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Leigh Crow (Captain Kirk) has been a Trekkie for longer than she can remember. She began her performing career in 1989 debuting her ground breaking Drag King act, Elvis Herselvis. As Hersevis, she toured the world and elsewhere during the '90s. Leigh also fronts the bubblegum preservation band the Whoa Nellies as well as the process American country band Velvetta. Veteran of literally hundreds of drag, rock and counter culture performances, she is pleased to do her first show here at Oasis. She was last seen as Captain Kirk in the closing credits of the hit 2014 documentary by Jennifer Kroot "To Be Takei".
Honey Mahogany (Uhura) gained worldwide fame as a cast member on Season 5 of the reality TV cult phenomenon RuPaul's Drag Race. Honey's recent work includes her debut EP "Honey Love", appearances on HBO's "Looking", and a role in the upcoming film "Hush Up Sweet Charlotte". Honey performs all over San Francisco, and hosts her own show and RuPaul's Drag Race viewing party every Monday night in the Castro at the Midnight Sun called Mahogany Mondays. http://www.itshoney.com
D'Arcy Drollinger's (Director)works include: "The Temple of Poon", "Shit & Champagne", "Mr. Irresistible", "Project: Lohan", "Scalpel!", "The Possession of Mrs. Jones", "Pink Elephants", "Above and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra Showgirls", "Suburbia 3000" and "The Cereal Killers". D'Arcy is co-owner and Artistic Director of OASIS, San Francisco's newest nightclub / cabaret. He has also worked as an actor, producer, director and choreographer. Other credits include: "The Producers" (first Broadway production), "Hairspray the Musical" (first Broadway production), "Glamour, Glory and Gold" (La Mama), and VH1's "Divas 2000" featuring RuPaul. He continues to direct and co-star in the long-running hit stage adaptation of "Sex and the City Live". Drollinger is the creator of "Sexitude™", the body-positive, age-positive, sex-positive dance experience based in San Francisco.
Laurie Bushman (Harcourt Mudd/Director) first staged "Mudd's Women", playing the role of Harcourt Fenton Mudd, in 2005 for Theater Tableau Vivant. Since then she has become a teacher at Children's After School Arts, teaching elementary school kids Cabaret and Performance Skills. Highlights have included roles in the live staged versions of "Three's Company", "The Golden Girls", and "Designing Women" – as well as the musicals "Scalpel!" at Brava and "Falsettos" at Theater Rhinoceros. For many years Laurie has hosted the Sing Along movies at the Castro Theater.
Amber Sommerfeld (Spock), Originally from Montana, she has her degree in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University. She recently performed with the Thrillpeddlers in “Club Inferno” as Karen Carpenter and Joan of Arc. She has also worked with Altarena Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Tabard Theatre Company and others. Her next show is “Love's Labour's Lost” (the musical) with Douglas Morrison Theatre. She is thrilled to be performing at Oasis for the first time! Live Long and Prosper!
Ms. France (Montgomery Scott) is beyond thrilled to be working on a D'Arcy Drollinger production again. She was lucky enough to play the 97-year old, murdering socialite Fritzy Fritzgerald in Scalpel! at the Brava Theater and 7+ characters in Project: Lohan at LaMama's in NYC. Despite unpopular belief, she is not really Scottish.
Zelda Koznofski (Leonard McCoy) is a core member of SF theater troupe Thrillpeddlers, performing in Shocktoberfest’s Fear Over Frisco, Bride of Death, Jack the Ripper, and Theater of the Ridiculous revivals of Cockettes’ Vice Palace, Hot Greeks, Tinsel Tarts, Pearls Over Shanghai & Tuck & Roll Players’ Club Inferno (as Judy Garland). Zelda starred in PLether Productions’ independent film Humans Being. She is partial to trilling jazz standards with abandon while folding the laundry.
Persia (Ruth) was born from the burgeoning creative mind of a child in South Central Los Angeles. With degrees from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Art Institute in one hand, and a few pairs of heels in the other, she set out to conquer and revolutionize the drag community. Persia began performing weekly at Esta Noche, the recently closed Latino gay bar in San Francisco.
Ammo Eisu (Hikaru Sulu) is an educator, artist, engineer, musician, and performer. They founded experimental bands Little Teeth, signed to fallen Bay Area legendary record label Absolutely Kosher, and feverish rock duo ZOO (like the bestiality fetish). They now focus on solo performances (under such monikers as Ammo Eisu, Pisseater, Homogeneous the Homo Genius, and Doña Molly Cakes), as well as building public interactive art pieces that serve as mirrors reflecting realities of racism, greed, love, lust, and childhood trauma.
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