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Revision as of 17:44, 20 September 2016

Ruth Fink-Winter is a shadow-cast performer and a Rocky Horror Legend. She was an editor of Crazed Imaginations, creator of The Anal Retentive Rocky Horror Costume List, and winner of The Boss Award and The Fan Award (from Sal Piro).

Cast Affiliation:

Roles Played: Magenta, Trixie, Emcee, Transylvanian (Kimi Wong)

Years Active: 1987 - present

DeVirginization: 1986

Awards

Crazed Imaginations

Ruth Fink-Winter was Editor of Crazed Imaginations fanzine from 1998 through the fall of 2002. She continued on as staff, and then retook back the Editor position after interim editor Mike Bennett had to step down, closing the zine down in 2006. In addition to assembling the content for each issue, Ruth was in charge of subscriber relations, finances, did reporting and provided web content (web design was by Gene Chiovari).

The Anal Retentive Rocky Horror Costume List

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Collectibles

Ruth with costume pieces from the Belasco, Roxy and film productions

Ruth owns some of the original costumes from the Belasco, the Roxy, and of course the film dinner corset. She collects other Rocky stuff, notably books, paper goods including RHS programs/fanzines, audio, and foreign language.

Cast History

Convention History

15th Anniversary Convention (Los Angeles, CA)

Ordinary Healthy Convention (Milwaukee, WI)

The Light in the Darkness (Anaheim, CA)

  • Costume Contest Judge

NYC '98 (New York, NY)

ROCKYCON '98 (Las Vegas, NV)

Rocky Rocks the Rockies (Denver, CO)

  • Costume Contest Judge

East Coast 2000 (Allentown, PA)

  • Costume Contest Judge
  • first annual "Costume Corner Forum" panel

Bay Area 2000 (San Jose, CA)

  • Costume Contest Judge

25th Anniversary Convention (Las Vegas, NV)

  • Performed Magenta in RHPS (Saturday Night)
  • Costume Contest Judge

Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA)

Philly Con (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Costume Contest Judge
  • Old Timers Panel

The Big O Con (Wichita, KS)

The Transies Take Manhattan (NYC)

Cirque Du Rockeil (Las Vegas, NV)

The Denton Affair (Manchester, UK)

CRHAP Con: Untoucha Touchables (Chicago, IL)

  • Costume Contest Judge

Atlantic City, 2008

The Celluloid Jam 1 (Ft. Mitchell, KY)

SINSCON 2010 (Seven Deadly Sins, Los Angeles, CA)

  • Costume Contest Judge

The AC 4.7.11 Convention (Atlantic City, NJ)

U.K. 4711 Convention (London, England)

The Celluloid Jam 2 (Ft. Mitchell, KY)

  • Costume Discussion Panel

RKO Con (Providence, RI)

  • Costuming / Tech Panel

El Fishnet Fiesta Dos (Tucson, AZ)

  • Costume Discussion Panel
  • Leadership Panel (crashed it as invited panelists were all male)

CRHAP Con II (Transylvanian Carnivale, Chicago, IL)

  • Costume Discussion Panel

RHPS40 (New York, NY)

Guest Performances

  • Name Unknown (the Westroads cast ??), Omaha, NE
  • The Zen Room (Paris, France; Magenta)
  • Crazed Imaginations, Guild Theatre, San Diego (Magenta)
  • Denver's Dynamic Tension, DDT, Denver, CO
  • Completely Crazy
  • Midnight Madness
  • The Beautiful Creatures (2001)
  • Help Me Mommy (multiple dates starting in 2008, Trixie, Magenta)
  • The Denton Affair (Trixie)
  • Michigan Rocky Horror Preservation Society (Trixie)
  • As Magenta with the International All-Star Show at the Freiluftkino Rehberge (August 2016)

Media Appearances

  • Interviewed for BBC World Service’s program “Outlook,” Feb 4 2004 for 30th anniversary of Rocky Horror Show.
  • Featured in article in Lancashire Evening Post, Feb. 19 2007