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Eric Schmalenberger, known to some as Babybird, is a nightlife impresario, curator, and cabaret performer. A clown about town with a love for the whimsical and ridiculous Mr. Schmalenberger’s adorable perversity is his bedrock in the business of show. Eric puts together and hosts the hit monthly variety shows BLUNDERLAND and EXTRA at the infamous House of Yes, is part of New York’s most extreme clown troupe FOU YORK and can be seen on stages around the city and touring the globe as both a variety and solo performer; singing, dancing, stripping, and clowning his way into the hearts of those brave and crazy enough to get anywhere near to him.

The Love Show is a theatrical dance company based in Brooklyn that combines cabaret, ballet, rock, comedy and theater into creative performances all over the US and beyond. The Love Show has entertained all audiences, rocking stages from Lebowskifest to The Public’s Shakespeare in The Park. The Love Show was commissioned to perform original choreography for clients including Banksy, Veuve Clicquot, Bacardi, and Vogue Magazine.

An active presence on the New York art scene, The Love Show was also awarded a week long residency with Chashama, and recently closed the seventh season of their very popular holiday show, “Nutcracker: Rated R”, which they also performed in Tokyo. The Love Show also has three other full length productions, “Dance Mayhem: A Grindhouse Ballet”, “SEVERED: The Tragic Loves of Frankenstein’s Monster” (premiered to a sold-out house at Highline Ballroom), and “Boomstick Ballet: A Rock Opera tribute to Bruce Campbell” (set to reopen October 2016). The Love Show has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and TONY, and The New York Times sent a reporter to exclusively follow the troupe’s exploits on Bastille Day. The Love Show recently performed on a resort in Egypt for a live and electronic music festival, premiered a cameo piece commissioned by The Public Theater in their run of “Twelfth Night” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, danced in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and created exclusive choreographed and directed content for TNT Drama’s season premiere party.

Jonathan Cunningham (Corn Mo) has toured America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe supporting the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Wheatus, The Pontani Sisters, Nick Offerman, Ben Folds, They Might Be Giants and the Polyphonic Spree. He is Disco Mountain Man in a Bee Gees Metal Tribute called Tragedy. In the studio, he shared vocals with Ben Folds on Folds’ cover of “Get Your Hands Off My Woman” for the Supersunnyspeedygraphic EP, joined the choir for the Polyphonic Spree’s Together We’re Heavy and played accordion on TMBG’s “Particle Mo”.

He has written 7 albums for Corn Mo and his band .357 Lover, the latest being The Purchase of the North Pole. He co-wrote a musical about Grizzly Adams with Nick Jones for The Huntington Theatre in Boston, MA. He co-wrote “The Rainbow Song” with Nick Offerman of Parks and Rec for his American Ham show. He co-produced a ballet called SEVERED: The Tragic Loves of Frankenstein’s Monster with The Love Show featuring the music from his album The Purchase of the North Pole. He’s is currently working on the next albums.

Dane Terry is a storymaker and composer. Terry is the 2016 recipient of the Ethyl Eichelberger Award from PS122 where his new piece Jupiter’s Lifeless Moons will premiere in January 2018 as part of their COIL festival. He was also a part of that organization’s RAMP residency in spring 2016. After premiering in New York at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in April 2015, his theatrical song-cycle Bird in the House went on to be presented at The Public Theater as part of the Under The Radar Festival’s INCOMING! series. Terry has also performed at Lincoln Center’s Out-Of-Doors Fest, A.R.T.’s Oberon in Cambridge MA, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati OH, The Wexner Center in Columbus OH and the Afterglow Festival in Provincetown MA.

David F. Slone, Esq. made his name in downtown theater working with such underground luminaries as Jonathan Ames, Julie Atlas Muz, Tom Murrin, and David Levine. He is an artistic co-creater and emcee of The Love Show and has shared the stage with such stars of cabaret, circus, film, radio, and Broadway as F. Murray Abraham, Sarah Rice, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, Rob Base, Phoebe Legere, Constantine Maroulis, Tammy Grimes, Michael Musto, and Randy Jones.