Trauma Flintstone (nee Anderthal) is a San Francisco-based performance artist, musician, composer, arranger, cabaret singer, and drag artiste.
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Biography
As an actor, Trauma has appeared in over fifty theatre productions since 1993, including ten years in "Christmas with the Crawfords," playing the roles of Patty Andrews, Gloria Swanson, Rosalind Russell, Vivien Leigh and Carmen Miranda in both San Francisco and New York shows.[1][2] Patty Andrews in "The Andrews Sisters' Hollywood Canteen" at Café Du Nord (SF) and The Duplex (NYC). The world-premiere of Erling Wold's opera Queer,[3] based on the novel by William S. Burroughs, Flintstone portrayed Lee, the surrogate role of Burroughs himself. The world-premiere of "The Big Drag," a gay noir theatre piece for Theatre Rhinoceros, the oldest gay theatre in the US, portraying drag diva Stella L'Etoille. "Club Inferno" as Aimee Semple McPherson, for which Trauma was nominated for a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award. Liberace in "Gross Indulgences: The Trials of Liberace." Miss Texas in "Pageant." Both "Whoop-dee-Doo" and "When Pigs Fly" portraying himself. Two versions of "Jungle Red," a musical based on the movie "The Women" and Tom Orr's parody musical "Dirty Little Show Tunes!" In clubs and cabarets, Flintstone has appeared at almost every venue in San Francisco as well as street fairs, festivals and public ceremonies. She has entertained in diverse venues from the eight-barstooled Wooden Horse to the magnificent San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall. Her community outreach and performance range keeps her regularly doing a wide range of events from early morning events like the Doggone Fun Run benefit to the late night club DNA Lounge. She has also performed at high-profile events like Reno Pride, NYC Pride and San Francisco’s legendary post-modern drag show Trannyshack. In 1999, Flintstone was an artist-in-residence at the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts where she was awarded the Board of Directors medal for artistic achievement. As an underground cult figure, Flintstone won the Miss Uranus Pageant in 1994 and later earned the slot of Miss April in the Desperate Diva 2007 calendar. Trauma also mentors promising new performers, including a drag daughter that won the SF Virgin Queen contest in 1997 and another daughter who was first runner up in the 2003 Faux Queen pageant. In 2005, Flintstone was sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for her community activism.
References
Genzlinger, Neil (2001-11-27). THEATER REVIEW; Dragging Out Essentials of a Holiday Perennial. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
