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Tamysen Malles

as Dorothy

Tamysen Malles is an aerialist who has been instructing in Los Angeles for over 8 years. She competed and won first place in the inaugural year of West Coast Aerial Arts competition at the professionalism level and followed that up with two second place awards for doubles aerial. Tamysen also competed in and won first place in Lyra level 3 at Pole Sport Organization regional comp. and 3rd place in Pole Sport Orginizations Nationals in Lyra.

Tamysen is most proud of her accomplishments as a mom to three kids (all still alive and healthy) five lizards and one dog. 

Monica Miklas

as Alice

Monica, an aerialist with Aeriform Artists, is a Hollywood Fringe veteran, producing comedy ensemble Lost Moon Radio shows for five years and winning Top of the Fringe in 2012 and Best of Comedy in 2011 and ‘12. In 2015 she produced Hamlet-Mobile, a meditation on Shakespeare’s Hamlet staged in a converted utility van.

Monica also wrote a graduate thesis about fringe festivals: “Producing on the Fringe: The Impacts of Fringe Festival Structure on Participant Experience,” which includes a tool that artists can use to assess potential fringe opportunities and gain better insight into which fringes will be provide a good fit for their work.

Nicole Beckerman

as White Rabbit

Nicole discovered aerial arts after performing and teaching bellydance for 10 years in Cairo, Egypt and San Francisco. She has maintained a soft spot for emotional storytelling from her dance career, and now specializes in bringing the drama on hammock/sling and trapeze. Nicole is also honored to be an Aeriform Arts staff member.

Rox Kousaka

as Wicked Witch Of The West

Rox was born and raised in Los Angeles, and began aerial arts training in 2009. A student of sensual movement, Rox captures the fine line between reality and imagination, with an emphasis on character and costume design. An up and coming aerialist, who pushes the inner boundaries, Rox is furthering aerial education in pole, lyra, cube, trapeze, hammock and silks at Aeriform Arts in Hollywood.