Current Projects

#CHAMPION Returns

  • The next chapter of #CHAMPION

  • Denver Fringe Festival

    June 8-11, 2023

Endure the Thing Itself

  • “Just tell me what you saw this morning, like, in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through in three places. No metaphor. And to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.” Marie Howe, The Power of Words to Save Us

    Performed to “Burn” and “Net Monet” by Monetochka

  • What: Endure the Thing Itself at the FreeForm Dance Festival

    When: Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 7pm

    Where: Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder CO

    https://thedairy.org/freeformdance22/

 
 

#CHAMPION

  • Reveling in the company of Freddie Mercury, Queen, and an unruly skeleton, #CHAMPION toes the line between humor and grief, triumph and defeat. Having emerged from the trenches of the medical industrial complex, Sheila publicly embraces the devices and machines that keep them alive and moving in a world that demands otherwise. A dance and puppetry show of Queer Disabled survival, #CHAMPION takes the audience on a wild ride along the precipices of laugh-out-loud funny, unadulterated sincerity, and all-too-familiar heartbreak. #CHAMPION will rock you!

  • Minnesota Fringe Festival 2023

    Vancouver Fringe Festival 2023

    Past Performances:

    Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, 2022

    Denver Fringe Festival, 2022

“Saw #CHAMPION on Friday and fell in love. This show is deliciously queer, athletic, playful, vulnerable, sexy. It's triumphant at the same time that it completely subverts the pervasive narrative of "overcoming" disability. I love the reimaginings of the relationships in classic Queen songs -- again. Deliciously. Queer.”

- Nicolas Shannon Savard, Audience Member at Denver Fringe Festival 2022

Past Work 

 

Thanks Again and Again

An evening of Elvis, fruit loops and Queer propaganda. Thanks again, and again takes the audience on a journey of awkward desire and unabashed celebration.

Performed in the Greater Denver Area, 2014-2016

 
 

Were You Sleeping, God?

Performed in the Greater Denver Area, 2014-2015 and in New York City, 2011-2013

 

What People Are Saying

“This piece explores a flickering liminal space that demands the audience interrogate the edges of their own comfort and discomfort, and suddenly become acutely aware of positioning within social norms/expectations. It is laugh out loud funny right up to the moment when suddenly you’re in a kind of tension, a dance with the unknown. Suddenly who is and isn’t laughing with you and why you’re laughing becomes piercingly relevant.”

— Anonymous Audience Member, Boulder Fringe Festival 2016

“An absolutely hilarious post-modern take on America. This show was really great! It really deconstructs a lot of the pre-conceived notions of what is American, or "what makes America great." Pushed me to really think a lot about the experiences of others in our society, especially within the LGBTQ community. Highly recommend!”

Would you recommend this to a friend? “Yes!”

- Mark, Audience Member at Boulder Fringe Festival 2016