We are humans first, and art is essential to our humanity. We strive for a more just and humane world, embracing the queerness in human experience – where collaborative art is an ongoing practice of radical community and collective healing. Performance is an embodied process for imagining, exploring, and deepening our humanity.
Grapefruit Lab is an old collaboration with a new name – bringing together the combined vision and multimedia experience of Julie Rada, Kenny Storms, and Miriam Suzanne.
Yoko Ono’s quip that a grapefruit is the hybrid of a lemon and an orange encapsulates our goal of combining highly-aesthetic, compelling artistic work with a process of creating alongside communities in ways that matter.
Julie is as a director, performer, and scholar. She has done theater and performance art for over 31 years, working on over 80 performance projects -- with a focus on original work, immersive/site-specific experiences, and new plays. Julie has also worked in the prison system for over seven years, facilitating new works at prisons around the state of Colorado with the DU Prison Arts Initiative after previously founding arts programs in prisons in Utah and Arizona. She attended the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU/Tisch and Naropa University, and holds an MFA from Arizona State University.
Miriam Suzanne (she/her)
Miriam is a cross-media artist and teacher based in Denver, CO – exploring pottery, music (Teacup Gorilla), writing, code, and performance. In addition to work with Grapefruit Lab, Miriam is the author of Riding SideSaddle* (SpringGun Press, 2015) – a novel on notecards – and received a True West Award for the 2016 adaptation with Buntport Theater & Teacup Gorilla. She's also an experienced lighting designer, working on many shows around the Denver area.
Outside the arts, Miriam is an open web advocate and an Invited Expert to the World Wide Web Consortium CSS Working group – writing web standards and training web developers around the world.
Kenny Storms (he/him)
Kenny is a musician, DJ, media designer, director, voice coach, and project manager. He hasn't given me a bio, and he doesn't have a website. Poor Kenny.
