BIOS

WILLIE the GENIUS

Credits include starring in Better Than You with The People’s Theatre Project, her award-winning Off-Broadway solo theater show WILLIE GETS NAKED!: Live from Unceded Munsee Lenapehoking Territory, or “Off-Broadway” as a part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and the feature film Sun with DLA Films. She has a B.A. in Mass Communication from the Dan Rather School of Communication at Sam Houston State University and has also trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade. More at ancestralhouseofgenius.org/willie-the-genius . She is also the founder and overall house mother for The Ancestral House of Genius, an LGBTQIA+ youth focused Ballroom house and media production house which provides vital community services. Fun Fact: WILLIE’s first job in high school was at NASA’s Office of Criminal Investigation. She is dedicating this performance in the memory of 1960’s Black trans music icon Jackie Shane.