Short Form's producer Dusty Bucket is a futurist multimedia artist and performer. They demand more from this burning world, and have the privilege to put this show together to prove to you all that despite the horrors, the show must go on!
You can find their work at dvstybvcket.com but this show isn't about them, it's about YOU! Showing up! To Short Form! You still have a chance! This weekend! May 14-16! 7PM! Not to be missed! When's the last time you had an emotion in public?! Wither not, heathens! See you there!
Cameron Cabot is a wanderer, exploring how we pass/use/waste/maximize/appreciate time through the life experiences we hoard and the relationships we weave.
Throughout his "Fool's journey," Cameron has claimed several artistic identities - singer, writer, composer, poet, actor, director, teacher, producer. Can any artist stay in one lane? Is focus and discipline possible when so many doors open and close every day? Probably/maybe.
Cameron is inspired to be a part of Short Form 2026 because, by its nature, the show celebrates art/expression in its many forms, honoring artists and their craft/work as contained and magnificent solar systems in delicate orbit with one another. See it this weekend, May 14-16th at 7PM.
im Sluggy and i make art, trash art if you will. People constantly discard heaps of art supplies every day! I scoop them up, clean them, give them a taste test for good measure, and then turn it into something I like. All I have ever wanted was to make people smile and after 27 years of creation, i can say i have made at LEAST 3 people smile!!!! If you want to make that 4 or even 5 smiles come to Short Form and watch as I fearfully stumble around stage for 5 to 10 minutes!
This weekend! Thursday May 14th, and the 15th, and even the 16th! It'll be different each time, so you could see all three! 7PM, $12!
Susie Underwood is a middle aged white lady who loves fart jokes, sci-fi and making art that confuses and hopefully delights. Working in performance, installation, ceramics and now puppets, she'll make almost anything, except for probably a lot of things.
We can't get enough, so see her all three nights at Short Form this weekend! May 14-16th at 7PM!
She is the Maggot that ATE the pageant girl. The rotted core housing the vaguely human shaped woman? Not Esoteric but in bad taste! The current reigning crowned Michigan's Monster in the Making 2025 and Mx Capital City Gay Pride 2025 . A variety performer who builds each look from scratch and thrift. Producer, performer, redesigner, freak, and A diy Monster with flair for prop making and wig styling. Their commissions are open! Feast your eyes on Mutter Maggottë at Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM!
Issa Vybe is a performer and producer with Issa Vybes Productions. Follow this international award winning artist on Instagram now @im_issavybe . Her energy will leave you buzzing for more. One of only a few Black producers in Northeast Ohio. She’s always accepting tributes!
Check her out at Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM.
"Sing about your pain with me, darling!" Liz Huff is back for more in Short Form 2026!
Liz Huff (she/her) does concert work, theater, and collaborative arts projects throughout the Midwest and places as far-flung as Estonia, Northern Ireland, and Finland. Her one-woman improvised show Instant Opera debuted at Micro Theater Cle’s Fall 2024 pop-up festival, with additional shows at Maelstrom Arts' SHORTFORM and BorderLight Fringe Festival 2025. Other performances include Cleveland Play House’s Amadeus as Teresa Salieri, and BorderLight 2023 singing the Narrator in Obediya Jones-Darrell’s opera Fairy in The Lake. She has sung with the Cleveland Pops at Severance Hall, and headlined holiday concerts at Nighttown. An advocate for new work in theater and music, Liz has premiered numerous works by Ryan Charles Ramer and other composers, and by playwrights at Ensemble Theatre, Cain Park, and Cleveland Public Theatre. She loves teaching improv and music directing. She is a member of The Greenhouse (Ohio-based theatre makers), and a voting member of the Recording Academy.
Check out Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM.
Shay is a visual preservationist artist and performer. Within their more recent work, they have completed works that captures the
bounds, movement and relationship of humans to humans, human to earth and back again through the use of collage, hand pressed flowers, and poetry. In this time of her work, she aims to return to movement, specifically and intentionally, to push the bounds of her fear and show the pleasure and joy that comes from stepping into something that can literally overflow into another — as ritual, as love, & with community.
Check out Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM.
Whitney Rutledge (she/her) is a movement and performance artist living in the Cuyahoga Valley of Ohio. Her movement is influenced by her background in pole dance, sensual and somatic movement studies, and, most recently, explorations in butoh. Taking inspiration from myth, Jungian psychology especially through the lens of the feminine psyche, and symbolic motifs from personal experience, her work strives to encompass the trials of the inner self on the path to spiritual initiation.
Check out Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM.
Abel N. Willing is a Northeast Ohio drag king. He uses his background in sketch comedy to propel his unique and campy performances. From giving birth to a puppet to impersonating historical figures or even busting out the occasional dance move, Abel always keeps his audience entertained and laughing with his unpredictable, high-energy acts.
Check out Short Form on May 14-16th at 7PM.
