The Executive/Artistic Director and founder of OX, Cornelius is usually the lead artist or director of OX productions, as well as the administrator running things behind the scenes.

Gabriele Christian is an artist specializing in experimental choreography, high dramatics, social practice, and poetics. For more than ten years, their work has metabolized the vernaculars within BlaQ (Black+Queer) diaspora—futurity, afrovivalism, faggotry—through body-based live stage or public performances and digital interventions on their IG: @gabriele.mov. They are a founding member of BlaQ-led collectives: RUPTURE; OYSTERKNIFE; and blaQyard. At the heart of all of their work, they strive to excavate oral tradition and movement as conduits for equitable conversations around belonging, spirit, desirability, abundance, and care.

Born in 1981 in Uppsala, Sweden, Amanda works as a choreographer based in Stockholm.

By combining political theories and practices based on feminism, sex positivism, body positivism and queer utopianism, she creates works that challenge and question larger power structures in the modern world.

Cornelius and Amanda have been working together making performances for over a decade.

Saharla Vetsch (she/her) is a queer Somali American independent dance-based artist and drag performer currently rooted in the Bay Area. Saharla's journey is deeply intertwined with her passion for dance, her exploration of intersecting identities, and her desire to engage with multiple performance art forms. Saharla has worked with OX as a lead artist since 2023.

Fauxnique is an artist, performer, choreographer and writer. She made herstory as the first cis-woman to win a major drag queen pageant and subsequently, her solo performance works have toured nationally and internationally in wide-ranging contexts from nightclubs to theaters to museums — from Joe’s Pub, New Museum and the historic Stonewall in New York City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ODC Theater, The Stud, CounterPulse and de Young Museum in San Francisco, and in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Provincetown, London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Zürich, Paris, Reykjavik, Rome, Catania and Cork.

Lisa is a queer performer working across forms in drag, clowning and acting. They emcee weekly drag show Princess at San Francisco’s iconic bar Oasis. During the pandemic they emceed Princess weekly, creating digital gathering points for the queer communities of SF, the Bay Area, as well as folks from North America, South America and Europe. Lisa is a regular contributing artist with Detour Dance as a teacher and performer. They have been making new performances with OX since 2018.

Maria Silk is a performance artist based in San Francisco. She has presented shework at CounterPulse, Berkeley Art Museum, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Fierce! Festival, h0L0, and the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival, among other venues. Maria is a lead artist with OX She has been a Program Manager and Project Manager with OX since 2017. She is currently a PhD student in UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. silkwormqueen.com

Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel Oola was published in 2017 at the age of 21 by Henry Holt and HarperCollins. It was translated into German by btb, a division of Random House, in January 2020 and published as Ein Sommer in Big Sur. Her second novel Soft Core will be published by FSG in February 2025 in the US, UK, and France. From 2017-18 she wrote a regular column on gender and sexuality for Dazed Digital. You can find her written work in Granta, N+1, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Joyland and Playgirl. In 2021 she was a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist grant. She is represented by Annie DeWitt and Leslie Shipman at The Shipman Agency and by Gersh for film rights.

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