Fausto Fernós

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Fausto Fernós (born April 16, 1972) was the first Puerto Rican to create a podcast. He hosts the show Feast of Fools, a daily comedy talk show with his partner Marc Felion. Together they made history as the first openly gay couple to win a People's Choice Podcast Award.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Fausto was featured at the age of 10 in the newspaper El Nuevo Dia cooking section about being one the youngest male boys in Puerto Rico studying the confectionery arts. The article focused mostly on the fact he and his sister Talia Fernós were being homeschooled by their mother Patricia Fernós.

[edit] Career

Fernós enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin at the age of 16 in 1989. There he studied performance art with Linda Montano. One of the class projects became a long running performance art experiment, "SoftMen" which was a weekly improvised soap opera which involved fellow performers Chris Rincón and Andrew Johnson performing all the roles simultaneously, in the tradition of plays like Irma Vep where several actors played all the roles.

In 1992 he began organizing musically oriented variety shows, originally titled "Big Wig Revue" although the name suggested traditional cabaret, the goal was to redefine the genre.

In 1993 he started a performance art collective Performance Art Church better known by its abbreviation Pe.A.Ch. with artists Kerthy Fix, Sheelah Murthy, Diana García, Scott Alton Dulaney and Carol Gilson. Most of their shows were short performances hosted by one of the performers tied around a central topic or theme. One show was a tribute to Lawrence Welk, another a discussion on the Superhero/Comic book genre.

In Chicago in the spring of 1998 he started the "Feast of Fools" with the Chicago Radical Faeries as a fundraiser for the struggling venue Randolph Street Gallery.