# **Meet the 2024 Miss Subways Contestants!** **Next Friday, May 31 (Pride Month's Eve!)**, 8 New Yorkers will give their all to become the next **Miss Subways 2024**. But our [celebrity judges](http://cityreliquary.org/ms2024) can crown only one of them. Join us to see who has the Costume, Talent, and Interview skills to become our next metro monarch!

This year’s contestants will wow us with dance, comedy, singing, magic, puppeteering, and more. They'll appear as NYC wildlife, mythical creatures, glamorous chanteuses, tragic heroines, and hopeful ingenues. **Don't miss this subway spectacle!**

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**Christine Stoddard **(she/her), representing the **C train**. Artist, performer, filmmaker, and one of *Brooklyn Magazine's *Top 50 Most Fascinating People in 2023. She'll be appearing as the **Rat Queen**!

**Julia Schemmer** (she/her), representing the **J train**. Julia works on production teams with credits including Broadway, TV, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She's also a puppeteer who loves the endangered **piping plover**! See how she combines these talents and interests in her bid for the 2024 transit tiara.

**Adra Quartz** (she/her/bitch), repping the **L train** and hailing from Bushwick. This fun, feisty, and fierce gal will be rocking a custom costume by nightlife artist **Cheeks Voila** and sharing a story of big-city hopes and dreams as told through comedy and choreography.

**Kandi Spindler** (she/her), a femme lesbian public defender who moonlights as an artist. She'll sport a Moulin Rouge-inspired pigeon costume and perform a pigeon-esque number (that's "pigeon burlesque") in honor of the **2 train**.

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**Sally Ann Hall** (she/her), originally from Alaska and in Brooklyn for nearly 14 years. She's an award-winning standup comedian and cabaret singer who performs on cruise ships, comedy clubs, and the occasional seance. She'll appear as the **M Train Marquise** performing standup and song.

**MeanLadyTiff** (she/her), by day an Operations Manager for a video games startup–but by night she becomes a business socialite. She'll sing a self-written power ballad about her ongoing love affair with the **R train ***while dressed as the R train*!

**Queerly Femmetastic **(she/her/ma'am), a Brooklyn-bred bombshell and nerdy connoisseur of Blackness. Inspired by Black shake-dancers, strippers, and hoochie-coochie girls across generations. She's planning a **sing & fling burlesque act** in honor of the **A train**!

**Kate Zibluk** (she/they) is a bird, a person, a performer, and an aspiring Funeral Director. They have done experimental theater at The Brick and BrickAux in Williamsburg. At Miss Subways, they will perform sleight of hand tricks as **Glinda the Good Rat** while representing the **M train**.

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# Event Details # The 2024 Celebrity Judges Contestants will need to win over our celebrity judges to get the transit tiara and the title of Miss Subways 2024. This year's judges come from the worlds of performance, journalism, advocacy, art, comedy, and local politics:

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**Aurora North**, Circus/Sideshow Performer and **Miss Coney Island 2024.**

**Bernie Wagenblast, **the trans transportation icon whose iconic voiceover work has been part of millions of New Yorkers’ daily commute for years. **Please stand away from the platform edge!** 

**Derrick Holmes** from **Riders Alliance**, a nonprofit organization that fights for reliable, affordable, world-class public transit to build a more just and sustainable New York.

**Lisa Levy**, comedian, conceptual artist, and **Miss Subways 2017** (the first postmenopausal Miss Subways!).

**Emily Gallagher**, NYS Assemblyperson for Greenpoint and Williamsburg. A self-described socialist who previously served on Brooklyn Community Board 1, Emily was elected in 2020 on a platform of environmental sustainability, housing justice, and transit improvement.

Join us for these subway shenanigans and **get your tickets now!**

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## About Miss Subways The City Reliquary Miss Subways updates the historic “Miss Subways” beauty contest held in New York City from 1941 to 1976 (and resurrected once by the MTA in 2004) for the 21st century. **The event expands on the progressive history of Miss Subways as the first racially integrated beauty competition and invites contestants of all gender identities, body types, and ages 18+ to apply.** The first City Reliquary Miss Subways was presented in 2017. Contestants representing their subway line of choice compete for the prized title of Miss Subways and the transit tiara. A panel of local celebrity judges evaluates their costumes, talent performances, and answers to subway-themed questions to decide who will represent NYC straphangers as the next Miss Subways. More info at [cityreliquary.org](http://cityreliquary.org).  **Questions?**
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