Fausto Fernós - Chicago, Illinois

As a performer and artist Fausto Fernós has achieved acclaim in a variety of mediums. He started performing at 18 in Austin, Texas, where he self-produced a weekly live soap opera called “SoftMen.” He went on to produce and host other variety shows in Austin, Texas and Chicago, including the “The Mininum Wage Art Series,” “The Big Wig Revue,” and “Pe.A.Ch. –The Performance Art Church.” Fernós is best known in Texas for his unusual cable access talk show “Faustina!” which won several awards, including the Austin Chronicle’s “Best of Austin: Best Cable Access Show” in 1995.

Fernós also has written and directed three musicals dealing with such diverse subject matter as gay biology “Homosexual Personæ,” the first complete dinosaur fossil ever discovered “Mary Anning,” and the search for intelligent life beyond Earth “Voices From The Sky.” Fausto also performs regularly with his band, which was featured at the queer rock concert IDA-palooza along with Bitch and Animal & Pistol Pete and Pop-Gun Paul in the mountains of Woodbury, Tennessee. In June of 2001, Fausto Fernós was awarded by Windy City Media Group, the “30-under-30-award”, a distinction given every year to 30 GLBT visionary people under the age of 30 who make Chicago one of the most interesting cities in the world.

In June of 2003, Fausto’s solo work was feautured in the exibition “Confessions of the Avant-Garde” a retrospective of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival history and legacy. Fausto Fernós was selected out of literally thousands of images, artists, and media as one of the 20 featured artists included in that exibition. Others artists included were: Blue Man Group, Karen Finley, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Goat Island, and Holly Hughes. Currently Fausto produces and hosts “the Feast of Fools”- the worlds most downloaded podcast for a gay and lesbian audience.

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