Freshworks: lys scott

Friday & Saturday, November 6 – 7, 2026 7:30pm – 9:00pm (including post-show discussion) KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave. Pay What Moves You: $15 – $30 Growing up in a small town, lys scott (she/they) discovered that living authentically sometimes meant being called the “Crazy Girl.” As a first-generation LGBTQIA+ Thai American artist, lys brings their fearless storytelling and multidisciplinary performance style together in chronicles of a crazy girl. This performance in progress invites audiences inside lys’s inner world – a whimsical, nonlinear journey exploring the liberation of individuality, sexuality, and relationships with their immigrant family. Embracing musical spontaneity, theatrical performance, and media design, each scene reveals a new layer of their emotions, rooted in identity, resilience, and self-discovery. Photo Credit: Courtesy of lys scott Friday & Saturday, October 2 – 3, 2026 7:30pm – 9:00pm (including post-show discussion) KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave. Pay What Moves You: $15 – $30 lys scott (she/they) is a small-town dreamer turned fearless storyteller. As a first-generation LGBTqia+Thai American, lys spent years navigating the space between fitting in and standing out; channeling a journey of identity, resilience, and self-discovery. They have performed at venues including Kelly Strayhorn Theater, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Mattress Factory, as well as at festivals including Three Rivers Arts Festival, Millvale Music Festival, and Pittsburgh Pride. lys has also toured in cities such as Pittsburgh, NYC, Washington D.C and Baltimore. Bianca is a multi-talented mixed media artist, writer, and special effects makeup artist. Born and raised in NYC, they now bring their diverse creative passions to their new home in Pittsburgh. Bianca holds a specialized business degree, seamlessly blending their entrepreneurial mindset with their artistic vision. Whether they are crafting intricate visual pieces, doodling, painting, or penning spooky stories, Bianca’s lifelong mission is to explore all the vibrant world has to offer. Skyler Brimmeier is a multi-instrumentalist from Beaver, PA. Known for making lo-fi psychedelic music under the moniker Sleep Movies, Skyler is also a lover of visual storytelling, ecology, and history’s local mysteries. Bella Figlia, Elizabeth Joan Harris, is a multidisciplinary, genre-fluid performer, sound designer, and teaching artist. Bella Figlia fuses the sensual to the spiritual, the grotesque to the holy. As a music therapist, Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit graduate of 2017, she understands the effects of sound on the brain; she tugs at the jagged edges of soft sounds to extract sharp feelings. Layering is a common theme throughout all of her disciplines, whether it be sound, textile, or paper, collage is a conceptual through line. Find her everywhere at @bellafiglia777 and bellafiglia.com. Likha Oasis is an explorative multimedia artist. Creating artwork with the intention of expanding consciousness, ancestral communication, ritual, healing, offerings of gratitude, and loving vibrations. Following along with the artist’s journey with the self, the spirit, and the world that ignites curiosity. Exploring Divine Nature, the elements, music and culture; creates colorful and vibrant works of art. These portal paintings and flow dance hope to be an Oasis for all beings everywhere. Ariel Xiu is a medium-agnostic, idiosyncratic time-based artist whose practice spans movement-forward performance, theatrical social interventions (exorcisms), painting, tattoo, conceptual art, filmmaking, education, and more. A former Freshworks artist, Xiu invited lys scott into their project, BAD FORM: a scratch symphony. Now, they are thrilled to join scott in chronicles of a crazy girl as a dancer, honored to share in the ongoing exchange of artistic worlds and the many ways they continue to unfold.