Lux LaCroix is a burlesque star, documentary filmmaker, professional ballerina and award winning choreographer. Professionally she has worked with artists such as Kanye West, Beyonce, N.E.R.D., OutKast, Janet Jackson and Lady GaGa. In 2009 her burlesque based performance art piece, “Color Me Purple,” was featured at REDCAT’S Spring Studio program. In 2010, she became a Principal dancer with the touring division of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company.
 
Lux is also a regular performer in the Mexican Wrestling and Saucy Striptease extravaganza known as Lucha VaVOOM! Since 2006, Lux LaCroix has been featured performer at the New York Burlesque Festival and in 2008 she was named The Burlesque Hall of Fame’s Reigning Queen of Burlesque, 1st Runner Up as well as “Most Dazzling Performer.”
 
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The Dicey Dame of Burlesque, Anja Keister (New York) is a burlesque performer, host, and producer based out of NYC. She is most known for her nerdlesque group, D20 Burlesque, the longest running monthly nerdlesque show in NYC. She has performed all over the country at nerd conventions and burlesque festivals. She has been featured on CollegeHumor.com, The Washington Post, dubbed a Burlesque star of the Nerdlesque scene by Time Out NY and called “The Sexiest Nerd in NYC” by The New York Times.
 
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Bella La Blanc (Reston) “Your Stepford Wife Gone Wild”
 
2015 Evil Queen Of Burlesque Pageant (TX) “Most Evil Temptress”, 2012 Southern Exposure (NC) “Best Group”, 2014 (DC) Burlypicks “Best Singer”, 2015 Graduate Coney Island Sideshow School
 
She headlined the 2014 Spring Fling Burlesque Festival (MI). Headlined “Norwescon” 2015 (WA) where she had the distinct pleasure of meeting the author George R. R. Martin. She is owner of Glit-O-Rama Productions based out of (DC). She is also co-owner of a touring GoT themed burlesque show that is blessed by Mr. Martin Himself.
 
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The Twisted Beauty of New York City, Dangrrr Doll is a multi-award winning performance artist and producer known for her stunning costumes and unique interpretation of burlesque. Hailed as “high concept” and “defiantly weird” by Burlesque Beat, Dangrrr brings classic beauty combined with pop culture savvy and a dose of heavy metal to the stage. A professional costumer by day, this globetrotting bombshell is the producer of RAWR! Burlesque and the brains behind NYCC’s official burlesque show. Dangrrr was listed at #34 in the Top 50 burlesque industry figures of 2014.
 
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Cute as a button, this naughty nymph is the Resident Little from Philadelphia’s own Liberty City Kings Drag and Burlesque. Her baby face, disarming innocence, and busty/lusty charms will get your heart racing and make your sweet tooth sore. No stranger to the stage, Aida has worked professionally in theater, dance, and the circus, on and behind the stage, in both Philadelphia and her hometown of Las Vegas. Aida can be seen every first Saturdays of every month on the Liberty City Kings stage at Tabu and guest performing in venues in PA, NY, and NJ. Aida has performed at the 2015 Fierce: International Queer Burlesque Festival, the First Annual Philadelphia Burlesque Festival, and is a poster model for Passional Boutique in Philadelphia.
 
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Known as “The Cosplay Cutie Turned Burlesque Beauty”, Maki Roll (Washington, DC) is the sexy, salacious geek of your multiverse. When not playing dress up at conventions, the DC native can be seen stripping down all up and down the East Coast. Maki has produced in venues all over DC, adding her nerdy flair to everything she touches. Always looking for ways to improve her craft, one look at Maki and you’ll see that she is the droid you are looking for.
 
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Matt Knife (New York) is a Boylesque Performance Artist, Painter, Model, Costume Designer, Fan Dancer, Comedy, Vaudeville.
 
Matt Knife was born when Salvador Dali kissed Andy Warhol in Studio 54.
That union created the pop surrealist Matt Knife.
Matt Knife blends absurdity, humor, sexuality, gender queerness and nudity into a sexball of fun and magic.
 
Matt Knife is the producer of Homo Erectus Boylesque at the Historic Stonewall Inn. NYC’s first monthly boylesque review!!!!
 
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Miss Mary Cyn (New York) is a classically trained actor/designer with a passion for downtown performance.
Her ability to create a vivacious party atmosphere is what made her show, Original Cyn, a long running underground sensation.
As a founding member and co-producer of Epic Win Burlesque she became known for her painstakingly accurate costumes and loyal portrayal of pop culture characters.
Her current company, The Cyn Factory, creates performances that are a smooth blend of theatre, burlesque, and pop culture, all mixed up with a big dash of partying.
 
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Internationally-renowned neo-ecdysiast Nasty Canasta (Brooklyn) is frequently hailed as a genius of the neo-burlesque scene. A “burlesque queen” (The NY Times) and Runner Up at the 2010 Miss Exotic World Pageant, Nasty is host and producer of Naked Girls Reading NYC and an associate producer with Wasabassco. A full-time burlesque performer and producer since 2004, Nasty draws on her years of experience in the theatre to create acts and shows that combine tease and titillation, humor, spectacle and theatricality. She has performed internationally, and worked as a snake charmer and contortionist with the world-famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow.
 
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Poison Ivory (Brooklyn)
 
Crowned Miss Starlet Burlesque at the 2013 Hollywood Burlesque Festival and winner of the 2014 Pennsylvania Burlesque Festival’s coveted Crystal Corset Award, Poison Ivory is a New York based burlesque performer who is beginning to make her mark.
 
Within months of her debut, Poison was nominated for Hottest Freshman at the 2012 New York Burlesque Festival and was a recent competitor in the Best Debut category at the 2015 Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender
 
With a background in theater and dance, Ivory’s combination of thoughtful musicality, sultry expression and sensual movements always leaves her audience wanting more.
 
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Tiger Bay is the international sensation (she performed in Canada once) known as The Whoopee Cushion of Burlesque.

She is based in New York City where she was crowned Miss Coney Island 2017. Her other awards include the 2016 AlternaTEASE “WTF” Award and the 2015 New York Burlesque Festival “Huh?” Golden Pastie Award.

Tiger Bay brings her unique brand of weirdness throughout the cosmos…and beyond! She regularly tours with the Wham Bam Glitter Glam show. Check her calendar for upcoming shows and events!

Velma Candyass (Montreal)
 
Producer of the Candyass Club Cabaret – monthly burlesque revue
She has graced the stages of a variety of festivals such as MEW, Jim Thorpe , New York Burlesque Fest, World Pride, Alternatease, Boudoir and even the Anarchist festival. She has taught workshops for the Everything to do with Sex show, Salon L’amour et seduction, National Womens Show, and Kinky festival. She has produced for Montreal Fetish Weekend and Montreal’s Just for laughs festival.
Velma is co-producer and animator of the Women’s Workshop Weekend and the Montreal Redlight Walking Tour.
Will adjudicating for the inaugural Montreal Burlesque Bagel expo
Velma puts the ass in class, and reigns as Queen of the Montreal Main
Candyass Club Cabaret website : http://www.candyassclub.com/
 
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Viktor Devonne (New Jersey) is a director and producer for White Elephant Burlesque based in NJ and currently headlining Wednesdays at RockBar NYC. This queer clownboy, Viktor is celebrating 9 years in burlesque and 14 years taking his clothes off on stage. He enjoys white wine, his favorite word’s ‘curvature,’ and his idols include Madonna and Elaine Stritch; he some day wishes to live in some combination of Sleep No More and the Golden Girls. If heaven exists, he hopes to arrive at the pearly gates where God says to him, “You brought your iPod, right?”
 
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Zilly Lilly (Toronto) is a trained dancer with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and Choreography. After finishing school she set out on a path to be as outrageous and quirky on stage as her glitter filled heart desired. She now brings her dance abilities, warped sense of humour and nerdy attention to detail to all of her acts. She’s a proud gamer, cosplayer, collector and all around lover of sci-fi, horror and comics.
 
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JEEZ LOUEEZ (Chicago, IL) is an award-winning performer known as The Honey Badger of Burlesque! A lethal combination of drama, hilarity, and killer kinetics, Jeez Loueez is a powerhouse that’s taken stages across the continent by storm. Whether donning a mohawk and her patented “Stank Face”, or serving up classic, glamorous striptease, she’s a consummate force that’s quickly become one of the most memorable personalities of modern burlesque. Jeez took home the titles of Miss Viva Las Vegas in 2012, Shimmy Showdown Champion in 2013, and Southern Fried Burlesque Queen in 2014. She’s been voted into the Top 50 Burlesque Industry Figures since 2010 and broke the Top 20 in 2013 and 2014. A skilled improviser with impeccable comedic timing, Jeez Loueez also charms as the host of Jeezy’s Juke Joint: A Black Burly-Q Revue and the Show-Me Burlesque & Vaudeville Festival.
 
When she’s not onstage or behind the scenes, Jeez works as a dance instructor and figure model, and is frequently sought out as a panelist on topics ranging from feminism and burlesque, to body positivity and cultural appropriation. Her classes and productions have been featured on Autostraddle, Ebony.com, and Windy City Live.
 
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