Harvey Rabbit

Harvey Rabbit is a transgender artist living in Berlin, Germany. He has a Masters degree in dramaturgy and a Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental Theater, both from New College of California. A campaigner for LGBTQIA* and sex worker rights, his activism dates back to the mid-90s when, using spoken word as his medium, he stormed the stages of Northern California, speaking about feminism, queerness, and empowerment. He was selected for the 2007 CESTA “Waste” festival, a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary festival in Tàbor, Czech Republic and his one-woman show “Madge’s Box,” was chosen for the 2008 San Francisco Fringe Festival. From 2013 to 2015, he produced, curated, and hosted Varieté Ridiculous, a political cabaret in Berlin focusing on sex worker rights. In 2016, his first short film, Slowdance (2016), a film noir about homophobia and gay love, premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and has been shown in queer film festivals in many parts of Europe, South and Central America, and the USA. In 2017, heproduced “We are the Fucking World,” a short film for Erika Lust. His most recent work, The Chemo Darkroom (2018) was selected for the shorts competion in the Berlin Porn Film Festival, Berlin Feminist Film Week, IKFF Hamburg and the 2019 Hacker Porn Film Festival in Rome. “Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe” is his first feature film.

Born: in California, USA