Kelindah bee

BAX Teaching Artist, Education Advisor, YouthWorks Co-Director &
Drag Performance: Between & Beyond Gender Founding Director

Kelindah bee (they/them) is a nonbinary educator and drag performance artist who grew up in Singapore and Indonesia. They studied Drama and Gender studies at Vassar College and have been teaching, technical directing, and creating at BAX since 2015. They have performed and produced in venues such as Signature Theatre, Pioneer Works, Gibney Dance, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, Coney Island USA, The Stonewall Inn, UCB, Chelsea Music Hall, The Tank, BAM, VICE Headquarters, Columbia University, National Sawdust, JACK and The Knockdown Center. They are the founder of the youth and adult Drag Performance Programs at BAX and were recently profiled by The NY Times for this work. They are a Queer | Art 2024 Fellow under the mentorship of trans trailblazer, Kate Bornstein. Their teaching makes space for problem-solving societal dilemmas, imagining new possibilities, and expressing differences with joyful authenticity. They believe that access to spaces of genderful play in performance and creation is a step toward collective liberation. kelindahbee.art