BRANDY BUTLER

DIRECTOR

Brandy Butler is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, primary school music educator, and mother. She is a well-known activist and community leader and uses her creative tools to energize her work for a more inclusive, diverse and equitable society.

Her creative performative work is driven by storytelling, as well as the use of archival material as bridges between the past and the future. Her goal is to create authentic connective artistic experiences, across generations and timelines, that provides the possibility for people to authentically connect and community to be formed. Since the fall of 2019 she is an ensemble member of Theater Neumarkt. 

She is cofounder of braveneWWWorld, a collective that researches and develops creative content  (also in the form of tools) from and for the digital stage. She organizes The Black Performance Lab for queer Black people of color to redefine their long-abused narratives as performers. 

She is the founder and organizer of Switzerland’s first ever Drag Story Time, a program for primary school aged children that encourages young thinkers to open their minds to the possibilities of gender identity and diverse ways of living/being.

LESLIE PHILBERT

ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR

Leslie Philbert

Leslie Philbert is a professional production manager for artists.  Focusing on her incredible empathetic qualities, she strives to create a safe and caring space for all those that she works for. Originally she worked in administration for the city of Zürich's Social Department for almost a decade. Where she enjoyed the administrative and organizational work, she missed the creative and as a result sought a potential career that would combine both worlds.  Since 2020 Leslie has worked professionally as a production Manager at TanzHaus Zürich, and on a freelance basis for such projects as Zürich Moves.