Program
Chill-icious! CAST
Ivory Noire is your friendly neighborhood big-tiddie goth FG. With the towering stature of an Amazon warrior this silky succubus portals into your fantasies like an apex predator. In 2023 she made her solo debut at the Bee's Knees Burlesque Academy's inaugural Pop A Pastie show and she has been parading on stages wherever she can! Her signature style is a special blend of sophisticated sin and feral decadence in equal measure.
Every story needs a little mischief - NaeNae Novella prefers hers with a wink, a wiggle, and nothing left to the imagination. This Naughty Narrator is anything but quiet in the stacks. Her smile is suggestive, her laugh is dangerous, and don’t let that bookworm charm fool you - this storyteller’s got a booty that deserves its own banned section.
Raised among the rustling pages of Ithaca, NY and refined among her drag family at House of Saine Productions in Binghamton, NaeNae is your favorite plot twist; scholarly yet scandalous, silly yet sultry. She spins stories that bewitch and amuse, with just the right amount of cheek. One moment she’ll leave you begging for a private reading; the next, you’ll be laughing in your drink. Her acts are spilled in ink and innuendo, lined with lust and laughter, and always end on a very satisfying climax.
This isn’t just burlesque, it’s storytelling with rhinestones, and wickedness. Turn the page darling. You’re in it now!
You're going to GAG over these Grown-Ass Goddesses! Serving fierce and flirty dishes for everyone's tastes, these sultry sirens will fill you up and leave you wanting more! Rita Booke, The Italian Stallion, Heather Sinford, and ButterMILF Falls are going deep, and you dont want to miss this ride!
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!
Sparkle Leigh is a rhinestone renegade with glitter in her veins and a hip-sway that could start a revolution. Once a sweet dancer playing it safe, she found her true fire in Burlesque—a world of lace, leather, and unapologetic seduction. Through her glitter-soaked journey of Slutification, she’s claimed her sensual power and dares others to do the same. Now, Sparkle doesn’t just dance—she provokes, owns, and ignites. The stage is hot, the lights are low, and baby, your freak flag is overdue for a spotlight. Are you ready to sparkle?
Meet Patricia Provocateur, the Barefoot Brat of Bump & Grind. Her adventures in the local art scene as a painter married to a musician led her to a Burlesque show. She couldn’t help but brush the mud off her feet and try on some rhinestoned dance shoes. She dove feathers first into the world of glitter and seduction, and now you can catch her performing and painting all over New York.
Deviants, rev up your ENGINES ..for GINA THE MACHINA
Built like a 38 special, this tiny femme fatale will have your motor running HOT
Gina began her lifetime connection with performance art with ballet and flow arts. She’s been a seasoned fire performer since 2010, and later on, was introduced to the wild world of burlesque for which she fell head over high heels
This smokin’ hot triple engine is the most recent member of candy cult burlesque in Syracuse, where she takes to the stage bi-monthly!
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.
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.
In the heart of the infamous Island of Long, there lived a fairy witch named Ember Fae. Through misadventures and fate, Ember’s journey led her to Cortland, NY, where the magic of Bees Knees Burlesque Academy called to her. There, she embraced the art of seductive enchantment, blending fairy mischief with burlesque sorcery. Whether kittening or performing, Ember Fae is known for her radiant energy, infectious positive vibes, and the way she weaves her spiritual practice into every rehearsal and performance. She’s absolutely thrilled to be returning with Burlesque Buffet for Grassroots Cabaret Stage–flame-crowned, rose-cloaked, and ready to burn it all to the ground.
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.
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.