There’s no easy way to put this. . .
I, Kate Nyx, run a tiny online broadcast studio out of my home office, where my husband [former pro wrestler, Ophidian the Cobra] and I put on virtual variety shows featuring live music, puppets, sketches, and interactive storytelling as part of a series that we call “THE LOUNGE”.
[Listen - it’s complicated.]
When I was forced into hiatus by my chronic illness, I thought my music career was over.
In the summer of 2019, after learning yet another lesson about what labor I could expect from my often brittle body, I made an attempt to reach out to my audience through a weekly music livestream. It was how I felt capable of showing up; just me, a microphone and a guitar, in the back corner of the second bedroom that my husband and I had turned into a studio for our costuming business.
When the pandemic hit, streaming became the standard. My audience of eccentric misfits grew rapidly.
It couldn’t just be a music livestream anymore.
[^ Those are audience reviews about our “Hearth & Harvest Festival”, THE LOUNGE Season 7 Episode 4 ^]
It needed commercials. Characters. Costume changes. The work experience I’d cobbled together throughout my years in theatre, burlesque, and cabaret, as a costumer, performer, and producer, finally made perfect sense. My time had come.
THE LOUNGE has taken many forms over the past 4 years. Several times, I’ve found myself run into the ground after biting off more than I could chew because I so much love the chewing. By some miracle, that chewing turned a lo-fi music stream into an epic multimedia magnum opus that has its own freaking video game and wiki, that includes a cast of friends and family from all across the country.
This is the founding principle of KateNyxTV; to create a meaningful connection through shared experience that you can enjoy no matter where you are.
As a lifelong fan of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, The Muppets, and Elvira Mistress of the Dark, I aim to follow in their footsteps by crafting wild, whimsical media with my bare hands and shoving it into whatever willing eyeballs I can find.
By carving a space for my art and humanity to co-exist, I created a place [that isn’t a place] for the fragile creatures lurking in our minds, yearning to be feral, fabulous, and free.
I hope you’ll stop by sometime.