2026 Performers: Frisky Fridays (18+)

Frisky Fridays

Adults only! Enjoy a more risqué version of our beloved variety show which includes burlesque. Expect the unexpected as we feature satire, bawdy humor, striptease, jugglers, magicians, aerialists, acrobats and more.

Below is a listing of the 2026 festival performers for the Frisky Friday shows. We will update this page on an ongoing basis.

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Stephanie Layton is a multi-instrumentalist & vocalist from Olympia who recently returned to the PNW after a long stint in NYC. Her main gig is fronting jazz band Eden Lane, with recent...

ACTin’ Up

ACTin’ Up (she/they) is “Thee Unshod Fae”. They are an international and award winning performer, trained in over 10 styles of movement. A stan of handstands and force of floor...

Performance photo: a white woman in braced horizontally in the air in a large hoop suspended by white silks.

Avery Cluff

Avery has been climbing things since before she could walk, so it is no surprise that she fell in love with aerial arts early on. She grew up in Oakland,...

Performance photo. A young white woman wearing red pants, red gloves, and a black shirt. Her head is thrown back and she is swallowing a very long sword.

Bambi Karloff

Valentine Wulf, known onstage as Bambi Karloff, is a drag king, burlesque performer, and one of the fewer than 30 female sword swallowers in the world. Born and raised in...

Booby Trap Players

The Boobies have giggled audiences from Seattle to Vegas, while performing new and old burlesque comedy sketches.

Studio shot. Vignetted against a broze background, a white woman with long dark hair wearing a black short-sleeved shirt gazes up under a raised arm towards a club in mid air. She has a club in her raised hand and another, about to be thrown, in her lower hand.

Cindy Marvell

Cindy Marvell began juggling in New York City at age twelve. She juggled professionally as a teenager and graduated from Oberlin College in 1988. In 1989 she became the first...

A white man with blonde hair and a white button down sleeves rolled up as he grins and spins a soccer ball on his finger standing between a tent and the tent stakes

Cory Black

Cory Black is a soccer freestyle performer with a competitive background, having competed in the USA and the World Freestyle Championships in the Czech Republic. Combining his love for freestyle and...

A white woman with long blond hair wearing a flesh-toned unitard patterned with a flame-like red pattern, in an elegant action pose during an aerial performance against a vivid sparkly purple background.

Cyara Hotopp

Cyara Hotopp is a professional aerialist and mother of two who has the honor of traveling the country doing what she loves most! She is also a former competitive figure...

Doc Sprinsock & the SANCApators

When Fabio Sprinsock was born on a cold, gray Seattle morning, he was so surprised he didn’t speak for a year-and-a-half. His parents were sharecroppers eking out a living growing...

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Emma D’Lemma

Emma Foster is a dancer, choreographer, aerialist, burlesque, and variety performer. As a choreographer and performer they are known for bringing a unique and quixotic movement quality to the stage....

Frank Olivier

Frank Olivier is a three time world juggling champion, and an award winning magician. His comedy act has appeared on America’s Got Talent, The Tonight Show, HBO’s Just For Laughs,...

Studio shot of an aerial pole act. A bare-chested man in long black tights is braced horizontally away from the moving pole, holding on with two hands.

Franklin Mendoza

Franklin Mendoza is a Venezuelan circus performer based in Las Vegas, with over 12 years of experience. He specializes in aerial straps, corde lisse, hair hanging, teeth hanging, aerial pole,...

A black and white photograph of a very large, very formal orchestra. The image is a joke, because the Fremont Philharmonic is not a philharmonic orchestra in any of the traditional senses.

Fremont Philharmonic Orchestra

Originally the Freiberg Philharmonium, the Fremont Philharmonic couldn’t get a gig in town, as everyone in the little Alsatian town was in the band. Neighboring villages suspected with so much...

Giuseppe Boppi

Giuseppe Boppi, also known as Seattle’s favorite Italian chain-smoking clown, is a neo-burlesque, drag, and performance artist. His artistic style draws heavily from early 20th-century vaudeville, golden-age European cabaret, and...

A young white woman, photographed from high above, in her Cyr wheel, olive green skirt flaring out beneath her.

Hayley Dynamo

Hayley is a multidisciplinary circus artist specializing in Cyr wheel, aerial silks & duo aerial. She received a BA in dance from Oberlin College before pursuing a career in circus...

Performance photo. A smiling young black woman in a gold sequined costume performs mid air in a pink hoop suspended by a black silk.

Heather Tipton

Heather came to circus later in life. She’d just had two kids and needed something that was just for her. Heather took her first circus class as a way to...

Performance photo. A white woman in a short red costume with long gray sleeves is lying on her back juggling a giant white and blue ceramic planter with her feet.

Jack Weinstock

Jack is graduate of the San Francisco Circus Center’s Clown Conservatory and holds a degree in Technical Theater and Scenic Design. Jack realized that building sets was fun, but not...

Performance photo. A white man with short, light brown hair, wearing grey pants and a vest over a white button down shirt and blue tie, performs with a diabolo.

Jan Damm

Jan (“Yahn”) Damm has been touring the U.S. and internationally as a circus artist for 20 years. He specializes in clown, juggling, acrobatics, balancing and eccentric skills. Originally from Augusta,...

Jane Air and Karen Marie

Jane Air and Karen Marie are resident performers at Tacoma Cabaret, where they have been captivating audiences together for more than two years. With over two decades of combined experience,...

A bare-chested white man, balancing on one hand, torso and legs improbably skewed to one side, in an urban, concrete setting.

Joel Herzfeld

Joel Herzfeld is a Guinness World Record-holding handbalancer and cyr artist based in Boston, USA. Joel has performed around the world. With Les 7 Doigts De La Main, he toured...

Performance photo. A young black man, wearing jeans, a colorful striped sweater, and glasses, poses with juggling clubs in one hand while making a 'sshhh' gesture with the other.

Juggle Jawns

Jared is a juggler from Philadelphia, PA. Having started his juggle journey at the RIT juggling club in Rochester, NY, he has traveled around the world researching, teaching, and performing...

JWYOYO

JWYOYO (Justin “Wacky” Weber) is a yo-yo performer and object manipulation act that fuses what most consider a child’s toy with theatrical circus performance. He enjoys incorporating jazz and electronic...

Karen Quest – Cowgirl Tricks

Dubbed America’s Funniest Cowgirl, Karen Quest has been blazing a trail since 1998 with her one-woman, award-winning original comedy act, Cowgirl Tricks. Skillful trick roping, impressive whip cracking, outstanding audience...

Performance photo of a Chinese pole act. A performer in red tights, black jacket and white bowler hat poses as though simply standing in a wide stance with arms folded, but she is horizontal, holding herself out in space from the pole by her ankles.

Katie Russo

Katie’s performance career began sitting at a piano bench, refusing to practice. Still, she fell in love with music—especially the marching arts—where she performed with world champions Phantom Regiment drum...

Keara Fox

Keara Fox is an Olympia-based aerialist and movement artist. With 10 years of artistic gymnastics experience, Keara enjoys experimenting and fusing a variety of circus disciplines into a unique and...

Lavender Sinclair

Lavender Sinclair is a nonbinary force of nature who brings bold energy, magnetic charisma, and fearless creativity to every stage. A trained dancer and high-voltage GoGo artist, Lavender fuses neo-camp...

Performance photo. A white woman posed like a cupid with a bow and arrow, hangs from her hair. She wears high heeled fringed boots, and a black lacy costume.

Leila Noone

Leila Noone is a multidisciplinary circus artist known for her dynamic presence, technical versatility, and deep commitment to storytelling through movement. Trained across a wide range of disciplines, she performs...

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Lucy Juggles

Lucy Juggles is a full time juggler based in the Bay Area. She currently performs a one woman comedy juggling show at Pier 39 in San Francisco, where she does...

Mademoiselle Amelia

Mademoiselle Amelia is a tantalizing treat to be witnessed. Her mesmerizing stage presence combined with her larger than life glamour makes every performance a new tease to tickle your fancy....

Mathieu Bolillo

Mathieu Bolillo is a highly skilled performer with 30 years of athletic and acrobatic experience and an insatiable drive to further his skill and push the human body to new...

A man with a blue and white star shaped hat with black hair wearing a white costume holding a set of paper dolls with yellow heads and blue and white bodies mouth and eyes open wide

Mr. Lo’s Paper Show

Mr. Lo’s remarkable skill with paper and his coy old-world sense of humor is a sensation when presented in European Varieté theaters and circuses. Aside from Seattle’s Moisture Festival, I’d...

Naked Truth

The Naked Truth show band. Their name? We looked up Naked Truth on the internet and found this story explaining the source of that idiom since the late 1500s: Truth...

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Ori Quesada

Ori Quesada is an acrobat and circus performer born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He began training in 1997 at 7 years old under Master Lu Yi...

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Paul Draper

Paul Draper is a world-renowned mentalist, comedy presenter, and keynote speaker who has captivated audiences from the United Nations to Apple, Cambridge to Yale, and Hollywood to Broadway. With appearances...

Quantum Tease, PhD

Quantum Tease, PhD is the collision of science and sexy. This award-winning erotic comedy writer is now bringing their bawdy brains to the burlesque stage, with a shimmy that can...

Rocky Horror Glambona Show

Mona Trombona & Glambo are international burlesque artists based in Portland, OR. Mona (the tall drink of water with the longest instrument) and Glambo (that one volunteer curly fry in...

Sailor St. Claire

Sailor St. Claire is a curvaceous redhead with learned mind and an A+ anatomy. With her scintillating wit and charm, Sailor channels academic excellence into burlesque bravura as a performer...

Sara James

Sara James puts the DARE in DERRIERE as an aerial + burlesque performer based in Portland, Oregon. Drawn to the glitz, glamor, and sensual empowerment, she is known for her...

Snatch Adams

A childhood spent traveling with the circus has produced the burlesque babe of buffoonery! Combining classic skills such as knife-juggling and unicycling with the art of the tease, internationally-known Snatch...

Spiderlounge

Spiderlounge is a horn-focused, groove band. Primarily featuring Funk and Soul sounds from the 70s, the band includes a diverse group of musicians with influences from Jazz to Heavy Metal....

Steve Owens

14-Time Award Winning magician Steve Owens has appeared on National TV around the world in places like China, Egypt, Thailand, and NBC Prime time in the USA. He represented America...

Suitcase Dance Theater Company

In the midst of the pandemic’s isolating grip, Suitcase Dance Theater Company emerged as a beacon of hope and creativity. Founded by Veronica and Mark Mendonca, the company grew from...

The Amazing MeeZee!

Classic American Circus & Sideshow artist in the modern day. Known as: The Chairman of Cheers, The Clown Prince & The Royal Rogue of Sideshow. MeeZee hails from the “Golden...

The Belugin Bros.

The Belugin Bros. hail from Vareniki, a small European country located somewhere between here and there. Growing up on their grandmother’s vineyard, they heard their calling at a young age...

Tumbleweed Circus

Tumbleweed Circus is a one-woman, eight-wheeled spectacle who captivates audiences with an exciting blend of physical comedy, roller skating, trick roping, fire manipulation and juggling stunts. Her dangerous and daring...

Vena Kahlo

“The Bubblegum Priestess of Burlesque”. From Seattle, WA, this member of Haus de Corvo moves like homemade tequila on fire. Vena is an emcee, costumer, producer, and multi-award winning neo-burlesque...

Veronica Blair

Veronica Blair has studied with prominent artists including LaNorma Fox, Ringling Bros. African-American Aerialist Pa-Mela Hernandez, and the renowned Gérard Fasoli of Centre National des Arts du Cirque / Cnac. Her...

Whisper De Corvo

Whisper De Corvo, the 2021 Queer Monarch, is a nationally headlining Neo burlesque and Nerdlesque performer/producer/mentor from the Pacific NorthWest. The head of Haus De Corvo, they are an Indigenous,...

Xochitl Sosa

Xochitl Sosa is a versatile performer. Specializing in Dance Trapeze, her original work has won such praise as an Isadora Duncan Award, and most recently won 2nd place at Vivafest...

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