Wanda Acosta is a stalwart icon in lesbian & queer nightlife in downtown New York, she has been creating and producing events in NYC for over 25 years. She was an owner of WonderBar, Starlight, and Clubhouse in Manhattan’s East Village. She has also hosted and curated, events at The Ace Hotel, The Beekman Hotel, The Standard Hotel, The Jane Hotel, Up & Down, The Thompson, Hotel Hugo, The Box, Acme, Bar d’O,  and many others. She has worked with a diverse range of clients and media, including The New Festival (New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival), Mix NYC  The L Word/Showtime Networks, Miramax Films, Tribeca Film Festival, Twist/Columbia Records, fashion/art magazine Visionaire, and non-profit organizations such as GLAAD, Empire State Pride Agenda, Astraea Foundation, Hetrick-Martin Institute and the LGBT Center. In collaboration with Electric Sheep Co. and L Word/Showtime, Wanda developed a queer dance event, an experimental simulcast on secondlife.com, an online virtual world. Wanda’s events were recently included in the NY Historical Society exhibition Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall and  Queer City:  A CNN Experience in NYC. She received the 2020 Community Advocacy Award from the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC and currently hosts the queer podcast series, Sundays at Café Tabac: THE PODCAST

Wanda was the music director and dj for CUBA!, a rotating dance/live music weekly event in NYC and Puerto Rico. Her events have been featured in New York Magazine, New Yorker Magazine, Paper Magazine Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out, New York Post, New York Observer, Out Magazine, The Advocate, ourscenetv.com, l-word.com.