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Ania Upstill

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At The Orchard Project: 2023

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I am a queer and trans performer, theatre maker and clown based in New York City. I love creating new work with different collaborators and pushing the boundaries of what performance can be, from circus, to drag installations, to musical theater and even ballet, celebrating LGBTQIA+ artists across a range of forms. In the past two years I’ve returned to my interest in environmentalism, combining art and science to create Exotic Blooms, a collaboration with the Auckland Botanic Gardens that combined drag and botany, and as a 2022 – 2023 artist in residence with the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program. My personal performance practice includes theater, circus, drag, music, and clowning. I have toured to Palestine with Clowns Without Borders USA, and performed clown and drag acts at venues in New York City including House of Yes, The Duplex and The Tank. My solo clown show exploring gender, Transhumance, won a Best Weekly Award for Physical Theatre and Circus at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2020 and four star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2022, and Too Much Hair, a show I co-created in 2022, was nominated for Best Ensemble and Best Theatre for Social Change at the 2022 Wellington Theatre Awards.

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