Role: Marketing Manager

MFA 2 Theater – Management & Producing

Russian-born and UK-raised, Vladimir has spent the majority of his time in Los Angeles creating and curating authentically queer experiences. With a goal of broaching together the mainstream and the grunge fringe, Vladimir aims to ensure that CalArts’ events are as engaging and wild as possible.

Role: Production Manager

BFA 3 School of Theater/XDP – Stage Management

sickass foo.

Role: Main Stage Technical Director

BFA 1 Experience Design & Production – School of Theater

Bio: You want me to write a what?

Noah Chapman Portfolio

Role: Co Scenic Designer for L-Shape

BFA 3 School of Film/Video – Experimental Animation

Fun Fact: sharks are covered in tiny scales called dermal denticles, which are closer to teeth than actual scales! Next time you see one tell it I say hi :^)

PJ’s Website

Instagram & Twitter: @sproutlette

Role: Co-Creative Director

BFA 3 Experience Design & Production – School of Theater

Nat is a cool dude who loves cowboys! As a queer transmasculine person from the American West, High Noon was a theme he was very passionate about pursuing for this year’s Drag Ball. Nat can be found making puppets, critters, and playing with fake blood

Role: Assistant Technical Director

BFA 4 Experimental Animation – School of Film/Video

Erin Soo Yeon Park is a versatile animator, designer, and art director mainly focusing on video installations and 2D animations. Park’s work delves into the complexities of memories, unconscious thoughts, and dreams, exploring the interplay between them and how individuals’ perceptions shape different truths and recollections. With a keen interest in creating immersive experiences, she expands her creative pursuits into event planning, experience design, and curation, exploring new avenues to engage audiences and evoke profound emotional responses.

Instagram: @chxshxrn

Role: Performance & Marketing Art Director

BFA 4 Acting – School of Theater

Aviana Glover (Art Director) is an actor, clown, director, and multimedia artist hailing from Las Vegas, NV. As a clown they have performed multiple times at CalArts, creating their own acts which embody the grotesque, sexual, and hilarious. In their tenure at CalArts they have directed, been a part of the creation of live installations, and acted in multiple productions. Drag Ball has always been their favorite event at CalArts, and they are excited to help bring a dusty, dirty, rootin tootin version of it to life…

Instagram: @avianaglover

Role: Performance Stage Manager

BFA 1 School of Theatre – Stage Management

Logan Masters is a theatre technician from Irvine, CA where he worked with Uni Theatre Arts on various productions to gain his working knowledge in the theatre. He has since come to Calarts to further his experience and has worked on productions such as Halloween 2023: Ethereal Convergence, Wealth & Hellness, Herakles, Drag Ball 2024: High Noon, and soon– Graduation: 2024. He is always searching for new challenges and looks forward to finding them in further projects around campus.

Role: Co Scenic Designer for L-Shape

BFA 4 Experimental Animation – School of Film/Video

Animator from the Bay Area.

Rita’s Portfolio

Role: Exhibit Designer and Dramaturg

BFA 4 Experience Design & Production – School of Theater

Zoë Lappin is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Los Angeles, California. Their work centers queer expression and escapism through immersion, often utilizing video and subverting traditional theatrical norms. Their work includes creative direction for Grotesque Burlesque & CalArts Drag Ball: Queer Wrestling Entertainment (2023), production design for CalArts Halloween: Ethereal Convergence (2024), dramaturgy for CalArts Drag Ball: High Noon (2024) and video design for Faust: A Digital Fairytale, daughter, The Fig and the Wasp, and more.

Zoe’s Website