Ori Quesada is an acrobat, teaching artist and acrobatic choreographer born and raised in the Bay Area. He began training and performing at age 7 under Master Lu Yi and Teacher Xia Ke Min in traditional Chinese Acrobatics at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts (now Circus Center). Spanning over 25 years, Ori has had the privilege to perform with many amazing circus companies around the US and has taught and choreographed in circus and performing arts programs all over the Bay Area and around the country. He is excited to be part of the creative team for Reindeer Games this holiday season in his first production with the People’s Circus Theatre.

Kiss My Black Arts (KMBA) is a grassroots visual arts platform supporting and producing innovative cultural development projects throughout the greater SF Bay Area since 2012. Founded by Installation Artist Derrick (Rtystk) Shavers, KMBA is both an artist collective and an organizing entity using public art (murals, street art, poster projects, and installations) to uplift social, economic and racial justice messaging. Specifically, Shavers' work provides creation, support, and maintenance of murals; community events and exhibitions; community education projects; publications; and grassroots advocacy work while crafting enrichment environments for inner-city communities through partnerships with local artists, nonprofits, schools and businesses.

Victoria Ordeman (she/her) is a Costume Designer specializing in Circus, Musical Theatre, and Dance. Victoria has designed across the country for Circus, Shakespeare Festivals, Regional Theatres, and Universities, and has been nominated for a Broadway World Regional Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for her work at Mad Cow Theatre. She is currently on the wardrobe team for The 7 Finger’s Dear San Francisco and has costumed for Walt Disney World, Cirque du Soleil, and Blue Man Group. In addition to costuming, she is a multi-disciplinary performer spanning stage, film, circus, and beyond. She is delighted to continue working alongside Felicity Hesed, and is excited to see People’s Circus Theatre grow. Victoria’s additional performance and costuming credits can be found at vordeman.wixsite.com/victoriaordeman.

A true Queer Latinx Renaissance human. They mix their studies in Performative Art, Acting, Dance, Multimedia, Costumes, Set Design and their love for theater to instill their own style of culturalism, carrying with them the weight of the universal struggle to defend one’s own. A founding member of LatinxMafia, they have participated in international festivals such as FITLA, (International Latin Theater Festival of Los Angeles), the Edinburgh Theater Festival and the Ibero-American Art Festival and currently participating in the 51st International Cervantino Festival. They have collaborated with greats from the “Chicano” community, toured his one man show Seeking the Last Gay Man in 2021-23, and produced and starred in La Leyenda de Georgia McBride in Mexico City.

Rosemary Le, PhD is a multidisciplinary circus artist specializing in aerial hoop, hammock, loops, and an invented apparatus. 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: higher dimensional dancing. As of November 2022, she's had the privilege of taking a circus sabbatical and creating to her heart's content. She is very excited that People's Circus Theater is a part of this chapter.

Fernando 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’s 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). His work as a graphic designer started in 2007 and continues until today.

The specialties of Yasmina Bourdais include hoop diving, acrobatics, and juggling, with many other tricks up her sleeve. She is currently attending SFSU to major in cinema, interested in combining film with circus arts- such as in Traversing Tarot (available to watch on Youtube at Mina Mnstr). While she loves performing on the stage, she’s also an aspiring director who adores working behind the scenes.

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, co-directed 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.