BIO

AEON WADE ANDREAS (they/he) is a transsexual, trans-disciplinary director, dance artist, drag performer, writer, sound designer, and gender terrorist working in the fields of theater, film, dance, and drag. Most of their work holds Queerness and Trans-ness as a tool through which to hold opulent darkness and abject joy in the same hand.

Aeon is primarily a director of new, multidisciplinary theater and film.

Aeon is based in Brooklyn, NY, and frequently works as an award winning drag and performance artist named God Complex. Aeon curates, directs, and produces ABSOLUTELY- a maximalist drag spectacular that collides installation art, environmental theater, and extraordinary drag.

Aeon has performed across the world as a dance artist and drag persona in places like Lincoln Center, Bonnaroo Music Festival, The Whitney Museum, LaMama, and The Chelsea Hotel.

He has creative directed, choreographed, and appeared in many music videos for artists such as Ladyhawke and Softee, and has opened for musicians like Twin Temple and Kristeen Young.

Aeon is a member of the Sideshow Theater company The No Ring Circus and the dance theater company Witness Relocation. For years Aeon was a resident artist at the world known nightclub, House of Yes. Aeon was on faculty at NYU Tisch’s PHTS for 8 years teaching contact improv, composition, choreography, and a drag practicum.

They have been featured in magazines and publications like Dance Magazine, The New York Times, Document Journal, Them, Paper Mag, and Colecta.

He graduated from NYU Tisch Drama in 2014 and is Represented by UGA Talent for film and by ZeeBeeDee Talent for modeling.

Culturebot calls Aeon “always rapturous.” Theatre is Easy calls them “a Bowie-like presence.” Friends have called them “hot and difficult.”