Jillian Erickson *

Performer, Writer, Director, Producer, Pain in the Ass… and not necessarily in that order.

Michelle Power *

Michelle is the Co-Producer, Co-Director, and Emcee. An actor and forever lover of the Arts, she looks forward to sinking her teeth into her next performance role.

Ed Schweitzer *

Ed Schweitzer likes hitting buttons so much, that he's been doing it around town for 12 years now, and with Beast Women the whole time that that has been a thing. He also does great things here, there, and everywhere, but is running out of space in this bio to fit them.. 

Mahira *

Mahira is a Professional Bellydance Artist located in the suburbs of Chicago. She loves being a part of the Beast Women show and is honored to be an Ensemble Member of BW family. Mahira teaches bellydance classes, private lessons, and workshops, as well as hosts bellydance events. She is available for parties and events. www.MahiraBellydance.com

Janna Evel

 Janna Evel is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and honors recipient of a BFA in Theater and Dance: Dance Emphasis and a BA in Psychology. During her career in Chicago, she has performed with many reputable choreographers, primarily Atalee Judy for Breakbone Dance Company, highlights including solo and ensemble work in “This is A Damage Manual” (premiering at Edinburgh Fringe Fest) and “Bully.Punk.Riot.” (voted one of top ten dance performances in 2013, Chicago Tribune). Janna currently holds status as lead company member for Ardent Dance Company

Fancy Fontina

Fancy Fontina has been queen of the StripCHEESE since 2015. She's spread her smooth and nutty performances across stages in Chicago, Michigan, Indiana, and New Orleans! Be sure to catch her fire dancing and stripping all over Chicago this summer! 
Fancy truly is the cheesiest diva,

Marianne Schaefer*

Once an innocent and impressionable child, Marianne was prodded by her overzealous feminist mother to take on the world of men.  First by becoming a medical professional and then a forensic expert.....she knew her softer seamier side was being neglected.  Stirring into her brew Jill and Michelle of the Beast Women...  and a written word (often poetry) diva was released.  Published so many times she has stopped collecting the books (they're on Amazon ), she has performed on radio, television, had a four year featured show in Las Vegas Nevada, received local awards, taught classes in the writing of erotica and was a three time winner of the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival  taking best in show.  Enough! ....She likes talking dirty......and her stage name is Gillian Holoroyd!

Ruby Claret

Like your favorite red wine, Ruby Claret is smooth, fleshy, and full-bodied. She has been dazzling Chicago audiences with her comedic character for the past three years. One sip of Ruby Claret and you'll be thirsty for more.

Alley Cat

Avid in theater production, she is managing director at Prop Theater, resident costume designer, and has skills in metal fabrication, hat making, and drawing. She also works with The Silent Theater company on costumes. A dance enthusiast since childhood, she studied dance as a minor as an undergrad and currently like to choreograph and perform short vintage inspired cabaret style pieces which have appeared in various variety shows at Prop, Rhinofest and the Beast Women series.

JoBeth Harrison *

JoBeth has been a part of Beast Women from damn near the beginning and loves every second of it. Though a part of one of Chicago's top rated wedding bands (Green Fourteen), being a Beastie lets her explore different genres of music while adding her own unique twist to them.

Clare Brennan

 Clare Brennan is a Chicago-based theater artist and writer. Using spoken word, performance poetry, devised theater, and text adaption, ​her work focuses on isolation, home, womanhood, and identity. In Alter Ego, Ginger Slap declares a manifesto of everything that makes her punk, proud, ballsy, and beautiful while Clare tries to keep up.

Foxie La Fleur

 Foxie La Fleur has been performing in the burlesque scene for 3 years, after having been a musical theatre performer for most her life. You can find her at the Kiss Kiss Cabaret, Backdoor Saloon, and guest performing with Harlequin Girls and Smudged Lipstick Revue. Foxie is excited to announce the opening of the brand new company Crescent Moon Nerdlesque, a new branch of Otherworld Theatre Company, premiering her weekly nerdlesque revue Saturday, August 11th at 11pm. 

Maya Keytar

Maya Kuper…also known as Maya Keytar...is a songwriter from Chicago, by way of small-town Iowa. Through her work with The Dayna Clay Project, Maya raises funds and awareness for sexual violence survivors and for suicide prevention. However, her most crucial ongoing mission is to give the KEYTAR the respect it deserves as a serious musical instrument.

Jeanette Daft

"Jeannette is letting her soul move her tonight. She is unleashing her inner beasty masculine side by performing West Senegal African Dance she has been faithfully studying for the last 14 years and then releasing her inner beasty feminine power into the sacred swords she has been spending time with for the last 15 years".

Minnie Barre

Minnie Barre (also known by her Muggle name, Nicole Keating) is a Chicago-based performer, director, and writer specializing in comedy and nerdy entertainment, i.e. she likes making jokes about superheroes and Game of Thrones. She performs regularly at Uptown Underground as part of the Kiss Kiss Cabaret and the LIVE Radio Show, and at Headquarters Beercade and the Playground Theatre as part of Bim Bam Boom Burlesque, as well as guesting around Chicagoland with Harlequin Girls, Plan 9 Burlesque, and Beast Women Revue. She is also the creator & Executive Producer of Fake Geek Girl Productions (www.fggpeeps.com), the co-host of the Rude Tudors podcast (www.rudetudors.com), and the host of the Fan Fix Podcast (www.facebook.com/FanFixShow/). She always wants more Twitter and Instagram followers @ognicolekeating.

Viktoria

Viktoria is an inspired fusion dancer bringing together belly dance, Russian and Indian Gypsy and other forms of dance to bring music to life through motion that takes the audience on a fantastic adventure. A dancer since the age of three, she continues to discover new dance forms to weave them into a magnificent tapestry of movement.

Emma Bice

Emma Bice is a dance major at Loyola University Chicago. She does ballet, jazz, lyrical, and modern, but her absolute favorite art form is hoop dancing.

Jackie Wolk
Jackie boasts a 20-plus year history of doing original spoken word and poetry in and around Chicago, eight of which have been with the fabulous Beast Women. When she is not writing and performing, Jackie is an odd-jobber at large who drinks coffee and makes stuff out of other stuff.

Phaedra Black

Phaedra Black is a burlesque performer and producer who enjoys bringing her smart ass attitude and body positive aesthetic to the stage. Phaedra has been performing burlesque in Chicago since 2011, after studying under the renowned Michelle L'amour. In 2014, she founded the Better Boobie Bureau, Chicago's Buffet of Burlesque, an inclusive and body positive production company in Chicago

Heather and Lace

Heather and Lace uses her own blend of story telling, theatrically, and burlesque to amuse and entertain. Back for her second Beast Women Series, she is thrilled to give you "more" this time! (se the show and you'll get why more has " ")

Goldie Rox

Goldie Rox started dancing at age two, and has not looked back.  With a dance performance degree under her belt, this Southern belle has performed and studied genres such as ballet, tap, jazz, and recently burlesque.  With an act once described as "cute as f***!"  Goldie hopes she can tap into your heart and inspire you to Shake A Tail Feather

Mama Disco

No one loves you like your mama, and Mama Discoshows her love with brassy belting, saucy serenades,served with a hefty dose of sarcasm. A Chicago native, Mama's been treading the boards since 1996 and can be seen hosting the weekly Vaudezilla! Burlesque Spectacular, as well as upcoming appearances in the Burning City Neo-Burlesque Festival and the 8th Annual Ohio Burlesque Festival, as well as stages a over the Midwest. The Biggest Mother in Burlesque is Mama Disco!

Bobby Crowley

Bobby Crowley; Bobby is a makeup artist by day and Proto Zoa by night. She does not like pina coladas, but a good margarita will do in a pinch. Her spoken word has been heard by hundreds in Chicago and moved just as many. 

* Symbolizes a Beast Women Ensemble Member