Richelle Gordon is a digital media pioneer who served as the first online director for The Miami Herald and launched a master's program in digital publishing at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She came out as a transgender woman in 2023. Her band, Queer Country Bandwagon, plays regularly in Chicago, performed at the Americanafest festival in Nashville in 2025, and is currently recording their first two singles.

Soupy Fischel (he/him) is the Drag King persona of (AFAB) visual artist Ruthie Fudge (they/he). He is new to the world of Drag; however, he is a seasoned visual artist and performance poet who has graced stages and galleries across the US. In 2006, Soupy took a break from public shows and writing to raise two fantastic humans. In 2016, Ruthie briefly emerged to perform stand-up, then relocated to Germany in 2022. Since then, Soupy has been committed to using art as a spiritual practice to cope with aging, illness, disability, and his ever-evolving Q, T, and A identities.

You can follow Soupy on Instagram at @soupyfischel

Jenny Magnus is a writer, performer, composer, musician, director, and teacher who is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, now in its' 37th year. In 2014, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe: Plays and Performances, 9 plays and performances produced over 25 years, was published by Jackleg Press and had a 2nd printing in 2021. Magnus has released 17 albums of music with various ensembles, including the recent The Times We'll Have with The Crooked Mouth. She was inducted, with artistic partner Beau O'Reilly, into the Chicago Theater Hall of Fame in 2024 by New City Chicago. She was Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists in 2025.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jemlunar/

Website: https://www.jennymagnus.com/

Rhinoceros Festival: https://rhinofest.com/

Curious Theatre Branch: https://curioustheatrebranch.com/

The Crooked Mouth: https://www.thecrookedmouth.org/