Adelaide Windsome
she/her

Adelaide Windsome stands on black theatre stage looking directly at the camera. She has short wavy hair and is wearing an all black outfit of a vest, dress pants and glasses. Her right hand is raised above her, holding a grey-and-white plush figure that rests on her shoulder. She is illuminated by a stage spotlight which leaves the background in the darkness.

Job title
artist   organizer  
Places of practice

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Alternate names

Geppetta

Images
Adelaide Windsome stands on black theatre stage looking directly at the camera. She has short wavy hair and is wearing an all black outfit of a vest, dress pants and glasses. Her right hand is raised above her, holding a grey-and-white plush figure that rests on her shoulder. She is illuminated by a stage spotlight which leaves the background in the darkness.

Adelaide Windsome stands on black theatre stage looking directly at the camera. She has short wavy hair and is wearing an all black outfit of a vest, dress pants and glasses. Her right hand is raised above her, holding a grey-and-white plush figure that rests on her shoulder. She is illuminated by a stage spotlight which leaves the background in the darkness.

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Biography

Geppetta is the performance moniker of Adelaide Windsome, a L.A. based multimedia fabulist. artist, and organizer. Windsome utilizes dark & whimsical fairy tales to confront themes of trauma and grief, depression and suicide, and the beauty of survival. Her work as been described as “cryptic vaudevillian surrealism” on bitchmedia’s SM{ART} and as “somewhere between Kate Bornstein and Edward Gorey” by Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl. Windsome has been featured nationally with Fresh Meat Productions, Tranny Roadshow, Puppet Uprising, and Painted Bride Art Center, among others. She has facilitated workshops on gender, art, and activism at various colleges and universities including Western Washington, James Madison, and Harvard Law. Above all else she believes in embracing melancholy with magical. See more of her work at Stitching Tentacles Productions: http://stitchingtentacles.com | Workshop Info. This is Geppetta’s third Heels on Wheels Roadshow.

Heels on Wheels. “Geppetta,” n.d. https://heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/bios/alumni/geppetta/.

Geppetta, a.k.a. Adelaide Windsome, is an artist, activist and performer from Philly. Her artwork and puppetry weaves whimsical and cryptic, socially conscious fairy tales and fables that have no lacking of humor and irony.

Flickr. “Geppetta,” n.d. https://www.flickr.com/people/windsome/.
Filmography
References
Stuff Queer People Need To Know. “Tranny Roadshow Dazzles UC,” January 19, 2009. https://stuffqueerpeopleneedtoknow.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/tranny-roadshow-dazzles-uc/.