Cast Bios

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Collette Tepes

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Frank N Furter, Brad, Magenta, Eddie, Dr. Scott, Criminologist, Trixie
• Started with TS:
  • a while ago
• Age:
  • she natively speaks an obscure Romanian dialect, linguists have attributed to the medieval Carpathians around Sighisoara
• Pronouns:
  • they/them, she/her
• Home State/Region:
  • Wallachia
• Acting Experience:
  • She has a lot of acting experience, as if it were more than one could possibly accumulate in one human lifetime
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • It pays homage, to the greatest region in the world, Transylvania
• Profession:
  • She slaves for an evil corporation while she bides her time to return in all her glory as Voivoda of Wallachia
• Hobbies:
  • staying up late
  • avoiding sunlight
  • recruiting and coordinating Romanian transplant doctors
  • volunteering at the blood bank
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Max Shreck, is dreamy…even if he is a little over the top
• Education:
  • The finest education a Romanian Royal family member could achieve before studying abroad in the Ottoman Empire
• Awards:
  • Most likely to win a Halloween decorating contest
  • Impaler of the Year (47 years running)
  • Employee of the Month three times (then they hired that floozy Brittany!)
• Comments about Collette from other cast members:
  • “she always invites the other cast members back to her place for bloody marys”
  • “she is fast, like really fast”
  • “her skin is so soft and pale, it literally burns in the sun”
  • “she has a certain royal “je ne sais quoi” about her, as if she were descended from royalty”
  • “she kinda got really excited when I cut my finger on the edge of the stage and needed a band-aid….. like creepily excited”

Courtney

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Brad, Janet, Rocky, Trixie
• Started with TS:
  • A while ago
• Age:
  • 28
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State:
  • New York
• Acting Experience:
  • She was introverted until she fell in love with Jack Napier, they met at Arkham and it is just crazy love at first sight, now not so introverted.
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • The fun costumes.
• Profession:
  • Mob Moll / Psychologist
• Hobbies:
  • cooking vegetarian Indian dishes
  • growing prize winning petunias
  • recovery room nursing for organ transplant patients
  • roller derby
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Margot Robbie
• Education:
  • B.S. Nursing University Nebraska, Omaha
  • Ph.D. Psychology, Gotham University.
• Awards:
  • Who’s Who in Forensic Psychology (2019)
  • Best Hot Dish, St. John’s Lutheran Church Potluck (2021)
  • Most Dazzling Petunia, Minnesota Horticultural Society 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.
• Comments about Courtney from the other cast:
  • “Remember last year when little Suzy drowsily came out of the anesthesia and told Courtney, ‘Thank you for the kidney’, that was so heartwarming.”
  • “She is such a kind and caring person, people leave such awesome reviews when she works the recovery room”
  • “She is a big fan of the $4 gallon jugs of tequila you get at the gas station outside of Tijuana, I have seen her down 2 of them in one sitting, how does she do that? She is like 105 lbs, so, by my calculations, drinking 16 lbs of tequila should make her about 13% tequila.”

Estlin

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Riff-Raff
• Started with TS:
  • June 2024
• Age:
  • 29
• Pronouns:
  • he/him, they/them
• Home State:
  • Louisiana
• Acting Experience:
  • He was in theater in middle school and high school, joined his first shadow cast in college, and The Rocky Horror Show (stage version) as a gay, gay adult
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • Claiming spiritual ownership of the “eat pussy” sign on the back of our “enter at your own risk” prop
• Profession:
  • Teaching kids how to read
• Hobbies:
  • watching horror movies
  • going to punk shows
  • showing everyone I know the movie
  • Ginger Snaps
  • Reading
  • writing
  • going on dog walks
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Monty Python Education: BA in English Lit from LSU, the well-known party central
  • growing up as a trans kid in an evangelical k-12
• Awards:
  • They won the audience costume contest the month before they joined cast
• Comments about Estlin from other cast members:
  • “Estlin is kind of a twink.”

Grover

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Janet, Rocky
• Started with TS:
  • September 2022
• Age:
  • 29
• Pronouns:
  • they/them
• Home State:
  • New Jersey
• Acting Experience:
  • they has acted innocent in the past
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • The Gold Rocky Costume
• Profession:
  • Grover doesn’t talk about their work much, but seems to know a lot about U.S. foreign policy
• Hobbies:
  • Krav Maga
  • organ extraction
  • international travel
  • Aikido
  • gourmet dining
  • rock climbing
  • driving formula one racecars
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde
• Education:
  • International Relations, NYU, New York with a minor in exercise science
  • School of the America’s Honor Graduate
• Awards:
  • Black Belt in Krav Maga
  • Black Belt in Aikido
  • best Waterboarder (SOA)
  • Expert pistol marksmanship (SOA)
• Comments about Grover from other cast members:
  • “Grover can speak at least five languages fluently and sounds native with no American accent”
  • “Once killed the president of Paraguay with a cocktail fork”
  • “When Grover works quickly we can get the goods harvested and on ice without having to waste money on chloroform”.

Helen

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Riff-Raff, Columbia
• Started with TS:
  • 2015
• Age:
  • she is an adult adult, the rest of us are just goof offs who need her organization skills
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State/Region:
  • Yorkshire
• Acting Experience:
  • She has a lot of acting credentials, we see her in lots of stuff around the twin cities.
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • It is Rocky Horror, how can one pick a favorite part?
• Profession:
  • She like does zoom meetings for some important job
• Hobbies:
  • vegan gourmet cooking
  • organ transplant debt collection/repossession
  • drinking herbal teas
  • single parent caring for her teenage daughter who has a blood disease
  • epic costume parties
• Acting Inspiration:
  • campy sci-fi movies and rock operas
• Education:
  • she is super smart, so probably is educated or something
• Awards:
  • Most Fabulous Actor or Actress at Fringe Festival six years running
  • lettered in high school debate
  • Co-President of her high school German Club
  • SAS operative of the year (2018)
  • best Zombie Kill of the Week for Jan 5-11
• Comments about Helen from other cast members:
  • “She always has a teapot on for guests”
  • “Her skill with a blade is amazing”
  • “her crocheted blankets are so beautiful and soft”
  • “She is a amazingly strong and fast”
  • “Her acting skill is inspiring”
  • “She makes sure to have tea and fresh crumpets available at every rehearsal”

Judy

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Head prop thrower, Betty, Ralph
• Started with TS:
  • 2023
• Age:
  • she is another responsible person who keeps us goof offs in line
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State:
  • Chihuahua
• Acting Experience:
  • she acts like she has experience.
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • the comradery amongst the cast and crew
• Profession:
  • Over the Road Truck Driver
• Hobbies:
  • Swimming, transplant organ delivery, rock collecting, money laundering, painting, and pampering grandchildren
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Ernest Borgnine
• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Biochemistry
• Awards:
  • NASA emerging scientist award
  • best dressed in high school
  • West Texas Arm Wrestling Champion (Bantam Division)
  • Portland Heavy Metal Knitting Champion (2004)
• Comments about Judy from other cast members:
  • “She tosses the pool noodles like a professional pool noodle tosser”
  • “Three drinks and she is shouting call backs as if she were Richard O Brien.”
  • “Her paintings are epic and we should have her do more of them”
  • “She wasn’t the truck driver in the Pee Wee Herman movie, but if you get her angry she could become that truck driver?”

Kaarina

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Janet, Magenta, Criminologist
• Started with TS:
  • 2018
• Age:
  • 31
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State/Region:
  • Alabama
• Acting Experience:
  • Give her four tequila shots and she knows she can win an Academy Award
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • Shouting callbacks
• Profession:
  • Etsy crocheted dolly maker / seller
• Hobbies:
  • Gardening
  • reading trashy sci-fi novels
  • organizing her library by the dewey decimal system during the winter months
  • ether anesthesia for transplant patients
  • arranging her library under the library of congress system in the summer months
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Kathy Bates in Misery
• Education:
  • She knows lots of stuff, like the names of the seven dwarfs
  • the years of production of every major Disney film since 1943
  • the exact dosage of ether needed to lower the heart rate to 45 bpm and hold it there to avoid awkward squirming
• Awards:
  • “Most Energetic Mouseketeer” 2001 on Mickey’s Clubhouse
  • “Tastiest Blueberry Kringle” at the Norwood/Youngamerica Stiftungfest 2015
  • “Most Likely to Become a Scientist” Jefferson High School Class of 2010
  • guessed the correct number of jelly beans in a jar in 5^th grade.
• Comments about Kaarina from other cast members:
  • “Her voice carries callbacks across the theater like a siren song drawing you in”
  • “Kaarina brings a noble air to the criminologist character with her innate class and poise”
  • “I don’t think she was ever trained in anesthesia, but she is way better than Chris who used to just slosh ether all over the place making everyone dizzy”
  • “She crocheted that cute Frankenfurter doll for the costume contest prize last December”
  • “Her voice is really fucking high pitched and loud”

Kat

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Columbia, Rocky
• Started with TS:
  • September 2022
• Age:
  • 820 million seconds
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State:
  • Florida
• Acting Experience:
  • can tap dance, like really tap dance (which is how Little Nell got originally cast)
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • the excitement, the energy, and the spontaneity
• Profession:
  • Waitress / bouncer at Waffle House
• Hobbies:
  • Baking cookies
  • knitting socks for orphans
  • volunteering as a Sunday school teacher
  • slipping mickeys to marks at all night diners
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Waffle House Wendy
• Education:
  • Masters of Fine Arts, Dance (ballet) with three minors in Chemistry, Toxicology, and Pharmaceuticals
• Awards:
  • Most profitable waitress six months in a row
  • Jacksonville Florida Police Department supporter of the year award (for her volunteer work helping the cops identify the poison used in a string of abductions from area diners)
  • six curtain calls at her senior show of The Nutcracker
• Comments about Kat from other cast members:
  • “Kat is an excellent baker, her zucchini bread is to die for”
  • “Kat brought the greatest cookies, I just had one, they are awesome….I feel kinda woozy….”
  • “Ever since Kat started with epic reflexes, staff injuries have dropped 60%”

Mattie the Molly

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Eddie, Dr. Scott, Rocky, Criminologist, Ralph
• Started with TS:
  • August 2023
• Age:
  • 24
• Pronouns:
  • they/them, she/her
• Home State:
  • Minnesota
• Acting Experience:
  • various community theater shindigs
  • DragonflyTV
  • your mom
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • Shouting call lines that make the cast and audience laugh their asses off
  • Jizz
• Profession:
  • Being a woodland creature who performs ritual song and dance
• Hobbies:
  • writing fiddle tunes and dance choreography
  • digitizing physical media of various origin
  • compulsively cleaning their house
  • speaking French to scare their friends
  • buying shelves from the scratch & dent section of Ikea
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Ewan McGregor
  • Bright Lights Big City 1988
• Education:
  • University of Wisconsin Madison
    • triple B.A. degrees in Data Hoarding, Sea Shanties, and French
• Awards:
  • World Record for Fastest Time to Drink a Pint of Water
  • World Record for Largest Quantity of Useless Knowledge about Steely Dan
  • Voted Most Likely to Become a Mongoose
  • Club Penguin Game Day speedrunner
• Comments about Mattie from other cast members:
  • “O+ blood type makes them a universal donor”
  • “Mattie is really fucking annoying when they start stimming about whatever they’re hyperfixating on at the moment”
  • “Dang, they have really nice organs; they should make a trip to a makeshift hospital in Albania”
  • “Jizz”

Ren

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Janet
• Started with TS:
  • September 2022
• Age:
  • 23
• Pronouns:
  • they/them, he/him
• Home State:
  • Louisiana
• Acting Experience:
  • Lots of fun acting and costuming
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • Getting up on stage
• Profession:
  • Graphic Design
• Hobbies:
  • sketching with oil pastels
  • feeding her piranha aquarium
  • organ donor recruitment
  • interior decorating
  • rollerblading around Bde Maka Ska
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Jenna Ortega in Wednesday Addams
• Education:
  • B.A. Fine Arts, University of California Berkeley
• Awards:
  • Finisher North Shore Rollerblading 1/2 marathon (2019)
  • Transvestite Soup Costume Contest Winner (2021)
  • Best Little Angel in Catholic Elementary School Christmas Pageant (2007)
• Comments about Ren from other cast members:
  • “Ren actually can act, unlike us amateurs”
  • “Ren’s costuming is on point”
  • “We should put Ren to work on props”, “Ren can tell just by looking at someone if they are O+, the universal donor”
  • “Ren’s art skills are great and our props won’t look so shitty”

Schweddy

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Frank N Furter, Janet, Brad,  Eddie, Rocky, Criminologist
• Started with TS:
  • 2021
• Age:
  • super old, like in his 50s or something
• Pronouns:
  • he/him
• Home State:
  • drunk in Minnesota
• Acting Experience:
  • wait, he needed acting experience to get on the cast?
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • The Gold Shorts
• Profession:
  • Successfully fights Darwinism
• Hobbies:
  • whiskey
  • rollerskating
  • harvesting fresh transplant organs
  • rollerskating with whiskey
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Milton Waddems from “Office Space”
• Education:
  • Some seriously boring nerd shit
• Awards:
  • First Place Cross Country Hitchhiking Race
  • Lettered in both Math and Latin Teams
  • First Place Jalapeno Eating Contest
  • Runner up for Employee of the Month 37 months in a row (he kept losing to the shop’s Labrador retriever)
  • Participation trophies in 29 intramural sports
• Comments about Schweddy from other cast members:
  • “He looks like a dorkierversion of Garrison Kellor”
  • “Do we even let him out of the basement?”
  • “Isn’t he the guy on America’s Most Wanted, for stealing kidneys in seedy motels?”
  • “Don’t tell him, I have his Red Stapler”
  • “He is pretty good”
  • “Stop whining, Schweddy, get out there and sell the prop bags!”

Sofia

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Magenta, Janet
• Started with TS:
  • August 2023
• Age:
  • 28
• Pronouns:
  • they/them
• Home State/Region:
  • Troms og Finnmark, Norway
• Acting Experience:
  • three years starring in an off Broadway production of Cats
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • tossing rolls of toilet paper around a theater and not having to clean them up.
• Profession:
  • Profile Ghostwriter
• Hobbies:
  • costuming
  • sewing
  • LARPing
  • suturing
  • baking keto friendly pastries
  • embroidery
  • empowering crystals
  • restoring their classic 1930s Sears and Roebuck kit home to its former glory
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Velma in classic Scooby Doo cartoons
• Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts, Juilliard School
  • Master of Fine Arts, Juilliard School
• Awards:
  • Full Scholarship to Juilliard School
  • blue ribbon for their cross stitch (Hennepin County Fair 2006)
  • 2015 Shorty Award for their funniest tweet
• Comments about Sofia from other cast members:
  • “Remember when we had that donor whining on and on about how we were stealing his kidney, so Sofia cross-stitched a Grumpy Bear into his suture line?”
  • “Sofia makes the best costumes, they are screen accurate!”
  • “The frosted sugar cookies they made for the holiday party were delicious, normally keto stuff tastes like sawdust and sadness.”

Tawny

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Frank N Furter, Magenta, Eddie, Dr. Scott, Trixie
• Started with TS:
  • 2013
• Age:
  • the sea salt tanned skin, the air of a woman who has lived on the sea defies age
• Pronouns:
  • she/her
• Home State:
  • Minnesota
• Acting Experience:
  • in high school acted in Pirates of Penzance and found her true calling
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • the campy music
• Profession:
  • High Seas Entrepreneur
• Hobbies:
  • drinking rum
  • singing sea shanties
  • organ donor disposal
  • needlepoint
  • fencing
  • sailing
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean
• Education:
  • Summa Cum Laude, Pirate Certificate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
• Awards:
  • MIT Fencing Champion (2001-4)
  • captained the yacht, “Fragrant Salty Nuts” to win the Bermuda Yacht Club 400 mile Race (2015 and 2017)
• Comments about Tawny from other cast members:
  • “She is an amazing sailor, she can dodge the U.S. Coast Guard by hugging the shore without running lights”
  • “She can load, transport, dump a donor in international waters and be back in port before sunrise”
  • “She can swing a cutlass like a Jedi.”

Wayne the Spotlight Guy

• Roles with TS:
  • Crew member extraordinaire, Security, and Protection Services for our “VIP” guests
• Started with TS:
  • 2021
• Age:
  • 34
• Pronouns:
  • he/him
• Home State:
  • Minnesota
• Experience:
  • roadie for the Rolling Stones
  • fought a Bengal Tiger in Thailand for 135 Baht and a bottle of scotch
  • five years running dirtbike vanguard for Coyotes working the border of Tijuana and San Diego
• Favorite part of being with Transvestite Soup:
  • standing on the stage during the approach to the castle and getting hit by lightning
• Profession:
  • Bounty Hunter
• Hobbies:
  • listening to Van Halen
  • motorcycling
  • patrolling the perimeter of spas to protect VIP guests in Tijuana
  • drinking Jamison
  • taxidermy
• Inspiration:
  • The Canadian National Treasure
  • Rush
  • Geddy Lee
• Education:
  • Ph.D. from the School of Hard Knocks
• Awards:
  • First Place Baja Off Road Motorcycle Rally (2015)
  • Blue Ribbon 7th grade Science Fair
  • Best Bass Player in the 2007 Battle of the Bands, Rick’s Bar, St. Cloud, MN
• Comments about Wayne from other cast members:
  • “Remember that one time, one of our Romanian VIPs refused to work without a pint of Tuica plum brandy, Wayne rode through arroyos and a storm sewer culvert to cross the border to a small liquor store in San Ysidro and back in less than an hour?”
  • “When he is on perimeter, no one disrupts our work”
  • “He once was protecting one of our guests who got drunk and punched a mid-level cartel boss, Wayne tossed him on the back of his bike and whisked him to Acapulco where a rival cartel would protect him”

Ziz

• Characters with Transvestite Soup:
  • Frank N Furter, Magenta, Columbia, Rocky, Criminologist, Trixie
• Started with TS:
  • 2021
• Age:
  • 27
• Pronouns:
  • they/them
• Home State:
  • Lithuania
• Acting Experience:
  • much anime voice work
  • translation amongst Japanese, English, Estonian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latin, and Shizz
• Favorite part of acting with Transvestite Soup:
  • they like the promotions, the energy and the excitement.
• Profession:
  • Computer Programmer Extraordinaire
• Hobbies:
  • Pokemon Go
  • anime short reel production
  • dark net money laundering
  • eating cereal in flannel pajamas
  • cryptocurrency manipulation
• Acting Inspiration:
  • Hayao Miyazaki
• Education:
  • UC Berkeley Computer Engineering almost graduated with Magna Cum Laude, but a few inconsistencies in the registration software resulted in their quiet exit before graduation
• Awards:
  • 100% perfect attendance at school Kindergarten through 12th grade (at least no recorded tardies or absences in the attendance software)
  • has captured through Pokemon Go raids 9/10 of the legendary pokemon (Mega Latios still eludes them)
  • has led the defense of eight of the world’s top ten gyms
  • has captured 683 of the 700 regular pokemon
  • they won the random computer-drawn Iowa lottery seven times
  • voted “Most likely to become tech mogul by their graduating class”
• Comments about Ziz from other cast members:
  • “Ziz is wicked smart, they told me to buy bitcoin, then at 11:30 on a saturday night to sell it as it skyrocketed to triple the price before crashing, like a modern day Nostradamus”
  • “Ziz had a tip that the maracas for prop bags would drop in price for an hour window, so we were able to buy them at pennies on the dollar”
  • “They are a wiz with banking transactions, everything looks on the up and up and our payroll looks amazing, like we all work for a cleaning company instead of in the illicit organ industry”
  • “Didn’t Wired magazine run and article on how Ziz used AI to program a small army of drones to independently recharge and fly around Pokestops to guard the 17 most visited Pokemon Go gyms in the U.S.?”
  • “They are the only person I know who can tell the difference between the Lucky Charms marshmallows by taste alone”