Wes Olivier graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in May of 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Theatre, and Film. As well as an experimental musical theatre composer and artist, Wes regularly performs as their gender non conforming, alien-clown drag persona, Klondyke. They are also a founding member of the world’s only all trans and BIPOC sideshow troupe, The Black Cherry Sideshow. They are currently working toward producing their first two musicals, Elsewhere and Scarecrow. Wes strives to create work that shares their perspective as a black, trans, neurodivergent artist in the hopes of lifting up other QTBIPOC people who are also fighting to be truly free. (Credits: New Weird Future by Tiresias at La Mama Nova 2025; Leland & Silas by Bread at Chinkapin Craftstead May 2025; Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns at Le Poisson Rouge Feb 2025; Bark of Millions by Taylor Mac & Matt Ray at Berliner Festspiele Oct 2024, BAM & Zellerbach Hall Feb 2024, Sydney Opera House Oct 2023; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Taylor Mac and Jason Robert Brown, Goodman Theatre, July 2024; Scarecrow by Klondyke at Ars Nova, Jan 2023; The Hang (by Taylor Mac & Matt Ray @ HERE Arts, 2022; Takes the Cake Drag King & Thing Competition winner by The Cakeboys, at 3DB, Sept 2021)
