Plays the keyboard and sings soprano - In every generation, there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the haters, the gatekeepers, and the forces of the patriarchy. She is the Claire. (Read more...)
In every generation, there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the haters, the gatekeepers, and the forces of the patriarchy. She is the Claire.Claire was born behind the Orange Curtain to a Doctor of Research Methodologies who loves to craft and create, and a former college Linebacker who loves musicals and Star Trek. Consequently, she’s always been well-rounded in her geekiness, always willing to try something new, but wary to check her sources. Claire cut her musical teeth on The Phantom of the Opera, telling her second grade teachers that she wouldn’t need math to be Christine Daae.While that dream was as short-lived as her hatred of math, Claire’s watchers ensured her geek training was wide and varied, even as she studied musical theater and opera throughout her childhood and college. When she wasn’t practicing or at rehearsal, you could find her watching Stars both Trek and War, learning to cook and crochet, finally beating the flying carpet level in Aladdin on the Sega Genesis, and reading fantasy and historical fiction novels like they were going out of print.But Claire really stumbled into her tribe when a chance encounter her took her to the Renaissance Faire in 2002. There she found a love for costuming, a tabletop group, and a boyfriend, pretty much in that order. Claire stumbled through Ebberon and the Masquerade, learned how to cartridge pleat (but please don’t ask her to), and in 2005, joined a group of ladies singing bawdy songs called The Merry Wives of Windsor. While she did take a three-year constitutional to Texas, she’s been singing with the band ever since.When Claire’s not singing, she enjoys crawling for memes on Reddit, tabletopping with her D&D and Mage groups, and raising her three Jawas, one she made herself and the others that came as a bonus with her life-mate.
Plays the bouzouki and sings mezzo soprano - Kimi was formed from the clay of Themyscira and brought to life by the Amazon gods. She took time from her childhood of warrior training to participate in musical theatre and a love of music was born. (Read more...)
Plays the bouzouki and sings mezzo soprano.
Kimi was formed from the clay of Themyscira and brought to life by the Amazon gods. She took time from her childhood of warrior training to participate in musical theatre and a love of music was born. The Amazon Queen tried to put her in instrumentation lessons in addition to theatre, but that failed miserably once Kimi started riding horses at age 10. Kimi continued belting show tunes until, as an adult, she decided to work at the local Renaissance Faire. Bored with the required first-year-faire-worker orientation, she wandered off and stumbled upon an audition for a musical act! Luckily, nobody noticed she was a first-year until it was too late and she was added to the cast. Eventually, Kimi made it into the Merry Wives of Windsor where she successfully wrote many hit songs, taught herself mandolin (curse you younger self!) and performed at venues throughout the United States, including The Brown Derby, The Grove of Anaheim, and The El Rey in Los Angeles, for over a decade.In addition to music, Kimi has many geeky hobbies. She runs the Happy Jacks RPG Network of tabletop role-playing advice and actual play shows, and can often be seen GMing or playing at their table. In 2018 she started Golden Lasso Games where she publishes tabletop RPGs and story games of her own. Kimi is also a veteran cosplayer who makes her own costumes, and is especially known for dressing up as her hero Wonder Woman. Kimi has used her geek knowledge and costuming skills to contribute to multiple fan-film projects, including the Rainfall Wonder Woman trailer (2013) and in 2015 her original Bombshell Big Barda design was used by DC Comics as the canon design for the character. In 2017, her blog post about the Amazons’ bikini-armor costumes in Justice League went viral, infuriating fanboys all over the internet and earning her mentions in Glamour, The Hollywood Reporter, People, and many other media outlets. She was relieved to fade back into internet anonymity soon after.
Plays the bass and sings alto - Carol was very young when she was bitten by a radioactive treble clef, and her life has never been the same. She was very fortunate to grow up in the Los Angeles area, where she could indulge her music bug through singing and playing piano, French horn and handbells. (Read more...)
Carol was very young when she was bitten by a radioactive treble clef, and her life has never been the same. She was very fortunate to grow up in the Los Angeles area, where she could indulge her music bug through singing and playing piano, French horn and handbells.She spent much of her childhood living in worlds far more interesting than the one she was born into, cutting her teeth on such revered franchises as Star Trek, Diablo, DOOM, Power Rangers, Dragonriders of Pern, DC, Marvel, Star Wars, Firefly, Forgotten Realms, before finding her way to tokusatsu franchises such as Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman and GARO, eventually becoming a regular host on several podcasts about Japanese transforming hero shows.But Carol was really plucked from the ranks of the mediocre and obscure when in 2008 she was chosen by a mysterious dimensional being to join the band The Merry Wives of Windsor as their bassist, which was especially impressive since she didn’t actually play the instrument at the time. She has since grown to love the band’s primary performance venues of various Renaissance Faires, though she had been wanting to go to one ever since she saw a particular episode of Reading Rainbow way back in the day.When not singing (or at least having a song stuck in her head), Carol spends her time reading science fiction and fantasy (she is currently working on Dresden Files, hoping to get to the final one right about the time it gets published), watching geeky TV shows and movies, and discussing how Star Trek and Star Wars are really completely different and shouldn’t be compared.
