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Decoding the mechanics of love

In the forest on the outskirts of a small town, there lives a magical Nightingale whose song can stir even the hardest of hearts.  When the Emperor learns of this rare creature, he is determined to capture her.  Can the Nightingale be replaced by a Mechanical facsimile?  

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Nightingale is an epic love story that speaks to the most pressing issues of our time through a compelling mixture of acrobatics, aerial arts, and timeless storytelling.  

PREVIEWS
June 3 & 4 at 7pm
PERFORMANCES
June 6 - 22, 2025
  • Fridays at 7pm
  • Saturdays at 3pm & 7pm
  • Sundays at 2pm
Tickets start at $25
Approximate running time ~90 minutes without intermission
Recommended for ages 7+
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Children's Creativity Museum 

Yerba Buena Gardens
221 4th Street, San Francisco
 

What people are saying…

“In our era of artificial intelligence, we need art that helps us understand what differentiates humans from increasingly realistic robots, why that distinction matters and what replacing living beings with soulless machines might cost.” 

– Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle

“...every detail felt so artistic and intentional. We were genuinely impressed and touched by the experience.” 

– Alice Chu, President of Great Star Theater

“...deeply moving, and simultaneously was thoroughly impressed by the athletic skills on display, which is not an easy combination to pull off.”

– Genie Cartier of Bow & Arrow Circus Theatre Collective

“…thoroughly engaging work of art and absolutely necessary.” 

– Lorraine F.

The Nightingale in the Press

Pre & Post Show Events

  • Saturday, June 14 - Guest Artist performing in the preshow of the 7pm show - Hand-Balancer Maizie Lee of Circus Center's San Francisco Youth Circus. 

  • Sunday, June 15 - FREE Workshop with People's Circus Theatre from 12:30-1:15pm.  Learn more and sign up.

  • Friday, June 20 - Post show discussion after the 7pm show with Jeff Raz of Citizen Joy!

  • Sunday, June 22 - Guest Artist performing in the preshow of the 7pm show - Kinetic Arts Center's Circus Spire

Our Sponsors

The Nightingale is made possible by the support of our generous donors, our partnership with Children’s Creativity Museum, and our artist residency at Circus Center.

The Nightingale has received Theatre Bay Area's Homegrown achievement!

Our production is creating jobs and creative opportunities right here in the Bay Area.

The Nightingale has received Theatre Bay Area's Going Green achievement! Our show is reducing environmental impact to help save our beautiful planet.

From our current production

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

  • Photo by Rowan Littell

Our Team

Artistic Team

  • Felicity is the Founder and Artistic Director of People's Circus Theatre. She recently made her Off-Broadway directing debut with the world premiere of {IN}TANGIBLE at Theatre Row in Manhattan. Felicity was one of the directors on the 2024 remount of The Speakeasy: The Age of Scofflaws, San Francisco's longest running immersive show.

    Felicity is well known for her outstanding work as Artistic Director at Circus Center from 2021-2023, including her groundbreaking adaptation of The Secret Garden in 2021 and remounted at the Children’s Creativity Museum in 2022. 

    Before the pandemic in 2020, Felicity's solo show Cara Vita: A Clown Concerto toured to San Francisco, Asheville, and London.  Felicity directed and produced Circus Pop Ups! in 2021, a series of pop up performances at iconic SF locations that incorporated live circus and music. Felicity's film documentary of Circus Pop Ups! won the Audience Choice Award in the Circus International Film Festival 2022.

    Read Felicity's full bio.

Felicity Hesed

Vincent De Jesus

  • Vincent De Jesus is a musician and educator from San Antonio, Texas with roots in Mexico and Puerto Rico. His musical journey began in childhood, influenced by his family and school programs, where he discovered a passion for percussion and jazz. Vincent is a collaborating musician of Circus Pop Ups. He has performed with numerous musical groups spanning a range of genres including Afro-Caribbean, Funk, Jazz, Classical, Soul, Hip-Hop along with many musical theater shows recently including Passing Strange, Kinky Boots, Hello Dolly, and Wuthering Heights. As a composer, his music is a blend of the music he grew up with including Afro-Caribbean rhythms and jazz, funk, and hip-hop.

Maya Kesselman Cruz

  • Maya Kesselman Cruz is a native of San Francisco and was part of the San Francisco Youth Circus at the Circus Center from ages 10-18. Her dream of becoming a traveling circus artist started coming true when she attended L’Ecole Supérieure des Arts de Cirque in Brussels, Belgium. After graduating with the hoop diving trio, Trio Anneaux, Maya went on to win a gold medal and the Public’s Choice award at The Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. After touring Europe with her trio, she went on to perform in Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia. She has also done three tours with Midnight Circus in Chicago, and co-founded the Belgian circus company, Back Pocket, touring as an artist in their first show, La Vrille du Chat. She is currently performing with The 7 Fingers in Dear San Francisco at Club Fugazi.

Ariel Mihic

  • Ariel Mihic (she/her) has a passion for adventure and an insatiable curiosity to live a life less ordinary. Ariel is Chinese/White, cis-, hetero-, middle-aged, able-bodied, childfree, and English speaking.

    Since 2011 Ariel has been teaching handstands and partner acrobatics primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sonoma County.  Acro is a practice that relies upon thoughtful communication, trust, and accountability; these values shape the way she trains and teaches. You can find info about training techniques and partner acrobatics @PrecisionAcrobatics. 

    Ariel is the founder of BACCES (BIPOC Acro Collective Care Ecosystem), an organization that aims to foster more BIPOC representation at partner acrobatic events and to cultivate more inclusive acro spaces (www.BACCES.org, @BIPOCacro). Ariel is also the Board Vice President for CSAW (Connecting Circus Students Around the World), a non-profit that provides grants to BIPOC circus artists.

    Ariel has a Doctorate in Pharmacy and certifications in the following disciplines:  Ashtanga Yoga, AcroYoga, YogaSlackers, Thai Massage/Thai Foot Reflexology/Pranassage.

Giamaica Zeidler

  • Giamaica has been dancing for about three decades and bouncing around Circus Center for about one. Her first circus performance was as an aerialist and flyer in Circus Addiction at Circus Center, and her latest as Dancer in People’s Circus Theatre’s Reindeer Games. Choreography credits include Fraudway Production’s “Shamilton” and TNHS “Heathers.” Giamaica is humbled and excited to be working with this incredible cast. When not circusing, she can be found frolicking with her three-year-old; doing crossword puzzles; or yelling "point your toes" at SFYC students, Terra Nova High School's dance students, or anyone within earshot.

Evan Tomlinson Weintraub

  • Evan Tomlinson Weintraub is a professional performer, coach, and director who started in circus in 2005 at the Circus Center in San Francisco. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Theater from Colgate University and is a graduate from the National Circus School in Montreal as a Chinese hoop diving and acrobatics specialist.  Credits include: Creative Director and Writer for Circus Harmony’s “Unbound” (2025), Acrobatic Designer for {IN}Tangible (Off-Broadway, 2024), Human Performance Specialist for Cirque du Soleil’s “Twas the Night Before…” (2024), Acrobatic Designer and Coach for “The Secret Garden” (2022, 2023), and Assistant to the Director and Assistant Stage Manager for “Dear San Francisco” (2021).  Evan has also performed on Canadian and German television and on stage with internationally-renowned circuses such as Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, Yonder Window Theatre Company, Quatuor Stomp, and MonLove Productions.  Learn more at www.evantw.pro

Layla Tripod

  • Layla Tripod is a San Francisco based circus artist best known for all things that spin. She studied dance beginning at a young age, which gives them an extensive knowledge of artistry, technique and ability to design choreography that captivates the eye. After originally focusing on Tissu, Layla switched her focus to Aerial Hoop which has become her specialty apparatus. She has since followed her love of circus arts around the globe, teaching and performing internationally in Europe, India, Mexico and New Zealand.

Cast

Rosemary Le

  • Rosemary Le is a circus artist specializing in the aerial cyr wheel.  She grew up with a varied movement background of dance, gymnastics, swimming, and martial arts, but always felt like a dancer at heart. In the throes of pursuing her PhD at Stanford University, she discovered aerial hoop in 2016, and it was exactly the physical and creative outlet  she needed. Her interest intensified upon discovering the San Francisco Circus Center, at which point she decided that a circus sabbatical was in her near future. Those plans were put on hold when the pandemic hit, but she spent that year delving into her own practice and art.

    Emerging out of the pandemic, she has performed with companies such as Dahlias Entertainment and People Circus Theatre, at venues such as The Great Star Theater and The Children’s Creativity Museum, in productions such as the Moisture Festival and Paul Nathan's Dark Kabaret, in the Bay Area, Seattle, and beyond.

    As of November 2022, she's had the privilege of taking a circus sabbatical, and now pursues her art full time. She's honored that People Circus Theatre is a part of this journey.

Joey the Tiger

  • Joey is a visually stunning aerialist known for his strength and graceful movement.  On stage a good part of his life by way of performance groups, he has naturally taken to the skies.  He performs on a variety of apparatus, specializing on dance trapeze and aerial straps.  He has trained at the San Francisco Circus Center as well as Chez Victors’ and L’Acadamie du Monastere in Montreal. He is a resident artist at Berber in SF, codirected “Circus Pop Ups” as well as produces and directs the fundraiser “Spectrum”.  Other performance highlights include: Montreal Completement Cirque, medalist at De Leon Cirquefest, Drago’s Odditorium, Cirquantique, Cirque de Boheme and Bow and Arrow Circus.  He currently teaches and performs around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mikayla Dinsdale

  • Mikayla Dinsdale began her training at the San Francisco Circus Center at ten years old. She continued her career at ÉSAC (École Supérieure des Arts Du Cirque) in Brussels, Belgium. Recent credits include: Immortals of Aveum (motion capture artist), Reindeer Games with People's Circus Theater, and the off-broadway production of {IN}TANGIBLE. She is thrilled to be working once again with the incredible cast and crew of PCT to help bring Felicity Hesed's beautiful storytelling to life.

Scott Dare

  • Scott is a Chicago based circus and physical theatre artist. Born and raised in the bay area, he's grateful for the opportunity to join the incredible team at People's Circus Theatre. In addition to his circus pursuits, Scott holds a Masters degree in Contemporary Theatre from Royal Holloway, University of London and a Black belt in traditional martial arts. Over the last 15 years, he's appeared on stages in London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Orlando, San Francisco and has toured nationally. Other favorite collaborations include working with Actors Gymnasium, Physical Theatre Festival, Theater Unspeakable, and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble. More at scottjdare.com.

Yasmina Bourdais

  • Yasmina is an Alumni of the San Francisco Youth Circus, the pre-professional performance program at Circus Center. She currently attends SFSU, double majoring in Cinema and Race & Resistance, with an interest in combining Film with Circus Arts. (Check out her film “Traversing Tarot” on YouTube, an official selection of the 2023 Circus International Film Festival) Yasmina collaborated with previous People’s Circus Theater productions; she enjoys character work and especially ensemble work! When onstage, she brings her full presence and expressive energy. When backstage, she is very quiet; because it’s backstage; and she doesn’t want to disrupt the show; obviously. Most importantly, she puts her all into everything she does, and hopes her love of Circus rubs off on the audience!

Lex Baesen

  • Lex Baesen is a San Francisco based acrobat, dancer, and aerial artist. They’ve performed a wide variety of circus disciplines like dance trapeze, hoop diving, acrobatic dance, flying pole, silks, acrobatic jump rope, and columns/pyramids. They received their BA in Dance with a focus on performance and choreography from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2016. Lex is a company member of People’s Circus Theatre and was a choreographer for their production of The Secret Garden in summer 2023 and played Comet in Reindeer Games in Fall 2023. Lex is excited to continue working with PCT in their production of The Nightingale!

Cami Boni

  • Born and raised in Baja, northern Mexico, Cami’s path started with theater at 8 years old, but she has always had a huge interest for circus arts which led her to start training aerials during her teen years in 2011. She quickly fell in love with this type of training. In 2015 she started working on big top tent circuses around Mexico in both traditional circus and more contemporary projects. Mentoring other artists and directing has been a big part of her career, especially during the last 2 years when she started her own collective in Mexico, Casa Cachora.

Annie Fraser

  • Annie's first exposure to circus was at the age of 6, when she attended summer camp at Circus Center. She spent her teen years as a member of the San Francisco Youth Circus, specializing in hoop diving and acrobatics. Since then, she has developed her skills in partner acrobatics, teeterboard, and unicycle. She is excited to add her skills to the talented ensemble cast of The Nightingale! 

Asha Jimenez

  • Asha is an acrobat with two decades of experience spanning competitive gymnastics, cheerleader stunting, and acrobatic street performance. Asha’s movement is informed by a multidisciplinary practice that includes dynamic standing and Icarian partner acrobatics, hand balancing, Lyra hoop, outdoor rock climbing, and Latin partner dance.

    Asha has taught acrobatics workshops and retreats across the world from San Francisco to Sri Lanka, Toronto, Hawaii, and Austria. She teaches technical skills and dynamic sequences, trio acrobatics, as well as therapeutic acro. She focuses on alignment and technique while keeping sight of what brings her practice alive: exploration and play.

    Most recently, Asha performed with a trio of street performers in Barcelona. She choreographed and was the flyer in a playful show that involved clowning, trio stacks, swinging, and three highs.

    Beyond acrobatics, Asha is an herbalist, medicine maker, forager, and UX researcher focused on social change.

James Dallape

  • James Dallape is an aerialist and acrobat from San Francisco. He graduated from the SF Youth Circus in 2018 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Urban Studies from Brown University. While he was in college, he continued to develop his circus practice with the Brown Aerial and Acrobatics society. In his free time, James enjoys running, playing piano, and studying languages.

Landyn Endo

  • Landyn (they/he) is a queer, transmasculine-of-center dancer and aerialist, specializing in lyra and silks. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a double major in Dance and Drama. Since graduating, he has enjoyed dancing professionally in LA and on tour with Multiplex Dance Company, helping to found the West Hollywood Dance Festival. He also had the opportunity to perform in Europe with DTM2 Improvisational Ensemble, Off-Broadway in NYC, and in Japan in “Dreaming Forward,” an artistic collaboration with choreographer Motoko Hirayama, as well as teaching dance for two years in Grenada. He has been an instructor of circus, dance, and gymnastics for 17 years, and since moving to the Bay Area can be found teaching at the San Francisco Circus Center and VRV3. He has most recently had the honor of performing in Dark Side of the Circus and Saturnalia with Bow and Arrow Circus, and premiering his aerial lamp duet in The Longest Night. Landyn has a deep passion for encouraging queer and trans youth to find their voice through movement and art.

Leó Lefèvre

  • Leó Lefèvre (he/him & they/them) is a multidisciplinary circus artist, performer and teacher. With a background of over a decade competing nationally in artistic gymnastics, they also majored in performing arts in college, (choreographing routines and studying various forms of dance including ballet, modern, contemporary, hip hop, & vogue). This all led to performing professionally nationwide with different circus companies & various traveling troupes. 

    Most notably with; Portland Art Museum Circus exhibition event in 2018, Sir Cupcake’s Queer Circus Troupe 2017-18, AYCO Philadelphia festival in 2017, “Elements” Show with Portland Circus Project Company in 2019, Choreography and performance in “Travelling Tarot” film (featured in International Circus Film Festival 2021), and lastly as a character and ensemble member in People’s Circus Theater, “Secret Garden” 2022-23, in San Francisco. 

    His specialties are handbalancing, tumbling, partner acrobatics, and dance. They also have experience within a wide variety of aerial apparatuses, and enjoy learning trapeze, pole and lyra. He started teaching at Circus Center in 2021, shortly after moving to San Francisco. They’ve been teaching and performing locally throughout the Bay Area since then.

    If not upside down, you can find him biking, baking, or spending time with his cat.

Matan Presberg

  • Matan has been juggling since he was 6 years old. He started off juggling with the Rochester Juggling Club and has since started juggling clubs, served on the Board of Directors of the International Jugglers' Association and as their Marketing Director. He's performed at Juggling Festivals across the US, as well as in Canada, Mexico and Taiwan and is excited to be in his second People's Circus Theatre Show.

    Matan has won numerous awards for juggling, including being voted in the Top 40 Jugglers in the world, being included in the Guinness Book of World Records, and medaling in the IJA Juggling Championships.

Meghan McClure

  • Meghan McClure is a juggling, and dance trapeze specialist, passionate about ensemble interdisciplinary performances. She loves thinking outside the box to create new ideas with her movement and expression. 


    After growing up touring with the Flying Gravity Circus, she pursued professional training in Oregon before co-founding her own circus company Constructive Interference Circus. Now Meghan regularly performs on the East and West coasts, as well as sporadically in the midwest and Canada. She is passionate about pushing her technical and artistic skill levels while working in collaboration with like minded artists. 


    Outside of performing and teaching circus, Meghan is a competitive gymnast in both Men’s and Women’s gymnastics where she holds national and regional championship medals. In her spare time you can find her reading a book, making frog stickers, or watching the ducks swim at the local park.

Giovanni HunzekerHesed

  • Giovanni is a 14 year old dancer, juggler, and acrobat. They are a proud member of the San Francisco Youth Circus, and they train in the dance conservatory at High School of the Arts. Performance credits include: Colin in The Secret Garden, Jack of Clubs in Alice!, Explorer in TRYBE, solo juggling act in Dropping the Ball, and Prancer in Reindeer Games.

Mara Lau-Seim

  • Mara Lau-Seim is a multidisciplinary youth circus performer with experience in aerial arts, acrobatics, hand balancing, contortion, and juggling. Mara has been training in circus arts for six years. She started her training at Kinetic Arts Center in Oakland in 2018, and moved to Circus Center in 2023 to continue her development. Mara has performed in three productions of Kinetic Arts Center’s Circus Gilly youth troupe, and multiple showcases with Circus Center. In addition to circus training, Mara has trained in gymnastics and classical ballet. Dance continues to be a source of artistic inspiration even though she’s fully dedicated herself to circus training. Mara has also been studying piano for nearly ten years, and music is another source of artistic expression. 

Lia Shusterman

  • Lia is a dedicated acrobat and handbalancer. She has been training in circus arts for three years, developing her skills as a part of the San Francisco Youth Circus. Lia has performed in multiple Circus Center showcases throughout the past few years. In addition to circus, she has a background in gymnastics, which continues to influence her movement. When not training, Lia can usually be found curled up with a good book, enjoying a movie, or sipping on a warm cup of coffee or tea. Lia is looking forward to pushing her limits as an artist and athlete as a part of the Nightingale.

Lila Siegel

  • Lila Siegel is a youth circus performer, dancer, actor, and former gymnast. She loves doing partner acrobatics and trains dance and theater 5 days a week, but she has only been training circus for a year. This is her first circus show, as well as her first professional performance. She also enjoys learning about math, history, playing board games, or watching movies. Lila is 11 years old and is in fifth grade at Adda Clevenger School.

Tali Siegel

  • Tali Siegel is a 14-year-old acrobat and actor. She has been training in acrobatics since age six. This past year, she started unicycling and very much enjoys it despite being, admittedly, a beginner. She has been part of youth productions at the Circus Center (such as Alice), where she currently trains. However, The Nightingale is her first professional performance! Tali is very excited to be part of The Nightingale, build performance skills, and gain experience. If Tali’s not at school or in the circus gym, she is either reading, playing the piano or hanging out with her friends or cat.

Production Team

Claire Mann

  • Claire is an aerial and flying trapeze performer with over ten years of experience. She started doing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of ten and migrated into the circus world when she was 15. She joined Les Aerielles, an all aerial circus troupe, and began performing in gigs around the Bay Area. While at university, she directed a dance team and also danced competitively. After graduating, she directed the youth circus troupe at Trapeze Arts in Oakland. During the pandemic, she realized her passion for film and producing and has delved into the production world. She has worked as a producer on many independent and student films including her first major short which she also wrote and directed. She currently works as a freelance producer, circus coach, and People’s Circus’ production manager.

Shelli Frew

  • Shelli Frew hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but currently lives in the weirdly wonderful city of San Francisco. After running away to join the circus (seriously), she got into writing (novels and short stories), immersive theater (acting, writing scripts, and producing), and costume creation. Her sewing focus is mainly circus costumes, historical recreation, and fantasy inspired. If you’d like to book her for a custom piece, you can find her on instagram @shellifrew.

Daniel Weiermann

  • Daniel Weiermann has designed lights for dance, theater and opera for over 20 years.  He holds an MFA in Lighting Design from Northern Illinois University and spent the following 15 years designing and consulting in and around Chicago.  Since relocating to the Bay Area, Dan is currently the Technical  Manager/Resident Lighting Designer  for Boxcar Theatre.. He is also an adjunct professor at Dominican University teaching lighting design.  His design work in the Bay Area includes LINES Ballet Training Program Performance Company,  ODC Pilot Program, ZiRu Productions, Ballet22, Ragged Wing Ensemble and Alayo Dance. His work at Oakland Ballet Five Decades of Dance, at the Paramount Theater resulted in them receiving “Izzie” (Isadora Duncan Dance Awards) and collaborations with Robert Moses, Amy Seiwert and Graham Lustig.  Theater installation projects include CounterPulse in San Francisco, Berkeley Unified School District, Shawl Anderson Dance Center and Flight Deck Theater in Oakland.  When he has some downtime, Dan enjoys teasing the wind with stunt kites and finding new trails for bike riding with his family.

Michelle Stine

  • Michele Stine is an actor, clown, and puppeteer.  They spend their time digging through trash and alleys for materials, much to her mother's dismay. Michele has performed with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rough House Theatre, Filament Theatre, Chicago Puppet Studio, Lifeline Theatre, Emerald City Theatre, Theatre Unspeakable, and some other companies too. They are a part of the 2024/2025 Puppet Lab Cohort through the International Puppet Theatre Festival. They like cheese-its and ice cream and talking about theatre audience experiences.  Michele thinks that “bios” are strange because it’s short for biography but we were given a word count of 150 words or less. Seems like not enough, but here we are.  Are we at 150 words, yet? Oh, and Michele has spent over fifteen years working as a theatre educator in Chicago, Illinois; working with young people to develop strong storytelling skills and creating dreams out of cardboard and glue. Exciting!  You can find more of her work at www.michelejoystine.com

Colin H. Johnson

  • Colin H. Johnson is an award-winning multi-hyphenate filmmaker, show-runner, designer and educator who has been operating in the Bay Area since 2008. He is the founding Artistic Director of Awesome Theatre – a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) – and Creative Director of Troubleshoot Productions, LLC, where his projects have been showcased across several mediums, productions, publications and international festivals. You may have caught his work at Z Space, SF Playground, Circus Center, The Clown Conservatory, Pianofight, Eclectic Box, Another Hole in the Head, Unnamed Footage Festival, Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Fest, Comic-Con International Film Festival, Circus International Film Festival, Circus Bella, and Image Comics -- among others. He strives to create collaborative, innovative and inclusive environments within the arts space and takes the word “unproducable” as a personal challenge.

Zephaniah Bensaid

  • Zephaniah Strand Bensaid (it/they) has a circus background, but spends a lot more time backstage nowadays. A graduate of the San Francisco Youth Circus and later Circus Center's Clown Conservatory, their real passion is behind-the-scenes work, where they use their aerial and clown training to support artists on stage as a follow-spotlight operator, assistant stage manager, rigger, and more. In addition to working backstage or in the booth for more People's Circus Theater and more Circus Center shows than they can list, they've worked with various companies around San Francisco, including but not limited to Circus Something, Boxcar Theatre, Ray of Light Theatre, and Awesome Theater.

Fernando Gambaroni

  • Performed in Off-Broadway shows such as: Mac Wellman's 'Cellophane,' Len Jenkin's 'Like I Say,' and A.R. Gurney's 'Mrs. Farnsworth.' Was a founding member of The Hive, an Off-Broadway theater company that produced successful runs of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Imaginary Invalid.’

    Fernando was also a teacher at HB Studio, an acting school founded by Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen. It was there that he developed the course 'English for Actors.’

    His solo show 'just don't touch me, amigo' premiered at The NY Fringe Festival in 2009 and was restaged seven times after that: four times in New York, once in Buenos Aires, and twice in Mexico City (in 2016 and 2017).

    He is a member of Baloney, San Francisco’s Gay All Male Revue.

    His graphic design and marketing work started in 2007 and continues until today. He is back in San Francisco and working at Circus Center after living for three years in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.

Kapi Lee

  • Kapi Lee enjoys training in various acrobatic disciplines including tumbling, hand balancing, and partner acrobatics. Preferring to stay out of the spotlight themselves, Kapi prefers to lend a hand backstage pulling for aerial acts.

Mara Hesed

  • Mara Hesed recently completed her second MA in psychology and is now a psychotherapist. Her first Master’s was in Dramaturgy. She wasn’t sure at that time if she wanted to be an actor or a director, so she landed somewhere else and did a little bit of everything. She is also a fine art painter and has written and workshopped performance art pieces of her own. Additionally, Mara teaches yoga and meditation, reads Tarot, makes podcasts, and sings. She is delighted to be a part of this wide-ranging project which appeals to her nature as a jack-of-all-trades but also comes naturally to her as Felicity’s sister. 

Chérie Charles

  • Chérie is a UK-based backing vocalist and session musician with a vibrant career in the music industry. After earning her BA Honours in Commercial Music from Westminster University, she began her journey working at a record company, followed by a role at a music promotion company. While these experiences gave her valuable insight into the industry, Chérie soon realised her true passion lay in the creative side—making music and performing.

    That decision led her to pursue a full-time path as a session musician and backing vocalist, working with various artists both live and in the studio. For over 17 years, she has been a key member of Billy Ocean’s live and recording team, touring internationally and performing to audiences worldwide. Known for her soulful tone, musicality, and professionalism, Chérie brings passion, energy and presence to every performance.

    Whether performing live to sold-out crowds or supporting artists in the studio, Chérie approaches each opportunity with heart, precision, and passion. Her love for music and commitment to her craft continue to inspire her journey as a performer and creator.

Carlos Caminos

  • Flamenco and Latino Guitarist with a strong focus on improvisation, technique and a

    broad repertoire that includes music from Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, United

    States, The Caribbean and Spain. He grew up in Venezuela studying Jazz and

    performing with Salsa, Merengue and Cumbia groups. He gradually began diving

    deeper into the tradition of Flamenco Guitar until he moved to Granada (Spain, 2001) to

    study with Flamenco Masters of Andalucía.

    Carlos Caminos also composes music for Contemporary Dance and Physical Theater

    performances and has worked for performances at The Mission Dance Theater Dance

    Festival, Liberation Academy (Directed by Sarah Crowell), Raiz De Agua (Directed by

    Juliana Mendonca), as well as comedy shows such as La Corbata Musical in

    Venezuela, among others.

    He has been living in the Bay Area since 2015, has performed in venues such as

    Yoshi’s, YerbaBuena and the Sound Room with a variety of projects and artist such

    as The Musical Art Quintet,Rebecca Kleinman Quintet, Theater Flamenco of San

    Francisco and Electronic Tango Group “Los Tangueros del Oeste” directed by

    Sascha Jacobsen (Latin Grammy Nominee, 2022), Flamenco Group Caminos & Torre, and more.