Monique Jenkinson is a multifaceted performing artist. Her work, which spans the worlds of dance, theater, drag and performance art, has been called ‘hilarious’ with an ‘intellectual spark’ and ‘enough to make a girl want to revisit her Susan Sontag.’ She has created and performed locally and internationally at ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, de Young Museum, and Trannyshack in San Francisco; Danspace Project in NYC; Gay Pride in Reykjavik; Supperclub in Amsterdam; Too2Much and Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London; and the Coachella music festival. Monique’s drag queen alter ego, Fauxnique, is a prolific fixture on the experimental performance scene, and continues to deliver new creations to the nightclub stage on a regular basis. Fauxnique made history and invoked controversy as the first woman to win San Francisco’s infamous Miss Trannyshack Pageant. She appears in the documentary Filthy Gorgeous: the Trannyshack Story and the April/May ’08 issue of Bust magazine.

Monique spent five years as co-director (with actor Kevin Clarke) of the performance duo Hagen & Simone; is a current artist-in-residence at ODC Theater, a past artist-in-residence at CounterPULSE, and a 2007 recipient (with mentor Keith Hennessey) of the prestigious CHIME Grant. She graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. in Dance and Literature. Recent projects include a performance for the opening of Gilbert & George’s exhibtion at the de Young Museum, choreography for the world premiere of Betty Shamieh’s Territories at the Magic Theatre, and the principal role in David J.’s Silver for Gold: the Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. Monique’s upcoming projects include a collaboration with Bay Area visual artist Deborah Oropallo, and the premier of a new work, Luxury Items at ODC Theater in 2009.