NEVE (they, he, and she in a gay way) is a multidisciplinary terpsichorean (of dance and lyric poetry) fabulist of the stage, street, page, and screen. They are a punk, a Black “Indigenous creature” (Mahas Nubian, Chickasaw), and a disability justice activist. Beginning in 2018, NEVE wrote, produced, and performed four original musical theatre works throughout Seattle and at Performance Space New York. He is a 2020 Pina Bausch Fellow and a 2022 United States Artists Disability Futures Fellow. In 2022, they starred in Miku, and the Gods by Julia Izumi, earning praise from Broadway World. She is currently editing her first book of poetry. In 2024, NEVE studied with George Gallagher in the Actor’s Instinct Training Program. They last appeared onstage starring in Centenary Stage Co.’s staged reading of Lessons From a Jellyfish. NEVE creates weird, sexy, hysterical, frightening, lush, lyrical performance art to open hearts, holes, minds, and paradigms and to further their goals of ethical and responsible interstellar travel and the liberation of all beings.

Under red lights, against a vermillion wall, with a crimson veil covering their head and face, NEVE is captured onstage, mid-dance, atop their power wheelchair. Their brown arms, peppered with tattoos, are outstretched to their sides, fingers extending, wrists slightly bent. Beneath the slightly transparent veil, there is a hint of large, kohl-lined eyes, a shapely nose and mouth, and black third eye antenna tattoos. At the edges of the photo, there is an audience, viewing the performance in the round. Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis
ID: Under red lights, against a vermillion wall, with a crimson veil covering their head and face, NEVE is captured onstage, mid-dance, atop their power wheelchair. Their brown arms, peppered with tattoos, are outstretched to their sides, fingers extending, wrists slightly bent. Beneath the slightly transparent veil, there is a hint of large, kohl-lined eyes, a shapely nose and mouth, and black third eye antenna tattoos. At the edges of the photo, there is an audience, viewing the performance in the round. Photo by Michelle Smith-Lewis