Martha Graham Cracker is played by Pig Iron Theater Company co-founder Dito van Reigersberg. She has won numerous awards and has been deemed the “Drag Queen King of Philadelphia” by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

L M Feldman is a Philadelphia-based circus & theater artist whose work is brave, playful, and personal – wrestling with the world we live in, asking questions, challenging norms, and inviting human connection. She freelances as a playwright, performer, deviser, dramaturg, professor, and coach. Her plays and circus acts have been seen internationally, and she continues to travel around the country performing, teaching, and playwriting. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts, L is passionate about making plays that move and circus that carries thematic heft. During the year, she teaches playwriting to undergrads, med students, and adults, and she’s a coach at Circadium, where she teaches artistic craft & writing live performance. She loves making queer, feminist, theatrical circus work with ensembles and with her duo trapeze partner, Megan Gendell. IG: @elemfeld

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Megan Gendell is a Philly artist who has performed circus since 2007, including at the Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival and the Daidogei World Cup in Japan, both with her trapeze partner, L M Feldman. She is a 2012 NECCA ProTrack grad and currently teaches at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. Recently Megan has performed classical ballet with the Farm to Ballet Project and joined in the creation and performance of several ensemble contemporary circus shows, including The Subject Tonight Is Love (touring this July) and One World Circus’s Webs: A Circus on Healing from Sexualized Violence (touring this summer and fall). IG: @megangendell

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Working at the intersection of contemporary circus and ensemble dance theatre, Ben Grinberg is a Philadelphia-based performing artist, director, and educator. He is the Artistic Director of  the internationally touring physical performance ensemble Almanac Dance Circus Theatre. The company is also a Barrymore award-winner. He is the Artistic Coordinator and Theatre Instructor at Circadium, the nation’s first certificate granting program in contemporary circus performance. Grinberg’s work has been presented by FringeArts, New York Live Arts, Bill T. Jones, the Mexico City International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Ars Nova ANT Fest, 171 Cedar Arts, and more. A graduate of the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training and of the University of Pennsylvania, he is on Faculty at the Pig Iron/UArts MFA in devised performance and has often collaborated with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, Eiko Otake, and Jaamil Kosoko.