Studio 45 Live Presents

🎭✨ NOW BOOKING: 2026 STUDIO 45 LIVE LINEUP ✨🎭 We're building our 2026 roster and want YOU! Calling all: 🎤 Drag artists (kings, queens, things) 💃 Burlesque performers 🤡 Clowns & alt comedians 📖 Poets & spoken word artists 🎸 Musicians & singers 🎪 Circus artists & variety performers ✨ Anyone bringing queer liberation energy! The Deal: Door split among performers Sliding scale $20-30 / $30 at door Professional sound & tech support Inclusive, supportive production Monthly residency opportunities for right acts! 2026 DATES: Thursday, January 15 Thursday, February 12 Thursday, March 12 Thursday, April 9 Thursday, June 11 Thursday, July 9 Thursday, August 13 Thursday, September 10 Thursday, October 8 Thursday, November 12 Thursday, December 10 TO BOOK: DM us with: Your name & pronouns Type of act Brief description (2-3 sentences) Which dates you're available Links to your work (IG, videos, etc.) We're curating variety show lineups, so we'll slot different types of acts each month. Send us ALL your available dates and we may book you for multiple shows! We're gonna make 2026 the year of disco transcendence. 🪩✨

✨💋 YOUR HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTESS: VELVET DIVINE 💋✨ Coming to you from the smoky stages of Chicago's Green Mill, Velvet Divine is the fierce, fabulous force leading Studio 45 Live into disco transcendence. She's over-the-top by design, darling, because subtlety never started a revolution. Velvet hosts with sultry confidence, theatrical flair, and powerful messages about queer freedom and self-expression. From Velvet, you can expect dramatic monologues, playful audience games, and a celebration of everything disco represented for the queer community: sanctuary, freedom, and chosen family. Coming Soon: Rotating co-hosts and special guest hosts joining Velvet throughout 2026! When Velvet takes the stage, magic happens. When you walk through those doors, you're entering her world... where everyone is totally free. See you on the dance floor, darlings. 💋🪩 Monthly at @thetrestleinn Follow for show dates & performer announcements!

🪩✨ WELCOME TO STUDIO 45 LIVE ✨🪩 Step into another world where everyone is totally free. Studio 45 Live is a monthly variety show celebrating disco as queer resistance, chosen family, and the radical act of joy. Hosted at @thetrestleinn , we're bringing 70s TV variety show energy + Studio 54 sanctuary vibes to Philly. Monthly at The Trestle Inn Every second Thursday (mostly!) Doors 6pm • Show 7-9pm $20-30 sliding scale • NOTAFLOF "Disco was a haven for inclusion and acceptance... as soon as they stepped foot into the disco they were safe and not only were they safe but they were included, they were accepted, they were part of the scene." Join us and... ✨ Celebrate queer liberation 💫 Be part of our studio audience 🌈 Dance like your life depends on it 🎉 Connect with chosen family Dress Code: Studio 54 realness. 70s glamour. Disco ball accessories. Whatever makes you feel like the STAR you are. Follow along for lineup announcements, behind-the-scenes magic, and disco transcendence updates!

Darlings, Velvet Divine is stepping away from the disco ball for one month. She's got a little something else brewing. 🎭 Catch her in Sappho's Salon, going up at Dyke+ Art Haus the first two weekends of May. Details at @criticturnedclown @butchmermaidproductions @dykearthaus . Studio 45 Live will be back in full disco force on June 11 at The Trestle Inn. Miss us. 🪩

📺🔥 TONIGHT is STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 🔥📺 Grab the remote - next tonight we're flipping through the wildest lineup on television. Your Channel 45 lineup: 🎤 Balena Canto - opera diva realness 🎵 James Gentile - genre-defying soundscapes 🤡 Bucky Carson - prop & character comedy from around the globe 🔥 Melissa Mellon - whip cracking circus arts 🍬 Perry Mingle - "Sex & Candy" burlesque 📺 Co-hosted by Velvet Divine & Just Joey, who have one remote control and zero chill With Juniper Sweeney on sound, Clara Rose as stage kitten, and Henry Magnolia on the mic. This is a queer disco variety show where every act is a different channel on the dial. Your co-hosts are fighting over the remote. Someone might get national syndication. Someone definitely will not. 🎟️ PRE-SALE TICKETS ARE LIVE UNTIL 2 PM TODAY - save $$ and grab yours now at the link in bio! $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale vs. $30 at the door. NOTAFLOF. 📍 The Trestle Inn · 339 N 11th St, Philadelphia 📅 Thursday April 9 · Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm 💃 Disco dance party to follow · 21+ 👗 Dress code: Channel your inner TV icon - soap opera villain, aerobics instructor, late night host, telenovela star, or just disco glamour Limited capacity. Don't sleep on this one. #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #QueerVarietyShow #PhillyEvents #DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy TheTrestleInn PhillyQueer ChosenFamily

📺 STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 📺 Meet your co-hosts: VELVET DIVINE & JUST JOEY Velvet Divine is a jazz vocalist from 1970s Chicago who believes subtlety is for people who don't own enough sequins. She's convinced Studio 45 Live is about to get picked up for national syndication and she will NOT let anyone ruin this for her. Just Joey is the anxious R&B singer behind "Love and Anxiety" who cannot stop channel surfing. They claims they are "curating the viewer experience." They are not. The two of them have one remote. They have very different ideas about what to watch. Someone's going to have to compromise and it will NOT be Velvet. Will they survive a full broadcast together? Will the remote survive? Will the network executives Velvet keeps mentioning actually show up? Find out Thursday April 9 at Studio 45 Live. Grab your tickets by 2 pm online TOMORROW to save $$$ in pre sales! #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #VelvetDivine #JustJoey #QueerVarietyShow PhillyNightlife QueerJoy

✨ STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING ✨ Meet the crew that keeps Channel 45 on the air! 🎙️ HENRY MAGNOLIA has been a professional announcer since 1969. Hailing from Shanghai, West Virginia, Henry initially worked as a bathroom attendant at his local news station when he was randomly selected to live-announce the Apollo 11 moon landing. Though he announced that the United States had "landed on the moose," he put down the plunger, took up the teleprompter, and never looked back. He has frequently been confused for local theater artist Nathaniel Fishburn, who has stood on stages saying things as well as written, dramaturged, and produced for theatre in Boulder, Ithaca, Chicago, and now Philadelphia. 🎛️ JUNIPER SWEENEY - queer poet and sound engineer extraordinaire, bringing the same care to the mix board that she brings to everything she does. Every beat, every static crackle, every channel change - she's got it. 🌹 CLARA ROSE - A Seattle-trained burlesque performer herself, Clara knows exactly what performers need to shine. She moved from the West Coast to make Philly home, and now she's bringing that performer's intuition to backstage production magic. Studio 45 doesn't happen without her. 📺 Thursday April 9 · The Trestle Inn 🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio! #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #BehindTheScenes #QueerVarietyShow #PhillyNightlife

🍬 STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 🍬 Meet PERRY MINGLE - Philly's rare burlesque gem, unearthing a new character and story for every act that shine long after curtain call. A graduate of the Philadelphia Burlesque Academy, Perry has performed with The Naughty Jawn, Burlesque-n-Beyond Festival, Haus of Them, Tassel Time Warp, and the Radical Faerie Collective. This time they're serving "Sex & Candy" - viewer discretion advised. Channel 45 After Dark, baby. 📺 Thursday April 9 · The Trestle Inn Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm · Disco dance party to follow 🎟️ $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale · $30 at the door · NOTAFLOF RSVP + tickets at the link in bio! @perry.mingle.xo #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #PerryMingle #PhillyBurlesque #QueerVarietyShow DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy

🔥 STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 🔥 Meet MELISSA MELLON - a Philadelphia circus coach and performer. She’s also a nerdy circus showrunner with her company, Gummi Bares presents. She's bringing whip cracking to Channel 45 and we are equal parts thrilled and terrified. Front row seats are for the brave. 📺 Thursday April 9 · The Trestle Inn Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm · Disco dance party to follow 🎟️ $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale · $30 at the door · NOTAFLOF RSVP + tickets at the link in bio! @lissa181 #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #MelissaMellon #PhillyCircus #QueerVarietyShow DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy

📺🔥 ONE WEEK until STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING Grab the remote - next Thursday we're flipping through the wildest lineup on television. Your Channel 45 lineup: 🎤 Balena Canto - opera diva realness 🎵 James Gentile - genre-defying soundscapes 🤡 Bucky Carson - prop & character comedy from around the globe 🔥 Melissa Mellon - whip cracking circus arts 🍬 Perry Mingle - "Sex & Candy" burlesque 📺 Co-hosted by Velvet Divine & Just Joey, who have one remote control and zero chill With Juniper Sweeney on sound, Clara Rose as stage kitten, and Henry Magnolia on the mic. This is a queer disco variety show where every act is a different channel on the dial. Your co-hosts are fighting over the remote. Someone might get national syndication. Someone definitely will not. 🎟️ PRE-SALE TICKETS ARE LIVE - save $$ and grab yours now at the link in bio! $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale vs. $30 at the door. NOTAFLOF. 📍 The Trestle Inn · 339 N 11th St, Philadelphia 📅 Thursday April 9 · Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm 💃 Disco dance party to follow · 21+ 👗 Dress code: Channel your inner TV icon - soap opera villain, aerobics instructor, late night host, telenovela star, or just disco glamour Limited capacity. Don't sleep on this one. #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #QueerVarietyShow #PhillyEvents #DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy TheTrestleInn PhillyQueer ChosenFamily

🤡 STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 🤡 Meet BUCKY CARSON - He's been performing all over the world for the past 3 years with a unique style of prop and character comedy that is unlike anything you've ever seen. We're not going to tell you what channel he's on because honestly we're not sure it exists yet. 📺 Thursday April 9 · The Trestle Inn Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm · Disco dance party to follow 🎟️ $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale · $30 at the door · NOTAFLOF RSVP + tickets at the link in bio! @buckycarsonusa #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #BuckyCarson #PhillyComedy #QueerVarietyShow DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy

🎵 STUDIO 45 LIVE: CHANNEL SURFING 🎵 Meet JAMES GENTILE - an interdisciplinary artist and multi-instrumentalist collaging textures, samples, and instrumentation into something totally their own. They challenge the constraints of established music to craft new sounds irreverent to genre. In other words: you haven't heard anything like this before. What channel is that? Tune in and find out. 📺 Thursday April 9 · The Trestle Inn Doors 6:15pm · Show 7pm · Disco dance party to follow 🎟️ $20-30 sliding scale pre-sale · $30 at the door · NOTAFLOF RSVP + tickets at the link in bio! @jamesgentile #Studio45Live #ChannelSurfing #JamesGentile #PhillyMusic #QueerVarietyShow DiscoTranscendence PhillyNightlife QueerJoy