The Fly Honey Show began as a one-night-only event in then DIY loft space, The Inconvenience in 2010 and grew into Chicago legends, faithfully recognized for their queer-celebratory, all-body-loving, femme-powered, & unabashed ass shaking performances.
The Fly Honeys and our Show acts as a multi-format, community-fueled movement, led by founder/ director/choreographer/co-producer Erin Kilmurray with Mary Williamson (host/writer), John Cicora (music/band director), Missi Davis (producer), and Shannon Matesky (writer).
From the jump, The Fly Honey Show has been deeply collaborative—a project where ideas don’t have clean edges, and movement, music, design, writing, performance, and point of view all bleed into one another. Over the years, the work has been shaped by an ever-expanding hive of artists, including Alyssa Bierce, Alyssa Gregory, Andrew Green, Anastar Alvarez, Ayana Woods, Bear Bellinger, Bran Moorhead, Cassandra Porter, Dalton Rhodes, Dan Riley, Darling Shear, Deandra Alaba, Emily Blazer, Eleanor Kahn, Ellen Willet, Ginny Cook, Heather Sparling, Himbindu Poorori, Jen Dorman, Jillian Endebrock, Joe Varisco, Jon Butts, Josh Anderson, Karolina Prus, Kasey Alfonso, Lori Crosthwait, Liam Minetti, Maggie Kubley, Marta Jean Evans, Melissa “Boom Boom” DuPrey, Mia Vivens, Mikhail Fiksel, Molly Brennan, Quinn Tsan, Ryan Tang, Sasha Smith, Sawyer Smith, Slick Jorgensen, Sydney Charles, Tia Monet Greer — and sincerely hundreds of dancers, independent artists, designers, technicians, production crews, singers, musicians, bands, DJs, and collaborators who brought their own bodies, voices, time, and rigor to the work.
The Fly Honey Show has been less a single vision than a living ecosystem—responding to the cultural moment, built by many hands (each with their own middle finger), shaped in real time through real talk, and held together by a massive amount of glitter and joy.
