To date, Tranny Hotel has included performances, installations and workshops by a number of UK and international artists.
You can find out more about these artists and their work below:

Mandy Romero began her Live Art career at Liverpool's 2002 Biennial in a performance piece produced by Guillermo Gomez-Pena. In 2003 she was one of three Associate Artists in Live Art at the Liverpool Bluecoat Arts Centre where, amongst a number of works created, she premiered the "live" version of her transgender epic "The Mandayana". After the second of her global tours in 2004 she was given a Fellowship in Live Art by the Arts Council to spend two months in residence at the Cable Factory in Helsinki. In 2005 trained in Improvisation with Andrew Morrish the Australian dancer/improviser in Amsterdam.

For the Liverpool 2004 Biennial Mandy took on the mantle of Liverpool Queen of Culture and in July 2006 completed a commission for the “City In Transition” programme which resulted in a publication in August 2006.
July 2006-7 – Live Art Interventions as part of Transfabulous and Hazard festivals in London and Manchester and the GLBT Arts festival in Copenhagen
October-November 2007 – Performance Research in China – Pearl River Delta and Shanghai
November 2008 – Short film “That Picture” shown at Gaywise Arts Festival, and at the Transgender Film Festival in San Francisco in 2010.
During 2008 Mandy participated in/curated cabarets as part of the Liverpool Culture Company’s commission for Walk The Plank company. Her main stage debut was in July in “The Big See” by Esther Wilson which was part of the “Everyword” Festival at the Liverpool Everyman. As Queen Of Culture she presented discussions on web-television. She has written a short book on Cabaret and is consolidating her China research into a possible publication.

Her most recent production is “Stevenage”, a multi-media solo show, based on autobiographical material premiered in Liverpool in November 2010. A related Live Art action, “Crushing Stones”, was a commission for the Emerge Festival in Leeds in June 2011.

Click HERE to read Mandy's blog including her work on Tranny Hotel and other projects... Straight from the co-producer's lap-top...

Trained at Laban and at Bretton Hall. He works in dance, live art, cabaret and alternative drag, and his work has included projects with Precarious Dance, Avanti Display, Scottee, David Hoyle, Duckie and Timberlina. He has performed in a variety of contexts ranging from festivals, to fetish clubs, to London's Vauxhall Tavern. In the past year Thom has performed at Bestival, at the Royal Festival Hall's Dorothy Nights, in Duckie's Gay Shame 2009 at The Brixton Academy and in David Hoyle's Theatre of Therapy at the Chelsea Theatre. He has channelled Joan Crawford at the Royal Opera House and stormed the foyer of the Victoria and Albert Museum (in sequined hotpants, naturally) to protest homophobic reggae lyrics. His new durational piece Drag Democracy has been shown at Soho's Digitaria Gallery, The Place and Battersea Arts Centre. Thom is also a published writer on performance and is currently based at Laban where he is Co-Editor of Dance Theatre Journal and Managing Editor of Discourses in Dance. He is also a regular contributor to The Place's Resolution! Review. Thom has previously worked with Rita Marcalo on a number of projects including Instant Dissidence's White Out Conditions (2007-2008).

is a performing artist and activist. He has been making shows since he was a 10-year-old-girl. Since relocating to the UK from San Francisco, California in 2003, he has performed all over Europe in theatre, film and performance art festivals such as Visions of Excess and the first Copenhangen International Performance Art Fest, the Berlin, Amsterdam and Athens Porn Film Festivals, museums such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and clubs such as Torture Garden, Café de Paris, and The Palace of Wonders. His shows include the surrealist fifty-minute, “Madame Pierre’s Other Tongue,” and 5-10 minute strips such as his horizontal half –n- half, his horny mechanic “Grease Monkey,” and his messy homage to Marco Ferreri’s “La Grande Bouffe.” His most recent project is the 80 minute feature “documentary,” “Fake Orgasm” (Zip Films), “The story of one trans artists trying to change the world, one strip at a time,” currently released in Spain and playing festivals around the world. www.lazlopearlman.com

A perverted polymath of the highest order, La JohnJoseph is an international performer, playwright, librettist, director, journalist, actress, activist and novelist. He has presented readings and performances across Europe and America, at venues as diverse as The Royal Opera House (London), the Spiegeltent (New York), the San Francisco MoMA, The Schwules Museum (Berlin) and Bios (Athens).  Her face has graced the covers of Siegessaule and Boyz, the pages of The New Yorker, Indie, POP, and MixMag, as well as The New York Times online and Vogue.com. His writing has appeared in Time Out, Out There, ITT, Next, Bent, AXM, the ‘zines Birdsong, Fat Zine, and P.S. I LOVE YOU. Educated at a Catholic high school in Liverpool, earning his BA in American Studies between London and California, and receiving an MA in Performance Design and Practice from Central ST. Martins. he has lead classes on visual culture and performance at the University of California Berkeley, and Bard College, New York. She is currently editing his debut novel Everything Must Go and working on a  three-week retrospective of solo shows at Ovalhouse in Spring 2012. He keeps a scrapbook of images and fragments of new texts at www.boyfriendrobotique.blogspot.com
"Like Cindy Sherman dressing as David Bowie, dressing as Cindy Sherman" - New York Magazine
"A sublime young talent...,poutily poignant, bracingly glacial." - Time Out London
"In La JJ's weird and wonderful world anything can happen"- The Village Voice
"Languishes lugubriously...a delight" - Whatsonstage

Jo Clifford is a playwright and performer. She’s one of Scotland’s leading playwrights, and author of about 75 scripts in every dramatic medium that have been performed in Scotland and all over the world. Her plays include Every One, Faust, Anna Karenina, and Life is a Dream for the Lyceum and Losing Venice, Light in the Village, and Inés de Castro for the Traverse. She has performed in Leave to Remain, a performance ritual for mourning created by her and Suzanne Dance.

In 2011 her Anna Karenina was revived by Dundee Rep. Her Ines de Castro was revived by Shakespeare Carolina and the National Theatre of Serbia. She has adapted The Cherry Orchard for Theatre Alba, which opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has also written a play to celebrate the tercentenary of the philosopher David Hume. The play, The Tree of Knowledge, was the Christmas show at the Traverse theatre in 2011. She is the proud father of two amazing grown-up daughters. www.teatrodomundo.com

Ane Lan was born in Oslo, Norway in 1972. He graduated from the National College of Art and design in Oslo in 2002 and is working in the field of performance, music and experimental film/video. He has participated in various international exhibitions; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, Paco das Artes, Sao Paolo, the 51st  Venice Biennial and the 10th Istanbul Biennial. Lan has also participated in numerous film & video festivals worldwide.

The Performance works conceived by the Norwegian performance company Ane Lan, are based on living portraits, short performances that interpret the domestic and personal condition of History; the interior life of common men that, being out of proportion with the universal dimension, rests in painful resignation. The setting, alternately pop, naïve, ordinary, or looking like a doll-house, is only apparently ironic. The harsh contrast of colours signifies the extraneousness which the Ane Lan’s stages by means of transvestitism. Their docile characters create portraits of silence, of extraneousness, of incongruity, but also of an icy political verdict. Innocence veined in melancholy is intended as a conscious return to a childish perception of the world. The Company has performed at prestigious festivals like: The Venice Biennial 57th Theater Festival, Santarcangelo International Festival of the Arts, The Gender BenderFestival in Bologna, Italia etc.

Born in Portugal, REgina Fiz emigrated, with her family, to Brazil when she was 6. She spent her early adolescence immersed in the vibrant cultural melting pot of Sáo Paulo where she was exposed to all aspects of the artistic avant guard. Returning to Europe at 17 she became a well-known figure in the nightlife of London, Lisbon and Madrid. In these cities artistic movements such as Post pornography and Queer art awakened her curiosity as she came into contact with the artists involved. At this period Regina started collaborations with various artists, photographers, video makers, performers and directors. Since then she is less to be seen in the nightclubs of Europe than in association with other artists of international renown or in her own right in venues across the continent as a performance artist.

Adrian has used gender themes and drag as part of all his solo performance work and continues to explore what it means to be a man, even when you want to look more fabulous.

Adrian once asked his primary school teacher if she would call him Adriana because he wanted to be a girl. When she asked him why he said: 'Girls have more fun and don't have to do stupid boy's stuff...'. She said no. She was alright though as she made him a mix tape of Kate Bush to make up for it.

Trained in Wolverhampton & Dudley, Adrian has been working in professional theatre since the dawn of the Millennium and has produced and/or marketed work for Rejects Revenge, Spike, Fittings Multimedia Arts, Laurence Clark and Turf Love and performed at Birmingham’s Fierce!, Liverpool’s Homotopia festivals, Queer up North and with CocoLoco and Hope St Ltd for Unity Theatre.

As well as co-producing events for Tranny Hotel Adrian is also one of the directors of Spike Theatre, co-producing touring theatre performed across the UK and beyond... 

Jonny Woo is a unique performance artist who has been instrumental in brining alternative drag and cabaret to mainstream audiences. Disciplined in theatre and dance, insipired by New York freaks, his work is arresting, provocative, unpredictable and highly entertaining. Critically acclaimed and much in demand by club culture and corporations alike, Woo’s work if not his presence at events alone, transcends definitions of high and low art. If by that it can be said that Woo is at home in the gutter as amongst the stars, that would be partially true. More that Jonny brings a sparke and integrity to everything he does but with a force that leaves audiences inspired, shocked and exhilarated. His residency at Bistrotheque has been cited as inspiring the cabaret revolution and his solo and group shows have transformed to The Soho Theatre and The Edinburgh Festival and as a cabaret artist he has performed worldwide. Jonny blew into London in the dead of night and made it his own. His parties Radio Egypt and Gay Bingo are the stuff of legend and, combined with his theatrical flair, he is a top choice as host of entertainment at high profile fashion, art and corporate events

Rae Spoon is a transgendered indie/folk musician from Calgary, Canada.  He has released/produced five solo full-length albums over the past seven years.  Rae has toured Canada fifteen times and has been to Europe as well as the USA and Australia to play festivals and tour. Established as a performing/recording artist in the international music scene, he has branched out to write multi-media projects and to composing instrumental music for films such as NFB documentary Dead Man directed by Chelsea McMullan (Toronto International Film Festival 2009). He has also developed a presence in the international sound art scene by making sound projects such as ‘What are you waiting for?’ with Alex Decoupigney. A song-cycle written, recorded and performed in the underground train in Berlin that was commissioned by arts organization: Neue Gesellschaft, Bildende Kunst and the German Train Company.

Timberlina was created by Tim Redfern.  Since 2006 Timberlina has carved a performance career combining hands on shambolic make-and-do with captivating style, environmental awareness, sharp wit and sensational timing to engage all sorts of audiences in their inner creativity and above all have fun.

In no particular order, Timberlina has hosted, performed and/or collaborated with Pussy Faggot (NYC), Contact (Manchester), greenroom (Manchester), Act Art, Oval House,Drill Hall, Soho Theatre, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London Lesbian, Gay & Transgender Film Festival, The Foundry, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The George Inn, Rye, Bradford Pride, Bradford Playhouse, Duckie, Gay Shame, Big Gay Sing, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, House of Homosexual Culture, Latitude Festival, Bestival, London Fashion Week, The Royal Academy

As a consultant to the creative and heritage art sectors, Tim aims to challenge institutionalised status quos and reframe diversity awareness by creating and curating accessible and inspiring queer cultural events for mainstream audiences. 

Previous partners and clients include: National Portrait Gallery, V&A, Royal Opera House, Science Museum, Dana Centre, Wallace Collection, National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre, Audiences London, South Bank Centre, Waterloo Festival, Soho Festival, South Bank Employers Group, Waterloo Quarter, Bankside Bid, Trades Union Congress, London Fashion Week, The Royal Academy. Sometimes he gives talks about this.

Adam Lowe is a writer and literary activist. He is Editor-in-Chief of Dog Horn Publishing, a press dedicated to reaching out and giving a voice to transgressive, excluded and emergent writers, and writing that takes risk. In 2009 he was nominated for four Lambda Literary Awards. He is Features Editor at Bent, where he also writes a column as his semi-fictional alter ego, Beyonce Holes.

At Tranny Hotel - Liverpool in 2011, Adam led two 'Cut Me Up Good' workshops. Exploring themes of gender identity, cross-dressing, celebrity culture & body fascism, Adam led participants in devising a new performance about all things queer, culminating in a short performance as part of the closing event.

Bridge Markland was born in (West-) Berlin in 1961.
2010 marked her 25 years stage anniversary - (if you count school theatre - it would be 36 years!)

She is a virtuoso of roleplay and transformation. An artist who effortlessly crosses boundaries between dance, theatre, performance, cabaret and puppet theatre. Her specialities are transgender-performances in which the audience can experience the change of woman to man (or vice versa).
Her main focus are collages of classic German theatre pieces with pop music – performed as lip-synced solos using role change and hand puppets: schiller in the box“ (German) about life and work of poet Friedrich Schiller, „faust in the box“ (English) after Goethe’s Faust (part 1) and „krug in the box“ (German) Heinrich von Kleist: 'The broken jug’.

Kasandra was born in Cologne. She has been a travestie performer in Cologne for many years. She started her career in year 2002 in the popular show Kulturschock in Cologne. Additionally she has performed songs at the AIDS Gala in the Maritime Hotel in Cologne, Mardi Gras events in Cologne, Christopher Street Day in different cities in Germany, Phantasialand and Movie World amusement parks in Germany and many private functions - but her stage home is still the Kulturschock Koeln, where you can see her every Sunday with many other travestie stars.

Kasandra from the Balkans does not think that Madonna, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Whitney Houston are Saints. So, when Kasandra performs their Hits the parody makes you laugh to tears. Without any singing she gets applause for her crazy performance.
Her facial expression , her parody, her persiflage, her choreography – you will never forget the broadest smile, the biggest eyes and the wildest dance on the highest high heels.
But caution: A playback does not mean she does not speak.  She grabs the mic and tells you about her life. And if somebody in the audience is getting too bold, she pulls him on the stage. Convulsive laughter guaranteed.