2016 Performers

2016 Headliners!

Tigger!

TIGGER! "The Godfather of Neo-Boylesque" is a stripperformance artist/actor/dancer who has performed in New York & abroad since 1988. A pioneer in the 1990s burlesque renaissance who has been stripping since 1992. He won the 1st-ever "King of Boylesque/Mr. Exotic World" title at Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas 2006. His act was banned at Rome's Gay Village. He has performed all around Europe, Australia & North America, recently including Stockholm, Turku, Edinburgh & Vienna.

Press: "Tigger! MC’s the show, and also steals it... It's an irresistible performance…with Tigger! at the helm, you can’t help but have a blast." by EdFestMag, "a fantastically watchable naughty satyr" by The Scotsman, "disturbing, funny and oddly riveting all at once" by Vancouver Sun, "the Boylesque King...a heart-pounding climax" by LA Weekly, "hysterical and acrobatic" and "wickedly arch" by The New York Times, "delightful... simultaneously hilarious and titillating" by TheaterMania,"a brilliant satirist" by examiner.com, "the Taboo-Defying Dynamo" by NEXT Magazine.

Jeez Loueez

Jeez Loueez is an award-winning burlesque performer, actor, emcee, and instructor in Chicago/St. Louis known as “The Honey Badger of Burlesque” and “The Powerhouse of the Midwest”! A lethal combination of drama, hilarity, and killer kinetics, Jeez is known for bringing audiences to their feet! She’s the 2012 Miss Viva Las Vegas, the 2013 Shimmy Showdown Champion, and the 2014 Southern Fried Burlesque Queen. For four years Jeez Loueez has been voted as one of the TOP 50 Burlesque Industry Figures and has proven to be a growing force on the scene. Jeez produces and hosts the annual showcase Jeezy’s Juke Joint: A Black Burly-Q Revueand has been a part of the Show-Me Burlesque Festival team since it's inception. Never one to rest for too long she frequently tours as a solo entertainer and as a member of Foxy Tann and the Wham Bam Thank You Ma’ams in addition to teaching classes at Van Ella Studios in St. Louis, and numerous academies across the country. As an instructor, Jeez Loueez holds over twelve years of experience ranging from musical theater and dance composition with various theater outreach programs, to burlesque and her popular Twerk and Jerk classes. www.jeezloueez.me

Nasty Canasta

Internationally-renowned artstar (and reigning Cheese Queen of Coney Island) Nasty Canasta is frequently hailed as a genius of the neo-burlesque scene. A "burlesque queen" (The NY Times), 2nd Runner Up at the 2010 Miss Exotic World Pageant, and "Brooklyn's greatest burlesque star" (The Brooklyn Paper), Nasty is an associate producer with Wasabassco, host and producer of Naked Girls Reading NYC - "New York's Best Story Hour," (The Village Voice), and was the impresario behind Sweet & Nasty Burlesque and Pinchbottom Burlesque ("Best Burlesque in NYC" - NY Magazine, "Most Innovative" - Burlesque Hall of Fame).