Paris Green, Belmont Burlesque, Executive Producer
Paris Green is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed burlesque troupe, The Belmont Burlesque Revue. She fell in love with burlesque when she saw her first striptease as a wee lass in the windswept fields of Kansas and has been finding creative ways to take her clothes off ever since. Paris has been a featured performer in the Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival, Varietease Cabaret, Vaudezilla Productions, Viva La Muerte’s Hot & Heavy Burlesque, Mo Roses’ New American Review and the Late Night Late Show and has made special appearances for the Howard Brown Health Center, AIDSCare, Camenae Theatre Ensemble and the Gay Games. Paris has served as an expert on burlesque for syndicated radio host and columnist Dr. Laura Berman, the KC Stage, the Daily Northwestern, Medill News Service and many other fine publications.

Red Hot Annie, Vaudezilla, Executive Producer
Red Hot Annie began as – and remains – a pinup model since 2003.  With an extensive performance background to draw on, she turned her attentions to burlesque in early 2008.  In short order, she has become one of the most recognizable and visible faces in Chicago burlesque, blending comedy, sexiness, and storytelling into a crowd-pleasing style.  She has performed with – among others – Beast Women Cabaret, Varietease Cabaret, and Belmont Burlesque Revue.  In July 2008, Red Hot Annie paired up with Dick Dijon to create Vaudezilla Productions, which has become a major force in Chicago by redefining the burlesque bar show and setting a new standard for burlesque variety shows.  In 2009, she began expanding her presence beyond Chicago , making appearances at the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival, the Texas Burlesque Festival, and with the Brew City Bombshells in Milwaukee .  Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you: Red Hot Annie really knows how to make the wieners boil!

Dick Dijon, Vaudezilla, Executive Producer
Keith Emroll - along with Red Hot Annie - is the driving force behind Chicago's Vaudezilla Productions. Within less than two years, he has played a significant role in the production of over 100 burlesque performances, including the critical and box-office smash hit "Rollin' Outta Here Naked: A Big Lebowski Burlesque." He is the quintessential jack-of-all-trades, serving as Vaudezilla's Technical Director and Head Writer. Keith also plays an active role on the stage as well (going by the moniker "Dick Dijon"), where his most prominent role is the emcee of Vaudezilla's popular Blue Bayou Bartop Burlesque Show, which runs every Thursday in the heart of Wrigleyville. He's your priest, your shrink, your shoulder to cry on, the and rock you can cling to. He's your man!

Jack Midnight, Belmont Burlesque, Executive Producer, Main Stage Host
Internationally acclaimed recording artist Jack Midnight, the whiskey-swilling, multi-divorced crooner and self-styled "Man of the Hour" who emcees the Belmont Burlesque Revue, is the alter-ego of once-divorced, thoroughly sensible Mark Henderson. When not donning his vintage tux and picking up a bottle of Jim Beam, Mark can often be seen at The Playground Theater performing, most recently with the improv troupes Black Sheep and Strange Bedfellows. He also teaches improv and has directed such troupes as Atticus Finch, Kissing George, Cowlick and currently The Senate. He, along with Megan Pedersen, has been producing The Belmont Burlesque Revue for the last six years.

MsPixy, Belmont Burlesque, Education Director, Host
A founding member of the Bemont Burlesque Revue (one of Chicago's longest-running burlesque shows), MsPixy has teased and tantalized monthly at the Playground Theater since 2003. Yet, somehow, she is even younger now than when she began her ecdysical career! When she's not performing in a haze of glitter or bedazzling her own costumes, MsPixy also works closely with the Chicago Improv Festival as both an educator and annual festival director.

Donna Touch, Vaudezilla, Web Design
The designer of the wonderful website you're looking at right now!

Miss Tamale, Host
Since watching her very first burlesque show in 2002, Tamale has traveled far and wide developing and performing her signature numbers. Often funny and always sexy, her burlesque delights audiences and earns her invitations to perform alongside talented performers all over the world. An independent performer, she became a fixture in the rise of the Chicago burlesque scene, performing with the Sissy Butch Brothers: Gurlesque Burlesque, Lavender Cabaret, Star and Garter, Girlie-Q, Angela Eve and Eve’s Parlor, Flesh Tones Burlesque, Varietease, Vaudzilla, and numerous conferences and festivals.

Backdoor Aly, Varietease Cabaret, Host
Backdoor Aly is a no-holds barred force of nature. With the dirtiest mouth and sexiest legs in the city, this funny gal is the producer and host of the Varietease Cabaret and somehow manages to clean it all up for morning television as an on-air personality for WCIU's "You and Me This Morning" Since 2007 she's rocked the burlesque scene in Chicago appearing in Vaudezilla, Belmont Burlesque Review, her own Varietease Cabaret and many more. Booze, Boys, Baseball and Burlesque is what Backdoor Aly's all about!

Chris Biddle AKA Randy Powers, Belmont Burlesque, Host
Randy "The King" Powers has been entertaining audiences, around the world, for almost 40 years now. His first billboard hit was the 1964 #24 hit single "Come Pet My Pussycat", which was successfully re-written and recorded as "What's New Pussycat" by Tom Jones. In his career, "The King" has released over 30 albums, mastering such complex musical styles as "Lounge", "Classic Rock Covers", Showtunes" and "Disco". His 1974 Spanish-Language disco album, "Los Pantalones Masculinos Del Randy "The King" Powers" was nominated for a Latin Grammy, that year. Since then, he has been nominated for four other Latin Grammys. Randy has worked with such diverse entertainers as Rupert Holmes, Buckner & Garcia, Wayland P. Flowers, Jr & Madame! Randy is excited to be hosting a stage for The Windy City Burlesque Festival, particularly if some of the ladies on his stage are legally of age and legally blind. He is also available to host your event or gathering, as long as the pay is good and the bar is open! L'chaim!