(Presented in alphabetical order)

Anne Atomic (Knoxville, TN)

Anne Atomic has been performing in Knoxville and the surrounding areas since 2013. She is the co-producer of the Yama-Con Freaks and cheeks Burlesque show, is a "grinduate" of the Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Academy, and is a member of Salomé Cabaret. The mistress of the macabre and every geek's wet dream... it's Anne Atomic!

Big Gay James (Knoxville, TN)

Big Gay James is an award wining Burlesque emcee from Knoxville, Tennessee. Gay began his career in the industry nearly eight years ago when the producers of Salomé Cabaret had the smart (?) idea to hand him a microphone and put him in front of a crowd. They clearly had no idea the of the monster were created. Gay soon took the reins as emcee for Salomé and spent the next seven and a half years running his mouth for them.
He is very excited to be reprising the role of Aunt Flow, a role he originated last year in the Indianapolis cast of The Best Show Period. He is pleased to be working once again with two of his biggest influence in both the industry and life, Pepper Mills and Siren Santina. He is honored to be in a show created by two girls who are not afraid to take it there; two girls not afraid to make people talk; two girls, one DivaCup®.

Bunny VanDoren (Indianapolis, IN)

Bunny VanDoren is an Indianapolis-based independent burlesque performer. Bunny is a classically trained musician turned ecdysiast with delightful charm and a megawatt smile. Bunny began shakin' her stuff on the striptease stage in 2010, and has since expanded her career to include roles such as featured performer (appearing as a special gues in Jeez Loueez's "Jeezy's Juke Joint: A Black Burly-Q Revue) and producer (including events such as "PEEP!", a quarterly booked open stage for variety performers in Indiana, which she co-produces with Pepper Mills).

Dee Flowered (Athens, GA)

The "Doris Day of Dropping Trou," Dee Flowered has been sharing her special brand of glamour and giggles with audiences since joining the Athens based troupe Effie's Club Follies in 2009. Dee is influenced by classic Hollywood musicals, loves science fiction, and has a penchant for hiding props in strange places! She has been a featured guest burlesque performer all over the Southeast and as far North as Chicago.

Ebony DeLight (Knoxville, TN)

Ebony Delight is the former producer of the Secret Late Night Burlesque in Long Island City Queens NYC.  After relocating to Knoxville in 2015, she began studying with the Salomé Cabaret  Burlesque Academy and is now performing with the Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Revuew. She has performed and kittened for regional festivals such as Discordia Days (Greensboro NC), Heavy Rebel Weekender (Winston-Salem, NC), and Yamacon (Gatlinburg TN).  She is very excited to join in on The Best Show Period this year and is excited for the opportunity to “sync” up with all the lovely performers and support and amazing cause!

Grizzly Bearymore (Knoxville, TN)

Grizzly Bearymore and his babe, Passion Pillows are a daring and dynamic duo of dastardly looks and delightful dances. With a heavy background in theatre, music, and fringe arts, they busted onto the scene in 2016. They have both performed frequently with Salomé Cabaret in Knoxville, Tennessee, and have also drawn their skills from numerous performance classes from across the country. With his charmingly befuddled expressions and her beguiling and buxom figure, they are pair that will surely delight and amaze. It's the buxom and the bear, Passion Pillows and Grizzly Bearymore!

Gurl Haggard (Indianapolis, IN)

The only burlesque dancer pardoned by Reagan, Gurl Haggard has been delivering burlesque with a bite, since 2012. Hags is a member of Indianapolis, Indiana's Rocket Doll Revue and is a permanent cast member of the traveling Luxotica Lounge Cabaret. The good time with the bad attitude, it's Gurl Haggard!

Gwen Sunkel (Indianapolis, IN)

Gwen Sunkel is an Indianapolis stand up and character comedian making her Knoxville debut in The Best Show, Period.  Known as the Circle City's "Hostess With The Most Tits," she has hosted and performed with The Creme de Les Femmes, The Rocket Doll Revue, and VanDoren Mills Productions.  Offstage, she enjoys dismantling the patriarchy and shampooing, rinsing, and repeating. 

Pan d'Orable (Knoxville, TN)

Pan d'Orable is the "Dancing Bear Extraordinaire" of Knoxville, Tennessee's award-winning Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Revue.  With a background in theatre, he’s been gracing the burlesque stage since 2012.  Pan loves to wow audiences with a mix of bawdiness and smolder, and just a little bit of cheesecake for good measure.  He’s had the pleasure of performing all across the South East. In 2013 he took the title of “Most Humorous” at The Carolina Burlesque Festival and is still the current reigning “King of the Sweet Tease.”

Passion Pillows (Knoxville, TN)

Passion Pillows and her beau, Grizzly Bearymore are a daring and dynamic duo of dastardly looks and delightful dances. With a heavy background in theatre, music, and fringe arts, they busted onto the scene in 2016. They have both performed frequently with Salomé Cabaret in Knoxville, Tennessee, and have also drawn their skills from numerous performance classes from across the country. With his charmingly befuddled expressions and her beguiling and buxom figure, they are pair that will surely delight and amaze. It's the buxom and the bear, Passion Pillows and Grizzly Bearymore!

Pepper Mills (Indianapolis, IN)

Raised by feral drag queens, Pepper Mills is an established burlesque performer who has been delighting audiences since 2010 in Indiana and beyond. With an exuberant personality and an abundance of creativity, Pepper has been a key player in the rejuvenation and revival of the Indiana burlesque scene.  In 2013, Pepper joined the cast of the Chicago based Glitter Guild to perform at the wildly successful Thursday night burlesque show at GenCon.

Pepper has attended multiple years of BurlyCon which has given her the opportunity to study, learn and connect with some of the top burlesque performers in the world.  Mills has also attended numerous workshops and studied one on one with professional performers on developing her persona regarding overall performing, costuming, brand marketing and movement since beginning to perform in 2010.

In addition to performing, Pepper has successfully created and produced "An Evening of" series (benefiting Making Strides Against Breast Cancer), Pepper’s Grind, The Best Show - PERIOD, Pepper’s Playhouse and is the branch manager of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Indianapolis.  In 2014, Pepper partnered with long time peer and friend, Bunny VanDoren to co-host a monthly Indiana burlesque community craft night that connects performers across many artistic genres to network, learn from each other and promote a healthy community for all members. These events have allowed Bunny and Pepper to create and co-produce "PEEP!", a quarterly booked open stage for variety performers in Indiana since 2015.

Rhoda Dairyheir (Knoxville, TN)

Born and raised in Knoxville, Rhoda Dairyheir is a 2015 "grinduate" of the Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Academy and currently performs monthly with the Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Revue. She is also the director and producer of The Satanic Mechanics, Knoxville's premiere Rocky Horror Shadow Cast, and co-producer of Freaks & Cheeks Burlesque Revue at Yama-Con in Pigeon Forge, TN. Rhoda has danced and emceed across the country, where she was chosen as the 2015 Burlypicks Kentucky Regional Lip Sync winner. Her quick wit and contagious smile are sure to steal any heart, but admirers be warned - she truly lives up to her moniker as the "Sassysquatch of the Southeast"!

Sambina Brown (Knoxville, TN)

Sambina Brown, The Silken Chanteuse, wants only to seduce you with a come hither glance and a bit of romance. As the co-owner of Creature Seeker's Dark Market, she's no stranger to darkness and danger. You may not have a choice but to be hypnotized by her voice. 

Siren Santina (Knoxville, TN)

Siren Santina is a burlesque performer, educator, and producer from Knoxville, Tennessee. Miss Santina has traveled throughout the country, performing at burlesque and vaudeville festivals from coast to coast including notable events such as The Colorado Burlesque Festival, The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, The Show Me Burlesque Festival, and The Burlesque Hall of Fame’s “Movers, Shakers, and Innovators” showcase. In 2011 she made it reign at the Southern Fried Burlesque Festival in Atlanta, GA, where she was crowned the first ever Southern Fried Burlesque Queen and in 2012 Miss Santina represented the United States at the World Burlesque Games in London, England. Siren is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Revue and enjoys drinking hard liquor and reading about mummies (at the same time). Also, she really likes cats and Chinese Cresteds.

Siren Santina was born and raised in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. Inspired by local legend Dolly Parton, Siren developed a passion for music (and large breasts) and began entertaining her family and friends with song and dance. Her tastes didn't always align themselves with those of her country comrades, and eventually her audience tired of her secular repertoire. After shamefully failing to take top prize in the Sevier County Fair's Hog Calling Contest, she fled across the Atlantic in search of some non-appalachian appreciation. Siren toured the famous music halls of England, the opera houses of Italy, and the cabarets of France and Germany. Eventually she made her way to Spain, where she performed a combination of zarzuela and topless flamenco on the streets for change. Having discovered her true purpose in life, she proudly returned to her Tennessee home where she has been performing her unique version of "European-Country-Musical-Burlesque" ever since.

Tiger Tangerine (Knoxville, TN)

Tiger Tangerine has been a performer with Salomé Cabaret since 2010 and specializes in comedic burlesque. Tiger teaches with the Salomé Cabaret Burlesque Academy using her 20+ years of theatre experience to help students with stage presence and is known for her facial malleability (Tiger's signature class, Giving Good Face: Facial Expressions the Scientific Way, will debut at this year's BurlyCon in Seattle). Miss Tangerine is excited that this show will be happening at the same time wine in grocery stores will finally be legal in the state of Tennessee -- Let the red liquids flow!!

Vanitas DuMonde (Indianapolis, IN)

Vanitas DuMonde has been performing for four years as an independent performer in Indianapolis, Indiana. Commonly known for her dark and creepy repertoire, she finds herself sometimes slipping in a bit of humor. Vanitas is older, though not necessarily wiser, than her fellow cast-mates and is often referred to as Indy's "Glam-ma". As a side note, the blood loss was too great and she had ablation but still feels for everyone suffering from the monthly wrath.

Vivi Vendetta (Nashville, TN)

Vivi Vendetta is a Delinquent Debutantes grinduate that hails from Nashville, Tennessee. This gold medal martial artist has been hitting the stage since 2014 performing a vast variety of alternative, neo, and nerdlesque acts ranging from anime and weapons play to comedic colonial cross-dressing. This multifaceted performer has stormed the stages of Wasabassco at City Winery Nashville, Divination Burlesque, Girl on Girl Comedy & Revue, and Delinquent Debutantes. Raise the drawbridge and bar your gates, she's coming to lay sexy siege to your village!