Carla Petrulli - Roko
Performing with Cirque Macabre for many years now, Carla Petrulli loves to include the audience in her performances.

Art imitates life for Carla. When she’s not performing on Lyra, she is a Makeup Artist for Trans Women and many diverse individuals. She thrives on helping others gain access to self discovery and creative fulfillment. You can learn more about Carla’s activities here:
www.seattlemakeupartist.com
www.circuswerks.com

Tamara The Trapeze Lady
Seattle’s original aerial socialite. She’s played London, Amsterdam, and France. They’ve all see her underpants. Thailand, Spain, and Italy have all been left more glittery. Her aerial feats leave them breathless. She dazzles with her wit, but her bawdy antics leave them pondering, “Who’s she fooling with that LADY bit?”.

Julie Istvan
Flexible... strong... daring... Julie can work magic on fabric, trapeze, sling, and hoop. Based in Leavenworth, she makes it to Seattle every week to train, teach and perform. She's an instructor at Emerald City Trapeze, and if you're lucky, you can see her perform all around the Northwest.

Ishya Silpikul
It's her first Cirque Macabre performance, but Ishya has been dancing on air - and loving it - since she began 9 years ago.
Ishya, whose specialty is cloudswing welcomes the opportunity to perform a dark and terrifying new act on aerial net, a rarely seen apparatus.

Corbeau
Corbeau is an up and coming single-point trapeze artiste as well as a contortionist in training.

An experienced Cirque Macabre performer, and an audience favorite, In Night Terrors they will be performing a terrifying contortion based flexibility act.

Saskia Brown
This masked creature builds high-rises by day and performs death defying stunts by night. While sometimes referred to by the name Saskia, this creature hails from the far away land of terrifying children’s books, also known as Germany. While Its first love is aerial rope It can also be found on the lyra and pole if the time is right. It discovered Its love for a rope two years ago and has been addicted ever since. Today Saskia challenges social norms both on and off the stage and keeps em guessing.

Amy Funbuttons
Amy has performed in many Versatile Arts shows, including the recent Seven Sisters of Sleep. She specializes in aerial hammock and likes to play on rope as well. This will be Amy's first Cirque Macabre appearence.

Jen Ryan
Jen came to circus from a visual arts background with a recreational interest in athletics. She instantly fell in love with the combining of these 2 elements inherent in the circus arts. Jen is currently on a quest to make aerial art that isn't pretty. Her newest exploration to this end is work on aerial chains and she's excited for the opportunity to work with Cirque Macabre on their latest production.

Kimberly Zmolek
Kimberly is a local aerialist who enjoys performing on silks, rope and slings as a soloist and as part of the duo Top Shelf Aerial. She also teaches aerial skills at Versatile Arts and is a Pilates teacher.

Thomas Heasley- Narrator
This is Thomas's first Cirque Macabre apperance. He's an experenced perfomer, appearing in many Versatile Arts performances including the famous Princess Bride Manuary show.

Meredith Armstrong- Stage Tech Lead / Performer
Where circus is concerned, Meredith is as happy onstage as she is backstage. In this, her first time working with Cirque Macabre, she gets to do some of both. She usually sticks to the more horizontal apparatuses, but this time you might just find her dangling from the end of a rope.

Ryan Georgi- Stage Tech / Performer
Ryan is a regular at Versatile Arts. If you're lucky, you've seen him in the air dressed as a dinosaur. ROAR!!!!

Kelly Ward - Director / Writer
Kelly's a supervillain at heart. Her love of dark circus arts led her to found Cirque Macabre with Dreams of Cthulhu in the 2014 Seattle Fringe Festival. Since then, she's performed all over town... in addition to appearing in Portland at the opening of the 20th Anniversary H.P Lovecraft Film Festival. She's appeared in several shows at Versatile Arts, including the last two Silver Fox shows.

Marty Badger - Producer / Technical Director
A lot of work goes on behind the scenes in a production. As the producer of Night Terrors, Marty Badger is responsible for almost all of it. In addition to designing all the graphical artwork, he'll be in the tech booth for all three shows.