Genie Cartier (she/they) is a San Francisco native with a background in Chinese acrobatics and aerial rope training, as well as creative writing. She has performed a unique mix of acrobatics and hand-balancing on a folding chair all over San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as co-founding her own company, Bow & Arrow: A Circus Theatre Collective. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in English/ Creative Writing, earned an MFA in Creative Writing/ Poetry from SFSU, and has been writing, performing, directing, and producing in the Bay Area for the last 30 years. During the day, she works for Bioneers, an environmental/social justice oriented organization which produces a yearly conference in Berkeley, as an office manager and art curator.
Notable works of circus theater include co-creating duo shows such as the award-winning Genie and Audrey’s Dream Show! in 2013 and Yesterday is Tomorrow in 2017 during a residency at the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Her solo show, the Curve, premiered in 2023, won the Best of Fringe award at SF Fringe, and was performed in the legendary Edinburgh Fringe Festival. With Bow & Arrow, she has produced and performed in yearly productions of Saturnalia!, a pagan holiday show, and directed Dark Side of the Circus, a large-scale circus theater show choreographed to Pink Floyd, developed under the auspices of a residency at San Francisco Circus Center. Her latest directorial effort, Box [M], premiered with rave reviews in the Orlando Fringe Festival.
As a writer, she has been published in journals such as Sparkle & Blink, Greta, Westwind, Matchbox Magazine, Women’s Studies, and the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. She was the poetry editor of UCLA’s literary journal from 2009 to 2010, and the host of the reading series Poets Upstairs in 2016, as well as producing a reading/ circus hybrid event for Lit Crawl in 2024 called “The Witching Hour.”
Landyn Endo (they/he) is a queer, transmasculine-of-center dancer and aerialist, specializing in lyra and silks. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a double major in Dance and Drama. Since graduating, he has enjoyed dancing professionally in LA and on tour with Multiplex Dance Company, helping to found the West Hollywood Dance Festival. He also had the opportunity to perform in Europe with DTM2 Improvisational Ensemble, Off-Broadway in NYC, and in Japan in “Dreaming Forward,” an artistic collaboration with choreographer Motoko Hirayama, as well as teaching dance for two years in Grenada. He has been an instructor of circus, dance, and gymnastics for 17 years, and since moving to the Bay Area can be found teaching at the San Francisco Circus Center and VRV3. He has most recently had the honor of performing in Dark Side of the Circus and Saturnalia with Bow and Arrow Circus, and premiering his aerial lamp duet in The Longest Night. Landyn has a deep passion for encouraging queer and trans youth to find their voice through movement and art.
Os Roxas (he/him) spent the early half of his childhood on a US military base in the Philippines playing war games in the jungle. Eventually he would move to San Francisco, spending his days with his face buried in comic books, dreaming of becoming a super hero when he grew up. As an adult, he was introduced to aerial & pole by a dear friend, and now he’s a full time aerial and pole instructor, coaching his students on how to flip and fly into action—turning their own dreams of being a super hero into a reality. Notable performances include Bow & Arrow’s Dark Side of the Circus, and the San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival.
Flying Rabbit Circus 