Applications for the 2025 Hybrid DisabiliTease Festival, held July 18 and 19, are now open!
Although this is the festival’s 5th year, it will be our second time having an in-person show in Minneapolis, MN!
For more information and to apply, visit our 2025 DisabiliTease Festival page! Have questions? Check out our FAQ. Want to know more about our hybrid format? We have a page for that too!
Our COVID policy will be posted once we secure our venue.
Applications will close on April 15th.Â
If you have any further questions, you can email us at info@DisabiliTeaseFestival.com.
(Performers who were accepted but were unable to participate in the 2020 virtual festival or the 2024 in-person festival will have the first right of refusal for a spot in the 2025 festival. After those confirmations, we will round out our 2025 festival line-up with acts from these application forms.)
The 2024 Hybrid DisabiliTease Festival videos are available to rent or own!
The wait is over!
Videos for the Friday, July 19 in-person live-streamed show, Saturday, July 20 virtual show, and Sunday, July 21 workshops hosted by the DisabiliTease Academy are now available!
Check out our digital program for more information about the festival, cast, workshops, supporters, and more!
There are multiple ways to support us:
- We need your help to secure the Capri Theater for our 2025 shows and purchase event insurance. You can donate through our fiscal sponsor, Life-sized Meme Productions, a 501(c)(3). Please contact Minda Mae for information regarding making a tax-deductible donation. You can also donate via PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp.
- Rent or Purchase our 2020 shows, 2021 shows and workshops, 2022 shows and workshops, and 2024 shows and workshops!!
- Become a Donor or Sponsor!
- Purchase some of our merchandise!
- Follow us on Facebook or Instagram!
- Share our cause with your friends!
- Sign up for our newsletter to receive all the latest updates! (Miss our previous newsletters? Check them out here!)
Thank you for your support!
The DisabiliTease Festival celebrates disabled bodies and the art they create through burlesque, drag, cirque, and cabaret performances. The festival strives to create a safe and accommodating space for performers to express themselves and receive the validation and recognition they deserve.
Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the DisabiliTease Festival highlights performers not only from the Twin Cities but across the United States and around the globe. Our goal is to include a wide variety of performers at the intersection of disability with a variety of genders, ages, sizes, abilities, races and ethnicities, locations, beliefs, and sexual orientations, whenever possible. This annual event works to challenge and overturn the notion that having a disability decreases or interferes with a person’s desirability, allure, or competence as a performer.