Dawn Richards, SOFI, Avril Lavigne, Alexz Johnson & comedian Aziz Ansari. She has also performed on shows like "American Idol" and the "Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Talk", FOX's TV Sitcom "The New Girl," and NBC's Sitcom "Superstore." She has danced for NBA Denver Nuggets, AFL Colorado Crush, the Los Angeles Clippers and the NFL Los Angeles Chargers. One of her most recent works as a choreographer is Maddie Ziegler's commercial for her clothing line "Maddie." She also choreographed and starred in PooPourri's music video commercial "Imagine Where You Can Go." Her aerial skills have been showcased at live events for Disney, Coachella, Lightning in a Bottle, Bringing Back Broadway, Google, Playboy Mansion, LA Live, Cirque Bezerk, PooPourri, Siggraph, Wilderbe, Lagunitas Beer Circus and more.
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Curator, choreographer, performer - Celestial Chaos - 2021
James Brunt is an actor born and raised in Denver, Colorado most known for pushing the boundaries of what we know about theater with immersive productions in obscure settings and hard hitting concepts that make his audience truly reflect on their views of the world. Playing roles from a cleaver weilding beet butcher, to a zainey detective on the hunt for answers, he loves to create anything that will make his heart beat faster and blood boil up. He recently received the 2019 True West award for breakout actors for his challenging portrayal of taxi driver, Bobby, in Mosque with The Black Actors Guild. Other works recognized were his productions with The Band of Toughs and Control Group Productions. When Brunt isn't taking the stage, he still finds ways to enlighten his audiences by performing oringial slam poetry or creating magical moments as the beloved Santa Claus. He is also an educator of the arts, teaching improv to the youth of Denver with the Black Actors Guild.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Actor - Professor Barleywine - Beer Quest - 2021
Writer, Director & Performer - Harmonium - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Actor & Curator - Anansi and the Wolf: A Rivalry for the Ages - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Meri Burgess is a contemporary circus artist and dancer from Boulder, Colorado. She is known for fusing many styles of movement and creating artistic pole, cyr, aerial, and general dance works. She is a 2015 graduate of the Frequent Flyers professional training program and regularly performs with different companies in the Denver area, including Rainbow Militia! In the last year, she placed first in the artistic professional divisions of Pole Sport Organization Northwest, Golden Gate, and United competitions. By day, she works as a software developer. By night, she does crazy art projects like this show. In "Gnome Away From Home" she will doing a modern day portrayal of George MacDonald's "The Light Princess."
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Projection Programmer - Beer Quest - 2021
Performer, Curator, & Choreographer - Aphrodite - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Light Princess - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Ti Talisin the Ferret - Zabiti - 2019
Lindsay is a movement artist currently based in Denver, CO. Her creative work focuses on ways in which edges can soften and blur with regards to people and spaces. Recently, Lindsay was a contributing artist to the online interactive project entitled The PRISM which was presented by the theater company, Les Enfants Terribles of London, England. Lindsay has performed with Rainbow Militia, Control Group Productions, Atlas Obscura Society, Invisible City, The Cabiri (Seattle), First Person Travel (San Francisco), Wylliams Henry Contemporary Dance Company (Kansas City), and Ballet Tennessee. Additionally she is a founding member of Kikimora Collective (Atlanta) and has performed in the works of Michelle Ellsworth, Susan Marshall, Jeanine McCain, Leslie Merrill, and Paula Weber among others. In 2016 she appeared in the immersive theater production Sweet & Lucky, which was created by Third Rail Projects and presented by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center. Lindsay holds a Masters of Fine Arts in dance performance and choreography from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in dance performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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Performer, Curator, & Choreographer - Oracle at Delphi - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Vampire Minion - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Yana, A Witch - Zabiti - 2019
Tom Varani is a Denver artist, innovator and explorer and the other half of the dynamic duo that makes up the Unbuilt Library.
Rainbow Militia Roles
World Builder - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
World Builder - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
World Builder - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
World Designer / Builder - Zabiti - 2019
Tiffany is a Colorado native who came to circus by sheer chance, fell in love, and plans to live happily ever after. A Colorado native raised in Boulder, she has spent the last little while learning to become what she never dreamed she could be- a graceful, elegant, dancer. When in the air, you're most likely to see her on fabric or the aerial hoop, but she's sometimes known to inhabit the keyhole and rope for good measure. On the ground, she's usually found at a desk, designing schools across Colorado as a licensed architect.
Rainbow Militia Roles
Volunteer Coordinator (Head Minion) - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Volunteer Coordinator (Head Gnome) - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Cursed Princess - Zabiti - 2019
Musicians and Bands
Musician: Irish Fiddler
Adam Agee’s fiddle music is alive, dynamically fluid, and colorful. Raised in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California and Boulder, Colorado, Adam came first to Ireland in 2004, basing himself in Ennis, County Clare, where he discovered a new home. Through opportunities in America and Ireland, he has had the chance to study with many of today’s living tradition-bearers. His exposure to diverse influences makes Adam’s music deeply American, while his pursuit of sound has led him to focused expression through the Irish tradition. Within the rapidly developing culture of traditional music, suffused and enriched by a global exchange of ideas, Adam’s fiddle playing is grounded in a personal, aesthetic quest. He has been teaching and performing for 15 years.
Chimney Choir combines folk harmonies, ambient electronics, and swirling textures of rhythm and melody into a style of music that is not easy to define. They began in 2011 with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, and suitcase drum and have since toured the country extensively, recorded and released five recordings, and developed layers of electronics, live looping, and percussion. They still remain fascinated with folk music and traditions while they constantly evolve and experiment - their performances often take on a theatrical quality that has incorporated puppetry, ritual, dance, storytelling, interactive video and even a sci-fi mini-drama. Their newest album, "(dream)" was released November 2016.
"Chimney Choir has never been a conventional band. Its songwriting has roots in Americana and pop, but it’s informed by an avant-garde sensibility, so that any musical idea or offbeat concept could be incorporated at will. Albums and shows reveal the group’s conceptual and theatrical side: Its last album-release performance was part concert, part game show, and included audience participation. Another album-release show took place in an architectural warehouse, and the performance was a kind of treasure hunt...the group reliably offers up high-concept, often interactive experiences. '(dream)'finds Chimney Choir in fine form, with its signature mix of Americana and ambient soundscapes resulting in thought-provoking pop songs. The new tracks aim for a commercial sound without compromising that experimental edge." -Westword
“With a hearty electronic influence, the album is whimsical yet powerful, playful and self-aware.”- Denver Post
“...the album seamlessly blends folk instrumentals with electronic punches for a plucky, meandering ride.”- 5280
Kevin Larkin - mandolin, samples, percussion, harmonica, accordion, synth, vocals
Kris Drickey - keyboards, guitar, violin, percussion, vocals
David Rynhart - guitar, flute, piano, percussion, vocals
Carl Sorensen - percussion, shakers, bottles, cans, random metal and trash objects
Tom Plassmeyer - bass
Musician: Singer/Guitarist
Although his musical talents make it easy to believe he’s always been a full-time musician, Rob Drabkin attended Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, where he graduated with a degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with the intention of becoming a doctor. His focus quickly changed after a family trip to New York. “My Dad played Jazz full time for 30 years before he got into medicine. On that trip, we re-connected with his old musician friends, and it was inspiring to see them giving their lives to music night after night for so many years. That was the night I dropped science and dedicated myself to music. After that moment, I spent every possible minute singing and honing all of the songwriting skills that I could.” He took to Denver’s music scene quickly, and set his career into motion. Drabkin’s newly released single, “Someday,” has earned a spot on major international Spotify playlists and in just a few months, the single accumulated over one million plays from listeners around the world. As Rob describes the song, ”we too often forget that love is ever-present. We share it with each other through laughter, smiles, and sympathy. We can find it in everything and we can also create it in the smallest, most unassuming moments of our lives.
Music and Wellness Director
aka Musical Healer
Kris Drickey has always loved to sing and play. These days she makes music in ever-evolving creative partnership with Chimney Choir. She is mainly self-taught and her enchantment with music took her into coffee shop open mics, late-night writing fugues, guitar lessons, and campfire sing-alongs before Chimney Choir burst to life. She studied classical violin as a kid, put it down for over 10 years, and reconnected with it pivotally a few years ago. Kris loves collaborating with body-based expressive artists, and recently, you can find her in the air as well!
Skills: Voice, Writing, Violin, Guitar, Acro-Yoga, Yoga
Musician: Drums/Percussion
Alana started taking private drum lessons at 13 and has been performing in various musical groups since she was 16.
Her love of drumming and percussion led her to the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music where she studied classical percussion under international percussionist and composer, Ney Rosauro. She also studied Afro-Cuban hand percussion with first-call studio percussionist and Grammy winner, Richie Bravo, and jazz drum set under accomplished professor and player, John Yarling.
Alana spent many productive years after graduating in Miami working with many bands of varying genres from hip hop to house to indie pop and everything in between. She enjoyed having her playing become a staple in the Miami music community. She has also played on stage at many major Florida festivals including Bear Creek Music Festival, Virginia Key Grassroots Festival, and one of the leading electronic music festivals in the world, Ultra Music Festival. In 2014, Alana participated in the Hit Like a Girl Contest, and achieved 11th place internationally in the contest for female drummers.
Alana moved to Denver in 2015 and has been actively playing music around town ever since. She enjoys playing often with her two main bands, Coal Town Reunion and The Sessh. Since moving to Denver, Alana has also gotten the opportunity to share the stage with many nationally renowned artists including Eddie Roberts of the New Mastersounds, Joey Porter of the Motet, and Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff of Lettuce. Alana enjoys the opportunity to play drums any chance she gets and truly loves collaborating with artists of varying musical genres and art forms.
Musician: Pianist
Rhetoric is a band of freelance jazz musicians from Denver. The name Rhetoric comes from Aristotle, and it is the concept of persuasion through language. Music naturally persuades and audience's emotions and is a language of feelings.
For booking inquiries, contact Jeff Tomlan at 303-828-8747!
Musician: Guitar/Loop Laboratory
Jen Korte blew into Colorado from Austin, Texas in 2005. She came guided by the momentum of Americana and Caribbean rhythms, a prowess for distinctively intricate guitar lines, and the grit and power of a Western storm in her voice. Since forming her Denver-based band, The Loss, Korte has been mesmerizing audiences at festivals and concerts across Colorado, for almost a decade.
Musician: Electro Magnificence; Ableton & Keys
Vince is a singer/ songwriter/producer who weaves musical loops with guitar and Ableton. He started playing music live in 2002 and played all over Colorado in the Mercury Project for 7 years before moving to Los Angeles to perform, release a few records, and try on various entertainment industry hats. He ultimately landed in tech after co-founding a social voting platform.
Love brought him back home. Now he spends his time making late night computer music in the cave, designing apps, practicing capoeira, instilling a love of handstands, music and movies with his son Avi, and rallying with other creative unicorns.
Musician: Pianist
Mikey Smith likes music that is pretty but not too pretty. From the moment that he first heard Bill Evans at the age of 18, Mikey knew that the piano would become a central part of his life. He has since toured internationally, played for sold out crowds, and performed with some of the top performance companies in the world.
Mikey’s music splashes canvases of minimal classical textures with dashes of harmonic color. He is as inspired by Phillip Glass as by Brad Mehldau. Alongside his originals, Mikey like to play pieces from the modern classical repetoire, the Beatles, and Thelonious Monk.
In addition to his piano music, Mikey composes music for film, television, dance, video games, and commercial media, and makes electronic music under the name Particle Parade.
Musician: Cello
Russick Smith’s music is steeped in the emotional remnants of his motley, spirited adventures. With a technical foundation in cello, electric bass, and audio engineering, the multi-instrumentalist walks between sentimental acoustic arrangements and modern electronic landscapes drawing inspiration from artists such as Air and Edgar Meyer. Seeking to “fight cynicism with wonder,” Smith engages audiences by searching out non-traditional roles and locations for his music and performances, from the middle of a river to noisy rock venues to ancient glacial caves. For his looping performance, Smith was awarded “Best in Class” at the 2016 Vertex Musical Championships and winner of 2017 Breck’s Got Talent. He has additionally appeared as Timekeeper with The Moth Mainstage, as presenter at the Colorado Music Convergence, been featured on KDVR Denver’s “Everyday” show, and will be appearing next summer in a national campaign for the Colorado Tourism Office. Smith currently hosts a weekly music development group in Breckenridge and is finishing recording on an album of quintets due in 2018.
Crew
Rainbow Militia Owner
Amber dreams of one day growing wings and learning to fly. She is a Founder and Producing Director for Rainbow Militia Circus, and has over 15 years of PR, marketing, donor relations, theater, event planning and production experience.
Amber has been practicing the aerial arts for over 10 years, with fabric as her favorite apparatus. When not in the air, she is a tarot reader, bottle walker, actor, and public speaker. She has performed all over the front range but thrives when she is able to perform with live musicians. One of her favorite collaborations was with Chimney Choir at the Levitt Pavilion in a space themed circus extravaganza.
She has been featured in 5280 Magazine, Denver Post, and Denver Westword as one of Colorado’s Creatives and as one of 9 People to Watch in 2021
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Executive Producer, Director & Performer - Thief Queen - Beer Quest - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer - Nemesis - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer- Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Producer, Director & Performer - Las Sombras de las Brujas - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Producer, Director & Performer - Bride of Frankenstein / Ghost - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Producer, Writer, Director - Zabiti - 2019
Skills
Aerial Silks, Tarot, Stilt Walking, Aerial Duo, Aerial Bartending, Rope & Harness, Invented Apparatus, Rock Climbing, & over 20 years of theater experience.
Photo by Michelle Christiance
Ryan is an independent event producer, director, and MC for the Black Actors Guild and various other organizations. He is a jack of all trades, specializing in marketing, creative consulting, sponsorship work, activation, placemaking, A/V, and studio recording. His latest projexts include the empathy museum, the podspace, the #WeAreDenver network and many others.
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Executive Producer + Performer - Barley-Tholomew the Bard - Beer Quest - 2021
Rainbow Militia Owner
Staza Stone does stuff. Swinging stuff, spinny stuff, stilt stuff, sparkle stuff... all the stuffs. She is a multi- faceted performer based out of Denver, CO. She is an aerialist, stilt walker, hula hooper, fire dancer, burlesque artist, and clown. She graduated from Frequent Flyers Productions Professional Aerial Dance Program in 2014 and has been perfirming professionally ever since. Currently Staza can be found performing both nationally and internationally in a variety of circus extravaganzas. Highlights of 2019 including stilt dancing in Japan for EDC Japan and being contracted with Cirque Dreams. She is co-director of Rainbow Militia, a unique circus collective aimed at bringing the community together through artistic collaboration. Staza also teaches locally at several studios. She is known for her short but notorious career as a shopping cart drifter in Tokyo.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Producer, Director & Performer - Barley-tholomew The Bard - Beer Quest - 2021
Producer, Director & Performer - Aite - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Director, Performer, Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Director, Performer, Curator - Our Room in Their Room - Gnome Away From Home - 2020
Mischevious Fairy - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Marya - Zabiti - 2019
Skills
Hammock, Stilts (Stilts + Aerial, Stilts + Fire), Lyra, Fire (hoop, fans, poi, palm torches, fire eating), Hooper, Aerial Silks, Rope, Trapeze, Rope & Harness, Aerial Duo, Theater, Clowning, Miming, Aerial Bartending, Invented Apparatuses, and much more!
Photo by Nina Reed Photography
Rainbow Militia Owner
Liz fell in love with aerial fabric at a traveling circus years ago, and once she took to the air, there was no turning back! Since discovering a wonderful aerial community in Colorado in 2008, she has been passionately studying, performing, teaching, and obsessing over silks, rope, lyra, and whatever weird apparatuses she can get her hands on. She was a finalist in the Aerial Fabric Acrobatics Festival in 2013, and over the past few years has performed with artists such as String Cheese Incident and Elephant Revival, and in productions such as Cirque Side of the Moon and the 1940’s ball. She’s passionate about sharing her love of aerial work, has taught in a variety of programs in Denver and Boulder over the years, and you can currently find her classes at Moth Contemporary Circus. In her spare time, Liz writes software and plots adventures with her favorite unicorn musician and their circus toddler Avi.
Rainbow Militia Roles
Vampire Queen - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
The Tinker - Zabiti - 2019
Skills
Aerial Silks, Rope, Hammock, Lyra, Duo-work, Rope & Harness, Aerial Bartending, & Flute
Photo by Nina Reed Photography
When he's not at his engineering day job turning things on and off, Christopher is an autodidact aspiring to be a polymath, has started many interesting projects, & has even finished a few of them.
Christopher enjoys making costumes, playing fretless ukulele bass, taking things apart & putting them back together in various ways, hunting for treasure in thrift stores, building laser harps, & recently released his KitchenAid stand mixer from the tyranny of boring old beige by giving it a sweet purple sparkle paint job.
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Technical Director & Performer - Chronos - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Technical Director - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Sound Technician - Zabiti - 2020
Hannah is a theatrical lighting designer and stage manager who has worked all over the country, from New York to Las Vegas, from community theater to regional. She believes art happens in the in-between, the spaces of overlap and discomfort. Her desire to explore the forgotten, the ignored, the moments and people and places that don’t quite fit, has led her into mixed genre and unconventional storytelling. She seeks to make art that tells stories we don’t often get to hear, in ways that open us and our world to new possibilities.
Hannah currently is the Production Stage Manager/Lighting Director at The Clocktower Cabaret. You can find her Lighting and Stage Managing circus, drag, and burlesque, as well as teaching Master Classes in “Tech Basics for Performers” and “Behind Those Scenes”. BFA/Theater - NYU, MFA/Lighting Design - UNLV, Cert. in Technical Theater/Electrics - Yale School of Drama.
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Lighting Designer - Zabiti - 2019
James Brunt is an actor born and raised in Denver, Colorado most known for pushing the boundaries of what we know about theater with immersive productions in obscure settings and hard hitting concepts that make his audience truly reflect on their views of the world. Playing roles from a cleaver weilding beet butcher, to a zainey detective on the hunt for answers, he loves to create anything that will make his heart beat faster and blood boil up. He recently received the 2019 True West award for breakout actors for his challenging portrayal of taxi driver, Bobby, in Mosque with The Black Actors Guild. Other works recognized were his productions with The Band of Toughs and Control Group Productions. When Brunt isn't taking the stage, he still finds ways to enlighten his audiences by performing oringial slam poetry or creating magical moments as the beloved Santa Claus. He is also an educator of the arts, teaching improv to the youth of Denver with the Black Actors Guild.
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Actor - Professor Barleywine - Beer Quest - 2021
Writer, Director & Performer - Harmonium - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Actor & Curator - Anansi and the Wolf: A Rivalry for the Ages - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Stephen Brackett was born and raised in Denver, Colorado where he regularly interfaces between the music/arts, grassroots movements, and education sectors. As a member of Flobots, he is also a co-founder of the NOENEMIES project, which works within communities to explore the power of protest music, and Youth On Record, a Denver organization that today hosts a state-of-the-art Youth Media Studio and serves at-risk youths with music programs, for-credit classes, and more. Stephen finds bliss in tricksterism, giant toppling, spitting hot fire and clawhammer banjo. He is constantly provoked by Ephesians 6:12.
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Performer - Richard the Frothy - Beer Quest - 2021
Actor, Aerialist, Scriptwriter - Ivan, A Poet - Zabiti - 2019
Nicholas Caputo (finnocitta) is a folk inspired musician and performance artist situated in Denver, Co. With an eclectic background founded on the traditions of renegade street performance, world music, punk rock, DIY touring, and accordion dances, Nicholas brings an imaginative and exciting perspective to the stage or pedestrian places. Currently working as associate director and sound designer of Control Group productions’ next immersive theater piece, he is invested in producing engaging and intimate performances beyond the proscenium that confront the roles we play in everyday life and the choices we make in developing our own character.
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Musician, Composer, Actor - BORIS, THE BUTTERFLY - Zabiti - 2019
Known as the "Miracle Sisters" in studios around the nation, real life sisters Larea Edwards and Christin Grant are gems of the mile high city. Their voices have been celebrated across the U.S. from California to New York, and even over seas. This multi talented duo has been singing together since birth. They read and write music, they rap, they play instruments, they act, they dance, they do areal, played semi pro football, Larea plays the violin...these ladies do it all. Joined by their sister and cousin, they are the National recording group "Spirit Of Grace" or SOG. SOG produces "Black Music Matters" annually in connection with Vocal Coalition to connect hundreds of children in DPS with local artists to celebrate Black music. They are also active in the community. They sing at churches, rallies, community events, political events, and on famous stages like Red Rocks and the House of Blues.They created the front yard music festival to bring together communities, creating a safe space to allow the opportunity for everyone to connect with open dialogue. They sing for and tour with several bands. Reaching #1 on whatsinstore music last year with their original music with The Deep Pocket Thieves.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Musicians & Composers - The Muses - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Musicians, Composers, Curators - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Musicians, Composers, Curators - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters — Gnome Away from Home —2020
Siren Singers — A Very Victorian Monster Soiree — 2019
Annie Garcia’s interest in the afterlife and spiritual connection towards her ancestors have inspired work that pays homage to the power of Mexican archetypes. A native of Pueblo Colorado, she was raised with the constant presence of the Virgen de Guadalupe and has pursued a career to uphold the values that she radiates through her art as well as her career in Social Work, Hospice and elder Care. She hopes to create an experience that stimulates the heart, mind, and body while generating an air mysticism as well as a cultural interaction!
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World Designer - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Justin Gitlin, a.k.a. Cacheflowe (/ˈkaSH ˌflō/), is an independent creative coder, musician and multimedia artist based in Denver, Colorado, USA. His disciplines have increasingly intertwined after spending two decades in parallel worlds of software development, music and multimedia production. Justin has built video games, interactive installations, web sites and mobile apps for clients like Nike, Google, and the Denver Art Museum. His work has been covered by major media outlets like NPR, Buzzfeed, and Communication Arts Magazine, and has received awards from the FWA, Awwwards and The One Club, among others. As a genre-crossing musician, Cacheflowe has released music and shared the stage with innovative artists like Amon Tobin, Ulrich Schnauss, DJ Olive, Machinedrum, Dizzee Rascal and Nels Cline. As a visual artist, Justin creates algorithmic designs for print, apparel, physical products, music videos, art installations and brand design. His visual collaborations have been shown at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Dateline and Monkeytown 4. Justin was a co-founding partner of Mode Set, Ello, OhHeckYeah and Plastic Sound Supply.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Immersive Tech Designer - Zabiti - 2019
Bailey Harper has been a dancer, teacher, performer, and collaborator in the professional realm for over ten years. Locally, she has danced with Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company, Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, Control Group Productions, and engaged in many other projects dance and art related. She holds a BA in Dance and Kinesiology from the University of Alabama and has traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel to dance and learn with many different companies and artists. Currently, Bailey is Associate Director, Marketing Director, and Performer for Control Group Productions, an artist in residence at Invisible City, and is in continual collaboration for her project Other Rooms, a musical dance duo with her partner Nicholas Caputo that brings art into unexpected spaces. All the while fulfilling her dream to bring dance out of the proscenium and into the room with you.
Rainbow Militia Roles
Clockwork Consultant - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Zia Wolf - Zabiti - 2019
Kevin is a self taught multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and a lifelong explorer of sound and words. He spent most his 20's touring the the Deep South with a reckless string band and absorbed many of the American folk traditions born there. He is a founding member of Chimney Choir and also records music under the name Pineross. Most of his studies are now spent in the realm of electronics and sampling where he believes the possibilities of music are more endless than ever. When not performing or teaching, you can usually find Kevin in a hammock somewhere off of 285 searching for Yetis.
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Music Director, Musician, Composer - DIMA, A BOREAL TOAD - Zabiti - 2019
Quinn Marchman is a Senior Producer and Director with the Black Actors Guild, a production and education company. As an actor, he has worked most recently with Holdtight NYC in their immersive production, What Distracts You? and in other productions with the DCPA, Curious Theatre and 5280 Artist Co-Op.
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Writer - Beer Quest - 2021
Actor & Curator - Dionysis - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Actor & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Prismajic
Jennifer came to Colorado in 1995 to pursue her law degree at the University of Denver. After practicing law as a Denver deputy district attorney for 3 years she retired at the age of 28 and began her life’s creative adventure.
This adventure has allowed Jennifer to dip her toes in fine art, design, marketing, and sales while launching her creative talents and entrepreneurial spirit into a variety of projects.
From creating a small collaborative and art gallery called the Art Salon in 2009, to launching an art forward event design firm called Artistry Events and Design in 2012.
The most recent metamorphosis, Prismajic an immersive arts company formed in 2017, has melded the skills and experiences of her path along with her personal interest in philosophy, self growth and healing to their richest and most powerful form to date.
Creating multi sensory experiences that incorporate art, symbolism, music, lighting, technology and interactivity into amazing physical worlds, Jennifer’s skill sets have found their stride in Prismajic.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
World Builder - Celestial Chaos - 2021
An environmental engineer bitten by the circus bug at a climbing gym where he discovered slacklining, Jeff Paley continues to follow the siren’s song of circus and is now a multi-disciplined performer based in Boulder, CO. Through performance, he has transformed into characters such as a 10-foot tall stone spirit roaming the paths of the Denver Botanical Gardens during Glow at the Gardens, a giant bubble-making fisherman at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, and even a bouncing clown on jumping stilts with Electric Daisy Carnival in Zhuhai, China! Taking a pandemic-imposed break from Vegas and the Black Rock Desert this year, he is elated to have this safety-conscious opportunity to share his craft with you.
Rainbow Militia Roles
Fibblesticks Dabbledoo & Technical Director - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Jumping Satyr - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
One half of the dynamic duo known as the Unbuilt Library, cosmic artist, mama hen and free spirited adventurer, Andrea Pliner is used to telling fantastical stories through her found object sculptural artwork.
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Set and World Designer - Zabiti - 2019
Wagon Builder - Traveling Circus Wagon - 2019
Erica Prather is a freelance-writer, aspiring-curmudgeon, film-maker, rage-cooker, desert rat. She has worked various positions in conservation and science education in Australia, South Korea, Iceland and Alaska. She originally hails from Wichita, Kansas.
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Writer, Artivist - Zabiti - 2019
Prismajic is an immersive arts company founded by Eric Jaenike and Jennifer Mosquera in 2017. It has its roots in event design and production as it was originally founded as Artistry Events & Design in 2012. Prismajic’s mission is to harness the power of art to change how people look at themselves and the world. In 2019 Primajic launched its first large-scale public exhibition at the Museum of Outdoor Arts called Natura Obscura. It was extended two times and received rave reviews and over 55,000 visitors during the course of its run. In 2020 Prismajic opened its second experience, Shiki Dreams, a pop up experience which continues the exploration of the world of Natura Obscura. With experience in building, design. lighting and technology, Prismajic is a thought leader in the world of immersive arts.
RAINBOW MILITIA COLLABORATIONS
World Builders - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Jessica Robblee is a co-writer, co-director, and performer for Buntport Theater for All Ages. She has performed in Drowning Girls (Arvada Center Black Box); All the Way, Lord of the Butterflies, Drag Machine (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); After the Revolution, Homebody Kabul, Rabbit Hole (Curious Theatre); Dust (Wonderbound-Curious Theatre); This (Boulder Ensemble Theatre); Gidion's Knot (Sis Tryst Productions); 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche (Square Product Theatre); Siren Song, Duck Duck Dupe, Trunks: a live comic book, Yesterado, Unbeweaveable, Eating Words (Buntport Theater for All Ages), and The Odyssey: A Walking Tour (Buntport Theater).
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Writer, Consultant - Zabiti - 2019
David’s musical journey began with teenage basement albums and wound through classical piano studies, jazz studies, traditional Irish music, life as a street musician, Gypsy Swing in Galway, The Prague Fringe Festival, extensive touring in Europe and in a bio-diesel van in the US, and creative children’s theater. He is inspired by interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been a principal focus in his work as a pianist, guitarist, vocalist, arranger and composer in Chimney Choir.
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Composer - Beer Quest - 2021
Composer - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Composer - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Composer - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Sound Experience Designer - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Vitoly the Owl / Composer / Music Director - Zabiti - 2019
Multi-disciplinary artist Jasmine Saraswati is an expression of embodied movement and art. She is a circus acrobat and costume designer, sculptor and carpenter, as well as a composer, singer, cellist, body worker, and mother. In 2012, Jasmine co-founded Fractal Tribe, Boulder’s own circus troupe, with whom she has continued to write, direct, and perform. In 2013, she wrote and directed their Musical Circus piece, Jade the Gypsy Wrangler, and has contributed to nearly a dozen more of FT’s theatrical circus shows, including EcoWakening and INaniMATE. She also performed frequently with Elephant Revival, dancing on her stilts and appearing in her giant elephant costume. She won the Boulder Circus Arts Award for her performance of Charlie Chaplain on the Trapeze in 2018. Recently, her attention has turned to fiber arts, sculpting primarily in wool and clay, and she is delighted to bring these new passions of hers to the circus with Rainbow Militia. Jasmine studied Music at UC Santa Cruz and art at Carnegie Mellon University, holds a CMT from Boulder College of Massage Therapy, a CYT from Sivananda Ashram, and an Aerial Acrobatics teaching certificate from Aircat Aerial Arts.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Dragon Hatcher - Beer Quest - 2021
Aphrodite Constructor - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Lil’ Reaper Mother - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Gnome Builder - Gnome Away from Home -2020
Rainbow Militia Owner
Cerene Shepard is a performer, production manager, and event coordinator. Born in New Orleans and raised in Salt Lake City, Cerene could never sit quietly...unless she was in a theater. The juxtaposition of the conservative state she grew up in, paired with her passion for live performance, fueled Cerene to become a professional who can understand any client's needs. She has nearly a decade of experience in weddings, live events, and immersive theater and has come to be recognized as a "go-to" Production Manager amongst Event Planners and Directors in Los Angeles.
As a performer, Cerene is an actor, clown, dancer, and character designer. She is a co-founder of LA-based clowning troupe, The Narrators, and has performed with companies such as Lucent Dossier Experience, Meow Wolf, Cirque Berzerk, Nova Han Productions, Electric Forest, Coachella Music Festival, Insomniac Events, and many more. In 2019 and 2020, Cerene was contracted as Lightning In A Bottle's Performance Art Coordinator. She coordinated up to 40 people and curated over 10 hours for programming for multiple stages.
In an age where "insta famous" is the trend, Cerene believes powerful entertainment lies within its roster, working with dedicated artists and building detailed, relatable moments within a production.
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Performer, Costume Designer - Mira - Beer Quest - 2021
Performer, Curator & Producer - Hermes - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer, Curator, Stage Manager - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performers & Curators - Quarantine Siblings: A Hansel and Gretel Follow-up - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Artsmyths established in 2005 creates leather masks, headdresses and accoutrements. Lynn and Tiffany Smyth are a mother and daughter duo who have been creating art together for 25 years. Tiffany started ArtsMyths after discovering the art of mask making in 2003 inspired by Lunar Fire, a musical and performance art group.
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Leathersmith + Glasssmith - Beer Quest - 2021
Headdress Designer/Leathersmith - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Mask Designer - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Mask Designer - Gnome Away from Home - 2020
Mask Designer - A Very Victorian Monster Soiree - 2019
Costume Designer, Mask and Leather Designer - Zabiti - 2019
Rachel is the baker behind-the-scenes at Sweecret Ingredient. She began baking with her mom as a young girl. She has a passion for baking and she enjoys helping people celebrate the most important moments in life. To learn more about Sweecret Ingredient and their products, please visit their website at www.sweecretingredient.com. If you have any questions, you can reach them at sweecretingredient@gmail.com.
Instagram: sweecretingredient
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Food fit for a King - Sweet Summer Treats - Beer Quest - 2021
Food of the Gods - Chocolatier - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Thomas Vincent is a Rambler; Ozark's-bred Hillbilly, self taught wizard, desert dweller, alien abductee, trash rat, who found his way to Colorado years ago. He’s an artist/ fabricator by day and has a background in music production, as well as banging on miscellaneous instruments. He spends a majority of his free time reading, writing and playing music for his partner and their cat, Gizzard.
RAINBOW MILITIA ROLES
Performer & Curator - Tartarus - Celestial Chaos - 2021
Performer & Curator - Death’s Unraveling - 2020
Performer & Curator - Our Room in Their Room - Gnome Alone - 2020
Bad Rat - Zabiti - 2019