other art + music
Egg Girl Girl (2022-2024)
Formed in 2022 and burned into legend by 2024, Egg Girl Girl was your favorite queer prank punk band, whether you knew it yet or not.
ROOMERS, Egg Girl Girl's first and final album (Bumpy Records), blends surveillance-state paranoia and Barbie-car daydreams with distorted bass and disco beats. With 2–4 vocalists always in the mix and influences that span no wave legends to Muppet mayhem, Egg Girl Girl is equal parts prank and punk.
From its inception, Egg Girl Girl turned a defiant shoulder away from rock band logic. When you look for a lead singer, you’ll find a three-part harmony. Where you expect a snappy backbeat, you’ll get a twitchy hissing hi-hat. And when you look for a guitarist? You’ll never find one.
May Klug – vocals, Casio synth
Alana Horton – vocals, drums
Lou Shemroske – vocals
Moqui Joy – bass
“The album is wonderfully sideways.... It's a shame that there won't be any more from Egg Girl Girl - this is superb stuff.”
— Spenser Tomson, The Wire Magazine
No Stable Climax (2024)
Incorporating comedy, dance, storytelling and poetry, devised theater, live sound, science, and denim, “No Stable Climax” is a quartet for three performers and a ghost. It’s the end of an era, it’s the end of an end of an era. Trouble! Trouble!
Everything is a process of change. The idea of a “climax community” is a fallacy. No final, perfected ecosystem has ever existed. We are constantly living through the end of one version of the world and stepping into another.
So—how do we move from one state of being to the next? What do we hold on to, and what do we release? And what do our transitions look like?
This piece first emerged from Make : Magnify, a student-run performance festival hosted at the University of Minnesota in 2024, and was remounted at Weird Stuff Only in March 2025.
The festival paired working Twin Cities artists with current students for two-week residencies, in an open-ended experiment to see what would happen. Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies, Amital Shaver, and I were matched together. Our first time collaborating was our first time meeting.
GWEN (2023-2024)
GWEN was a three-piece playing garage rock with a healthy dose of twee. Virtuosic guitar, determined drums, and driving basslines accompany yearning lyrics.
Listen to EP Bye Bye Miss Birdie (2025)
Listen to EP Every Thing’s We Could Do (2024)
Gwen Patton – vocals, guitar
Alana Horton – vocals, drums
Noah Mueller – bass
ANOMALOUS_U (2021)
“Every moment in your life has led to this moment. Embrace the anomalous and relish in the infinite depths of you with ANOMALOUS_U.”
Commissioned by Red Eye Theater as part of their New Works 4 Weeks Festival 2021, ANOMALOUS_U is a participatory performance experience exploring self-help and self-understanding through several perception-of-perception guided meditation modules.
For the festival iteration, participants received texts that included links and instructions which guided them through the “performance” over the course of 10 days, which unfolded through phone calls, websites, and audio experiences.
Created in collaboration with Patrick Marschke
VELVET SWING (2019)
VELVET SWING was an Umbrella Collective show that told the true story of Evelyn Nesbit, the original 19th Century supermodel and leading lady of the “Crime of The Century!"
Imagine: your favorite true crime podcast meets a wild vaudevillian circus with a pinch of postmodern narratives. Expect: daring feats of self discovery, compelling choices in complex circumstances, delightful musical accompaniment, multiple narratives, and one very large snake named Baby.
Directed and story designed by Alana Horton & Megan Clark.
Script available upon request.
Reviews:
Velvet Swing Rips the Curtains Down (Basil Considine, Twin Cities Arts Reader)
Umbrella Collective Revisits the Infamous Evelyn Nesbit (Jay Gabler, City Pages)
“Velvet Swing" by the Umbrella Collective at Bryant Lake Bowl (Cherry and Spoon)
A Look Back at Velvet Swing by Umbrella Collective (Braden Joseph, Broadway World)
Velvet Swing (Arthur Dorman, Talking’ Broadway
For 15 years, Umbrella Collective built bold new works of theater that inspire vital conversations centered around womxn and queer voices, creating 20 original productions and numerous works-in-progress. I was a core company member from 2017-2022.
“A tight and darkly entertaining show... For all its intellectual heft, Velvet Swing is also a lot of fun.”
— Jay Gabler, City Pages
Bella Yaga (2017-2019)
Bella Yaga was an electric folk ensemble that performed hybrids of music and image-driven theatre. Directed by Anna Johnson, it featured musicians and a rotation of guest performers in theatrical productions between 2016-2020.
MEMORY PALACE — A Live Visual Album was performed in 2017.
Slipped From A Subtle Skin, Bella Yaga’s recorded album, was released in 2018.
MATRYOSHKA: A Live Visual Album was performed in 2019.
Anna Johnson - vocals, guitar, piano
Alana Horton - percussion
Alia Jeraj - vocals
Joni Griffith - vocals, violin, saw
Peter Morrow - vocals, guitar, bass
“It’s a beautiful arrangement of tunes rooted heavily in the pastoral psychedelic folk of the sixties. It’s an elegant and stripped down sound, creating arrangements that sound organically derived yet honed and crafted to a ruddy shine. ”
Fitter Perception (2018)
“If our perceptual systems evolved by natural selection, then the probability that we see reality as it actually is, in any way, is zero. Precisely zero.”
- Cognitive Scientist Donald Hoffman
Reality isn’t shaped like a story - but we can’t help but perceive it as one. This constant dissonance is the question at the root of this project, which explores the contradictions embedded in the liminal space between our minds, bodies, and machines. This is a piece about storylessness, a journey without a destination, a practice of abstraction, a metaphor of self. In the end, we're all striving for a fitter perception.
fitter perception was originally created as part of Red Eye Theater’s Works in Progress program in the Spring of 2018, in collaboration with Patrick Marschke.