IPOP (Elioa Steffen)
Elioa Steffen (She/her, US/NL) is a performance maker, writer, and educator whose work focuses on the intersection of communal narratives, cultural norms, and systemic violence. With over 10 years of experience as a facilitator, Elioa crafts encounters that investigate the relationships between personal needs and societal truths. Heavily influenced by queer art lineages, Elioa’s work melds critical theory, camp, and drag.
In 2021, Elioa co-founded In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities, Queer Performance Pedagogy and Feedback (IPOP) an educational, artistic research platform exploring how institutions can better foster queer artists and practices. She is working on an upcoming book about this project with her collaborator Szymon Adamczak.
Elioa has been commissioned and produced by The Warp, DOOResidency, (Amsterdam) Gay City, On the Boards, Studio Current, (Seattle), Risk/Reward (Portland), Dixon Place (New York), and Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island) among others. Their curation has been featured in the Special Effects Festival (New York), NW New Works Festival (Seattle). Elioa has studied with Anne Bogart’s SITI company, Gender Tender and Vanessa DeWolf. She holds a master’s degree from DAS Theatre, Amsterdam.
