Tarold Stein

I'm a Norwegian writer just publishing my first book in april 2008. It's called "Framandkar", which means "stranger". In Norwegian it's gendered male. The book is a collection of poems about transitioning from female to male and are mostly based on my own experience. I'm 30 years old, have a master's degree in literature and live in Tromsø in northern Norway. I write erotic short stories and some articles, as well as poems.

Jin and Scratch

Jin Haritaworn is an educator, writer and performer.

MissTer ScraTch is an artist, activist, DJ and performer.

Regular Transfabulous contributors, Jin Haritaworn and MissTer ScraTch are back with an exciting radical drag workshop and will also feature in the Carnivale Transfabulouso later on the Saturday night.
All for one and all for one!

D'Artagnan and The Three Musclequeers

... are not the oldest boyband from France, but a transnational, multigender performance troupe.

The three prettyboys pay homage (and femage!) to older and younger generations of camp and brown folks, and invent an irreverent Queer Diaspora that celebrates incoherence, instability and gender schmender kitsch.

Prince Jei is a glamorous fem trapped in a butch boy's body. He likes to giggle, wriggle and converse deeply, with daddies, mistresses and (especially) sugar boys and fellow switchie-in-betweenies. He's a bit clever and romantic and would prefer his fan mail in rhymes.

Rent aka rent boy soup kitchen is a sweet transvestite femme boy who loves femme cock and wearing tight fitting lycra. Also likes spending his time playing with his hair for hours, trying to get it to flick better than charlie's angels. Super sensitive and painfully shy lothario except when in the kitchen...he belongs in the kitchen and on stage.

Homeo Romeo is strong and silent, suave and sophisticated. He kisses the girls and makes them sigh. When the boys come out to play he kisses them too, he's queer that way! Watch him make his moves! The 3 Musclequeers myspace

Lazlo Pearlman

-"Lazlo is A Perverted Danny Kaye," ~Kate Bornstein~

Lazlo Pearlman is a London based GenderBent, GenderQueer, Female-To Male Trrrranny Burlesque, Vaudeville, Fetish and Cabaret performer, song stylist, director and teacher whose work is often but not always based on the fact that he used to be a girl..."

Moritz

Moritz is an acrobat and a dancer, he specialised in Chinese pole at the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in France and is now busy applying his circus skills to express some of the things he's concerned about.

Queer MC

King du Berry is a group of Drag King performers created in 2004. This "Trans-fag-dyke” (trans-pede-guine in French) troop has the political and artistic intention of creating links between popular culture and transgender activism.

Queer MC is their first hip hop theatrical creation.. "These rappers don’t come from LA. Like spray paint they cover over and subvert heterocratic parasites," like hot queer tomcats spraying their live and sexy messages against transphobia, lesbophobia, butchphobia, queerphobia and erotophobia"

"Anything but Show biz? Just for fun? The Drag King du Berry is moustached and soul patched, with breasts well wrapped - they loose themselves in QUEER HEP HOP: trans/bad boyz for tonight or for life."

Bird La Bird

I'm a Supertaster!

Soaring synths and dirty booty for the Marthas and the Arthurs.

Live XXX Hardcore Homicidal Deranged Bird Action!!!

La Bird and Le Bears is a collaborative venture between musical maestros Mike Wyeld and Chopin Gard and fledgling performance artist La Bird.

Laura Bridgeman and Paola Cavallin

Laura Bridgeman: has written and performed in her own solo pieces Exit The Advert, ICA Theatre & Oval House Theatre Upstairs (1994) Bliss, ICA Theatre, (1996) and Junk for Gay Sweatshop’s Club Deviance (1997) and the larger piece Loonatik funded by the London Arts Board, (1997) programmed as part of the Festival of Visual Theatre. She has written extensively for the theatre: Billie Blue, (1995) Maison Splendide (1996) for the New Playwrights’ festival. girl/boy. 45 (1998) Furious Theatre, Witchunt (1999) Brouhaha, Heathens (1998) Paines Plough reading. Etiquette (2000) radio 4, and ID1000 (2008) NYT. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA and is currently working on a novel, funded by the Arts Council of England. She has taught writing for performance at London Met, and HMP Pentonville, and was writer in residence at HMP Littlehey 2007.

Paola Cavallin: has written and perfomed in her solo queer performances in Italy and UK for the past 10 years. She has also worked in Commedia productions with Teatro Olmetto, has being a clown for Kazzum and Gerry Flanagan, performed in Shakespearian productions for Soho Group and written and directed many children shows and TV pilots. Her last directing works in London are: Modern Times, a modern Commedia show about the Olympic games funded by the Arts Council of England and Scaramouche, the Musical which opened in June 2007at Hoxton Hall, London.

DJ Holestar

Holestar - The Tranny with a Fanny

Questioning the use of the body, exagerated notions of femininity, celebrity and pop culture, Holestar is an amalgamation of different things; an artist, drag goddess, live performer, promoter and DJ. Holestar has appeared in art spaces, clubs and events all over Europe, New York and the UK, performing at events from Vienna's Life Ball to Kashpoint, the V&A to Glastonbury Festival.

Holestar's intention is to blur the boundaries between the avant-garde and mass entertainment, pop culture and the underground.