2014 Performers (final site page)

Headliners

The Village Voice calls DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA a "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza" and she’s worked as a Burlesque Performer and Producer locally (NYC) and internationally since 2003. Darlinda is one half of the The Schlep Sisters! Proud co-producer of Bushwick Burlesque. Darlinda performed with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge and at Lincoln Center. She can be found on HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Darlinda's crossed over into performance art with her year long "life as art" projects. Darlinda teaches internationally, at the New York School of Burlesque,BurlyCon and lectured for Yale’s infamous Sex Week. The Sundance Channel made her a "Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe," she was voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011 and 2012! The recipient of the Golden Pastie Award for The Most Innovative and Creative and The Brooklyn Nightlife Award Winner for Best Burlesque Dancer! USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda.”

Lefty Lucy is a burlesque and sideshow performer and producer based in New York. She’s most commonly known as the Miss Coney Island who took her “in perpetuity” a little too seriously and for her singular style of slapstick burlesque.

Most recently, Lefty was the Executive Producer for the 1st-ever Nerdlesque Festival (http://nerdlesquefest.com/) held around New York City April 3-6. It featured over 30 neo-burlesque performers from across the country and around the globe embodying all things burlesque and all things nerdy.

She returned to working on-and-off stage in the theater last fall for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, and is the Burlesque at the Beach Season Coordinator at Coney Island USA.

Thursday Performers: The New England Clambake

Hosted by The Steamy Bohemians

The Steamy Bohemians are Niki Luparelli and Lainey SchoolTree, two threateningly hot and talented bitches who joined forces to get wasted and make people piss themselves. With these noble goals at the forefront, this musical comedy duo has amazed and confused audiences with wit and sexuality and boobs since... well, for many many years now.

Busty Keaton

Busty Keaton is Boston's premier source of cranky old lady burlesque. As the creative director and co-founder of Rogue Burlesque, she's delighted to use both her comedic striptease and copywriting/branding skills, helping to develop nearly 50 shows, a top-rated burlesque class, and the hot resurgence of awkwardness as an asset. Her cast of characters includes an underdog superhero, an anti-sin bully modeled on Carrie Nation, a Very Serious Goth, and a gender-bending Harpo Marx. In 2012, she spoke on the Nerdlesque panel at BurlyCon in Seattle and admitted her love of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Greatest Hits in front of nearly 100 people. She delights in bringing all personalities, bodies, and stories to the stage.

Femme Brulée

Sweet as pie and fierce as a firework this performer will hip hop into your heart leaving a trail of rhinestones behind.

Cherie Nuit

Creeping out of the darkness, hailing from the mystical land of Baltimore, comes the comedic assailant of ennui; the girl who's weird in all the best ways.
Protege of the boundary-pushing Paco Fish, co-producer of Hot Night Productions, and local favorite in the D.C.-Metro area, Cherie is also a Great Southern Exposure 2012 award winner for best group, a performer in the 2014 Great Burlesque Exposition, and will be performing in the 2014 Texas Burlesque Festival!
Named "The Rising Star of the DMV Area" by 'Brightest Young Things', it's Chérie Nuit, Baltimore's darling of the night!

Abby Normal

I took my mom to see Prince for Christmas. it was awesome!

Holly Von Sinn as Howard Van Zandt

Holly Von Sinn has been performing in Edmonton and beyond for 5 years. She is the producer of the smash hit soloist night Sinners, Freaks and Geeks as well as vice president and co-founder of The Edmonton Burlesque festival. She has performed at Toronto’s Girlesque Expo and Southern Fried Burlesque Festival in Atlanta, as well as The Slipper Room In New York City. She sometimes appears as her alter ego, the lovable tramp who loves to vamp, Howard Van Zandt. The World Famous *BOB* said she has a twisted motherfucking mind, so raise a glass and hold on to your ass for Holly Von Sinn!

Squeezer Possum

Squeezer Possum hails from Athol, MA, where he listens to Porter Wagoner and drives his Galaxy 500 around town. Sometimes he makes it into the big city of Boston where things are "different."

Ava Dahl

Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, Ava Dahl is the triforce of beauty, brains, and brawn. After graduating from the Delinquent Debutantes, Freya West's burlesque finishing school in 2011, Ava found a passion for nerdlesque with a vaudeville edge. Ava loves giving her geeky obsessions the striptease treatment. She's the predator posing as a house pet, Ava Dahl!

Holly Ween & Esmerelda May

Holly Ween is a neo-burlesque performer based in central New Jersey. Her acts are usually horror/Halloween themed with a dose of humor (albeit black) to lighten things up. She can often be seen performing with Cosplay Burlesque, White Elephant Burlesque Society, or Brunswick Basement Burlesque as well as independently in PA, NJ, and NYC.

Bunny Buxom

Recently named the Hottest Freshman at the 2013 New York Burlesque Festival, Bunny Buxom is a New York City based burlesque performer, kitten, and go go dancer. Bunny graduated from the New York School of Burlesque in November of 2011 and has been performing since. Her acts straddle the gap between sexy and adorable, classical and neo, but she always loves to shake every one of her signature curves.

Debra Delorean

Debra Delorean is a (newly) Boston-based beauty who began her neo-burlesque career in 2008 as an undergrad with Alpha Psi Ecdysia, the nation's premier college burlesque troupe. There, New York State tax dollars allowed her to study with some of the greats of NY Neo-Burlesque. After graduation, she moved to NYC and performed with Rhinestone Gorilla in their nostalgia-heavy theme shows, a National Tour, and the critically-acclaimed Animaniacs musical, "Good Idea/Bad Idea. Her Blair Witch act was seen in 2013's First Annual Alternatease. In order, she likes provoking: thought, uncomfortable laughter, and confusing pants sensations.

Sugar Dish

Sugar Dish (Vanessa White) has over 30 years training in dance, including ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and pole. She has been performing burlesque since 2006 and is the Artistic Director of both the Lipstick Criminals dance company (formerly Babes in Boinkland), and The Slutcracker, now in its 7th season.

Brandy Wine

Brandy Wine hit the Boston burlesque scene in 2010, and she hasn’t stopped shakin’ it since. A dancer, model, and choreographer with a musical theater background, Brandy teases audiences with a patented blend of sexy and silly. She may be full of grace and poise one moment, stumbling and flailing the next. She loves everything absurd and cheesy. Brandy is a full-time member of Rogue Burlesque, an award-winning Boston burlesque troop. She has also performed with Geek Girl Boston, Boston Circus Guild, and The Slutcracker.

Honey Pie

Honey Pie can be seen performing with the Lipstick Criminals (formerly Babes in Boinkland), The Glitter Bombs, The Bloodstains and in everyone's favorite naughty holiday extravaganza The Slutcracker. Honey Pie has performed in many productions in Boston and Cambridge with Sparkletown Productions, The live music rendition of Rain Dogs, and has danced in Montreal, Las Vegas and New York.

Kid Vicious

Kid Vicious is a tiny, tap dancing terror. She's a trained dancer and a punk rocker.
Vicious is a member of the Bloodstains, a Boston-based burlesque troupe infamous for their filth and blood-filled performances.

When not performing, Kid Vicious likes to spend her time sipping margaritas in the company of cute boys and cats.

Dinah DeVille

Masshole. Ballerina. Lipstick Criminal. Sparkletownie. Slut. Director/founder of The Bloodstains.
Responsible for: Punk Rockin' and Pastie Poppin', All Cramped Up, Return to Candyland.
Supporter of: Big dogs, big heels, big engines, big hair, big butts, red lipstick, assles and big dreams.
Creep her: www.facebook.com/dinah.deville,/PRPPboston,/TheBloodstains,/ReturntoCandyland,/HellbentHussy

Dot Mitzvah

"The Juiciest Jewess This Side Of The Wailing Wall", Semitic Siren Dot Mitzvah has been bringing audiences pleasure and pain for years, with a combination of humor, music, and cheesecake. A resident of New Haven, CT, Dot is founder of the Ivy League School of Burlesque, and headmistress of Dr. Sketchy's, New Haven.

Üla Überbusen

Üla Überbusen is a NYC based burlesque performer, emcee, ukulele songstress, teacher and professional actress. She has produced The Here Kitty Kitty Titty Show, showcasing her ultra-neo Cat Lady Trilogy, and the Mason Dixie Burlesque Tour. Üla played a featured roll in the upcoming Slipper Room produced burlesque film “The Cruel Tale of The Medicine Man,” featuring Julie Atlas Muz and Bunny Luv. She performs regularly around NYC and has been featured at numerous burlesque festivals across the country. Üla holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Miami and studied with the Shakespeare Theater Company and the NY School of Burlesque.

Jane Doe

She's hot & she'll fuck you up, in that good way. oh, the hair flips!

Pinky Shines

Pinky Shines has been performing in Seattle since 2005 when she began belly dancing. Her love of dancing, performing and costumes then took her into the wonderful world of burlesque the following year in 2006. That was when she attended and graduated from Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque. Ever since being bitten by the BB Bug (belly dance and burlesque) she has continued performing in both dance realms along with producing shows with Iva Handfull and Ruby Whiines, benefiting local charities in the Seattle ara. She is also an accomplished pastie and costumer. She has made pasties for many illustrious performers, including Iva Handfull, Ruby Whiines, Hottie McNaughty, Jaqueline Hyde and Sydni Deveraux.

Mary Widow & J. Cannibal

Mary Widow & J.Cannibal are founding members of Black Cat Burlesque, New England's Original Horror Burlesque Troupe. Born in the back of a hearse, Black Cat Burlesque have brought sideshow thrills and spookshow chills to the masses since 2003.

Madge of Honor

Madge of Honor is a high-concept stripper and queer showman who has performed across the US and UK. Madge takes an incisive and subversive approach to burlesque without sacrificing a single ounce of glamour. Madge is known for three things: brains, body and face. Once, while on display in an art gallery, Madge bounced their titties for 106 consecutive minutes while wearing over 30 inches of weave. Relentless, a force to behold, Madge of Honor entertains while exploding the expectations of the genre. Madge's eyes are always smokey and their taint is well shaved.

Claude Kitten

Claude Kitten is a Boston-based cabaret performer and performance artist, specializing in narrative-driven medleys. Originally from Indiana and performing since 2001, Kitten is a relative newcomer to the Boston scene but has already performed with some of the best of the best. He is often described as small, strange, and clever.

Lolli Hoops

"The Sporty Spice of Burlesque". Shake, twist, shimmy, all that and a bag of chips.

Rogue Burlesque

The Rogues have brought their brand of gorgeous, geeky burlesque to New England since 2009. The Independent Film Channel television series Young, Broke & Beautiful featured them as a quintessential Boston experience, right up there with the Sam Adams Brewery. In 2013, Henry Horenstein awarded Rogue his Judge’s Choice Award at Alterna-TEASE. The troupe dazzles audiences at Oberon, Club Cafe, MIT, ImprovBoston, and Middlesex Lounge, as well as at private parties and events up and down the East Coast. They are members of the Boston Circus Guild and the creators of the wildly popular Lucky 13 Amateur Burlesque Competition.

Friday Performers: The TA-TAS

Hosted by Mehran

Comedian, Love of our life, King of Burlesque Hosting. A standup comedian, comedic director, and comedy event producer recently relocated to New York City. In 2010, a reader survey in the Boston Phoenix named him Boston's best comedian of the year.

Arabella Allure

Australia's Arabella Allure now calls Canada home. She has performed in festivals and cabaret lounges from Melbourne to Montreal, Auckland to Los Angeles.
Co-founder and President of the Edmonton Burlesque Festival, director of Blue Belle Burlesque and creator of the Burlesque Bunny Competition, Arabella lives-eats-breathes-loves burlesque ... She is sometimes teasing, and always pleasing.

Mary Widow

Putting the Ho in Horror since 2003. Spooky & Kooky.

Allix Mortis

Allix Mortis is a soul stealing androgyne dedicated to making messes and breaking hearts. Allix performs regularly with a host of burlesque beauties, sings (or screams) in a few bands, runs Dr. Sketchy's Boston, and occasionally blogs about burlesque, drag, veganism, or life as a hot mess. Offstage Allix is hard at work on the science fiction feature film, Magnetic, set for release in 2015.

Rogue Burlesque

The Slaughterhouse Sweethearts

If you got it, HAUNT IT! The Sweethearts are New England's scream queens of horror, gorelesque, and spooky striptease, and they can't wait to scare the pants off of you! Combing talent from years of traditional dance, gender bending freaks, circus skills, sideshow antics, and over the top theatrics, the Sweethearts are a unique group of killer creeps like none other. So if you like monsters mashing, popped stitches, and lots, and lots, and lots of blood, then you've summoned the right burlesque troupe! Just don't expect to leave with all the body parts you came with....

Dot Mitzvah

Pretty Boy Rock

Pretty Boy Rock has studied burlesque performance technique under such notable performers as Ray Gunn, Bazuka Joe, Tifa Tittlywinks, Sgt Die Wies, Jasper St. James, Dr. Sick, Perle Noire, Midnight Martini and Tana the Tattooed Lady. He has performed with the Scarlet Darlings (San Antonio), Womanopoly Burlesque (San Francisco), Steel City Kitty Variety Show (Pittsburgh), After Dark Burlesque Revue (Corpus Christi), Ruby Revue (Houston) and the 7th Annual Texas Burlesque Festival. Recently, he was crowned Big Boylesquer 2014 at Michigan's 2nd Annual Spring Fling Burlesque Festival in Detroit, Michigan. He is a member of the Austin-based Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue.

Fancy Feast

Fancy Feast is a performer, producer, femcee, and administrator of burlesque. She is known for her quick wit and non traditional approach to the art form. When she is not on stage, she is an administrator at the New York School of Burlesque.

Essence Revealed

A dual degreed, former lap dance engineer of the upscale gentlemen’s club scene she has performed all over NYC, The USA, Canada and Europe. She is the co-producer of Shades of Burlesque – NYC’s only all Black Burlesque Revue. This Boston beauty transplanted herself to the Big Apple because she had a secret. She needed plenty of stages to show the world just how strong, sensuous, beautiful and bold the essence of woman is. She’s known as the Bubbling Brown Sugar of Burlesque – Essence Revealed.

Bunny Buxom

Lolli Hoops

Is she a mermaid? Is she a unicorn? Is she a faerie? Doesn't matter, just enjoy the sparkle.

Vivienne LaFlamme

Vivienne LaFlamme, originally from a small Midwestern town, soon learned the world was bigger than the ranch she grew up on. Feeling the fire that is in her last name, she moved on out and hasn't looked back since! Used to breaking broncos and breaking hearts, Vivienne knew that a firm grip and determination would get her where she wanted to be.

Kelzey Quicklee

Kelzey QuickLee is best known for her fast feet and quick wit. She's a master of disguise - she’ll be stripped and offstage ‘fore you’ve noticed she got naked! Don’t fret, she’ll be out at the bar with ya ’til it closes!
Kelzey QuickLee gained what have been dubbed as her “crazy legs” through a hybrid training involving American clogging, Chicago House and the Detroit Juke.
She can be spotted stomping in red cowboy boots in The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band “Clap Your Hands” video, as well as a few choice YouTube vids.

Vanil LaFrappe

Inspired by punk rock, vintage fashion, art, and her own personal experiences, Vanil LaFrappe brings a unique blend of vulnerability, humor, and badassery to the stage. She’ll tug at your heartstrings, punch you in the gut, and somehow leave you smiling and wanting more. She finds the sexy in the weird and leaves her audiences wondering how they are supposed to feel.

Vanil is a graduate of the New York School of Burlesque. She started performing burlesque because it combined her loves of art and music with dance and costuming. Burlesque has led her to new and exciting endeavors both on and off stage. Why does she perform burlesque? Beacuse she just can't stop doing it!

Lucky Charming

Lucky Charming is the diminutive delight of New York's boylesque scene. In just two short years of stripping and sparkling, Lucky has appeared on stages in San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. For the last two years in a row he has been nominated for the title of "Best Burlesque Performer" in New York City's Glam Awards. Festival credits include the New York Boylesque Festival (2012 & 2013) and Alterna-Tease: The New England Neo-Burlesque Festival. He is the producer of New York's second monthly boy-lesque show, "Powerstrip."

Üla Überbusen

Lipstick Criminals

Lipstick Criminals (formerly Babes in Boinkland) are all dancers trained in varying dance disciplines who have spent the last several years crossed-over into the burlesque scene. With many years' experience in both mainstream and exotic dance, the Lipstick Criminals aim to create works in which a sexy aesthetic and/or striptease is blended into the vocabulary of mainstream dance. They have performed in and created pieces for The Slutcracker, Rain Dogs, the Boston Pops' New Year's Eve show, and more. They were voted Boston's Best Dance Troupe in 2009 by the Boston Phoenix, and nominated for Best Burlesque Troupe by the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas in 2012. lipstickcriminals.com

Ginny Nightshade

Ginny Nightshade is as cute as a button on a straight jacket and joined the Boston burlesque scene in late 2012. With an extensive background in theater and dance she lights up the stage with a flare for the dramatic. This curvy creep's interests include: taxidermy, wine by the bottle, horror movies, puppies, and tantalizing audiences with her campy style. You may have seen her performing solo across New England or with her troupes: the horror burlesque troupe The Slaughterhouse Sweethearts and The Glitter Bombs, Boston’s premier strip hop troupe.

Claude Kitten & Butch Sassidy

Sass, spunk, and strange. These freaks wont disappoint with a special brand of ridiculousness that might make you squirm in that good/bad/awkward sort of way...

Matt Knife

Matt Knife was born when Salvador Dali kissed Andy Warhol in Studio 54.
That union created the pop surrealist Matt Knife.
Is often found in Dark Haunted Theaters where another time meets the present. Sassy, classy and always dapper.

Fem Bones

The Trick with the treats. She'll Rattle your bone.

Jane Doe

Everything you could ever want in one package, but don't touch, she packs a straight razor and the blood in her acts is real.

Femme Brulée

Crazy as cupcakes high on glitter and sprinkles, this sweet treat will leave you begging for more.