Archive: Libertease Cabaret Performers
These are some of the artists who have graced the Moisture Festival’s stages over the years.
To book an artist for your event, please contact them directly. Opening their bio will, in most cases, provide a website link.
Please note that the biographies that appear on this page have not been updated since the artist last appeared at Moisture Festival, which in some cases may have been many years ago. Therefore, some of these acts may no longer be performing, and some links to the performers’ websites may no longer be current.
AcroBritt
Brittany Walsh, a.k.a. AcroBritt, is a world record holder in acrobatic archery and has been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not featured an...
Adra Boo
Seattle soul singer, emcee, curator, coach, Rain City Rock Camp Adult Rock Camp Director, City of Seattle Music Commissioner and Black Auntie, Adra Boo, moves as solo artist, part of...
Adrienne Jack-Sands
Adrienne Jack-Sands has been involved in performance art since childhood, playing violin from age six and viola since she was 12. At the American Ballet Theatre school in New York...
Aleksa Manila
Drug counselor by day, drag diva by night. Aleksa Manila is a celebrated and respected drag personality. Originally from Manila, Philippines, she now calls Seattle, Washington home. Aleksa is...
Amara Strutt
Parading across stages throughout the country, Amara combines her background in dance and theatrical costuming to create vintage burlesque fantasies that are oh-so-refined and oh-so-elegantly filthy. She has strutted her...
Amy G
Amy Gordon is a revolutionary comedienne (she spins around a lot, anyway). The granddaughter of The Little Giant, a vaudevillian acrobat/ukulele playing song and dance man of little renown but...
Android Allure
Glamorous, enticing, and to put it quite simply delicious! These are just a few words to describe What the Funk Fest 22’ title holder Android Allure. A devastating beauty with...
Angelique DeVil
Angelique DeVil is internationally known for her unique choreography and dynamic stage presence. Though she has been training, performing or teaching dance for most of her life, it was in...
Anni Küpper
Anni is professional juggler and performer. Her acts inspire international audiences around the United States, and Europe as well as Japan, Singapore, Israel and Gabon. Originally born in Bonn, Germany...
Aquarius Moon
The Ebony Goddess of the Stars”, Aquarius Moon is a Somali-Nigerian performance artist and choreographer. Her performances are electric, high energy, and engaging! Her specialties include vogue femme, waacking, and fire...
Armitage Shanks, The Carny Preacher
Armitage Shanks, The Carny Preacher aka Dave Crellin Moisture Festival production team player for the last 5 years Some Stuff I’m Doing- International Cabaret Artist Life Design...
Aviatrix
Last year this rocking 4-girl team of aerial stunt women brought you the aerobatic stunts of “Wingwalking” – a triple trapeze precision flying spectacle. They are back in a whole...
Aviatrix Ground Crew
Every team of daredevil pilots needs a solid Ground Crew with lots of experience under their collective belts. One look under the belts of these luscious young ladies will tell...
Babette LaFave
Ms. LaFave has been performing in the worlds of circus cabaret, and burlesque for many moons. Starting in Vancouver BC, she was a member of the Karen Jamieson Dance Co,...
Bella Jovan
Bella Jovan is a professional international award winning dance artist and choreographer renowned for her energetic, enticing, and vibrant style. Bella is extremely passionate about modern Egyptian and American style belly...
Belle Cozette
Belle Cozette has been performing burlesque in and around the Seattle area for ten years. She combines effervescent wit and intoxicating beauty to create narrative masterpieces that titillate and tantalize...
Bellini Twins
Their mother was a trapeze artist in The Bohemian National Circus. She was, as they say, a real swinger. Therefore this next act came to see the light of day...
Ben De La Creme
As a performer, emcee, party hostess, and event promoter Ben DeLaCreme has appeared in theaters and nightclubs from coast to coast ever since the fateful day in 2002 when s/he...
Blanche DeBris
American Treasure Blanche DeBris is giddy to return once again to the Moisture Festival, her burlesque birthplace! Since debuting here in 2008, she has managed to not get herself kicked...
Blurred Lines
Last summer the boys of Mod Carousel joined forces with Caela Bailey, Sydni Deveraux and Dalisha Phillips to produce a video parody of Robin Thicke’s controversial hit song Blurred Lines....
Booby Trap Players
Performing Variety/comedy sketches both new and old, with humorous twists … we expect to be surprised.
Buckaroos
BUCKAROOS USA is a rare combination of sexy and down-home fun comprised of dance, comedy and theater. Professional dancers and veterans of the Northwest entertainment scene Jonathan Betchtel, Keon Price,...
Buxom
Cowgirl cabaret duo, Buxom, is formed by cellist/vocalist Ashia Grzesik and guitarist/vocalist Amanda Richards. These two met as finalists in one of Portland’s open mic competitions in 2008. Their outrageously...
Caela Bailey
Caela Bailey is virtuosic. She is cabaret incarnate. Part-party starting confetti gun bursting into a crowd, part-amorously enchanting host and entertainer, the Seattle-based multi-disciplinary artist has had a finger in...
Carson St. Clair
A native of the Emerald City, Carson St. Clair has been on stage almost her entire life. This multifaceted seductress brings over the top glamor to everything she does. Since...
Cassady Rose Bonjo
Cassady Rose Bonjo was born in the beautiful woods of Chester County, Pennsylvania. After ten years of dance and classical ballet education, Rose was introduced to circus arts at age...
Cassie Cutler
Growing up in Los Angeles, California, Cassie was always bouncing with energy. She began gymnastics at age 5, and competed until the age of 16. From there, she found circus...
Chris Harder
Chris Harder is a North Dakota raised, New York based male burlesque performer—think “Raunchy Romeo of Burlesque!” Harder has stripped and teased (and then some) around the world including stops...
City Circus
Sasha Harrington and Chloe Gordon-Murer are San Francisco based performers, with the troupe City Circus. They create doubles aerial acts on tissue, rope, hoop and straps, as well as work...
Clara Bodacious
Clara Bodacious is a long-time Bay Area performer bringing wit, class, and a lot of sass to stages around the Bay. Known as the “Art Deco babe” and the “time-traveling...
Clayton Murray
We’ve asked Clayton Murray to help set the mood for the people entering the Broadway Performance Hall on some of the Burlesque nights and he has agreed. ********************************** Clayton family...
Coco Framboise
Oh, she’s a dish all right! From New York to Los Angeles, Amsterdam to Rome, Coco Framboise is one of the most captivating burlesque and cabaret performers on the international...
Correo Aereo Trio, with Amy Denio
Pronounced: Core-RAY-o Eye-AIR-e-o Spanish, meaning: Air-Mail… ******************************* Cuz that is how sound travels you know, delivered through the air on waves of sound that penetrate you; not just through the...
Craig Sutherland
Craig Sutherland has more flavor with less calories. He builds strong bodies twelve ways. Craig is America’s sweetheart. He rights wrongs and … what the hell is he doing with...
Crocodile Lightning
I picked this name to remind myself to see the world with the wide-eyed wonder of a child so that I can bring mundane, ordinary moments of life to the...
D’Monica Leone
Crowned Seattle’s First Queer Monarch in 2019 and 2020! Known as The Gritty City Titty, The LionHeart of Draglesque, and The Face Shifting Shimmy God, D’Monica Leone is a zoo...
Dahlia Fatale
Dahlia Fatale is a touring, award winning burlesque performer, contortionist and instructor based in Chicago. Dahlia’s performance style combine the smoothness of classical dance training with the bizarre and super...
Daredevil Chicken Club
Anne Goldmann & Jonathan Taylor started performing together when they ran out of money on their honeymoon in Spain. They made a comedy show and performed it on ‘Las Ramblas’...
DasBee
Das Bee is Seattle‘s premier black pole entertainer. Earning accolades for her skills across the country in competitions and shows alike. She is an instructor of all things sensual. Whether...
David Nguyen
David is an aerialist known for his dizzying athleticism and charming performance style. Inspired after watching his first ‘boylesque’ circus show in London, David began training with some of San...
Della Moustachella
Long has Della Moustachella pondered over what it means to be sexy. Her work reflects these preponderances and convey a strong message of empowerment coated in side-splitting comedy in pieces...
Deon Fox
After a gymnastics history of 14 years, and College athletic experience as a decathlete, Deon too up an interest in the circus arts and now specializes in Corde Lisse, flying...
Di’ Lovely
Coined as the Weapon of Mass Seduction, it is no wonder how Di’ Lovely has taken the international scene by storm. She performs with sensuality and overflowing energy that can...
Dizzy Daze
Newfangled Heathen Trapeze from Lara Paxton (Circus Contraption, Aerialistas) and Jill Marissa (ticktock). They’re excited to be performing at Moisture Festival as a finale to their whirlwind 8-month regional PNW...
Dream Frohe
Dream Frohe is an aerialist with a passion for thoughtful and dynamic movement. In essence, she makes a practice of joyfully hoisting herself into improbable positions for the sake of...
du Caniveaux Dancing Bears
The bears have been doing their sweet dance number now for almost twenty years and they still don’t have it down. No matter, they’ll have you bending over backwards as...
Dulce D’jour
With smoldering eyes and thick, caramel thighs Dulce D’jour is truly a sweet treat. Since finding burlesque in 2018, this Cuban cutie has peeled up and down the West Coast...
Duo de Luna
When the two ladies of this stunning and sexy new duo met, it was trapeze love at first sight. Together, Cameron and Marina as Duo de Luna, relay through their...
Duo Flor de Piel
Patricio was born in Argentina and has 18 years of experience as a Tango dancer. In 2008 Patricio joined the creation of ZAIA, the first show staged by Cirque du...
Duo Madrona
Ben Wendel and Rachel Nehmer met as biology students at Haverford College. After a successful stint as lab partners, the couple decided to try out a new kind of collaboration–this...
Duo Pile ou Face
Philippe Renaud and Shannon Maguire started working together in mid-2014 to create a duo act in the cyr wheel, taking a common solo apparatus and exploring the possibilities and challenges...
Duo Rêves
Internationally acclaimed Duo Rêves is the creative collaboration of Quynbi and Eric Esteb, co-creators of whirlwind aerial/shadow show ‘Into the Dreaming’. Bringing dramatic spectacle and glamorous levity to venues near...
Duo Rose
The first American circus artists to perform in Havana, Cuba since 1959 The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless flow...
Duo Volta
Duo Volta is performing in Moisture Variete and Burlesque shows this year. To see their the dates of their Variete performances, check out their schedule on their bio page under...
Duo XY
Thomas and Justin met while working on Cirque du Soleil’s “La Nouba” and began to train duo static trapeze. From there they moved to Montreal to further their technique and...
Eartha Quake
Eartha Quake “9.9 on the Richter Scale, it wasn’t San Andreas’ Fault!” was born and raised in tremor capital San Francisco. Her first brush with striptease was as a cashier...
Eddie Van Glam
Eddie Van Glam made the transition from wrestler to burlesque artist seem natural. Growing up, he thought of professional wrestlers as comic book superheroes come to life. “I admired the...
Elle Dorado
Elle Dorado was the winner of the 2014 New Orleans Burlesque Festival ‘Queen of Burlesque’ competition. She says that her very first exposure to burlesque was while on vacation with...
Emma Curtis
Emma Curtis discovered Circus in 2009 after seeing a moving performance by two local trapeze artists. Inspired by their emotional performance, she felt compelled to explore the world of circus,...
EmpeROAR Fabulous!!!
EmpeROAR Fabulous!!! is a vocalist, songwriter, burlesque performer, and emcee based in Seattle, Washington. His whip clever and tongue in cheek songs are carried on vocals with a wide range,...
Eric Schwartz
Eric Schwartz’s razor sharp, adults-mostly, on-the-spot wit combined with his exceptional musicality have made him a stand-out performer when appearing on the Comedy Central Stage (in Sit’n Spin); with comedy...
Ernie Von Schmaltz
Ernie Von Schmaltz is an internationally known drag-king persona embodying “male” burlesque. As “The Man, The Myth, The Mustache”, his absurd stereotyped portrayal of masculinity has been delighting and probably confusing audiences...
Evil Hate Monkey
The Evil Hate Monkey is New York City’s sexiest simian. As an award-winning acrobatic burlesque legend, Monkey has been throwing his poo at audiences since 2002. He has earned the...
Evilyn Sin Claire
Moisture Festival veteran, Evilyn Sin Claire, brings mouthwatering magnetism to cabarets all around the Northwest. Sinner Saint Burlesque’s “Wild Child” is popular for her sultry, sensual and sometimes downright dangerous...
Ezra Weill
It all started when Ezra’s dad taught him how to juggle; after that there was no stopping him. As a youth he was performing street shows at local Seattle Festivals....
Faggedy Randy
Faggedy Randy, has been performing for over a decade and has become a staple in Seattle’s burlesque and theater scenes. He puts the easy in cheesy, and the assy in...
Flirty Sanchez
As a burlesque performer and emcee, Flirty Sanchez combines her background in improv, musical comedy, and clowning with her desire to use burlesque as a means of pushing social change...
Fly Moon Royalty
Fly Moon Royalty is comprised of soulful vocalist, Adra Boo and DJ/Producer/Emcee Action J. While their backgrounds couldn’t be more different, the musical partnership of Fly Moon Royalty came about...
Flying Caribe Girls
The Flying Caribe Girls are Martha Enson and Esther Edelman. Both are founding members of UMO Ensemble. Their have flown together and solo on rope, tissue, bungee, trapeze, lyra and...
Foolz
Two performers: one outwardly calm, the other wound tighter than a spring. If there is a dim-witted innocence about them, it’s because their childlike charm permeates their world, placing them...
Frank Olivier
Frank Olivier developed his unique off-beat brand of humor in San Francisco’s comedy clubs. He was soon sharing the bill with Dana Carvey, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and others. New...
Fuchsia FoXXX
Crowned the “Hot Pink Habanero” by The Stranger and voted “Seattles’ Sexiest Burlesque Performer” (2008) Fuchsia FoXXX is the stand out hybrid of bellydance for the burlesque stage. Entertaining audiences...
Fugazi
Veterans of Cirque du Soleil and Ringling Brothers, Stephan Choiniere & Lina Tabakova team up to present a new collaboration in an act called Fugazi. this performance has the spectacular...
Furiosa Lynx
Furiosa is an internationally recognised and award-winning aerialist known for her fierce, adrenaline infused, heart-stopping dynamic style. Most recently she won a gold medal at 2020 Крылья/ Wings International Aerial...
Georgetown Orbits
The Georgetown Orbits boast a heavy regimen of traditional ska and soulful reggae. One of the few bands to pay tribute to the golden era of Jamaican ska and reggae...
Ginger Avenue
A lifelong student of dance and theatre, Ginger began her burlesque career in 2013 after moving to Vancouver, Canada from Australia. Enthralled by the vibrant show folk there, she quickly...
Golden Shower
David Underwood and Williams Rodriguez, Las Vegas arcrobatic artists, will present their legendary hand-to-hand act called “Golden Shower”. Come see why this remarkable performance has so many tongues wagging in...
Heavenly Spies
The Heavenly Spies began in 2003 and are now celebrating their 10th year anniversary of sleuthing, slinking and sparkling on Seattle stages and beyond. They made their mark in the...
Heidi Von Haught
Heidi Von Haught has been involved in Seattle’s Neo Burlesque scene since 2004, producing and performing in hundreds of shows across the country during that time. Heidi began her career...
Heidi Von Haught & Randi Rascal
For one show only, two of Seattle’s more dynamic burlesque performers are teaming up. Heidi Von Haught and Randi Rascal have plans! Iconoclast, Anthropologist, Jester, Stripper: Randi Rascal is your...
Honky Tonkers duo – Steve Flynn & Ricky Gene Powell
We’ve asked these guys to help launch the party at the Broadway Performance Hall on Burlesque nights and they are set to do just that. Steve Flynn is a multi-instrumentalist...
Hot Pink Feathers
“Best of the Bay” dance company Hot Pink Feathers is in it’s 10th year of Delighting the World, One Showgirl at a Time. The Feathers spread joy and wonder through...
House of Verlaine
An Exquisite Assemblage of Daring Classical Artists, House of Verlaine pushes the boundaries of burlesque and ballet by bringing to life the hedonistic classical fantasias that live in the mind...
INGA
The 2018 Reigning Queen of Burlesque, INGA is an internationally renowned queer burlesque artist from Seattle. Her charismatic and skilled performances have entertained audiences all over the world, as well...
Iva Handfull
Seattle’s Iva Handfull is a modern heathen in the Burlesque world, both a fashion Icon and Burlesque rock star. Mz. Handfull is a fierce, alternative neo-Burlesquer known for her inventive,...
Ivizia Dakini
Ivizia is a Portland based entertainer who has been thrilling audiences around the world since 2001. With over 13 years of specializing in fire performance, she has also become a...
Ivory Fox
Ivory Fox is a NYC based femcee and performer. She loves cheese. . . Photo credit: Pixel Vixen Imaging
J. Von Stratton
J. Von Stratton began her burlesque career on a sunny Wednesday evening in the Spring of 2004 in the Atomic Bombshells inaugural show. Her background in musical theater and gymnastic...
J.D. Hickcock
J.D. Hickcock (Star of Stage, Screen, and Stag Show) was born an innocent boy. Armed with wanderlust and a knack for artfully dropping his pants, he quickly began unbuckling the Bible...
Jacki and Nicolo
Jacki and Nicolo are contemporary circus artists specializing in duo aerial straps. Their expressive and fluid style is influenced by their combined experience in capoeira, contortion, physical theatre and dance....
Jason Span
Jason served as a US Navy Hospital Corpsman for over 10 years. Completed over 3 overseas deployments to Southeast Asia and the Middle East to conduct both combat related medical...
Jasper McCann
Born in Kentucky and raised up in Kansas City, Jasper McCann studied vocal music at the University of Kansas and traveled extensively before finding Seattle and, eventually, the Seattle burlesque...
Jean Wildest
Jean Wildest is a Chicago-based choreographer and performance artist with a focus in burlesque, hip hop, and circus arts. They have been performing as a burlesque soloist and group artist...
Jenny Penny
Jenny Penny is an Aerialist, Acrobalancer, Fire performer, Circus entertainer, Burlesque dancer, costumer and Freak. She has been performing in Seattle and around the globe since 2004. For more than...
Jesse Belle-Jones
Jesse Belle-Jones, “The Modern Sexual Intellectual,” is one bluestocking babe whose edgy antics and sultry grace will leave audiences scratching their heads and panting for more. With her strong dance...
Jill Marissa
Jill Marissa is a Seattle-based performer specialising in hand balancing, aerial arts and dance. Equal parts glitter and grit, she has been dazzling audiences with her unique blend of feminine...
Joanne Klein
Joanne Klein, featured singer with The Moist-ettes, has performed in almost every theatre in Seattle. She has sung in Paris, Costa Rica, Canada, NYC, Los Angeles, Portland, Ashland, Coeur D’Alene,...
Jonathan Rose
Jonathan Rose’s interest in circus arts began in Mexico, where he was a roustabout in a small, family-owned circus. For several months he served as caretaker of the many exotic...
Jovie DeVoe
Wild as a mink and sweet as a soda pop, Jovie DeVoe was first and foremost an artist before debuting in the burlesque community in 2012. Bringing her background in...
Jupiter Everhard
Montana’s premier Boylesque performer and aerialist. Jupiter has shown himself in Seattle previously but this will be the first time we have him flying above the Moist audience at the...
Kaleb Hagan-Kerr
Kaleb Hagan-Kerr, has been performing in Seattle a little over 13 years. He is the Lead singer of soul inspired band “The Witness”, former Mr. Beltown, 2012 Mazen award winner,...
Karolina Lux
Karolina Lux, originally from the Bay Area, has spent the past 2 years in Portland, making herself a name as one of the most desired belly dance/burlesque fusion artists, pushing...
Kellita
Reigning Carnaval SF Queen Kellita descends from a long line of sassy dancers. Her Spanish grandmother routinely danced flamenco on tabletops while her Lebanese aunt entertained vaudeville audiences as The...
Kerri N’Fuego
Setting your hearts and parts on fire! Kerri says “I’m a sensual acrobat in polyamorous affair with my pole and chair. I create gravity defying experiences which will evoke your...
Kevin Joyce
Kevin’s Sylvester Dickey character has been a beloved Moisture Festival host for a decade. An actor, host, show producer and musician, Kevin composed the Festival’s interactive “Moisture Song”, with the...
Kevin Kent
Kevin was one of the original cast members of Seattle’s acclaimed Teatro ZinZanni. He is a writer, director and producer whose work has led him overseas in addition to being...
Kylee Wegner
Kylee Wegner gets around. It shouldn’t be surprising when you see the size of his stride. He’s listed as an available stilt walking performer from coast to coast, in Houston, Joliet and...
La Petite Mort
La Petite has been evoking bloody evil erotic incantations for years as a producer and a performer. She specializes in performance art and dabbles in many other forms such as...
Lady Rizo
Lady Rizo aka Amelia Zirin-Brown is a NYC based cabaret star, composer, actor and performance artist. She is also a Grammy winner for her 2010 collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma on...
Lady Tatas
A Seattle native, Lady Tatas has been twirling and teasing around town since 2007. “The Debutante of Derriere” approaches the medium of burlesque with camp and extravagance, dabbling in comedy,...
Laura Stokes
LAURA STOKES is a zealous movement researcher, educator and performer. Always fascinated by the notion of embodied experience, she was a child gymnast, a teenage ballerina, and at one point,...
Layne Fawkes
Layne Fawkes is an internationally traveled performer based out of Portland, Oregon. She specializes in neo-burlesque but is also an accomplished singer, actress, writer, and model. Most recently she successfully...
Lily Verlaine
“A living, breathing work of art,” Lily Verlaine is a classically-trained ballet dancer and burlesque artist. Lily is Artistic Director and Choreographer of “Land of the Sweets, The Burlesque Nutcracker”,...
Lindsay Benner
“The joy and wonder of the present moment”, that’s the phrase that refers, in much of her publicity, to Lindsay Benner’s greatest talent … bringing her audiences to that place....
Liza Rose
Since settling in Seattle in 2008, Liza has worked with the Aerialistas, Manifold Motion, the Atomic Bombshells, Lily Verlaine, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Moisture Festival, cellist Zoe Keating,...
Lo-Lo Flamingo
When Lo-Lo takes the stage, the audience immediately becomes caught up in the excitement of it all. As her juggling clubs maneuver magically through the air, nothing of the years...
Louie Foxx
Louie Foxx celebrated his interest in childish pursuits even before the birth of his child gave him “… a valid excuse to go to the zoo once a week and...
Lucia Démone
Lucia Démone hails from Seattle, Washington. She lives to tell stories with sensuous and surprising performances, informed by the disciplines of dance, directing, acting, music, and physical comedy. She has...
Luminous Pariah
the Luminous Pariah is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary cabaret performance artist. Lumi tours extensively and has performed in over 150 international productions throughout Europe, Australia, and Canada. Luminous performs as a...
Luna Girls
“Suspense and beauty in the circus sky” Henk van der Meijden Marina Luna and Marika Ashley have their eyes turned skyward … they’ve tasted flight and they long to return....
Madame X and her Lawyer
Mme X is just back from traveling around the world in a very, very, very slick black stretch limo. It really is a jungle out there. It was so hot…...
Manuela Horn
Manuela Horn, also known as the Austrian Amazon, is riding the whirlwind! We’re so pleased to have her join our Moisture Festival cast. Manuela is a yodeling, dancing, acting comedic...
Masquelyn Monroe
Insatiable bombshell Masquelyn Monroe is a trained dancer, actor, and model. A native to the Emerald City he enjoys coffee, fashion, and mischief. Masquelyn studied at Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy...
Medianoche
Described by the New York Times as “pure sexy”, Medianoche has been a staple in the New York City burlesque scene since 2008. Born and raised in southern Spain, she...
MeeZee
MeeZee is a character actor, chair stacker, clown, roaming/ambient specialist and Bboy (breakdancer). Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, MeeZee performs frequently with a group that describes itself as having...
Meg Austin
Meg Austin is a pole dancer, aerialist, and handbalancer. She regularly competes and performs across the US and internationally. She is the 2020 and 2022 US Pole Dance National Champion...
Meraki Duo Acrobatics
Meraki (may-rah-kee) Greek: The soul, creativity, or love put into your work. Meraki duo is a performance duet specializing in combining diverse individual skills with partner acrobatics. Hand balancing, contortion,...
Mia Maravilla
Mia Maravilla is a wonderful performing artist in the Seattle area establishing herself on stages including the historic Pink Door restaurant. A member of dark diamonds, a POC ensemble, and...
Midnite Martini
Midnite Martini is the “Mile HIgh Flying Tease” from Denver, CO. She combines her aerial acrobatic skills with the art of tease. Midnite has titillated audiences across the world from...
Miles and Karina
One reviewer called their music “wonderful, … irreverent, purposefully silly, very sophisticated …” Another said “these stellar musicians have stepped up and into a musical circle where only a few...
Miss Ekaterina
Ekaterina was born and raised in Russia. She began performing at the age of five as a rhythmic gymnast and became a member of the Russian National team, competing successfully...
Miss Indigo Blue
“Delicious” “Fierce” “Obscenely Comedic” Miss Indigo Blue is all of this and more. One of the most sought after performers in the world, Indigo has ranked in the top 15...
Mod Carousel
Mod Carousel is a Seattle-based multidisciplinary cabaret performance art collective featuring the talents of the Luminous Pariah, Paris Original, Trojan Original, and Moscato Extatique. Mod C has performed regularly since...
Moist-ettes Ensemble
The Moist-ette Ensemble is the Festival’s very own troupe of ever changing beauties. As the curtain rises, they will once again heat up the stage and intentionally elevate your temperature...
Moscato Extatique
Sparkling, sweet, and kind of a bitch. Moscato Extatique is a classically trained dancer and award winning choreographer based out of Seattle, WA where he earned a BFA in Dance...
Mr. Gorgeous
Mr. Gorgeous has been charming audiences around the globe since 2009, with his comedic and charismatic approach to contemporary burlesque. He has become a frequent persona in NYC nightlife, working...
Ms. Briq House
Ms. Briq House is an advocate of sensuality and an experiential instructor of intimacy. You may also know her as a Burlesque Performer, Producer, Emcee and all-around Bad Ass Bitch....
Mx. Latina K. Turner D’Ho
Latina K Turner D’Ho is a solo burlesque artist since 2010 and drag artist since 2019. Latina arrived from Guayaquil, Ecuador and settled in Olympia, WA in 2005. They are...
Mx. Pucks A’Plenty
#16 on the 21st Century Burlesque Magazine Top 50- Most Influential Burlesque Industry Figures of 2022 and #17 in 2021, as voted for by thousands of burlesque fans and peers...
Mystic O’Reilley
Mystic O’Reilley has described herself this way: “Sexual & Spiritual Entertainer, Educator & Revolutionary. Specializing in interactive performance art.” We know that she’s planning to show us her Trash Fan...
Naked Truth
The Naked Truth show band that will anchor all Burlesque shows and the two Variete shows presented at the Broadway Performance Hall is a new band made up of not-so-new...
NANDA
NANDA pumps as much steamy, action packed entertainment as possible into a short explosion of pure burl…esque. Always leaving the audience satisfied, NANDA’s motto is; “the audience always comes first”.
Nich Galzin
A native of Chicago, Nich’s skills include several forms of acrobatics and aerial work. He will perform in Burlesque this year on a gymnastic device known in America as the...
Noelle Wood
Pole dance performer Noelle Wood has demonstrated her appealing art in various venues in Seattle and beyond. Noelle has been recognized for her artistry in several competitions including taking first...
Nox Falls
Nox Falls is a “gothicc” international performing artist that calls the Pacific Northwest home, amassing multiple awards within their career ranging from “Best Costume”, “Most Fierce” and “Queen”. Using burlesque...
Olatsa Assassin
Olatsa Assassin is an actress, burlesque dancer & classically trained vocalist hailing from the city of Seattle, WA. This fatal femme is known for her diminutive stature and captivating performance...
Oliver & Megan Duotrapeze
Oliver Parkinson entered the world of circus by way of a diverse athletic background including fencing, rugby, and mixed martial arts. His imposing strength, athleticism, and surprising grace have engrossed...
Oliver Parkinson and Cassie Cutler
Oliver Parkinson entered the world of circus by way of a diverse athletic background including fencing, rugby, and mixed martial arts. His imposing strength, athleticism, and surprising grace have engrossed...
Ori Tahiti
Tahitian song, chant, and dance began as a way for people, who had no written language, to pass on the lessons they learned throughout their lives. Rhythms and poetry were...
Oroki
Oroki brings striptease to the air and makes clothes rain from above. In 2018 he saw the World Boylesque Festival. Inspired, he’s now thrilled to share that same stage. After...
Paris Original
Paris Original is poetry in motion, exuding the graceful elegance of balletic beauty. This international burlesque star calls on his extensive experience in many forms of dance and theatre to...
Patricia Charms
“Burlesque, pole, and stilts. It’s… surreal and sensual, kind of like if Shel Silverstein drew strippers.” -Armitage Shanks Patricia Charms was raised in the dreamy Pacific Northwest and abruptly aroused...
Peculiärs
The Peculiärs are connoisseurs of the peculiar, seekers of odd musical gems of a bygone era, fastidious dressers. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Peculiärs. To see The Peculiärs, be sure to...
Persephone Illyri
Persephone Illyri is a burlesque and striptease artist based in Seattle, Washington. With a background in dance and performance arts, Persephone first stepped onto the burlesque stage over a decade...
Pidgeon Von Tramp
With the goal of making you laugh infused into every piece she creates Pidgeon Von Tramp brings humor into everyday events brought to the stage. Of course she may also...
Pinay Grigio
Pinay Grigio (she/her) is a Filipina American burlesque performer, dance educator, and choreographer based out of Seattle, WA. Prior to entering the burlesque scene, she has danced and provided dance education...
Pink Lady
Pink Lady DiAnn is the perfect combination of sultry siren and a sweet little flapper with a whole lot of sass! She is a performer of many talents; having won...
Pinky d’Ambrosia
Circus Contraption’s vocalist, trumpet strumpet, dancer, Opera Diva, costumer and volunteer coordinator is described on that troupe’s website as one who “makes men swoon” with her siren song and we’ve...
Polly Wood
Polly got her start at Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy of Burlesque back in 2006, where she is now the Executive Secretary and Teacher in Training. She’s also on the Steering...
Randi Rascal
Iconoclast, Anthropologist, Jester, Stripper: Randi Rascal is your own private radical. An incendiary alloy of beauty and wit, she will seduce you out of the mainstream and into her world...
Ray Gunn
Ray has been making audiences submit to his dirty imagination throughout dozens of cities nationally and internationally including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and The UK. In 2013, Ray was crowned...
Rebecca Mm Davis
Rebecca Mm Davis has been MC’ing and hosting events since her 8th grade talent show. Burlesque has taken her up and down the West Coast and to Canada, as well...
RedBone
Internationally known, Minnesota Grown RedBone has been performing since 2005 as one third of Foxy Tann and Wham Bam Thank You Ma’ams who won the 2006 “Best Troupe” and “Most...
Retro Verso
Retro Verso (aka Terry Crane & Erica Rubinstein) is a genre and gender challenging partner acrobatics duet that flips our preconceptions on their head. Terry is a professional circus artist...
Ron W. Bailey
Ron’s a musician. That should almost be enough to say about a person, don’tchya think? Yeah, he is also the guy who first envisioned Seattle having its own Comedy/Variete/Burlesque festival...
Rose City Circus
The Rose City Circus features premier acrobats from Portland Oregon. Always looking to expand and defy expectations of what acrobatic circus can be. They been seen on at Fairs and...
Rose Nisker
Rose Nisker comes to us this year from the San Francisco Bay Area. A remarkable aerialist with extensive dance training, Rose’s love of movement has taken her around the world...
Ruby Mimosa
Ruby Mimosa is the cutie with a booty! A unique mix of athleticism, dance, theatrics, and bubbly charm makes Ruby a Seattle treasure and beloved all over the world. She...
Russell Bruner
Russell Bruner is a variety artist, swing dancer, emcee and boylesque peeler. As a performer and choreographer, Russell has recently won 3 titles at the world renowned Burlesque Hall of...
Sabrina Chap
Sabrina Chap is a Brooklyn based songwriter, cabaret performer, and pianist. Called, ‘Guaranteeably vaudevillian chic’, she is known for her high voltage live performances. ‘Imagine, if you can, Judy Garland...
Sailor St. Claire
Sailor St. Claire is a curvaceous redhead with learned mind and an A+ anatomy. Since 2009, The Showgirl Scholar has been putting her knowledge of the literary canon to more-than-scholarly...
Sally Pepper
Sally has exercised a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with...
Shadae Simone
After training in multiple styles of dance and competing in dance competitions all over the U.S since age 12, Shadae completed a professional dance semester at Broadway Dance Center and...
Shanghai Pearl
The Shanghai Pearl is an internationally renowned Burlesque performer and producer based in Seattle, Washington. She is celebrated for her extravagant costumes, bawdy humor, sizzling strip-tease, high glamour, and pulchritudinous...
Sido Adamson
Sidonie Adamson is an award winning aerialist specialising in solo and duo aerial hoop and Cascorde, a unique aerial apparatus created with Tanya Burka in 2014. She is a versatile...
Sinner Saint Burlesque
Sinner Saint Burlesque produces Seattle’s longest continually running weekly burlesque show, featuring 8 week long themed runs and guest appearances by international burlesque sensations! Our troupe is composed of 5...
spICE
Hailing from South Los Angeles, spICE! is a dynamic performer who has studied dance and performed professionally for over a decade years. She’s a cameleon who blends various movement styles....
Stefano Iaboni
Producer, managing director and comedy host Stefano Iaboni is an international actor/performer/director and teacher born and raised in Rome … yes, that Rome. He moved to the Netherlands and enrolled...
Steven Flynn
For more than 40 years Steven Flynn has been singing and playing piano rooted in blues, boogie woogie, New Orleans R&B, rock & roll and jazz in barrooms, nightclubs, concerts,...
Sugar Cane Jane
Known as The Velvet Painting Come To Life, Sugar Cane Jane is a Chicago born Oakland, California based burlesque entertainer, designer, visual artist & internationally published muse. A 2015 Burlesque...
Swami YoMahmi
Swami Yomahmi (Yo’ Mommy) performs phenomenal feats of physical comedy and linguistic vaudeville. He creates fractured fairytales drawn from the Sideshow aesthetic, infused with a love of pop culture, witty...
Swedish Housewife
The Swedish Housewife was born in Stockholm and raised a broad. This Sintillating Smorgasbord and Peeler” aka Ginger! is a Seattle based international performer and nationally working producer. The Village...
Sydni Deveraux
With beautiful alluring features, and at a statuesque and very leggy 6’2″, she is one of the tallest established performers the business. Sydni’s charming performance style is an entertaining mix...
Sylvia Rose
As a member of the aerial team, Duo Rose, Sylvia’s work in the air is a well known wonder among the performers in America’s and Europe’s Varieté/New Vaudeville scene. Her...
Tamara the Trapeze Lady
Tamara “The Trapeze Lady”! Gayly spreading Love Lust and Glitter from above since 1993. Her career highlights include: Producer of the now historic neo-Burlesque incubator The Fallen Women Follies; Producer,...
Tana the Tattooed Lady & Niels Goldmember
Tana is that singing, dancing, one-woman-arts-district who debuted in 2004 with Seattle’s Atomic Bombshells & as one of El Vez’s Elvettes. Her notable performances include Miss Exotic World competition, Vancouver,...
TANSY
TANSY Commonly described as “The Elizabeth Taylor of Burlesque,” this vintage vixen teases with both humor and a sophisticated sensuality. A staple on the New York City burlesque stages, Tansy...
Tanya Brno
Tanya (Tova de Luna) has been an influential part of the Seattle circus scene for over 12 years, after having trained most of her life at the nation’s top ballet...
TAQUEET$!
Born and raised in Seattle TAQUEET$! is a dancer with a style all her own. As a child she studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet and Spectrum as well as being...
Terry Crane
Having languished long enough in higher education, Terry Crane finally surrendered to restless urges that lead him to walk calmly away with the circus at the tender age of 20....
Terry Crane with Xochitl Sosa
Terry Crane with Xochitl Sosa! We are so excited to have them presenting their combined talents at the 2018 Moisture Festival Cabaret. You are in for a special treat. Having...
Thai Lam
Thai is a Bay Area aerialist who embodies versatility in his performance. With professional training at the Circus Center and with renowned aerial coaches, Thai focuses on smooth lines, clean technique, and powerful...
The Duet That Do It
Bolt Action is probably an android running on lightning and the power of rock. Scarlett O’Hairdye is probably an alien spy sent to Earth who got distracted by Star Trek...
The Innamorati
The Innamorati is the creative collaboration of Quynbi and Eric Esteb. They have been poetically described by Edward S. Koizumi as “abiding in a dimension of dramatic radiance and diminished...
Top Hat Dancers
Jennifer Sutherland became a life-time member of The Royal Famille Du Caniveaux the hard way: She married one of them. She can often be seen performing bits that include singing...
TriBellas Belly Dancers
TriBellas is a Tribal Fusion Belly Dance trio taking the Seattle/South Puget Sound region by storm. Members – Christina Amadeo, Janice Hodge and Juwana Hodge create unique and dynamic choreography...
Trixie Little
Trixie Little is the Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2015 and New York City’s pint-size powerhouse! Trixie also has the alternative title “Queen of No Fucks” because she...
Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey
TRIXIE LITTLE & MONKEY are an award-winning acrobatic burlesque superduo who has been flipping and stripping since 2002. Based in New York City, they are known for their highly skilled...
Trojan Original
As a professional dancer, Trojan was classically trained in Ballet and Modern dance and has been performing dance professionally for seven years. In a fun twist of events, Trojan discovered...
Velvet Ice
“The Sleaze with Ease, The Tower of Power, the Torrid Velvet Ice” Velvet Ice was born at the old Follies in San Francisco, 1973 in to Rock & Roll Hippie...
Violetta Beretta
VIOLETTA BERETTA is “Hawaiiʻs Burlesque Sweetheart,” & the Producer/Director of the Hawaii Burlesque Festival & Revue, soon to celebrate it’s 6th year in paradise! Violetta is a sultry Hapa-Hawaiian burlesque...
Vita Radionova
A featured performer in the 2003 Tiger Lilies circus tour of Finland, France, England, Germany and Greece, the sensational Ukrainian contortionist and hula-hoop artist Vita Radionova made her North American...
Von Foxies
The Von Foxies are Seattle’s hottest burlesque power-trio: Pidgeon Von Tramp, Heidi Von Haught and Elsa Von Schmaltz. These kinky minxes enjoy playing with the boundaries of sexuality, gender and...
Waxie Moon
Waxie Moon, a gender-blending “boylesque” performance-art stripping sensation has performed at various venues throughout Seattle including Key Arena, On the Boards, The Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, The Moore Theatre and...
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. A founding member of the SEABCC, they are an Indigenous,...
Zebra Kings
The Zebra Kings are the house band for each of 2013’s Moisture Festival Burlesque shows. As you can imagine, some of the band members will miss having their regular springtime...
Zero Boy
Zero Boy is an East Village icon and vocal acrobat. His solo comedic routines have been featured throughout the U.S. and Europe in theater, vaudeville, burlesque, television and radio. He...
Zora von Pavonine
Zora was born to an amazing woman on a 20 acre orchard of fruit trees and flowers, raised wild with peacocks. She is a published poet, a watercolour master, holds...
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