Our 2024 Emcees
Rebecca MM Davis
Thursday Night Emcee
Rebecca Mm Davis has been MC’ing and hosting events since her 8th grade talent show. Burlesque has taken her up and down the West Coast and to Canada, as well as to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recent highlights include hosting “Juneteenth JumpOff” with Bawdy Suit in Chicago, the Saskatoon International Burlesque Festival, the Savannah Burlesque Festival, and the Pacific Northwest Burlesque Festival. In BC, she was fortunate to host twice for the Riot Grrrls in Victoria. Along with Founder Mx Pucks A’Plenty, Rebecca annually co-produces What The Funk: An All BIPOC Burlesque Festival in Seattle, WA. With her own production company The Stay Up Late Show, Rebecca has produced and hosted nerdlesques, burlesques, and the talk show of the same name.
Alotta Boutté
Friday Night Emcee
Hailing from the Bay area, this International Cabaret and Burlesque Bae Sensation was raised by the South, dressed by drag queens, and cut her teeth in San Francisco's beautiful smoky underbelly. Classically trained, yet forged in nightclubs, this queen brings the drama and vocals that will make you bow down. The Sinfully Saccharine Siren of San Francisco is Alotta Boutté.
Ms. Boutté may have discovered burlesque in the back of a magazine, but she is a dance and theater kid at her core. From tap dance to piano to a cappella choir to plays and musicals, treading the boards has always been home for Ms. Boutté! She even accompanied herself as part of the pre-show for the Mugler Follies in Paris! She has shared the stage with the likes of Joey Arias, Taylor Mac, and Margaret Cho as well as performed at the Goat Farm, the original home of the Burlesque Hall of Fame Museum in Helendale, CA. She was a core member of the legendary all Black neo-burlesque troupe Harlem Shake Burlesque, founded by Simone de la Getto.
In 2022 Ms. Boutté received a Sassy Lassy Award from the Burlesque Hall of Fame in special recognition of her significant impact in the promotion and perpetuation of burlesque.
She was also featured in Leonard Nimoy's The Full Body Project in 2007. This project presented images of full-bodied women-many of whom were and still are engaged in "fat liberation" and the "size acceptance" movement- and challenged dominant notions of the ideal female figure as represented in the media and fine arts.
Sultry and sweet, classic with a touch of raunch. With a splash of kink and a challenge to your perceptions, Ms. Boutté is here to entice you, rev you up to a feverish pitch, and leave you hungry for more. She will weave a spell with the sound of her voice and with a flick of the wrist she’ll snatch your soul. She is an exquisite journey that will leave you in your seat forever changed. Following this siren's song will leave you wrecked in all the best ways possible, so crash upon the shores of Alotta Boutté.
World Famous *BoB*
Saturday Night Emcee
The World Famous *BOB*, known for her over the top blonde bombshell image and incredible ability to mix martinis in her cleavage, has captivated audiences all over the world with her unique burlesque stylings, humorous performance art, and emcee skills.
They have been photographed by hundreds of photographers including Patrick McMullan, Mario Testino, and David LaChapelle. *BOB* appears in several books including Hotel LaChapelle, New Burlesque, Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight, Burlesque: The New Bump and Grind, The Brooklynites, The Velvet Hammer Burlesque., Domestic Burlesque, Legends of Burlesque as well as The Burlesque Handbook and more. A collection of photos by Amy Touchette was published by UnGyve Press
entitled “Shoot the Arrow- A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*”.
Believing that television is “the theatre for the poor” *BOB* is a huge fan of the boob tube and has appeared on A&E’s The History of Cleavage as well as HBO’s Real Sex. He has graced the pages of over 50 national & international publications including The New York Times. The big screen suits *BOB* as well, with screen credits including John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus and Beth B.’s EXPOSED.
World Famous *BOB* for 12 years was a regularly scheduled guest speaker at NYU and has performed and appeared at over 20 U.S. Universities including Harvard, Yale, and Bard. She has performed all over the world and co created and starred in Young Jean Lee’s; “Untitled Feminist Show”. From NYC’s Dance
Theatre Workshop to Taylor Mac’s “The Lily’s Revenge”, to Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, World Famous *BOB* has brought crowds together by pointing out what we all have in common- the need for love and creating that with her art in the moment.
*BOB* continues their life in the spotlight and is also an Ultimate Self Confidence! Coach for people worldwide as well as the newly appointed Activities and Programming Specialist of Rainbow Connections ATX an intergenerational Queer non-profit they help Queerate. The proud Mother of the House of Famous where the motto is “Nice is the new fierce!” *BOB* lives in their Pink Poodle Palace in ATX with her wigs, Husbear, Poodles Biscuit & Daphne and Kitty Monkey. For more info visit
www.theworldfamousbob.com
Wig credit: Perfidia
Gown credit: David Quinn
Makeup (on all images): Nicolette Gold
Photos (all images) by: Chris Scalzi (copyright 2022)