ARKHAM A$$YLUM
🦇 NOTE FROM THE WRITER
This is the age of privatized heroism—where surveillance feels like safety, wealth masquerades as virtue, and vengeance gets a brand deal. And every time we cheer for a vigilante billionaire, we teach ourselves that justice belongs to the powerful, that empathy needs a gadget, and that the law is flexible—if you’re rich enough to bend it.
Arkham A$$ylum is a glitter-soaked cross-examination. A burlesque tribunal where Gotham’s “villains” finally get their say—and the Bat gets gagged. Each rogue delivers their origin story not as confession, but as indictment: of broken systems, corrupt institutions, and a culture that mistakes cruelty for control.
-- Prof. Andy Scahill, University of Colorado Denver
Wanna read Prof. Andy's full thoughts? Check out his editorial in Outfront Magazine, "Batmusk: Why I Had to Drag the Bat."
Or read his interview with WestWord Magazine, "Fringe Festival Show Arkham A$$ylum Puts Batman on Trial."
🎭 CAST & CHAOS
🖋 Writer – Andy Might
🖋 Director - Richi Ramos
🃏 The Joker – Richi Ramos (live vocals)
Ringmaster of chaos. Drag demagogue. Orchestrator of the trial.
💄 Catwoman – Miss Monroe (burlesque)
Class rage in velvet gloves. This pussy grabs back.
🛼 Harley Quinn – Kezabel (roller skates)
The gaslit therapist gone rogue. Weaponized joy on wheels.
💸 TIP KEZABEL
🌿 Poison Ivy – Char Grey (aerial silks)
Eco-saboteur. Community garden radical. Silks and receipts.
💸 TIP CHAR
💪 Bane – Sir Throbbin Hood (drag)
Conversion therapy survivor turned muscle queen in six-inch heels.
🌀 The Riddler – August Celestial (drag)
Neurodivergent. Nonbinary. A tech ghost with poetic vengeance.
🦇 Batman – Bill D’Bare (burlesque)
BatCoin-hawking tech bro. Late-stage capitalism in a cape.
🧯 Commissioner Gordon – Andy Might (puppetry)
Puppet ruler. Diaper dictator. MAGA meltdown.
✨ SPECIAL THANKS TO:
🎪 Stage Kitten - Vero Vortex
🎪 Props & Sets – Andrew McGlothen
🎪 Paint & Design - Connor Barrett
🎪 Costumes & Bedazzles - Gary Adrian Randall & Haus of Other
🎪 Wigery - Bill D'Bare & Gila Moonstar
🎪 The Rhinettes’s for providing our rehearsal space
🎪 Ann Sabbah & Denver Fringe Festival staff and volunteers
🎪 Connor & the staff at Cleo Parker Robinson
🎪 Photography by D20photography
🎪 Videography by Brandon Heitkamp
🎪 BTS by Pinup Perspectives
✨ WHO WE ARE
Rainbow Cult founded by Andy Might is a nonprofit coven of film freaks, drag witches, and academic sluts. We create immersive cult cinema rituals—drag, theory, glitter, and bad behavior.
→ rainbowcult.org
→ IG: @rainbowcultorg
House of Ishan — founded by Richi Ramos — is your one-stop chaos factory for entertainment, hosting, creative direction, and live production. Proudly 🇵🇭-born and 🏳️🌈-powered.
→ IG: @houseofishan
🎁 MERCH LIKE A VILLAIN
Shop your heresy. Candles, shirts, tarot, and chaos.
→ rainbowcult.org/shop
📦 Ships with vengeance
📸 TAG US OR FACE THE BAT CONSEQUENCES
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