January 13th, 2025: The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD

Happenstance is an award winning theater company that creates visual, poetic, physical theater. With the simplest means -  humor, whimsy, music, silence, text, physical comedy, clown antics, object manipulation, vulnerability and generosity - they seek to elevate the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift the encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. Meaning is often found by happenstance.

Hot Todd Lincoln is The old Jewish man trapped in the old Jewish body! He’s a Baltimore based emcee, strongman, and sideshow performer. He connects with audiences using dry wit, bad puns, snappy suits, and inventive takes on strongman and sideshow stunts! He has been hosting and performing For the last 12 years locally, regionally, and internationally.

Instagram: @hottoddlincoln 

 www.themagicduel.com

When he was six years old, Mark Phillips learned how to magically make a cigarette vanish. Thankfully, Kentucky in the 1960’s was packed with six year old smokers.  Years later, performances at The Phoenix Playboy club paid for Mark's college education and made a career in show business look even more appealing. Since then Mark has performed at trade shows worldwide, headlined on luxury cruise lines, performed at the National Theatre and Kennedy Center and co-founded The Magic Duel Comedy Show which gives public performances in DC most Friday and Saturday nights. 

Born on April first, no joke, Ri Dickulous (they/she) has always aspired to grand weirdness. Beginning in 2014 Ri started their career in the danger arts of the circus world, beginning with sword swallowing. Quickly they were featured in places like Ripleys Believe It Or Not and American Horror Story. More recently they've been diving into more gentle, ephemeral arts of comedy, clowning, and bubbles.

Steve Major is a sketch comedian, improviser, stand-up, actor, and clown, who, along with his menagerie of real human friends, finds comedy by rejoicing and luxuriating in the absurd. In other words, he’s a big weirdo and he hopes he can make you laugh. He will be performing with friends: Julia D'Ambrosi Major, Brandon Ingram, and Katie Garbart.

Alex and Olmsted, winner of 3 Jim Henson Foundation grants, is an internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company based in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Daniel Maseda is a performer/writer from DC and a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier. He performs with multinational clown sect Bonjour Group, whose @endoftheworldcabaret premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His current project is a solo show about a man so polite you must scream at him. IG: @dan.nee.ell

They are a teacher, performer, and not a website designer. Katie is always ready to laugh at a good knock knock joke, or affirm your niche 90s reference. They are the hype man you need in your life to make you feel good about getting out of bed today. There's always time for a lil' treat in their book. Katie's religious beliefs fall under the two cardinal rules of "Never pass up a kids lemonade stand" and "True joy comes from sharing food you love".

The sea of blood is calling! Come join the throng and get sacrificed to Lil' Bigsby by Lil' Bigsby FOR Lil' Bigsby. There will also be a clown performance.