Mouthy is a travelling queer girl performance and spoken word show. Members of Mouthy work in prose, poetry, song, burlesque, drag, and other live arts. Mouthy is JT Newman, JenFish Superstar, Rose Tully and Elizabeth Whitney. Encompassing a wide range of themes, Mouthy promises to delight, transfix, titilate, captivate, and always leave you thinking.

performer bios
JT Newman is a pop sensation that is sweeping the nation! Newman is a Chicago-based writer, performer and installation artist. She is an MFA student in InterDisciplinary Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago and a member of the spareroom, a time-arts based collective. She can be seen performing throughout Chicagoland and beyond. Recent venues include Bailiwick Arts Center, spareroom, Sissy Butch Brothers burlesque shows (Abbey Pub), and various others at Columbia College Chicago. Her written work has appeared in BUST, Windy City Times, Gay Sports Guide, Nightspots, and online at dykediva.com, and centerstage.net. You can read about her personal business on her blog at specialdelivery.typepad.com. She lives in Chicago with her partner, Lisa and two small, but ever-growing zygotes (soon to be known as "the twins").

Jenfish Superstar was born in 1973 in Michigan. Steeped in a traditional home of "Michiana" {michigan+indiana)-alcoholic-white-trash-dysfunction, Miss Superstar took the crap in her life and turned into rich fertilizer with her talent in writing and the visual arts. She began her college career in the mid-90's and graduated with a fine art degree in 2000. After the death of a mentoring college professor, jenfish became motivated to continue her artistic endeavors. They paid off. Since 1998, she has performed in six states, and recorded two spoken word albums. With the wit of Weird Al Yankovic and the pathos of Karen Finley, Jenfish Superstar is sure to either delight or repulse you!

Rose Tully is a fiction writer with a strong theater background who thrills in performing her work. She coordinated and hosted the writer's portion of the 2003 Lesbian Arts Festival in Chicago (presented by the Bailiwick Arts Center). She spent part of the summer partaking in a collaborative reading for Ladyfest Philly in July of 2003 as well as in various venues in her Chicago hometown. This past December, Rose was "Candy" in "I Want Candy" at the Sissy Butch Brothers' Gurlesque Burlesque. Rose is a senior pursuing her BFA in Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Any extra chunks of time left in her life are dedicated to professional mural painting.

Elizabeth Whitney should have been cast as the original Wonder Girl, but didn't have an agent at the time. She has done a lot of interesting things for money during her first nine lives, including, but not limited to, delivering singing telegrams in Florida and North Dakota, crooning jazz standards in Southern France, teaching yoga to seven-year-olds in Utah, dancing for dollars in South Carolina, and singing solo in the church choir in Alabama. After graduate school she became academic-ish, and now she writes, teaches, and tours her performance work to schools, galleries, and performance and theatre festivals all over the place. www.elizabethwhitney.com