Featured Performers
Headlining Performer
Annie Cherry - KC's Favorite Kinky Clown
Known from New York to New Mexico as The Mistress of Whimsical F*ckery, Annie Cherry is a nationally renowned, multiple award-winning burlesque performer, character actor, vocalist, clown, and emcee who has been on the scene for almost two decades. She is a winner of Last Pasties Standing and a Shimmy Showdown champion, among other accolades.
Currently, Annie produces and emcees SMUT, a cabaret variety show at Missie B’s every Thursday night, where she is delighted to bring some of Kansas City’s weirdest and wildest performers to her stage.
Featured Performer!
Rozay BuTae!
Rozay is the founder, producer, and educator of Houzz of BuTaè. She is also the former burlesque producer of Moulin Noir, and current founder and podcast host of Lez Talk About Sxx; a queer sex-ed class.
She/Her; is a performer who lives her life as Black, Queer, and free. She champions, mentors, and supports other Black performers, Black Femmes especially. She also encourages Black Femme performers to celebrate themselves and to perform pieces that feel authentic to them. She herself celebrates her Blackness, Queerness, and Womanhood, and is not afraid to call out injustices that all three categories continue to face on the stage in front of White audiences.