Performing Art – San Antonio

San Antonio's gender-bending glam-bear queen Foxxy Blue Orchid is co-producer and emcee for the San Antonio Burlesque Festival, co-producer, emcee and cast member with the Midnight Menagerie in Austin, TX and was voted one of the Best Drag Queens in San Antonio Current's Best of 2015 Poll. She has performed on stages across Texas and beyond and is excited to bring her style of comedy to the RAW San Antonio Showcase stage. Foxxy Blue is also known as her Queer Xicano Poet alter-ego Dino Foxx. Foxx was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, is a nationally presented actor, singer, dancer, writer, spoken word poet, hip-hop artist, arts educator and activist. He is a founding member of Tragic Bitches (a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative) and a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. His poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press), the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing (2007), and Queer Codex: Chile Love (Evelyn Street Press/allgo). Foxx is the author of When the Glitter Fades and will also be featured in the upcoming poetry collection Joto: An Anthology of Queer Xicano & Chicano Poetry through Kórima Press. Photos by JPL Productions - Julián P. Ledezma.