Mike Albo

Mike Albo is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. His first novel was the acclaimed "Hornito", and his second is the cult classic, "The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life". Albo is also known as The Critical Shopper columnist for The New York Times. He's performed numerous solo shows including "Spray", "Please Everything Burst", and "My Price Point" as well as with the comedy trio Unitard. Mike will perform a short monologue about Hungary.

Todd Almond

Todd Almond is a composer, lyricist and performer. His musicals include the award-winning PEOPLE LIKE US, and the upcoming shows WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE and ON THE LEVEE. Almond regularly performs his own material in NYC's top venues and he recently released a CD of original songs entitled MEXICO CITY. Todd will perform “Gloomy Sunday” aka the Hungarian Suicide Song.

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Adira Amram

Adira Amram is often seen roaming the streets, dragging around her keyboard and a dream.
will perform a song-and-dance number about space tourism inspired by Hungarian-American Microsoft exec (and space tourist) Charles Simonyi. Written with Nick Jones. Her newest album "Hot Jams for Teens" is available on iTunes and for more info you can check out adiraamram.com

Julie Atlas Muz

Julie Atlas Muz, Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island 2006 performs and makes art in every theater and genre that will let her. She just got back from shooting a fancy arthouse feature-length movie in France. Julie performs a burlesque tribute to Erzsébet Báthory, famed Hungarian female serial killer, known as the "Blood Countess.”  julieatlasmuz.com

Bekah Brunstetter

Bekah Brunstetter is proud to be the 2009 Ars Nova Playwright in Residence. She hails from North Carolina, and received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. She is currently working on a commission for the Roundabout Underground. bekahbrunstetter.com

Bekah presents the original short play "Bath", where two people meet and share a moment in a Hungarian bath. Directed by Kerry Whigham.
Kerry Whigham is a Drama League Directing Fellow, a graduate student at
NYU, and the current Director-in-Residence at Ars Nova. www.kerrywhigham.com

The Drunkard's Wife

The Drunkard's Wife THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE is a Cajun Gypsy Breakbeat Village ensemble with accordion, electronics, bassoon, lots of bass, costumes & props, and... a mummer!  It features these talented folks: Rachel Swaner, Christina Zawerucha,Craig Flanagin, Normandy Raven Sherwood, Amanda Ervin, Nick Demopoulous, Lisa Ludwig, Neil Hellegers, Kitcat Cabral and Lili Sotirova. The Drunkard's Wife will present "The Brides of Kodaly."

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Marianna Falusi

Marianna Falusi was born in Hungary in 1959. She has performed primarily jazz and pop music since 1983, and has appeared on "Hungary's Got Talent". A diverse artist, Falusi has performed in musicals, opera, film, operetta, and theater. She was also a member of the successful pop duo Pa-Dö-Dő, which has released 20 albums

Nina Frenkel

Nina Frenkel is an illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn. She has been working as a professional illustrator/animator since the mid-90s. Nina's maternal Hungarian family (the Kners), Hungarian folk art, and Hungarian mustaches, have all been of great influence on her work. Nina will present an original animation about the Hungarian mustache, created with Stefany Anne Golberg.

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Tanya Gagné

Tanya Gagné is a trapeze artist extraordinaire. She has performed solo trapeze in the U.S. and abroad with several companies including The Bindlestiff Family Circus and LAVA. Tanya is one-half of the
world-famous Wau-Wau Sisters, winners of the "Best International Act" title at the 2008 Brighton Fringe Festival, "Best Cabaret Show" award at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004 and "Best Troupe" award at Miss Exotic World 2005.

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photo credit: Marcy Robinson

Tanya will perform an aerial act accompanied by Metrofolk.

Nick Jones

Nick Jones [Cabaret MC and co-curator] is a playwright, director, puppet designer, and performer. Plays include: Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova), The Nosemaker's Apprentice (The Brick, with Rachel Shukert) The Colonists (The Brick), Little Building (Galapagos) and Straight Up Vampire: The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul (Philly Fringe Festival). He is currently a Juilliard playwriting fellow. Nick will MC and perform with famous Hungarian Harry Houdini.

Brian Magic

Magic Brian first discovered he should pursue variety entertainment as a career after failing miserably at a number of other occupations, among them: hot dog salesman, high-powered attorney, and Avon lady. Since then he has toured with The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, worked the sideshow stage of New York’s famous Coney Island and has even been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman. For Cabaret Magyar, Magic Brian will do the impossible—best Harry Houdini in a thrilling straightjacket escape.

Neal Medlyn

Neal Medlyn is a performer of note who resides in New York City. He does shows with pop songs in them. He likes to take it to the next level. Neal will be performing as famous Hungarian Alanis Morissette.

MetroFolk

MetroFolk is an NYC-based band playing traditional Hungarian, Romanian, Gypsy, and Jewish folk music from the Carpathian Basin. Started by violinist Jake Shulman-Ment and viola player Aron Szekely, the band is dedicated to presenting the sophisticated beauty and energy of traditional dance music.

Rachel Shukert

Rachel Shukert has written a variety of plays, too numerous to be listed here. She is—with Nick Jones and Peter Cook—a founding member of the Terrible Baby Theater Company, and with Stephen Brackett, the founder of the Bushwick Hotel. Her latest book, The Grand Tour, will be published by Harper Perennial in the summer of 2010. Rachel will present the original short play “The Three Gabor Sisters.”

rachelshukert.com

Sweet Soubrette

Sweet Soubrette features the ukulele playing and original songs of Ellia Bisker, described by BUST Magazine as "Brooklyn's fishnet-clad femme fatale”. She will perform two original Hungary-inspired love songs: “Odes to Hungary”, and “Attila the Hun” (with video by Hungarian filmmaker Monica Hoenig-Török).

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Rogaleski Suzanne

Suzanne Rogaleski is an artist who took to the air in 1999, training under Tanya Gagne (1/2 of the Wau-Wau Sisters). Suzanne has performed in many venues from Coney Island to the shores of the Red Sea in Egypt. For the November Cabaret Magyar, Suzanne will perform an aerial act to the sounds of Hungary’s Budapest Bar band.

Tigger

The first ever Mr. Exotic World, NYC “Boylesque” performer, Tigger has been the recipient of many awards including four Golden Pastie Awards and Best Boylesque 2006 at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Tigger celebrates the eldery Zsa Zsa Gabor in a burlesque performance.

Reggie Watts

Described as "Reggie Watts: Supercomedian. Faster than a speeding punchline" (Seattle Times), Reggie Watts regularly performs to thrilled crowds throughout the U.S. and Europe. Combining looped vocals created live on stage with his unique brand of improvised comedy.