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PERFORMANCES
2009
Girlie-Q Productions (director/producer)
Monthly themed shows, Girlie-Q Variety Hour, Le Cabaret Erotique, Salon deVine
National Pastime Theater, Betty’s Blue Star Lounge, Subterranean, Velvet Rope, Debonair Social Club, Exit Chicago, Uncommon Ground, Joie De Vine
Chicago & Suburbs, IL
Mondo Homo 2009
Eyedrum
Atlanta, GA
The Dirty Show X
(Detroit’s Annual Erotic Arts Festival)
Bert’s Warehouse Theater
Detroit, MI
The Elysian Ball (video installation & performance)
Exchange West
Chicago, IL
Flesh Hungry Dog Show
Jackhammer
Chicago, IL
High Voltage Burlesque
Wilmette Theater
Wilmette, IL
Technophilia
Steampunk Fashion Event
Prop Thtr
Chicago, IL
Hot and Heavy Burlesque
La Costa Theater
Chicago, IL
Varietease Cabaret
Lakeshore Theater
Chicago, IL
Prissy Bitch Productions
Villains
Chicago, IL
Rhinoceros Festival Solo Series
(video & performance)
Center Portion
Chicago, IL
2008
Prissy Bitch Productions (featured performer)
Villains
Chicago, IL
Girlie-Q Live (director/performer)
Empty Bottle, Betty’s Blue Star Lounge
Chicago, IL
Cabaret Erotique
Sonoteque
Chicago, IL
Dyke Mic 2.0 (director, host)
Big Chicks
Chicago, IL
Beastwomen After Dark
Prop Thtr
Chicago, IL
Varietease Cabaret (featured performer)
Strawdog Theater, Lakeshore Theater
Chicago, IL
Vaudezilla’s Burlesque
The Club, Burkhardt Underground, Exit
Chicago & Suburbs, IL
2007
Heartless B!tch Holiday Show
Spin Nightclub
Chicago, IL
Beastwomen: The Bitch is Back!
Peter Jones Gallery
Chicago, IL
Cherish Chicago Burlesque
Morseland
Chicago, IL
Varietease Cabaret
Kitty Moon
Chicago, IL
Cake Chicago
Red Line Tap
Chicago, IL
Dyke Dive Night
Kitty Moon
Chicago, IL
Dyke Mic 2.0
Center on Halsted
Chicago, IL
Girlie-Q Variety Hour (monthly open run)
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
SmartMouth (producer/director/host)
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Hot Sh*t! (Women of Color Burlesque)
Producer
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Chicago Dyke March (featured performer)
Foster Beach Park
Chicago, IL
Annual Pride Reading (featured performer)
Women & Children First
Chicago, IL
Homolatte (featured performer)
Big Chicks
Chicago, IL
Heartless Bitch! Shows
Spin Nightclub
Chicago, IL
2006
HotHouse New Years’ Celebration
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Michelle L’Amour’s Star & Garter Burlesque
Fizz Bar and Grill
Chicago, IL
Girlie-Q Variety Hour (monthly open run)
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Red Hot Dames (director/performer)
The Best of Chicago Burlesque
The Atheneum
Chicago, IL
Heartless Bitch! Shows
Spin Nightclub
Chicago, IL
Homolatte (featured performer)
Marrakesh Express
Chicago, IL
2005
Girlie-Q Variety Hour (monthly open run)
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Girlie-Q Variety Hour @ the PAC/Edge Festival
The Atheneum (main stage)
Chicago, IL
Gurlesque Burlesque (burlesque)
Abbey Pub
Chicago, IL
ana<b>log</b> 1.1
Tic Toc Performance Festival
Chicago, IL
Mode (performance with video)
Identifying Marks, MFA Thesis Show
Chicago, IL
9 to 5; 5 to 9 (video webcast performance)
Mattress Factory
Pittsburgh, PA
Good Mommy; Bad Mommy
Video Installation
International Digital and Media Arts Alliance Association Annual Conference
Orlando, FL
Michelle L’Amour’s Student Show
Lakeshore Theater
Chicago, IL
2004
ana<b>log</b> 1.0
Durational performance
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago, IL
Girlie-Q Variety Hour
HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Lotto Love, Inc. (Corporate Kissing Booth)
PAC/Edge Festival, Atheneum & Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
A Night with the Stars
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI
Annual Drag Ball
University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
Experimental Theater Chicago Festival
spareroom
Chicago, IL
Mouthy Tour
HotHouse, Spareroom
Chicago, IL
Bucketworks
Milwaukee, WI
Exotic Ball
Bloomington, IN
2003
MindField Follies
Mindfield
Chicago, IL
Benefit for Dyke March Chicago
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
The Finger, hosted by Nomy Lamm
Early to Bed
Chicago, IL
Gurlesque Burlesque
Abbey Pub
Chicago, IL
One Bad-Ass Burlesque Show
Abbey Pub
Chicago, IL
Burlesque Not Bombs
Martyr’s
Chicago, IL
Michiana Festival
Acorn Theater
Three Oaks, MI
Ladyfest Philly
Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Center
Philadelphia, PA
Spareroom at UICA
UICA
Grand Rapids, MI
Spare Change
spareroom
Chicago, IL
Spare Time
spareroom
Chicago, IL
Homolatte
No Exit Café
Chicago, IL
Dyke Mic
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
2002
Faster, Poet! Spill! Spill!
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
Mexotica Living Museum of Inter-Cultural Fetishes
Glass Curtain Gallery
Chicago, IL
Dyke Mic
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
Homolatte
Coffee and Tea Exchange, Marrakesh Express
Chicago, IL
2001
Winter All Girl Revue
Bailiwick Theater
Chicago, IL
Food Not Bombs Benefit
a J<Subhumyn> production
Chicago, IL
Let Us Give Spanks!
High Risk Gallery
Chicago, IL
Spoken Word Monday Night Series
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
Ladyfest Midwest Chicago
Chopin and Congress Theaters
Chicago, IL
Hostess of Cabaret Erotique
Chopin Theater
Chicago, IL
Sappho in Love
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
Survive This! (“reality tv-style” improv show)
(played Dalya the Performance Poet)
Bailiwick Arts Center
Chicago, IL
MayDay Event
Women in the Director’s Chair
Chicago, IL
Spoken Word Benefit for Ladyfest Midwest Chicago
Chopin Theater
Chicago, IL
Ladyfest Midwest Chicago Pride Benefit
Schuba’s Tavern
Chicago, IL
Vulvapalooza
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
TEACHING
2003 – present
How to Strip For Your Lover (workshop teacher)
The Pleasure Chest & Early to Bed
Chicago, IL
Pastie Making and Twirling
Early to Bed
Chicago, IL
Weekly Beginning and Advanced Burlesque Classes
Division Street Loft, Design Dance, Galaxie Chicago
Chicago, IL
Queer Burlesque School for Girls
Center on Halsted
Chicago, IL
Introduction to Graphic Design (adjunct faculty)
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Performance Art (student teacher for Matt Wilson, Industry of the Ordinary)
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Graphic Design (student teacher)
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
EDUCATION/TRAINING
MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media (Performance, Movement and Video focus)
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Select Graduate Courses
Contact Improvisation with Brian Shaw (Plasticene Physical Theater)
Performance with Jenny Magnus (Rhino Fest, Curious Theater Branch)
Performance workshop with Joan Dickinson
Performance and Video class with Michael Thomas (Lucky Pierre)
Butoh workshop with Nicole Legette (blushing poppy)
Movement with Charlie Vernon (founder of Link’s Hall)
Two week residency with Guillermo Gomez-Pena & La Pocha Nostra
Glass Curtain Gallery
Chicago, IL
Two week residency with Patch Adams (clowning and performance)
Unit One
Urbana, IL
BFA in Fine & Performing Arts/Sculpture, minor in English
University of Illinois
Champaign/Urbana, IL
Non-Academic Coursework
Burlesque Dance
With Michelle L’Amour, Miss Exotic World 2005
Arabesque Dance Studio
Chicago, IL
Improvisational Comedy
Sirens Improv, The Playground
Chicago, IL
Poetry of Witness
Duriel Harris, Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
Improvisational Comedy
Jim Kranna, Fort Mason Arts Center
San Francisco, CA
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