The Kinsey Sicks in "Oy Vey in a Manger" Program

TRAMPOLINA

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee and hitting every rock on the way down, Trampolina fell into show business by accident. Well, by an accident.

At age four, she was already an accomplished comedienne with her sister Benzadrina in a duo team called Ham & Cheese. During one fateful performance, Benzadrina fell asleep doing a tightrope act with a baby grand piano. Fortunately for the piano, Trampy happened to be underneath it all to break the piano's fall. And her leg. While recovering in the hospital and trying to remember who she was, Trampolina began humming the tune the piano made when it crashed. It was then and there she discovered a passion for music.

When she's not touring with The Kinsey Sicks and carrying all nine pieces of Trixie's luggage, Trampolina spends most of her days in a trailer park outside of Belton, Missouri waiting for Maury Povich to call her and tell her she IS the mother of a bastard child she conceived one spring break in Cancun.

TRIXIE

Not much is known about Trixie's early life, and frankly she prefers it that way.

Although she has enjoyed a multifaceted career as a gorgeous Caucasian-American, a really gorgeous African-American, and a somewhat unbelievably gorgeous AsianAmerican, Trixie has never allowed the complexity and depth of her character or her racial reassignment surgeries come between her and her many admirers. In addition to the considerable vocal and visual talents that she brings to The Kinsey Sicks, Trixie enjoys a reputation as a shrewd business person (she owns a chain of Las Vegas wedding chapels as well as numerous drive-thru divorce courts). Incredibly, she has also found time in her busy schedule to develop a signature line of cosmetics Spackletacular! (available at finer department and hardware stores everywhere).

During her rare moments of leisure, Trixie can be found at Tiffany's and Bergdorf's in the company of handsome (and generous) gentlemen. She has never married, and is addressed simply as "Trixie". As she has reminded her less glamourous Kinsey colleagues, great ladies of the stage and screen (Beyonce, Madonna, Lassie) find surnames superfluous.

WINNIE

Winnie had conventional parents. In fact, they attended conventions all the time. It was at an Amway Convention that they abandoned her. Luckily she was come upon and taken in by a band of radical lesbian tupperware ladies who raised her as one of their own pups. Winnie learned their ways, romping and tumbling with the other tupperlings of the herd, until they lay in a satisfied pile, smiling and burping (their tupperware). After a brief career as a governess for impressionable young children, Winnie moved into the performance world as a roadie for a heavy metal klezmer band (a period about which she will not willingly speak). Bitten now by the show business bug and with her youth solidly behind her, she waited for her opportunity and pounced upon it with gusto upon meeting the other girlz who were to become The Kinsey Sicks. It took several years for Winnie to get her chops, which she then immediately broiled and served to the audience on a bed of radicchio with garlic mashed potatoes and a horseradish coulis -- a feat that dazzled fans and critics alike. Winnie sees herself as an old-fashioned girl, and yearns for the days before the Great Vowel Shift. For relaxation, she enjoys mah jongg, macrame, and alphabetizing her recipes.

ANGEL

Angel is the identical twin sister of Kinsey Sicks foundress and Dragapella® emeritus Rachel. People constantly say that they can’t tell the two apart, although their miniscule size difference (Angel is a mere 11 inches taller than her twin, not the grossly exaggerated 12 inches) does provide a clue to discerning observers. efore joining The Kinsey Sicks, Angel was the go-to star for a wide range of self-financed Off-Off-OffBroadway darlings as Diddler on the Roof, Mary Poppers, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Toilet. Angel dropped out of show business after the reviews came in from a community production of Equus, in which Angel played the title role. After that, Angel turned to doing something a little more hands-on, working for renowned non-profits such as Doctors Without Boundaries and The Salivation Army. It was when she suddenly and unexpectedly lost her job with Toys for Tits that she “convinced” Rachel to retire from the group. We wish Rachel a speedy recovery and are grateful that, despite her unfortunate tumble from a cliff, she will continue to be able to write for the group and for her loving sister.

SPENCER BROWN Spencer is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York and joined The Kinsey Sicks in 2008. Recent stage credits include Golden! Girls Gone Wild (Blanche Devereaux), Hocus Poke Us! (Winifred Sanderson), and The Alternative Facts of Life (Blair). Spencer’s work over the years for Kansas City’s HIV/AIDS organizations has raised well over $100,000. When he’s not singing and mugging shamelessly as Trampolina, he can be found donning a blonde wig as Daisy Buckët (pronounced, of course, ‘bouquet’) who has won various honors including Queen of Kansas City Pride 2008 and Best Cabaret Show (f“Ban This!”). In 2018, Daisy released her debut solo album, “Pansy” to rave reviews, winning Best Local Album and Best 7” Single. In 2021, Daisy was awarded Heartland Men’s Chorus first ever Hero of Note Award for keeping the voice of the LGBTQ+ community alive. In November 2022, Daisy won Best Drag Artist for the second year in a row by The Pitch Magazine. Daisy’s sophomore album, a tribute to the music of Dusty Springfield, “Welcome to Springfield” was released this fall and won Best New Local Album for 2023. As Daisy, Spencer hosts Musical Mondays at Missie B’s in Kansas City, Missouri. missdaisybucket.com

JEFF MANABAT

Jeff is the longest-serving active member and music director of the The Kinsey Sicks, joining the quartet in 2004. He has composed dozens of the group’s 4-part vocal arrangements for original songs and parodies and has also designed many of their colorful costumes. In addition to his work in a cappella, Jeff also performs in and out of drag for stage and screen. Notable credits include voicing the English-language version of “Goldiva” in Netflix’s Super Drags –the world's first superhero drag queen animated series – starring alongside drag legends Shangela, Willam, Trixie Mattel, and Ginger Minj. He also sang the show's theme song. He is also the original voice of both "Sergeant Tapia" and "Jobert" in Netflix's Trese, which features America's first majority Filipino and Filipino American cast and creative team for a cartoon, joining FilAm stars Nicole Scherzinger, Darren Criss, & Lou Diamond Phillips, Shortly before joining the Kinseys, he was a member and musical director of The UC Berkeley's Men’s Octet, and helped lead the group to first place at the National Competition of Collegiate A Cappella held at Carnegie Hall.

NATHAN MARKEN

Lyric baritone and native of Illinois, Nathan Marken is thrilled to return to New Conservatory Theater Center stage having previously appeared in Devil Boys from Beyond (Mattie van Buren) and Xanadu (Thalia). Nathan first heard of The Kinsey Sicks in the early 2000s as a collegiate music student and joined as “Winnie” in 2014.

Regionally, he has performed the notable roles of Eddie and Eugene in the groundbreaking immersive experience The Speakeasy and the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch produced by Boxcar Theatre, The Rocky Horror Show (Brad), Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo). He has performed with Opera on Tap:SF, Goat Hall Productions, Parlor Opera, and has been a featured soloist with Soli Deo Gloria and the Mission Dolores Basilica Choir. Nathan holds a Masters of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is a graduate of the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music. He is also an avid advocate of animal rights as well as bicycle and transportation access.

JB MCLENDON

JB auditioned for The Kinsey Sicks the day after Christmas in D.C. in 2016 and is thrilled to be the most recent addition to the troupe. A native of Annapolis, MD, J.B. got his BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University. In his 30+ year career, he has performed in New York, Edinburgh, Key West, four years of Summer Stock in the Northeast, and has toured the country three times over. Favorite roles include Hannibal Lecter in Silence! The Musical, Clown #2 in The 39 Steps, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Patsy in Spamalot, Charlie in Charlie Brown, and Ben Franklin in 1776. Behind the scenes he has directed, stage managed, company managed, box office managed... basically he’s done it all (except lighting design)! Also a playwright, his first play, The Present, has been produced in NYC, Los Angeles, and Annapolis, MD. He owes a debt of gratitude to his other ‘drag persona’, Gassy Winds, for helping to provide inspiration for Angel. Special thanks to Bess, Erin, Dave, Michael, Phineas & Ferb (his fur babies), and his mother Andy for their continued love and support.

For nearly 30 years, America's Favorite Dragapella® Beautyshop Quartet has served up a feast of music and comedy to audiences at performing arts centers, music venues and comedy festivals throughout the US and internationally! Their phenomenal performance record includes an Off-Broadway show, an extended run in Vegas, two feature films and four concert DVDs, eleven studio and live albums, and appearances in over 40 US states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. The Kinsey Sicks' award-winning a cappella singing, sharp satire, and over-the-top drag have earned them a diverse and devoted following.

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