Program
Old Enough to Know Better CAST
Discovered near a graveyard in the desert wildernesses in southern California. In her past life she was a dance major with a focus on ballet and modern, but she is now an entity bound to the magic of burlesque. She is compelled to become the object of your desire, it’s not wise to trust this charming and fatal seductress as she will twist your desire into her own unlimited power through dance. You may cross her path performing all over Upstate NY. She now has her own coven called Diamond Throat Productions. And teaches her wicked ways at too! Contact Ghula Mortisse on Instagram to see if she is teaching near you!
From Parts Unknown weighing in at 200lbs with a height of 6 foot 1 (Minus the 4 inch stilettos). He's the bespectacled butt plugged bearded bastard of burlesque. The first something, not the next someone, Chrissy Bunz.
A vision in hot pink and ink, Rosé Risqué is the high-
femme heartthrob of BurLEZque. Sweet as sugar and sharp as stilettos, she’s a fever dream you won’t want to wake from. Unapologetically queer and
wickedly fun, she’ll have you swooning before the glitter even settles.
Lorelai has always been drawn to the stage, her passion for performance burning brighter than the brightest marquee. With a background shrouded in secrets and whispers of a bygone era, she weaves tales of love, loss, and liberation through her tantalizing performances.
Dee Lightfull - Producer, Performer, Host
Dee Lightfull is a bold, bodacious performer from Freeville, New York, known for serving up full-figured fantasy with a wink, a wiggle, and a whole lot of wit. Equal parts sultry and smartass, she’s spent the last five years slaying stages across 12 states and 2 countries with her signature in-your-face style.
In 2025, she strutted her stuff at the Vermont Burlesque Festival. That same year, she produced Reveal-ution!, a landmark show headlined by burlesque icon Bella Sin, amplifying diverse voices and reminding the audience that joy is a form of resistance. She also shared her burly brainpower at BurlyCon 2025 and as a virtual instructor in 2024.
As founder of Burlesque Buffet, Dee is an award-winning producer and has created an inclusive, high-impact platform for emerging and established performers to serve up their most dee-licious selves.
A Rubenesque celebration of eyes and thighs, Dee Lightfull is an unapologetic revelation of pervy and flirty that you can dee-pend on to leave hearts racing and pulses pounding!
She’s not just delightful—she’s Dee Lightfull.
Your favorite DJ’s favorite DJ! RDF!!!
History waits for no one—but a rare few seize its reins and shape an era. They blend the radical with the timeless, crafting a sound that pushes culture forward. Rick Rubin. Pharrell Williams. Timbaland. And now—RDF. Artist. Producer. Architect of the next wave. The evolution of sound is here.
Born on Melody Lane in Long Island, NY, and raised by his grandparents, RDF’s journey began with a trumpet before turntables stole his heart. By 15, he was the go-to DJ who could rock any party, inspired by East Coast legends like Funkmaster Flex and DJ Red Alert.
From high school parties to producing original tracks, RDF’s path took him to Ithaca, NY—where he earned the Ithaca Times “Best DJ of the Year” title—and then to Orlando, FL, where he built a reputation for elevating local talent. Now back in Ithaca, RDF serves as a DJ Ambassador for Roland, still innovating, still inspiring, and still redefining the soundscape.
Don Manuel Presents - Co-Producer
In his early 20s, Don Manuel Presents moved to Ithaca from Ohio by way of NYC. Like many young adults, he didn’t look at the world through a philanthropic lens, but had already acclimated to the culture shock that is the global population living in one community and sharing its roots with one another. Moving to Ithaca was like a baby NYC with the many diverse cultural backgrounds. In the summer of 2011, he began his first non-profit experience with No More Tears/ No Mas Lagrimas. He was asked to help provide entertainment for the first annual Boricua Afro Americano Parade and Festival on the downtown Ithaca Commons. Since that seed of philanthropy and community involvement was sown, he created Creating Dreams Movement that same year and was nominated to be a part of Natural Leaders Initiative at Cornell Cooperative Extension.
He had the privilege of working with the Kettering Foundation in Ohio on deliberate democracy and how to make it work for all. He was briefly a Tompkins County Human Rights Commissioner. He worked with Get Your Greenback, Ithaca Food Justice Summit, and Streets Alive back in its beginning years, just to name a few. He had the honor of working with our Community Foundation in 2016 for the Spring grant cycle that was scheduled for $150k in grants. That number was almost doubled by the end of the grant cycle, and it was the largest grant cycle of its time due to the championing of many up-and-coming local organizations.
As a husband, father, and grandfather, He feels it’s part of his duty here on earth to help leave it just a fraction better than we got here.