The Bards Theatre Troupe (formerly Hum’n’Bards) is a queer musical collective for the Philadelphia theater and nightlife communities. Since 2016, we have gathered to sing songs, tell stories and break the binary. Our mission is to provide a safe, accessible, and empathetic platform for DIY productions with an emphasis on new exciting works that push the envelope without leaving anyone behind.
CJ Higgins is a theatre artist who specializes in devising, new works, music, directing, producing, and whatever a show needs at a given moment because that's Philly for ya. He has worked with companies such as Theatre Horizon, Delaware Shakespeare, Jaffe St. Queer Productions, Tiny Dynamite, Revolution Shakespeare, Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, and more. CJ is a founding member of The Bards beginning with its inaugural production of Pangaea: A Folk Opera, and has worked with the company on several different devised productions since then including The Hazards of Love, The #Knightlife Renaissance Faire, Fear Itself, We’ll Sleep When We’re Dead, God Forgive These Bastards, Glister, Alice in Wonderland, and more. CJ is also the Director of Operations and Programming for Theatre Philadelphia.
Taylor Alexander grew up in Philadelphia. She studied dance, theater and voice while growing up. They met Wyatt through sketch comedy at Temple University, where fae received her Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and Production. Community and safe places to create art of all types is very important to faer.
She has a long resume of producing cabaret nights and fundraiser shows. Their favorite cabarets were the Bard’s tributes to the musical, Chicago, and to show stopping eleven o’clock numbers. They performed in You Know I’m No Good, Glister, Grosslesque, We’ll Sleep When We’re Dead, The Artists’ Temple and The #Knightlife Digital Renaissance Faire.
Fae is responsible for managing budgets, payments and many of the administrative aspects of The Bards Theatre Troupe.
Quinton J. Alexander is a Philly based theatre artist, and the Artistic Associate for The Bards Theatre Troupe. He has also stage managed (God Forgive These Bastards), directed (Fear Itself), and produced (#Knightlife Renaissance Faire) for the Bards as well as devised, co-produced, and starred in The Artist's Temple the Bards entry for 2020 Philly Theatre Week. Outside of his work with The Bards Quinton has apprenticed at Lantern Theater Company working as a carpenter, board op, A2, and house manager. This jack of all trades is also an actor, comedy writer, fight choreographer, and pirate enthusiast.
This loudly North-Jersey born multi-instrumental musical mercenary is The Bards’ Communications Director. Having been with the company since its inception, Travis Rosemarie has worn many hats for many past shows (some hats were even worn at the same time), including stage manager, actor, director, & pit musician. When she’s not working with her favorite theater troupe in the city, Travis plays bass for The Bad Madams, is the manager & creative force behind her own band Daughter Judy, keeps guests informed at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, indulges in oddball theatrical passion projects with her husband CJ, has plans to record music with her husband Linden, and produces backing accompaniment tracks for friends & clients (when she can’t back them up live & in-person, that is).
You can listen to Daughter Judy, including tracks unavailable on other streaming platforms, on bandcamp: https://daughterjudy.bandcamp.com/
Indie singer-songwriter and recording artist Remy Gold is one of The Bards in-house music consultants. Remy is a regular in the Philly performance scene, bringing his original music everywhere he plays. Remy is constantly collaborating with various local artists and an developing his sound, which means he is often crossing genres and constantly find new peaks in his songwriting. A founding member of The Bards, Remy has had the honor of working in many capacities from actor to devising artist to music director to playing in the “orchestra pit”. Along with cabaret and theater, Remy also regularly produces his own events - mainly online in the past year - and also hosts open mics, fronts 2 bands, and regularly plays many venues on the east coast as a solo artist.
See more at www.theremygold.com
Wyatt Flynn/Prince WyWy is an experimental performance artist/musician, with a focus on collaborative theater-making. They got their degree in musical theater from Temple University. They are also a children’s musician, teaching artist, and Jewish educator.
Wyatt has worn many hats for The Bards, from serving as lead artist for Pangaea, to writing the script for Glister, to dreaming up ideas for new shows and finding amazing artists to bring those ideas to life. Wyatt has written songs and served as artistic support for many of our original productions. They have a great talent for listening to artists and helping them create a song that feels true to their character. They have performed in the shows Pangaea, Glister, Not Not The Illuminati, God Forgive These Bastards and The #Knightlife Digital Renaissance Faire, and they worked as an artistic collaborator on We’ll Sleep When We’re Dead and Fear Itself.
You can listen to their EP Moving Day on bandcamp: https://wyattflynn.bandcamp.com/album/moving-day