Jo Boobs, HEADLINER, New York City NY
Jo is the Headmistress and Founder of the New York School of Burlesque, and is one of the most recognized burlesque instructors in the world. Internationally renowned as burlesque personality Jo Boobs, she's rounded her heels on stages from Coney Island to Sydney Harbour. Garo Sparo named her one of the Top Ten Badass Burlesque Babes, and she was recently voted one of the Top 3 Burlesque Performers in the World. She's the winner of such exotic titles as Best Bump N Grinder, Best Teacher and Mentor, and Biggest Cougar in Burlesque! She has worked with performers from Leonard Cohen to Spinal Tap, and has been featured on television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Gossip Girl. She's performed and headlined at dozens of festivals all over the world, including The Vancouver Burlesque Festival, the Toronto Burlesque Festival, and the New Zealand Burlesque Festival. She is Co-Director of Education at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Co-Curator of Burlycon, and conducts the Master Class in Burlesque at Coney Island USA. She has released three acclaimed how-to burlesque DVDs, and her book The Burlesque Handbook, with a foreword by Margaret Cho, was released by HarperCollins/ItBooks and is the first-ever book on how to create burlesque routines. She is also the founder of Pink Light Burlesque, a program that produces free burlesque classes for breast cancer survivors and patients.

Kristina Nekyia, HEADLINER, Los Angeles CA
Kristina Nekyia is a showgrrrl, belly dancer, circus contortionist, burlesque queen, pin up nymph, actress, fire eater, director, and writer based in Hollywood, California. Kristina was the 2010 First Runner-Up for the title of Queen of Burlesque at the Burlesque Hall of Fame competition in Las Vegas, and in 2005 she was the Hips of Fury Belly Dance Ultimate Soloist. Her dedication to the art of Mongolian contortion led her to study with the Mongolian Circus in Ulaanbaatar, and develop the first ever belly dance contortion fire duet with world-famous contortionist Serchmaa Byamba. Her eclectic career has enabled her to work, on stage and on screen, with major talents including George Clinton, Margaret Cho, David Arquette, Rachid Taha, Peaches, and DJ Shadow. Kristina teaches flexibility classes in Hollywood, and this summer she will release her first instructional DVD, "Get Bent: Circus Style Flexibility."

Coco Lectric, HEADLINER, Austin TX
Coco Lectric is a classically trained dancer, actor, and vocalist. With an absolute love of performing, she graces stages all over the world. She is a founding member of The Jigglewatts Burlesque (Austin, TX), founder of the Austin Burlesque Alliance and the Headmistress of The Austin Academy of Burlesque. Coco won “Queen of Burlesque 2010” at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. She was “2010 Texas Performer of the Year” from the Hotrods and Heels festival and won the “Audience Choice Award 2009,” at the Texas Burlesque Festival. She was a featured performer in last year's Windy City Burlesque Festival, Montreal Burlesque Festival, Texas Burlesque Festival and headlined at the Southwest Burlesque Festival. She performed Opening Night at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas 2010 and in the Miss Exotic World and Reigning Queen of Burlesque competition in 2011. She placed 3rd at the Viva Las Vegas Burlesque Competition, 2011 and is #13 in 21st Century Burlesque’s “50 Top Burlesque Performers in the World” in 2011.

Tiffany Carter, Legend, Las Vegas NV
Miss Nude Universe 1975, Tiffany Carter began her burlesque career at the infamous Pink Pussycat in Hollywood CA. An active, in-demand entertainere with Sparky Blaine's American Showgirl agency, Tiffany toured the US, Canada, and Japan from the late 1960's through the 1980's. Throughout her 20+ years in burlesque, she has been a muse to MIT-trained engineer-turned-burlesque costumer Bobby Gersten and performedd alongside such legendaray performers as Tempest Storm, Blaze Starr, Satan's Angele, Kitten Natividad, Tura Santana, Delilah Jones, Shannan Doah, Akiko O'Toole, Machine Gun Kelly, Crystal Blue, Lovey Goldmine, and Teri Starr.

Kitten DeVille, Featured Performer, Los Angeles CA
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Foxy Tann, Mainstage Host & Featured Performer, Minneapolis MN
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Penny Starr Jr, Featured Performer, Los Angeles CA
“A Delightful Sexpot...Burlesque Royalty” LA WEEKLY. Granddaughter of Philadelphia burlesque legend Penny Starr Sr, Penny Starr, Jr. is “the Pe-Tite Barnum of Burlesque”: Award-winning burlesque dancer (First Runner-Up, Burlesque Hall Of Fame, 2004), producer/director of VICTORY VARIETY HOUR, founder of ALL-STARR BURLESQUE CLASSES, director/producer of the documentary THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE and the PRINCESS FARHANA line of videos, as well as a writer for BACHELOR PAD MAGAZINE and has been featured on 21st CENTURY BURLESQUE website. She is a regular performer and instructor at both BURLYCON in Seattle and WINDY CITY BURLESQUE FEST, and has consulted on the TV shows CHUCK, CASTLE and the film WATER FOR ELEPHANTS.

The Stagedoor Johnnies, Featured Performer, Chicago IL
If these are the boys next door, you must live in the nakedest neighborhood ever! The Stage Door Johnnies is the world’s only all-male burlesque group of its kind. Performers Ray Gunn, Jett Adore, and Bazuka Joe give the audience a rare glimpse at a male twist on the historic art of striptease.
Inspired by burlesque icons like Gypsy Rose Lee, Bettie Page and Sally Rand, the ‘Johnnies’ apply their masculine sex appeal to the concepts of the tease, surprise reveals, and tongue-in-cheek gimmicks.
In just two years, the Johnnies have stripped their way through Las Vegas, NYC, Montreal, Toronto, Windsor, San Francisco, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, St. Louis, L.A., and the list goes on.
They have recently been inducted into the Las Vegas Burlesque Hall of Fame, holding their current title of "World's Best Burlesque Group 2011". They were also awarded "Artists of the Year 2010" by the Burlesque Innovation Guild, and named in the Top 20 performers in the world by 21st Century Burlesque.