Stasia Coup | Artie Thomas

Entry Point: Saturday, May 16, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

 Stasia Coup is the drag persona of transmasculine performance artist Artie Thomas. Stasia hails from Seattle's notoriously weird drag scene, where she has been performing for many years in venues ranging from dive bars to curated black box theaters. Her work has been featured all over Seattle in local drag shows, perhaps most well-known as a co-producer and cast member in the experimental drag/art show, Glory Hole. Stasia is the winner of the 2026 Residency at Betty Wetter's beloved drag show TUSH, has been showcased in On the Boards' Performance Lab, as a choreographer in Velocity's Bridge Project, as a guest resident for the Drama Tops' BASE residency Off the Lead, and as a featured artist in Velocity's 2024 Next Fest NW: Total Chaos.

Stasia's Entry Point intends to grapple with one of the weightiest questions of her life: whether or not to have a child. She invites you to spend an evening quietly exploring an altar-like installation of mementos, audio recordings, and writings, culminating in an intimate live performance from the artist. Come see what gets created as Stasia is pulled between hope, grief, longing, fear, uncertainty, and the potential death of her artistic career. Masks will be required.

"During this Base residency I intend to take dedicated, intentional time to sift through all the feelings around the biggest question in my life right now: should I become a parent? It's a loaded question for anybody, but asking it as a single, gay trans man in 2026 feels especially fraught. My intention is to create a lot of space around this question and see what art comes out of it."