We are looking for instructors that fit our mission and values. Our goal is to include a wide range of instructors and teachers whenever possible. This includes people of all genders, ages, sizes, abilities, backgrounds, races, beliefs, and sexual orientations.

If you’d like to teach with the DisabiliTease Academy, visit our application page to learn more and apply.

Alexis Lucio
Alexis Lucio(She/Her, They/Them)
Alexis Lucio (she/her, they/them) is a queer latinx from Southern California currently residing on Southern Pomo and Kashaya land. She spends her workweek as the senior accessibility lead at a software development company, where she is responsible for the process development and implementation of best web accessibility (a11y) practices. In their spare time, they embrace the stage through Latin dance and drag performances. Last year, Alexis brought the a11y world to Oaklash, the Bay Area’s annual drag festival, by hosting a workshop and managing the captioning team for all digital performances. They are thrilled to continue sharing this work through the DisabiliTease Academy for 2022!

Class:
Creating Accessible Digital Performance Videos (Recorded live in February, 2022)

All The Way Mae
All The Way Mae(They/Them)
All The Way Mae is a queer, non-binary, white, disabled, Autistic burlesque performer and producer living on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. They have performed across North America, served on the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival board of directors in 2010 and 2011, produced dozens of burlesque shows from the years 2007-2013, and recently celebrated a return to burlesque in 2021. Producing under Twisted Tassels, All The Way Mae creates shows that aim to uplift performers from different marginalized groups and intentionally create safe, supportive spaces and community.

In their non-performer life, Mae works as a counsellor with an extensive background in disability supports, crisis management, and conflict de-escalation, all of which inform how they approach working with others in their productions and as a performer. They are drawn to the creative expression of burlesque, the potential for a supportive community that it offers, and its inherently political nature. As an openly Autistic performer, All The Way Mae hopes to increase visibility of neurodivergent performers and advocate for ND-safe performance spaces.

Panel:
Red Flag, Green Flag: Safety Considerations for the Burlesque Industry (Recorded live on June 25, 2022)

Anani I'naru
Anani I'naru(She/Her)
Anani I’naru is an award-winning Spanish Fusion Dancer who pays homage to her Puerto Rican heritage. She has taught belly dance, dancing with fans, skirt dancing, choreography, and castanets. After a temporary hiatus, she returned as one who dances differently; performing and teaching others from a seated position. Her love for dancing and teaching is the driving force that compels her to share her passion with others. She also enjoys learning from her students and looks forward to fun interactions in her classes. It is her wish to help others realize that, yes they can, and to have fun, too.

Class:
Seated Spanish Fan with Anani I’naru (Live workshop on October 11, 2023 at 7 pm Central)

Athena Howe
Athena Howe(She/Her)
Athena Howe is a Columbus, Ohio-based dancer who has been performing professionally since 2008. She has performed at hundreds, if not thousands of events, both nationally and internationally. Now, she teaches, performs, and hosts events in her home city while staying dedicated to her personal practice and learning. She fell in love with the decadent costuming and the glamor of belly dance, but over the last decade has grown to love the music and the culture. She loves being able to take a break from the stress of everyday life and wiggle- alone or with her troupe mates The Hip Art Collective. She performs with several bands in the central Ohio area and loves the unexpected surprises that come with live music.

As a teacher, she loves teaching all levels of dance and adores being able to help create movements that both challenge you as a dancer and lets you leave with some new content to add up your dance. Her goal isn’t to make you another Athena, but to help you find your inner dancer. As a student, be ready to work hard, laugh at a goofy joke, and be reminded of how great you are. She’s intensely body-positive, age-positive, and works to build an inclusive class for any student who joins.

As a researcher, Athena is always deep into some nuance of belly dance and its history. Her research has been published in the book “The Gilded Serpent” and she is currently researching trap influences in mahagarant (pop music from Menath countries) with a focus on Egyptian music post-revolution. She also is advising on her research on LGBTQIA+ contributions to music, arts, and culture in the region, with a focus on Egypt. She is known for her ability to discuss complicated issues with a human focus.

As a student, Athena is dedicated to the work it takes to be a good visitor in this art form. She loves failure and being wrong. Her recent foray into playing middle eastern music is a testament to that since she is more wrong than right some days!

Described by some to be “bold like hot sauce” or “basically the gay female Elvis,” Athena is a grateful dancer who is dedicated to the work it takes to be a belly dancer.

Class:
Honeyed Hands (Recorded live on May 9, 2022)

Charlie Sharp
Charlie Sharp(She/Her)
Originally from Arizona, Charlie Sharp has performed and taught all over the country. Charlie is also an experienced yoga practitioner and takes a lot of her class inspiration from physical therapy, dance rehab, and circus conditioning. She focuses on accessibility for all people to enjoy and feel represented in art and movement. Now based in North Carolina she is in a new chapter of creative endeavors.

Class:
Bendy for all Bodies: DisabiliBabe Edition (Live on February 19, 2023)

Cherry Cheeks
Cherry Cheeks(She/Her)
This energetic eghadāni monelīn is hungry for the waves of change. She regularly holds space for important conversations around equity and decolonization within burlesque and the performing arts to foster safer spaces for performers of color and performers from marginalized and underrepresented identities. Always on the go, Cherry is the producer of House of Cheek Productions, co-producer and Diversity Coordinator of the Isle of Tease Burlesque Festival, Youtube sensation at Cheeky Burlesque, and a frequent community builder within Lekwungen Territory (Victoria, BC). There is no slowing down for this Tāłtān Temptation!

Panel:
Red Flag, Green Flag: Safety Considerations for the Burlesque Industry (Recorded live on June 25, 2022)

Court Symons
Court Symons(They/Them)
Court Symons, also known as Supreme Court in the performance community, is the owner/operator of CM Enterprises, Inc. Based in Minnesota, this tax preparation company specializing in artist taxes works with clients nationwide.

Court has worked with tax law firms learning the ins and outs of artists’ taxes while pursuing a law degree.

Outside of their work in taxes, Court works locally in stage management and tech in both design and operation.

Class:
Taxes Demystified: Writing off Rhinestones (Recorded live on January 31, 2023)

Cruel Valentine
Cruel Valentine(They/Them)
Cruel Valentine (they/them) is an award-winning, international burlesque entertainer, adult performer, dominatrix, stripper, public speaker, and artist.

Valentine holds a BA in Musical Theatre Performance and an MA in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago, a certificate in Diversity & Inclusion from Cornell University, and they’re currently pursuing their JD at DePaul University College of Law. Their teaching credits include many university workshops and panels, spanning topics such as performance, business, sexual health, sex worker rights, and more.

Class:
Burlesque as Industry: The Business of You! (Recorded live on January 4, 2023)

Dahlia Kash
Dahlia Kash(They/She)

Known as The Mocha Mae West for her quick wit & sultry moves, Dahlia Kash is no wallflower! They’re the producer of Melange: A Queer & POC Variety Show in Portland, OR, Mischief: A Melanated Variety Show in Olympia, WA, as well as The Rock Show, an all POC Variety show, also in Olympia. San Francisco Bay area born & raised, and Pacific Northwest based, this Queer Fat Femme is gonna rock your world!

Panels:
The Virtual Reality: A Panel Discussion About Virtual Burlesque Shows (Recorded live in January, 2022)

Red Flag, Green Flag: Liability Concerns for the Burlesque Industry (Live on March 5, 2023)

Diana Divine
Diana Divine(They/Them)
Diana Divine is a cabaret performer, producer, burlesque instructor, and freelance graphic designer. Their professional priorities lie in community-building arts projects, often based in social activism. Diana was a disability support worker before turning to full-time work as an artist due to declining mobility.

Since 2016, Diana has produced multiple seasons of the award-winning disability cabaret Singin’ in the Pain, nationally touring burlesque troupe The JustAss League, and regular queer variety show Lucky Dip Tease. Diana also works as a freelance graphic designer for local artists and businesses, including a residency at Hot Sauce Burlesque. They also teach comedy and character burlesque with the school, where they are lovingly referred to by the students as “Uncle Di”.

Diana is now turning to even bigger things, developing Embrace: Disability Arts Festival as a part of their 2022 Carclew Sharehouse residency. The arts have been a valuable vehicle for self-expression, and Diana aims to create more space for others like them.

Classes:
Bio Writing Basics with Diana Divine (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Character Crash Course with Diana Divine (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Empress Eyrie
Empress Eyrie(She/Her)
The goddess of Badass.

Mountain landscapes rise like the curve of her hips, her breath is the warm air of summer, her skin as smooth as quartz crystals. She is the serenity of the rainforest, but just as dark, wild, and untamed. A walking art gallery she wears her skin like a canvas and her heart on her sleeve. The Empress can fill you with the world’s beauty, if you just let her in…

Sometimes strange, sometimes sensual, sometimes both, Empress Eyrie blends burlesque with performance art and storytelling to bring her soul to stages all over Australia. Empress adores traveling to perform and share her creations with audiences anywhere she can. She puts the dynamite in dynamic disability; able to do a cartwheel one day and not even put on her socks the next.

Empress is the proud owner and teacher at Tease-Able Burlesque School, the world’s first disability-owned and focused burlesque school she prides herself on making burlesque open and accessible for everybody. She adores being able to perform with her mobility aids and show the world that disabled people can be sexy and deserve to be seen.

An experienced artist, proud disabilibabe and all-round magical creature there is nothing routine about her routines. Make way for the Empress…

Class:
Pretty Hands for Burlesque (Recorded live on November 16, 2022)

Eun Bee Yes
Eun Bee Yes(He/Him, Zie/Zir)
Eun Bee Yes (full name Eun Bee Yes Smith Sacaetty Stahr Devereaux St James, pronouns: he/him/his or zie/zir/zirs) is a non-binary/genderqueer show producer, artist, blogger, fanfic writer, single parent, and radical activist. In Eun’s muggle life, they are the executive director of SlutWalk Twin Cities, the international grassroots protest against rape culture. SlutWalk Twin Cities is now 10 years strong and has an annual SlutWalk along with two fundraisers, one of them the Diversity Ball which centers artists of colour, queer artists of colour, and those who live with physical and invisible disabilities.

Eun Bee Yes is proud to be honoured by the Ladies of the Lake, a fully professed House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, as Saint Walk of No Shame.

Eun Bee Yes is the show producer of Transcendence Cabaret, a monthly online show which features transgender artists of colour, including non-binary and gender non-conforming artists in the main cast as well as guest performers. This is one of a handful of shows in the United States that feature primarily BIPOC artists.

You can follow Eun Bee Yes on Instagram or on Twitter.

Classes:
Ace Artists: The Art of Connecting with Others (Recorded live on October 22, 2022)

Glitter Activism: Using Burlesque to Create Social Change (Recorded live in July, 2021)

Frankie Fingerling
Frankie Fingerling(They/Them)

Frankie Fingerling is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Amiskwaciy waskahikan (“ah-miss-kwa-chee wah-skay-gun”), colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. No matter the medium, their art helps them process their own lived experiences and trauma as a non-binary Chinese person navigating life in a predominantly white, conservative province. They are inspired by their late grandfather who was an oil paint artist in Hong Kong and the Philippines, as well as QTBIPOC art from around the world. By trade, Frankie is a researcher and curriculum developer, which informs their current artistic practice as a burlesque performer and producer, and lifelong journey of learning and growth.

Panels:
The Virtual Reality: A Panel Discussion About Virtual Burlesque Shows (Recorded live in January, 2022)

Red Flag, Green Flag: Safety Considerations for the Burlesque Industry (Recorded live on June 25, 2022)

Red Flag, Green Flag: Liability Concerns for the Burlesque Industry (Live on March 5, 2023)

Jacqueline Boxx
Jacqueline Boxx(She/Her)
Jacqueline has headlined and been featured in burlesque festivals across the world, including Vienna, Adelaide, Montreal, Minneapolis, and New York City. She has performed twice at The Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas, becoming the first performer to ever compete in a wheelchair for a title at the Tournament of Tease. Jacqueline has also taught burlesque workshops and lectured on panels about mindful movement and adaptive performance across the country. Her decades of experience include training in ballet, swing dance, bellydance, aerial arts, clowning, musical theater, and more. She is a proud member of the collaborative burlesque instruction group Essential Tease.

Learn more at www.missdisaburlytease.com and www.essentialtease.com

Classes:
Energy Flow: Safe/Centered Stage Presence (Recorded live in July, 2021)

The Mind: Dance for Mobility Restrictions (Recorded live in July, 2021)

The Movement: Floor/Chair for Mobility Restrictions (Recorded live in July, 2021)

The Virtual Reality: A Panel Discussion About Virtual Burlesque Shows (Recorded live in January, 2022)

Kevlar B Lightning
Kevlar B Lightning(She/They)
Kevlar B Lightning (she/they) is a playful tease and a bold performer. The Electric Soul of Burlesque, Kevlar is a chronically ill, lightly alternative theme queen who – when possible – can be seen wiggling and rocking in bars and theaters across Chicago and the country with her blend of hard pretty burlesque.

She has 8+ years of burlesque and costuming experience, a background in industrial engineering, has taught several classes, and has mentored other burlesque dancers.

Her sparkle is handmade from her small business, Leopard Lightning.

During quarantine, The Bulletproof Beauty picked up even more neat hobbies, follow them on TikTok to find out more!

Class:
Easy Access: Costume Closures With Disabilities In Mind. (Recorded live on April 10, 2022)

Figure Out Your Face with Kevlar B Lightning (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Kitty Campari
Kitty Campari(She/Her)
Kitty Campari is a successful UK-based burlesque and circus performer who is celebrated in the industry for her sassy smile, sparkles, and super cute, cheeky, showgirl fun!

Her wealth of knowledge and performance experience has led her to coach aspiring performers to follow their dreams of becoming a professional too. Kitty performs with her giant martini glass at events across the country and can also be found dangling from the roof of a big top with the traveling circus.

When not performing, Kitty loves nothing more than coaching her Successful Showgirl clients on how to become the fabulous performers that they were born to be! Kitty shares everything she knows from performance to psychology, business to mindset. As a qualified doctor, life coach, dance/circus instructor, and dance studio owner of almost 20 years, she knows her stuff.

Class:
Creating a Business Strategy for Burlesque Performers (Recorded live on January 8, 2023)

Liz Baskin'
Liz Baskin'(She/They)
Liz Baskin’ is the Chartreuse mousse! The original hi-viz, industrial delight started off behind the scenes as a designer and seamstress sewing for many of Winnipeg’s well-known bellydancers and burlesque performers. Post workplace injury, they spent several years navigating disability which spurred a new passion; Occupational health and safety. While reinventing and recovering, Liz eventually made her way onto the stage and debuted her first act “Black Dresses” at the Winnipeg International Burlesque Festival in 2018. Liz provides safety consultations, safety program development, and safety services, ensuring workers of all industries are safe at work.

Panel:
Red Flag, Green Flag: Liability Concerns for the Burlesque Industry (Live on March 5, 2023)

Margo Mayhem
Margo Mayhem(She/Her)
Based in NYC, Margo Mayhem is an international burlesque performer, this year having won two international titles: Monarch of Imperial Burlesque Festival (Montreal) and Queen of Bohemian Burlesque Festival (Prague). Currently #29 on the Burlesque top 50 list, she was crowned Miss Viva Las Vegas ‘21, Most Comedic at the Oregon Burlesque fest ‘22, and Best Debut at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in ’23. In her other life, she’s an actress boasting of five Broadway shows, five national tours, and countless regional jobs. Let her show you why she’s known as the Sexiest Muppet in Burlesque.

Class:
Face It: Storytelling From the Neck Up with Margo Mayhem (Recorded live on March 11, 2023)

MelVee X
MelVee X(She/They)
MelVee X, aka Blaq Velvet, is a spoken word poet, burlesque performer and visual artist based in Mohkinstsis (moe-kinst-sis) aka Calgary, AB on Treaty 7 land, the homelands of the Blackfoot, Tsuut’ina (sue tin-ah), Stoney Nakoda and Metis Region 3 nations since time immemorial.

Velvet has been a professional artist for over seven years and has shared their work locally and nationally, on pages and stages of all kinds. Accustomed to centering Black and equity seeking voices as a cornerstone of their work, taking a BIPOC-only burlesque class in 2018 inspired Velvet to explore the art and power of telling stories with their body; stories which are often silenced, demonized and dismissed. Since then, Blaq Velvet has slithered, sashayed, and shimmied across stages embodying the joy, beauty and resistance of living in a Black queer neurodivergent body (and popping a petty ass pastie or two along the way).

Smashing all your little notions about what Black women and femmes can do, come and get some of this Black Velvet…if you please.

Panel
Red Flag, Green Flag: Liability Concerns for the Burlesque Industry (Live on March 5, 2023)

Mellogamy Muse
Mellogamy Muse(She/Her, They/Them)
This seasoned Performer thrives “outside of the box”! They are an international award winner, a skilled costumier, and an aggressive disability advocate. Well known for “creating opportunities” in the performance community for artists that don’t necessarily fit into a “typical” space, Mellogamy Muse is the founder of Ardent Artiste Productions, an inclusive production entity birthed in 2022. Mellogamy harnesses the lessons learned from her neurodivergence and living with spina bifida to bring connection and authenticity to her performances. There is much more to come from this standout. Mellogamy Muse is a Producer, Performer, Mentor, Teacher, and backstage lolly-supplying legend.

Class:
Introduction to Burlesque with Mellogamy Muse (Recorded 6-week course started in August, 2023)

Minda Mae
Minda Mae(She/Her)
Minda Mae puts the “babe” in Disabilibabe. Hailing from Minneapolis, this boundless beauty is the first wheelchair-using burlesque performer in Minnesota.

A fierce advocate for persons with disabilities, she works tirelessly to spread awareness and champions for change at every opportunity. She is the founder of the DisabiliTease Festival, a multi-day festival that showcases performers with disabilities in the areas of burlesque, cirque, cabaret, and drag from around the world. She is also the founder of the DisabiliTease Academy, the first school specifically geared towards performers with disabilities and their allies.

Don’t ‘dis’ her ‘ability’ to capture your heart, because that’s how this wheeling woman of wonder rolls.

Classes:
Accessibility, Both On and Off the Stage (Recorded live during the Victoria International Burlesque Festival. Updated workshop below.)

Providing Accessibility Both On and Off the Stage: Producers and Instructors (Recorded in September, 2023)

Requesting Accessibility Both On and Off the Stage: Performers and Students (Live workshops on November 14, for 90 minutes and Tuesday, November 21, for 30 minutes at 7 pm Central.)

Miss Paige
Miss Paige(She/Her)
Miss Paige (she/her) is Toronto’s Glamour Queen & Burlesque’s Dangerous Beauty; an International and Multi-Award Winning Artist.

Burlesque Bombshell, Teacher of Tease, and Mentor of Mischief, Miss Paige has 10 years of performing, producing, and instructing under her garter belt! With a love of Old Hollywood & Vintage Glamour, Miss Paige combines opulence, seduction, and her killer curves to leave audiences with more than she takes off.

Past Clients Include; L’Oréal at Sephora, Make Up Forever, OCAD University, Bisha Hotel, Clio Private Member’s Club, Gladstone Hotel, & more.

Class:
Booked & Busy (Recorded live on January 18, 2023)

M'Lady Rae
M'Lady Rae(She/Her)
She has been called a Des Moines icon. M’Lady Rae has been performing across the Midwest since 2018. Her acts have been described as having an extra level of engagement and entertainment that intrigues and enthralls audiences. She is a founding member of Naughty Nerds Cabaret.

Born of royalty, M’Lady Rae’s hard-edged glamour speaks of her opulent, shadowy past. Exiled for her lustful desires, M’Lady is now the ruler of her own realm where down is up and pain is pleasure. Fall to your knees and get ready to expect the unexpected. Cruel Things Come in Small Packages.

Class:
Shine Bright with M’Lady Rae (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Nadi A'marena
Nadi A'marena(They/Them)
Bible School’s Baddest has been entertaining audiences nationally and internationally with their rock ‘n’ roll tease and biblical sleaze for nine years. Residing in the Twin Cities, they are a member of Black Hearts Burlesque and Nadi X, a burlesque instructor, and owner of Siren & Ice Rhinestoning. Their femme daddy power and queer sexuality is highlighted through versatile choreography, characters, and costuming. They are the “Siren of Sleaze”: Nadi A’marena.

Class:
Let’s Get Stoned! (Will be re-recorded due to technical difficulties)

Nicola Swan
Nicola Swan(She/Her)
Nicola Swan is an emerging burlesque performer with experience in law, nonprofits, publishing, and the film industry. She loves teaching and learning equally!

Class:
Accounting Basics For Burlesque with Nicola Swan (Recorded live on January 25, 2023)

Paige Rustles
Paige Rustles(She/Her)
This Portland, Oregon-based performer is a queer, disabled femme performance artist and burlesque dancer dedicated to creating pieces that push the norms and challenge the mind. Dubbed “the social worker of burlesque,” Paige has donned glitter like battle armor for over nine years, taking to the stage to use her body and words to bring joy and create change. She also teaches workshops and is a published poet and essayist. Paige believes strongly in the power of performance and the ferocity of femme!

Class:
Expressive Movement: An Introduction. (Recorded live on March 19, 2022)

Skirt Vonnegut
Skirt Vonnegut(They/Them)
Skirt Vonnegut is the sketch comedian of burlesque, here to satisfy your wildest nerdy fantasies. A classically trained dancer with over 15 years of sketch comedy, this retired karaoke DJ is the international award-winning entertainer that will tickle your every fancy. They are currently a wandering vagabond, but until recently they were based in Berlin, Germany. They specialize in slapstick, character-centric, and gender-bending burlesque spectaculars.

Special training: 
• 20+ years of professional ballet training, competition tap and jazz
• 15 years running sketch comedy
• 4 levels of comedy for theater at UNCA
• Floorwork master workshop with Sweetpea
• Past and ongoing mentoring by: Scotty the blue Bunny, La Viola Vixen, and Celeste Petrovic

You can follow Skirt on Facebook and Instagram. You can also learn more about them on their website.

Classes:
Faces and Hands for Stage (Recorded live in September, 2021)

Tas Al-Ghul
Tas Al-Ghul(She/Her, They/Them)
Coming to you from unceded Fernandeño Tataviam, Gabrieleño/Tongva, and Chumash land (colonially known as Los Angeles, CA), this queer and curvy performer hypnotizes crowds across the country with their golden voice and bumps and grinds. They are an award-winning neurodivergent queer plus-sized second-generation South Asian-American Muslim cosplayer, model, and performance artist originally from the NYC Metro area (unceded Munsee Lenape land).

Tas wields her art as a form of social activism designed to explore the varied (and sometimes conflicting) facets of her identity, with the intention to challenge expectations related to these facets, specifically: intersections of race, sexuality, and heritage. She is a core cast member of the Old Hollywood-style variety show Babylon Cabaret and also SoCal’s only all Asian cabaret The Jade Follies, as well as the 2015 and 2017 California Burlypicks Master of Singing, earning her the monikers of “the sultry and seductive South Asian siren” and “The Bengal Bombshell.”

Additionally, Tas has been a Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusivity Consultant for over a decade and holds a B.A. in Psychology as well as a Masters in Clinical Social Work, in addition to several certificates and over 15 years of field experience.

Class:
Don’t Get Cancelled with Tas Al-Ghul (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Panel:
Red Flag, Green Flag: Safety Considerations for the Burlesque Industry (Recorded live on June 25, 2022)

Vandellous
Vandellous(They/Them)
Vandellous is known as the Crass Canuck, Canadian Hot Mess, the Dream Poutine, the Bound Beaver, the Moose with the Caboose! A teacher, producer, performer, and emcee with a career spanning Canada, Australia, and the US, Vandellous draws on an eclectic background spanning theatre, dance, kink, clowning, and burlesque to explore themes such as mental health, gender roles, and hypocrisies within a so-called enlightened society. They are passionate about each performer discovering their own distinctive voice and the stories they are burning to tell by combining movement, imagery, music, and more.

Class:
Expanding Movement Vocabulary Using Laban with Vandellous (Recorded live on July 16, 2022)

Winona J. Fox
Winona J. Fox(She/Her)
Winona J. Fox is a Canadian-Colombian burlesque powerhouse and emerging entrepreneur who delivers authentic and irreverent power in all of her work. Winona started her burlesque journey as a volunteer stage kitten in 2017 and debuted her first act in late 2019. During the 2020 lockdown, she continued to develop her burlesque career online by producing independent burlesque videos and online shows with TeleThong Productions and Amplify. During this time, she also developed her workshop Online Burlesque For Beginners, a workshop dedicated to teaching burlesque performers how to create compelling online acts with limited resources and energy. In late 2021, Winona returned to the stage as a full-time stage kitten for The Wiggle Room while also pursuing a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration; these experiences have provided her with important insight into how to navigate the burlesque industry safely, productively, and profitably, both on and off the stage. She’s Montreal’s Reigning Queen of Mean; watch out for Winona J. Fox!

Panel:
Red Flag, Green Flag: Liability Concerns for the Burlesque Industry (Live on March 5, 2023)