Founded in 2008 by artist Mica Sigourney, OX stimulates innovative queer performance in San Francisco while engaging national and international artists to be in conversation with the local community. OX’s core values – experimentation, collaboration, and a thriving LGBTQ arts community – direct work that is artistically rigorous and widely accessible, giving performance artists opportunities to expand, reframe and innovate forms. OX emerges from, and is deeply rooted in, San Francisco’s LGBTQ performance and multidisciplinary arts communities. Through year-round commissioning and presenting, Artistic Director Mica Sigourney prioritizes radical and outsider queer creative voices, aesthetics, and visions. The majority of OX’s annual 5,000+ audiences are queer, under 40, and live in San Francisco and Alameda counties.