The Producers
Sailor St. Claire - Co-Producer, Co-Host, Showgirl Scholar
Photo by POC Photo.
Sailor St. Claire is a redheaded siren from the shores of California. She set sail for Seattle in 2009 and has been stripping her way around town ever since. She draws her inspiration from Katharine Hepburn’s quick wit, Ann-Margret’s sexy charm, and Tempest Storm’s fiery tease. Known as The Showgirl Scholar, her brand of burlesque is a classic and sexy combination of sass, sparkle, and smarts that makes seamen and landlubbers alike shout, “Hello, Sailor!”
In addition to producing Tuesday Tease, Sailor is a cast member of Sinner Saint Burlesque's Beatitudes. She can also be found as a soloist on stages throughout Seattle, and makes regular trips back to the shores of to San Francisco to appear at the (in)famous Hubba Hubba Revue, Little Minsky's, and Red Hots Burlesque. Most recently, she made her UK debut at the Jekyll & Hyde in Edinburgh and added Portland, OR to her ever-growing list of ports-of-call.
www.sailorstclaire.com
In addition to producing Tuesday Tease, Sailor is a cast member of Sinner Saint Burlesque's Beatitudes. She can also be found as a soloist on stages throughout Seattle, and makes regular trips back to the shores of to San Francisco to appear at the (in)famous Hubba Hubba Revue, Little Minsky's, and Red Hots Burlesque. Most recently, she made her UK debut at the Jekyll & Hyde in Edinburgh and added Portland, OR to her ever-growing list of ports-of-call.
www.sailorstclaire.com
Ace Carter - Co-Producer, Co-Host, Jack of All Spades
Ace Carter has been in show business since he was 13 years old, which explains both his social ineptitude and his need to be the center of attention. He has worked in a variety of performance genres including vaudeville, radio, cabaret, musical theatre, and magic. Truly a jack of all trades, Ace crossed over into burly-q in 2011.
www.acecarterlive.com
Pervana
“Pervana takes songs from different genres, decades, and artists and covers them all brilliantly.” – Kyndra Gilvarry
Jenny Brown - Trombone
Jenny Brown plays trombone past and present with former Titanium Sporkestra, Mark Siano & the Enablers, Seattle Sounders FC Sound Wave, Mood Swings, Rainbow City Band, Purple Passion, Renegayde, Homo Bandits, and Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra. She also moonlights as the boylesque performer, Kip Vanderballs.
With a brief stint of childhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, she developed a love of music, spices, community, and culture. Back to the states in ‘95, she continued playing sax, picked up the bassoon, and started playing trombone three years later in Seattle. She immensely enjoyed all three from stage to pit and took music to college where she found trombone to be her true love. Jenny was immersed in performance from combos to orchestras and graduated Central Washington University with a Bachelors Degree in Music. She returned to Seattle to obtain her Band Instrument Repair Technician and Canine Studies certifications. Jenny spends her days talking to dogs and spreading her sweet brass through performing, playing, and repairing as much as possible. One of her favorite experiences involved laying down the sound track to a special 2008 holiday mission for RPG, Pirates of the Burning Sea.
Sara dipity - Vocals
Sara Dipity is a Burlesque and Cabaret performer living in Seattle, WA. Singing since she could talk, Miss Dipity has had a wide range of vocal performance opportunities. She sang with Johnny Cash at age 8, and a mass at the Vatican at age 14. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Musical Theatre, and while at college was afforded the opportunity to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Since moving to Seattle in 2009 Sara has performed on many stages as an actor, singer, dancer, ukuleleist and improviser. She joined the burlesque community in 2011, and is a proud graduate of Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque.
Morgan Gilkeson - Drums
Morgan Gilkeson hails from Seattle and has been playing drums for 13 years. She began playing drums her Sophomore year of High School and received a scholarship to attend Central Washington University's renowned Jazz Program. In her years of playing, she has had the privilege of sharing the stage with many greats, some of which include Benny Green, Terell Stafford, Dawn Clement, Christoph Luty, Tamir Hendelman and Ingrid Jensen. Morgan has studied with some of the great drummers of our time: Jeff Hamilton, Jon Wikan, Matt Wilson, Garey Williams, Gary Hobbs, and Davy Nefos, just to name a few. In the greater Seattle area she has played at prestigious clubs and events in groups such as The Jay Thomas Big Band, The MoodSwings, The NW Gospel Big Band, The Jazz Pearls Quartet, and has recently accepted the position of being the drummer for the great band SWOJO. Her most recent project is the "Morgan G Funkay Quartet", and you can see them play every Friday at Holy Grounds Coffee House on Crown Hill, where Morgan also works as a Barista. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her large family, brewing coffee, and playing with her Italian Greyhound puppy, Kuya. She also enjoys astronomy and hopes that one day she will have a constellation named after her.
Olivia Hamilton - Bass
Olivia Hamilton is a professional bassist and vocalist currently operating in and around the Seattle area. In addition to keeping an active teaching studio, she is active in the Seattle recording scene, plays for local theatres, and performs with various orchestras, jazz ensembles, and house bands. Recently Olivia has had the pleasure of playing Avenue Q, Next to Normal, and Carrie: The Musical with Balagan Theatre, Legally Blonde at Village theatre, Wild Party with Sound Theatre, and Shrek. When she is not playing in musicals, her jazz trio plays every thursday around town and her rock/funk/folk inspired band Seacastle lays it out with their horn section.
MICHAUD SAVAGE - Guitar
M. A. Savage, guitarist, meat in the lady sandwich; whisperer of whims and salver of sins, Seattlelite birthright extraditee. Loving plucker of pitches and vibrato itches, tuner crooner and groove gooner. Sweet apple honey cinnamon pie powerchords and crimson cherry tart lips murmur, with your eyes closed, one marriage of another's mammaric ecstasy; slinking in a theatre, in a thought. An auditorium. Your ass in a sweet. Your seat enthroned. Jewel encrusted applause, please, for the varieties of Mendel's peas that have brought us here today. The you you share in fulfilling this daily psychic dialectic through the burlesque of Western consciousness.
M.A. Savage also serves a a music technician in classical guitar, arrangements and orchestrations, is a classical guitarrist, tanguero, and has performed extensively through the Pacfic Northwest, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. He collaborates with Paintings for Animals, Honey.moon.tree, and has a passion for chamber musics. For fun, M. rides bikes and hikes and runs and puns and meditations.
M.A. Savage also serves a a music technician in classical guitar, arrangements and orchestrations, is a classical guitarrist, tanguero, and has performed extensively through the Pacfic Northwest, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile. He collaborates with Paintings for Animals, Honey.moon.tree, and has a passion for chamber musics. For fun, M. rides bikes and hikes and runs and puns and meditations.
the dancers
iva handfull - the albino grace jones
POC Photo.
Seattle’s Iva Handfull is a modern heathen in the Burlesque world, an albino Grace Jones, both a fashion Icon and rock & roll burlesque star. Mz. Handfull is a fierce, alternative neo-Burlesquer known for her inventive, epic, and oftentimes impersonating performances. Iva’s brand of neo-burlesque presents new ways of performing classic burlesque, while keeping the glint of classic choreography.
Iva was crowned the 2013 Kansas City Burlesque Festival Queen and has had the pleasure of performing across the United States, including the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Tease-o-rama in San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, and St Louis.
She’s also co-owner of Haute Under the Collar, creating custom rhinestone neckties, so you too can be well hung!
Iva was crowned the 2013 Kansas City Burlesque Festival Queen and has had the pleasure of performing across the United States, including the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Tease-o-rama in San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, and St Louis.
She’s also co-owner of Haute Under the Collar, creating custom rhinestone neckties, so you too can be well hung!
Jesse Belle-Jones - The Modern Sexual Intellectual
Greg Holloway Photo
Navigating a female body through academia and the world at large, Jesse Belle-Jones is a bluestocking bettie whose sultry, scholarly, scintillating acts are chock full of wit, humor, and dexterous dancing.
Her involvement in the Seattle burlesque community has exploded since her debut in 2007. Aside from her work with Sinner Saint Burlesque, she is co-producer of Naked Girls Reading (Seattle). She has been on the steering committee for BurlyCon since its 2008 inception, serving as a presenter (2010, 2011), volunteer coordinator (2008), and event coordinator (2009-2011).
Having graduated with her Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of Washington in 2009, Jesse now devotes all of her focus to performance, study, and celebration of intelligent, radical, feminist, sex-positive art. Recent credits include “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles Pulp Cabaret” (ACT Theatre, Seattle), “Through the Looking Glass: A Burlesque Alice in Wonderland” (Triple Door, Seattle), “Electric Burlesque” (Brick House, London), and “SHINE: A Burlesque Musical” (Fringe Festival, New York), Carolee Schneemann’s “Within and Beyond the Premises” (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle).
Queenie O'Hart - The Siren of the Sound
Queenie O'Hart has been active in the theatrical arts since the sweet young age of seven and absolutely loves the stage. She continued with her thespianism through high school and on into community theatre throughout the greater Seattle area and Boston, working in musicals, Shakespearean and straight plays. Miss O'Hart encountered burlesque many years ago and was fascinated by it's pageantry. In the Summer of 2012 she finally decided to sally forth, embracing this art form with all her energy and throwing herself into the fabulous, nurturing and loving community that is Washington's burlesque scene. She graduated from Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque 101 in August of 2012 and 202 in September of 2012 ."The Siren of The Sound" will belt it to the back of the house and is tickled pink to have found burlesque as an outlet for her glitter addiction.
