Cryptid Queers

17/05/2026

Oh my god what a night!!!

Thank you so much, Cryptids! Thank you for turning out and supporting us for our festival fundraiser! We had an absolute blast with another stacked cast who ate and left no crumbs!

Not only that but you lot had wayyy too much fun with that particular carnival game.. you know the one!

Thanks to you we have raised over £2000 towards the cost of our festival this August which is absolutely incredible. The level of love and support from you is truly touching and we cannot wait to drop the festival this summer!

Thank you to our cast
🔪Psyclone Jack
🔪Miss Terri Boxx
🔪Athena Barbital
🔪Maria Moans
🔪Ren Carnation
🔪Pesty Cide
🔪Tasha Dermy
🔪Rhubarbs
🔪Singularity (not pictured)
And our director and host
🔪King Confuza

And thank you to our incredible stage manager team, our DJ’s, the amazing tech team at FORGE Warehouse, all our amazing traders, our door monster Jack Valentine and merch monster Disgustay!

A special thank you to Binbag who masterminded the carnival and to Neapolitan Vonschweets for being the most glamorous circus assistant ever and Cilla Bang for jumping in to help last minute!

Stunning cast pic by MB Studios

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23/04/2026

⛓️Cast Announcement⛓️

Are you ready to MOAN?! Gothic Monstawr Maria Moans is here to bring you the shock, the horror, the glamooooore, rising from Stoke-on-Trent this monster will have you Moaning for More.

Join us for our festival fundraiser celebration and:
🔪 A killer cast of monsters
🔪 A special carnival games area hosted by Binbag and Neapolitan Vonschweets
🔪 The return of our Alt Market
🔪 Two rooms of music from our legendary resident DJs: Kohl, Gillywoo, and L8N

📆Saturday May 16th
📍FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
🕣9PM til 3AM
🎟️link.outsavvy.com/cryptidq***rsfundraiser

✨Tickets are on sale now!✨

Second release of tickets is live! Ticket presale ends Saturday 16th May at noon. Tickets available on the door.

22/04/2026

⛓️Cast Announcement⛓️

We are beyond excited to welcome back to the Cryptid stage one of the titans of the UK drag monster scene..

Step right up and behold the one and only Miss Terri Boxx, the bearded drag queen that’ll have you shivering with delight! With a style that blends spooky and sexy, Miss Terri Boxx is a one-of-a-kind performer that will most definitely leave you thrilled... and aroused.

Join us for our festival fundraiser celebration and:
🔪 A killer cast of monsters
🔪 A special carnival games area hosted by Binbag and Neapolitan Vonschweets
🔪 The return of our Alt Market
🔪 Two rooms of music from our legendary resident DJs: Kohl, Gillywoo, and L8N

📆Saturday May 16th
📍FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
🕣9PM til 3AM
🎟️link.outsavvy.com/cryptidq***rsfundraiser

✨Tickets are on sale now!✨

Second release of tickets is live!

22/04/2026

⛓️Cast Announcement⛓️

Making their Cryptid debut we are beyond excited to welcome the iconic Athena Barbital!!

The creepy, campy, cartoon creature that stalks the streets of Liverpool!

Join us for our festival fundraiser celebration and:
🔪 A killer cast of monsters
🔪 A special carnival games area hosted by Binbag and Neapolitan Vonschweets
🔪 The return of our Alt Market
🔪 Two rooms of music from our legendary resident DJs: Kohl, Gillywoo, and L8N

📆Saturday May 16th
📍FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
🕣9PM til 3AM
🎟️link.outsavvy.com/cryptidq***rsfundraiser

✨Tickets are on sale now!✨

12/04/2026

⛓️Cast Announcement⛓️

Kicking off the announcements for our first show of the year which is just under 5 weeks away! We are so excited to introduce you to our headliner Psyclone Jack..

PsycloneJack, is a seasoned international character actor, and drag monster, specialising in look alike makeup. Mixing old-school vaudeville humour with a neo burlesque twist.

Join us for our festival fundraiser celebration and:
🔪 A killer cast of monsters
🔪 A special carnival games area hosted by Binbag and Neapolitan Vonschweets
🔪 The return of our Alt Market
🔪 Two rooms of music from our legendary resident DJs: Kohl, Gillywoo, and L8N

📆Saturday May 16th
📍FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
🕣9PM til 3AM
🎟️link.outsavvy.com/cryptidq***rsfundraiser

✨Tickets are on sale now!✨

First Release of tickets is over halfway sold! Ticket presale ends Saturday 16th May at noon. Tickets available on the door

24/02/2026

💕Vote for us!!

The Exposed Magazine Awards is now open for voting, and we would really love your support!

We have worked tirelessly for 4 years to build and nurture an alt drag scene in Sheffield. Winning the Sheffield Arts And Culture category or the Tramlines Award for Best Local Event could help raise our profile for the upcoming festival, even if it’s a bit of a long shot, we could really use that kind of exposure..

👉🏻👈🏻If you need any more reasons to vote for us:
💕we have established a gorgeous alt drag scene in Sheffield
💕we have given birth to over 20 new monsters some of who are now putting on shows in Sheffield giving you triple the alt drag there was a year ago
💕We are bringing you a huge drag monster festival the first of its kind in Sheffield, nay the UK, maybe even the world this August.
💕We do it all not for profit and currently entirely without external funding, we just love alt drag that much!

Also… Confuza could just really do with a fancy night out ✨

👉 Go to https://tinyurl.com/exposedmagawardCQ
👉 Go to the Sheffield Arts & Culture category and/or the Tramlines Award for Best Local Event
👉 Type in Cryptid Qu**rs to vote for us.
You’ll need to submit your email but you can opt out of the mailing list.

Every vote helps support alternative drag, q***r performance, and weird little monster dreams in Sheffield ❤️🖤

The Exposed Awards (sponsored by IPM Group) return to Peddler Warehouse on Thursday 14 May, and that can only mean one thing – it’s time for you lovely lot to get voting for all your favourites! Below, you can find the voting form (in association with our voting partners, Cubana) where you can f...

29/01/2026

Our first show of the year is here!

This Spring, we’re bringing some of the hottest monsters the UK has to offer to FORGE Warehouse - with all proceeds going towards funding our first ever Drag Monster Festival this August in Sheffield.

You’ll also see the return of our alternative market, and be able to dance the night away to two rooms of alt music from our legendary resident DJs until 3am.

⚠️ Please note the date change from our “Save the Date” cards given out at our last event and previously posted on our socials. Swipe to the second pic for our updated 2026 dates (excluding the Camp Cryptid workshop date, which is currently TBC).

✨ Casting is still open for our 2026 dates - link in bio.
🛍️ Trader applications for all three dates will be opening very soon…

🚨 Early bird tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10am!

📆 Saturday 16th May
📍 FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
⏰ 9PM–3AM
🎟️ On sale Saturday
link.outsavvy.com/cryptidq***rsfundraiser

£13 Early Bird / £6 Limited Concessions

Special thank you to for the use of their incredible artwork 🖤

01/12/2025

TW - loss and grief.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of one of our regulars and a cryptid family member.

Rich was our guest DJ in July last year, he was an avid supporter of Cryptid and helped me behind the scenes from time to time. He was a kind and genuine soul. Highly passionate and creative. He’s probably best known as the charismatic frontman of Killing Miranda and Uberbyte and has contributed significantly to the goth scene in his career but I just knew him as that beautiful chaos demon who was always looking out for his friends and partner, who he loved with his entire being.

I will miss him dearly he was a good friend, a deeply caring person and such a huge personality there really isn’t anyone quite like him.

We will return to our regular posting schedule in time. We are just having a small break to process this.

13/11/2025

⛓️Host Announcement⛓️

Meet your hosting duo: Bipolar Abdul X King Confuza.
Besties. Chaos demons. Emotionally unstable, but like… in a fun, community-building way.

Bipolar brings the high-energy comedy, savage wit, and iconic looks. Confuza brings the daddy energy, and fear bo**rs.

Together?
Twice the chaos, twice the power, zero chill. Sheffield, are you ready to raise hell?

Join us for our 4th birthday celebration and -
🔪 A killer cast of monsters
🔪 A very special live after party set from q***r icon Baby Tap
🔪 The return of our Alt Market
🔪 Two rooms of music from our legendary resident DJs: Kohl, Gillywoo, and L8N
🔪 Hosted by King Confuza and Bipolar Abdul

📆Saturday November 22nd
📍FORGE Warehouse, Sheffield
🕣9PM til 3AM
🎟️link.outsavvy.com/hellraising

✨Tickets are on sale now✨

Presale ends Sat 22nd November at Noon. Tickets available on the door @ £25 cash preferred.

12/11/2025

Keeping Up With The Cryptids at Celluloid Screams. Pics by Hayley Gell Photography.

Now just for the record we are called CRYPTID QUEERS…

Not “Cryptic” - we are not trying to send you coded messages.

Not “Crypto” - we are not looking for a man in finance.

And not Cryptid “Queens” - that’s mad disrespectful to a show ran by a drag king which heavily features AFAB casts including kings and things and actively does not prioritise cis male queens on cast due to the fact they’re number one in the rest of the drag world. Please do not assume drag is only for queens, if you think that you REALLY need to come to one of our shows and see that it’s so much more.

We are not a collective either. Cryptid is a show produced by a disabled neurodivergent transgender drag king and we book different artists each time.

Also for anyone griping at “q***r capitalism” we are ran on a not for profit basis and have our own not for profit community arts initiative which trains new drag monsters, and currently we receive absolutely no funding whatsoever for all the work we do it’s all done through the support of the community.

We don’t ask for a lot but can you please get our name right if speaking about us in print or online so anyone interested in what we do can find us! We have put a lot of work into building an alt drag community in Sheffield, and those in that community have in turn put a lot of work into nurturing this community- and those artists deserve to be seen.