Grace Towers is a Latinx, San Francisco based drag artist. Her beginnings with performance started in San Diego with San Diego Dance Theater, Malashock Dance and LIPS San Diego. Through her art she chooses to celebrate joy, intergenerational exchange and creative exploration. No matter the event or show, you will find that her many touch-points share a common theme of self-love, community empowerment and the use of DRAG as a portal for change—all with effortless Grace, style, and poise.

Kelsey O. Daniels is an artist organizer baddie scholar from Southeast San Diego. Their work centers on storytelling, world building, and dreamwork as tools for liberation. As a fat Black queer disabled femme, Kelsey honors her ancestors and descendants by revoking consent from the failed experiment of white supremacy & dreaming up worlds that are affirming and lit. Through poetry, performance, and mixed media, they explore themes of identity, imagination, and ancestral memory, inviting audiences to engage in active relationship with themselves and their communities. She curates a creative universe called Black Dream Experiment that explores Black dreaming as a collective ancestral, wellness, and liberation practice. When Kelsey is not moving in her public roles she enjoys going to the beach, cackling until her sides hurt & listening to her comfort playlists.

Miki Vale is an international performing artist and U.S. cultural ambassador of Hip Hop, teaching artist, Old Globe-commissioned playwright and founder of SoulKiss Theater, an arts education organization centering and celebrating the voices of Black queer womxn. Miki has performed, spoken and taught at landmark venues and festivals in the US and internationally, from San Diego and D.C. to Egypt, Chile and India. For her contributions to Hip Hop culture, Miki has earned a San Diego Hip Hop Honors Award, a Female Perspective Award, and the 2021 San Diego Music Award for Song of the Year for "Bad Wolves", a song condemning anti-Black racism. For her work within the LGBTQ community, Miki was awarded the 2017 Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Honor @mikivalethemc

Faith Carrion (she/they) was just seen at Diversionary in the world premiere of "TLDR: Dyke Remix". They are happy to be back at The Old Globe after playing Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors and as a current Teaching Artist for the Arts Engagement Team. She is honored to celebrate this Pride season at such an incredible institution.

Madeline Grace Jones is a Dallas, Texas Native. Actress, Singer, Director, Dancer. Credits: LA Pride Performer,  The Old Globe: Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Fat Ham. The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Saint Monica in the Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Lucio in Measure for Measure. Recent: “Legends of the Hidden Temple” (CBS). Education: B.F.A. Acting from Drake University. Regional: Sofia in The Color Purple, The Wiz in The Wiz, West Side Story, Godspell, 2019 Assistant Artistic Director (Hope Rep Theatre), associate company, Head Over Heels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Memphis (Playhouse on the Square). Other: founder, artistic director of Grace Productions, LLC. madelinejones.net, aesthetic_thespian on IG

Sophia Araujo-Johnson is honored to be a part of this pride celebration with The Old Globe. Sophia recently made her Diversionary debut as “T” in TL;DR Thelma & Louise D*ke Remix. She is also a performer in various San Diego theme parks where she has been working for nine years. Thank you to The Globe for bringing us all together for this event!

San Diego born and raised Mo Meaux began their journey as a performer at the age of 14 in their first dance class at San Diego’s School of Creative & Performing Arts. Mo has danced and served with various community organizations and companies such as Future Shock/Culture Shock San Diego, Funkanometry, Urban FX, The House of Mo to name a few. In 2012 Mo took their career overseas to dance, perform, teach, choreograph, & mentor. Some of Mo’s credits include Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2020 & 2021, China’s Got Talent, corporate brands such as Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Diesel, Levi’s, The W Hotel, Absolut, Huawei, Chevrolet as well as contributing to the launch of dance studio franchises such as 5KM, GH5, & Millennium China. Aside from dancing Mo is a full time Drag Queen performing at Lips San Diego nightly & apart of various events worldwide. Mo remain’s devoted to their work and will continue to expand/refine their craft over time as well as share their love and passion through drag, dance, choreography, & performance.

Giuliana was born in 1993 in San Diego, California, and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. At 13, she began to pursue music with the need to write and sing about her perspective living and growing up on both sides of the border. In 2016 she showcased her skills both as a performer and songwriter with her live album Giuliana (En Vivo). Home of her hit “Los dos queremos” broadcasted in major radio stations throughout the region. Giuliana has toured and performed in both the US and Mexico opening acts for Carlos Rivera, Pablo Alborán, Gloria Trevi and others. In the past few years, she released songs fully embodying her spirit of activism like “Calor del Fuego” and “No Soy Tu Baby.” In 2020 became an ambassador for Martin Guitars. Giuliana is currently recording her second album as has just released the second single of it titled “Todo lo que puedo.”

Incendio Producciones was founded on June 21, 2011, in Tijuana, México, established as the CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN, PRODUCCIÓN Y DIVULGACIÓN DE ARTE ESCÉNICO , TEATRO EN EL INCENDIO (nonprofit organization).

It has distinguished itself through the research and creation of performing arts aimed at the contemporary spectator, with a language designed for the reception conditions of the massified and hyperconnected audience. Its objective is to strengthen the connection of theater with young audiences to raise awareness and sensitize them to socially relevant themes.

With a constant presence on the Tijuana border, it has maintained a repertoire of original works and has executed pedagogical projects for all audiences, as well as for performing arts professionals, such as the Post-Pandemic Art Fest "Contagio Tijuana." The aim is to disseminate contemporary creative tools that allow the expressive needs to be manifested assertively for diverse target audiences.

It has produced more than 40 works of performing art and has participated in national and international festivals in Argentina, Colombia, and the United States in the cities of San Diego, California, and Washington, D.C., as well as in the Muestra Nacional de Teatro of Mexico in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2021.

It has benefited from the Programa de Apoyo a Grupos Artísticos Profesionales de Artes Escénicas “México en Escena” and from the first edition “México en Escena” Grupos Artísticos from the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales.