Hi I’m Eva “Evita”  Jimenez and I’m an alto in the choir. I was born and raised in El Paso, Texas.  Since I left home I have lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City,  Missouri, Oregon and finally blended up in New York.  I’ve been in New York for nine years and lived in every borough except Queens.  I guess I have a bit of nomadic lifestyle but maybe one day I’ll settle down.  The choir is like family to me and I find so much inspiration from them.

Fran is an artist with a queer eye for change. She lives in New York City with her lover Garret. She puts a lot of her time into art projects and being a good singer, as well as going to more than half of the actions in the city, with various groups such as the Coalition to Protect Chinatown & Lower East Side, stopping the tall towers that were going to be put into Chinatown! She joined the Stop Shopping Choir in 2017, now she is singing with us to 2020! We all love her very much and would do anything to hear her sing in Spanish. We should also respect that she is a very well fit woman. She also has the “best dresser award” in the choir and won 2nd places in “the goth challenge”. She is from an amazing Chilean community, we love her very much and wish a great life ahead of her.

*bio by Lena

Gaylen is from the Colorado. He is good with his hands. He has two sons, Angus and Honcho and most other kids really like him. He is a cyclist and plays guitar. As Lyn once said, We like Gaylen, he has tools AND brains.

Graham KG Garlington is a trans non-binary singer-songwriter, activist, experimental musical theatre composer, and drag artist. He’s been assistant directing off-Broadway (Till, NYMF, 2019; Only Human, 2019) since graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 2018. They are currently working on their third musical while working and performing with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. They look forward to a future where the police are abolished and the capitalist white supremacist state falls.

Gregory knows just what we need to have a good day.  if you see into him he is a VERY loving man. in fact, you don't have to look into him to see that he is a great person, with a great personality. Let's talk about how creative he is, one time he even made a purse for Lizzo on SNL but sadly she chose not to wear it. We all know that Gregory is an explorer with great taste for a great adventure. He is great at doing what he says he is going to do. All he needs is some support and he is unstoppable. We hope we give him the love he needs.

*bio by Lena

Jess Beck is a soprano, an enthusiasm junkie, a reader, writer, dreamer, practical thinker, and advocate of the oxford comma. You may know her as "the one who can't stop moving" on stage or "the one who probably left her water bottle/sweater/rain pants/brain" in the green room/at rehearsal/in the van.  When not preaching with the choir, she can be found making documentary films, resisting, loving, teaching, hugging, writing, bicycling, flirting, and as often as possible, laughing.

John Carlin is an actor, writer, musician, and activist who joined the Stop Shopping Choir in the fall of 2014. A native New Yorker, he is a former RCA recording artist who has shared stages with Radiohead, PJ Harvey, The Flaming Lips, among others. As a solo independent artist, TimeOutNY has called him “one of NYC’s better-kept secrets.” As an actor he has appeared on stages in NYC, LA, Washington DC, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Choir’s resident baby whisperer, and a single dad himself, John loves campfires, horses, spinning records, and swimming naked whenever possible.

Quilty has performed with Reverend Billy for almost two decades in concerts and shows at the REDCAT, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as well in the Christmas parade at Disneyland, the Donaufestival, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, the Tate Modern, the Westfield London, Liverpool Tesco, Cambridge, Colchester Arts Centre, Burning Man, Tulsa Walmart, Castro Theatre, San Francisco, Mall of America, Austin’s South by Southwest Festival, Erykah Badu’s Black Forest Theater, Hillary Clinton’s office in the Capitol, the Senate cafeteria, underwater off Coney Island, Fifth Avenue Disney Store, Times Square, Highline Ballroom, Astor Place Starbucks, Bleecker Street Theatre, Theater 80, St. Mark’s Church, Das Spiegeltent, Theatre for the New City, Joe’s Pub, in laboratories at Harvard University, Cornell, Wesleyan, Oberlin College, UC Berkeley, CSU Northridge, but never at Hofstra. Amen.

Kai was born and raised in Brooklyn, she is a performer and wise old lady. She like to read and make music and should have her own radio show.