Performance & Cultural Productions

  • Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret
    A genre-bending cabaret performance created and performed by Black Benatar and Steven LeMay.
  • Visual Art & Editions
    Beatrice’s visual practice includes hand-embellished archival pigment prints, zines, garments, soft sculpture, and limited-edition objects.
  • Black Benatar vs. the Cistem
    A theatrical solo work written and performed by Black Benatar.
  • Black Benatar’s Lip-Sync Spectacular
    A participatory live event hosted and produced by Black Benatar.
  • Black Benatar’s Bingo
    A participatory drag bingo experience created and hosted by Black Benatar.
  • Visual Art & Editions
    Beatrice’s visual practice includes hand-embellished archival pigment prints, zines, garments, soft sculpture, and limited-edition objects.
  • YES! with Yayoi Kambara
    A collaborative performance work on consent created with Yayoi Kambara.
  • Higher Ground Queer Arts Cabaret
    A interdisciplinary queer performance gathering created and hosted by Black Benatar and BANDALOOP.
  • Bay Area Drag Story Hour
    Community-centered intergenerational drag storytelling and cultural programming.

Beatrice L. Thomas creates performance, cabaret, participatory experiences, visual work, and cultural gatherings through Authentic Arts & Media and Black Benatar. This work uses humor, theatricality, public encounter, and care to make room for connection, curiosity, and collective possibility.

My work includes theatrical performance, cabaret, drag, participatory events, puppetry, printmaking, virtual reality, and community-based cultural production. I create as a performer, host, producer, facilitator, and collaborator, building experiences that invite people into humor, reflection, connection, and shared possibility.

Performance, Cabaret & Theater

  • Black Benatar vs. the Cistem
  • Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret
  • YES! with Yayoi Kambara

Participatory & Public Performance

  • Higher Ground Queer Arts Cabaret
  • Black Benatar’s Lip-Sync Spectacular
  • Black Benatar’s Bingo

Visual Art & Editions

Beatrice’s visual practice includes hand-embellished archival pigment prints, zines, garments, soft sculpture, and limited-edition objects.

Community Cultural Leadership

  • Bay Area Drag Story Hour

Present, commission, or collaborate

Interested in presenting a performance, producing a public event, commissioning new work, or exploring a creative collaboration? Get in touch.