Friday

Hosted by Ostara Reign

As seductive as spring and sultry as summer, Ostara Reign is a queer, body positive burlesque performer, emcee, producer, and instructor based in the Twin Cities. She has graced stages across the nation and co-produces TC Cabaret and Twin Cities New Revue. She has performed in the Vermont Burlesque Festival, the Take it off Burlesque Festival, was a host for this years inaugural North Star Nerdlesque Festival and is excited to be hosting at the Richmond Burlesque Festival in April 2025! Her mission is to create spaces and provide stages for all bodies to showcase their art and for audiences to feel sexy. She believes that all bodies are sexy and worthy of adoration. She reigns the stage with her slow burns and commands the audience with the slightest gaze.

She is the goddess of spring tease and wet dreams: Ostara Reign!

*FEATURE PERFORMER* Nami Flare

Nami Flare is a graceful seductress who lures people in through her embodiment. With her dance background being rooted in African Diasporic you'll often see her using music such as disco, funk, and afro jazz to embellish her movements. Nami brings burlesque to the forefront to take audiences on a journey that explores sensuality, identity, and self-awareness. Ms. Flare was crowned Mx. Ebony Burlesque Atlanta 2024 and continues the legacy of melanated performers who came before her. She is bold, vivacious, and full of luxury. Coming to us all the way from Miami the sacral charmer who needs no armour. 

Viktor Devonne

The Whitefaced Tornado, as dubbed by Tigger!, Viktor is celebrating nearly 19 years as director of White Elephant Burlesque. Now a Southern California transplant, he is Mr Hollywood Burlesque 2019-2023. He is the facilitator of the Silver Tusk Burlesque Awards and produces the WEBurlesque podcast, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 

Meg Mesmeric

Meg Mesmeric is  the Spinning Seductress of Burlesque. Based in Chicago, she has been spinning hoops and flinging clothes on stages across the Midwest since 2022. Since then, she has performed across 6 states, including at the 2024 New Mexico and Ohio Burlesque Festivals. Meg Mesmeric enjoys combining movement from burlesque, circus, and flow arts to create a unique experience with each act she throws at you. 

Catty Wompass

Catty Wompass is the femme top with the fat bottom! Based in Chicago, she performs and teaches all over the Midwest and co-produces Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha, a queer-focused burlesque education community that puts on the premier burlesque and variety show in Iowa. Catty won the title Most Enchanting at the Great Burlesque Exposition and has been featured in many festivals alongside her duet partner Matt Adore, including the Show Me, Ohio, and Toronto International Burlesque Festivals. She'll steal your heart--and your girlfriend--she's just a little askew--she's Catty Wompass!

Domini'que Anjou

Hailing from Montpelier VT Domini’que Anjou is a non-binary bad bitch of all trades.They began their burlesque journey in November 2017 performing all around the state of Vermont as well as producing and filming burlesque shows along the way. They’ve performed in festivals such as What the Funk and RVA Burlesque Festival and Minneapolis Burlesque Festival. They also won the Nudies Newbies August 23 showcase. They are currently an official “Sugar Shaker” with the Green Mountain Cabaret. 

Empress de Naste'

Empress de Naste' burlesque performer and producer of Immodest Opulence has been hailed as RVA's Raunchy Chandelier for over a decade. She might seem like a royal bitch but she's just a glamorous goof with a rotted heart! Prepare yourself to be blinded by her over-the-top decadent costumes and sparkling personality. 

Maggie ThrillEmAll

The Feisty Freckled Femme Fatale” Maggie is co-producer of The Broad Brigade, a Los Angeles burlesque troupe. Maggie has performed for multiple festivals and she made her international debut at the Kootenay burlesque festival in British Columbia. Maggie is a former roller derby girl who retired after nearly a decade of skating, to bring her dangerous curves to the stage! The starlet that enthralls from Nepal to Montreal, she’s Maggie ThrillEmAll! 

Kill Gil

A lover of all things erotic and macabre, Kill Gil is an otherworldly performer that is sure to send shivers down your spine. Beginning their burlesque journey in May 2022, Kill Gil has been thrilling Richmond locals with piercing expressions and seductive dance moves; leaving audiences to wonder: " Just what kind of creature are they?" Allow their abstract beauty to enthrall you as they close in for the kill! 

Edie Sativa

Edie Sativa emerged from a cloud of smoke outside the White Horse Inn in Oakland, CA sometime in late 2014. After a few years in the San Francisco Bay Area and a detour in Florida, she landed in Virginia in 2022 and has been entertaining audiences in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina since then. A veteran of the award-winning troupe Rubenesque Burlesque, Edie combines charm and character work to bring acts ranging from serious to silly and always guaranteed to entertain!

*FEATURE PERFORMER* Marie La'Pearl

Marie La’Pearl derives from the Island of Enchantment where the tropical rainforest is magical and the coquí frogs sing under the starry sky. This Latina known as the Crown Jewel of Puerto Rico always brings the heat with her Caribbean moves and flair. She gives the right amount of sexy, sensual, and sensational with her ability to leave viewers wanting more. Marie puts the ass in sass and brings just enough sazón to sprinkle on stage with just a shake of her hips. 

Tarah Rising

This Hot & Heavy Hellcat is from the heart of Tennessee and taking the burlesque world by storm. Beginning her burlesque journey in 2023, this daring darling has done her homework to create engrossing performances by studying with Kim Bustible, Lacey Kraken, and Jill Mercy. She continues her quest for ecdysiast perfection through her membership in NashBurly and Music City Fuckettes. Her signature in-your-face style made her an immediate local favorite in Nashville, where you can see her on stages like The House of Bits, Sid Gold’s Request Room, and beyond.  She is the Burlesque Brawl 2024 Jello Wrestling Champion as well as the 2024 Art Strip Ball Flex-lesque Champion. She is currently the host of the monthly Music City Fuckettes Step Right Up! at Fran’s Eastside. She made her festival debut in January at Weirdlesque Burlesque Festival. The Cruelest Tease, Tarah Rising! 

Goosey Gander

The GOOSE is LOOSE! Goosey Gander has been shaking their tail feather with Eastern Iowa troupe Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha (@bawdybawdyhaha) since 2023. Following their solo debut in 2024, Goosey has since performed their comedy burlesque acts in multiple cities across the Midwest. In 2025, Goosey is spreading their wings and bringing their playful performance style to the WEIRDlesque Festival in Oklahoma City, and to the RVA Burlesque Festival in Richmond, Virginia. When they're not performing, Goosey serves as the social media assistant for Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha. Lovely but mischievous, this bird is out to ruffle a few feathers and prove what's good for the goose is GREAT for the gander.

Cece Dynamite

Miss Cece Dynamite is known as the Tasty Treat who doesn't miss a beat! Just as delicious as she sounds, Dynamite is a burlesque dancer, costumer and producer with over 15 years of experience. She is known for her inventive costuming, love of Star Trek and near-Brechtian performance style. Although she has traveled all over the United States, You can catch her in New Orleans where she is the head of Honey Tangerine Productions, a live events and production company responsible for Dial Up Trivia, Writer’s Block Party and Tangerine Dreams Burlesque and Variety. 

Jasper Kinetic

This mischievous queer shapeshifter captivates audiences across Vermont as a dandy drag king who just can't keep his fancy clothes on. He begun his journey wreaking chaos onstage in 2021, and has since become a Sugar Shaker with neo-burlesque troupe Green Mountain Cabaret, and manager/choreographer for draglesque boy band Dissociating on the Dance Floor. He'll strut his way into your heart with his flamboyancy, expressiveness, and dynamic shimmying and isolations that earned him the nickname "The Energizer Booty." 

Iridessa

Our next performer is a true Carolina Girl hailing from Charleston but living in the Triangle! She is the owner and short half Of Bendy Baddies. With a background in cheer and modern dance, this flexy pixie hopes we all leave believing in the power of pixie dust. Tonight this light fairy hopes to  “motivate” us all to stand at attention… It’s Iridessa!” 

Cherie Sweetbottom

Cherie Sweetbottom, the Ambassador of Skin, is a professional actress and performing artist who has performed “endless” forms of vivid character-driven burlesque all over the U.S. and internationally since 2011. Known for her “hypnotizing” posterior and megawatt smile, she is a versatile performer who effortlessly shifts from high-glamour classic burlesque to pop culture inspired nerdlesque, from sultry to silly and poignant to ridiculous. She performs regularly with Astro Pop Events, the demented minds behind the cult classic Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club, now in its 14th year. As an actor and stage combatant, she is a company member with DeBracey Productions joust/stunt show, performing at Renaissance festivals all over the country; a member of the Maryland Renaissance Festival professional acting company; and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. She performs burlesque semi-regularly at Monarque steakhouse in Baltimore.

Cherie was voted DC’s Best Performance Artist first runner-up in the 2016 and 2017 Washington City Paper’s Reader’s Poll and was a finalist for the 2017 New York Burlesque Festival’s Golden Pastie Award for Rear of the Year. She has appeared in the New York Burlesque Festival, the Philadelphia Burlesque Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, Charm City Burlesque Festival, the Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival, the New York Nerdlesque Festival, several regional tours, the George R.R. Martin-approved Burlesque is Coming national tour, and has performed with a number of live bands, including the Brian Newman Band, Jonny Grave and the Tombstones, Moonlight Society, Foggy Bottom Whomp Stompers, and Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band. 

Ember Alert

Watch out, now! This pint-sized fireball has been igniting stages for over 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. With two titles under her belt, this international performer is just getting started!

Her burlesque bingo card boasts appearances at the Glasgow Burlesque Festival, Dragon Con, Colorado Burlesque Festival, Savannah Burlesque Festival, Show Me Burlesque Festival, Ohio Burlesque Festival, Michigan Burlesque Festival, Teaser Festival, Mile High Burlesque Festival, Midwest Burlesque Festival, and many more.

Trained in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, high kick, hip hop, and swing, Ember’s performances range from funny to frightening, hot to heartfelt—frequently all at once, and always unforgettable. She is the co-producer of the Gaslight Girls and brings her creative vision to the screen through work in film, television, and music videos.

It’s no small wonder that Ember Alert is the girl you’ve been looking for! 

Katniss Everqueer and Lio Letizia

The delightful and delectable pairing of the little cannoli of your heart, Lio Letizia, and the filthy, food-covered performance artist, Katniss Everqueer. Both are Sugar Shakers with Green Mountain Cabaret in Burlington, VT. He’s the glittery grandpa, and she’s the bold and bodacious fat femme. Together, this playful duo celebrates the gloriousness and desirability of fat bodies while also poking fun at the way they’re treated in media and entertainment. Honoring fat joy through silliness and food play, let’s get a taste of this dynamic duo’s delicious chemistry. 

*FEATURE PERFORMER* Android Allure

Glamorous, enticing, and, to put it quite simply, delicious! A devastating beauty with a vicious gaze, Android Allure is a dynamic and divine being that will bring you to your knees. 

They are the 2022 title holder Grandmaster Funk at What the Funk Fest, and in 2023, they won 1st Runner-up for Best Debut at the Burlesque Hall of Fame. Their work has been featured at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle International Dance Festival, Seattle Gay Pride Festival, and Nordstrom.

A leader and legend in Seattle’s kiki ballroom scene, Android Allure is a mother, father, and auntie to their community. They challenge their kids to remember that trophies mean nothing. It’s about creating a moment, making a statement, and being memorable.

Combining their passion for ballroom culture and glamour, Android serves something severe, leaving you tantalizing for more.