Monica Dudárov Hunken (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based performer who creates docu-adventure theatre including; Reading the Water, Blondie of Arabia, The Wild Finish, Hunker Down,  Outside the World and Mt Rushmore.  In NY, they have been produced at Culture Project, Exponential Festival,  The Brick, The Living Theatre, Polish Cultural Institute and HERE Arts Center.   Abroad: Australia’s Horse’s Mouth Festival, the Netherland’s DeParade Festival, Norway’s PIT festival, the Glastonbury Festival, among many others.    She was artist in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Fish Factory in Iceland and winner of the Patrolio Award for responding to social injustice through art.  They lead arts programming in refugee camps globally. 

Monica earned a B.F.A. in Drama from the Experimental Theater Wing and an M.A. in Educational Theatre at NYU.  She is an avid cyclist, has ridden through over 20 countries. As an activist she's worked with The Church of Stop Shopping, Resist Spectra, Time’s-Up!, New Sanctuary Coalition, on climate justice and immigration issues and as a direct action trainer with Beautiful Trouble, GreenPeace and Rainforest Action Network.  They co-founded Al Límite Collective and sing and play percussion with anti-fascist punk band ATP and Funkrust Brass Band.

Daddy Delight is your God and Savior. They play with the power of spirituality, sexuality and domination casting irresistible spells and blurring the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, recognizing that we are powerfully whole when in harmony with both. 

PROJECT : DRAGCYCLE

As US governments escalate attacks on Queer rights, we will bring the art of Drag into everyday life, in a celebratory, accessible form on a roving bicycle stage. We invite Brooklyn community to explore the freedom of Drag with help from our artist team and capture the transformation through photography.

We will bring a roving participatory Drag experience on a parade bicycle to Brooklyn communities to share the abundance of love we as Queer/Trans people do and MUST give ourselves and others in order to survive and thrive. As we face increasing attacks on our rights and existence, it is imperative to show everyone abundance in gender expression and joy in being exactly who we are and to ride in solidarity.   A team of artists will ride the bicycle, with a sound system playing upbeat dance music, a pile of colorful costumes and wigs, a make-up artist, and a photographer.   We will offer easy transformations in Drag for passersby on the street to try within our accessible pop-up DragCycle.  Once decked out in their new look, we will invite them to strike a pose for a photo to capture the moment.   We will take the bike on four voyages in late summer, creating our own parade.   Each time we will begin at a new location that was a site of an attack on the LGTBQ+ community to ground ourselves in the memory of those we're fighting for. After reflecting and grieving, we will set off to celebrate and fight like hell for the living!

We hope by bringing the Drag art form out into public view, we can work towards “normalizing” it.  We want to engage regular people on the streets, who might have never encountered Queer performance, or tried on clothes outside their assigned genders. We hope that by creating this joyful space of expression, people feel safe to have dialogue with us and push their curiosity to action through this transformational moment. We will dare to imagine a utopia of liberated self-expression, uncontained and overflowing.