Edwin Ramirez

Edwin Ramirez embarks on a humorous and moving search for father figures. In a stand-up comedy odyssey, the queer, disabled artist introduces six daddies—regardless of gender—who turned Edwin into the person they are today. The influences range from an arrogant superstar surgeon to missed conversations with the biological father and hallucinogenic encounters with the ghost of William Tell. With sharp wit and fragile candor, the performance addresses questions of identity, belonging, and queer desire beyond normative body images and visions for one’s life.

Edwin Ramirez (1990, Zurich, Switzerland) is a performance artist and stand-up comic. They have appeared on all the comedy stages of German-speaking Switzerland and on German television. Since 2021, Ramirez has been a part of the performance collective Neue Dringlichkeit. In 2020, they founded the crip-queer theater project Criptonite with Nina Mühlemann, which focuses on the work of disabled artists. Criptonite’s performances have been shown at Freischwimmen meets Rodeo, Munich; Gessnerallee, Munich; and Tanzhaus Zurich, among others. Ramirez lives in Zurich.