Welcome to Jo & Jonny's Parlour Peignoir, a titillating new burlesque talk show where the conversation is as tantalizing as the performances.

Jo Weldon, headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, and Jonny Porkpie, purveyor of scripted striptease entertainments, invite you to step into their parlour for an evening of burlesque--in flavors ranging from glamorous to unhinged--and other live entertainments.

After unveiling their prodigious talents, guests in the Parlour will don decadent dressing gowns for an intimate tête-à-tête with their hosts, in which they might reveal more than they bargained for... and for a burlesque performer, that's saying something!

"Every show will be concocted using a slightly different recipe," explains Weldon. "A generous serving of burlesque is always our base ingredient, of course, but the mix might also include live music, literary readings, performance art, variety, illustrated talks, prestidigitation, humor, short films, dance—"

"—basically, anything we're excited to share with an audience," added Porkpie. "And in addition to the performances, we’ll offer the extra titillation of conversation."

Special Guests for 4/27/24

Airloom Beats

A New York based beatboxer and educator who aims to connect and inspire people through music regardless of their background. With roots as the beatboxer for Rutgers University's award winning all-female acapella group ShockWave, Arabelle strives to showcase the dynamics within her art form while emphasizing a sense of community. Working through non-profit organizations like BEAT Global, Get Empowered and Kids Creative, she facilitates professional developments, workshops, and classes in beatboxing, loop station song production, and hip hop culture with special needs populations and participants of all ages across the Tristate area. She is a BEAT Global T3 certified instructor.

Miss AuroraBoobRealis

an interdisciplinary performing artist creating in the intersections of burlesque, dance, theater and poetry. She has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with a focus on 20th Century Black Radical Artists and the intersections of dance, poetry, and theater. She is the co-founder of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque, and back in 2007, Brown Girls Burlesque. In 2018 brASS Burlesque’s reoccuring show in Brooklyn, Compost Bin: A RadicalASS Cabaret to Deal with the World, was featured in the New York Times. In 2019 Compost Bin was featured in Teen Vogue.

Cashlee Banks

A bad-and-bougie, campy queen who made her debut in the New York School of Burlesque student showcase in December 2022. She is an all the way uptown girl from the Bronx and draws her inspiration from the creative, collaborative and competitive hip-hop culture that was born there. As an artist her goal is to celebrate blackness outside of the lens of respectability politics to highlight that “black excellence” is simply black. She is a lady who is street and a freak in the balance sheets.

Patrick Davis

Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Patrick Davis has been amazing New York audiences for well over a decade. During that time he has become one of New York's most in demand performers with a corporate client list that includes Google, Chase Bank, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Amazon and many more. Additionally, Patrick has acted as a magic consultant for both stage and television and was also the creator and producer of The Society of Conjurers And Magicians, a unique puzzle based magical experience. Patrick appears nightly in Speakeasy Magick, an exclusive and intimate show featuring New York's most elite magicians. He and Jonny produced the weekly magic/burlesque/variety show The Amazing Miracle Hour together in 2015.

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Peekaboo Pointe

A performance artist, burlesque performer, and choreographer. As a headliner she toured Australia, Canada, and across the US. Peekaboo self produced 5 international 6 week tours across Europe and South Africa. She was a guest artist in Vive le Cabaret at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And joined the long running French Cabaret show Cabaret New Burlesque for 3 months. She was a cast member in the long running New York City shows: This is Burlesque with Murray Hill (2007-9) and Guilty Pleasures (2006-7) Currently, she is a resident performer at The Slipper Room and Duane Park. Outside of burlesque she has had the honor of choreographing and performing for Taylor Mac’s 24 decades of popular music. (2013-2018: NYLA, UCLA, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Montclair Theater, Celebrate Brooklyn). She was a dancer and collaborator for the dance company, Gesel Mason Performance Project’s piece Antithesis (2014-16). In addition to performing burlesque in nightclubs around the world, she is currently creating interdisciplinary multimedia dance theater in NYC, and has presented work at HERE Arts, Dixon Place and Wild Project.

...and more!

TBA

...plus an additional guest still to be announced!

with your hosts...

Jonny Porkpie

A burlesque performer, emcee, writer, and producer, Jonny recently retired from a decade-long stint as a producer and emcee at The Burlesque Hall of Fame to focus on his first love: scripted theatrical burlesque shows. These shows—which include Off-Broadway productions of “Pretençión: un burlesque de cirque” and "Dead Sexy" (returning from the grave this October)—have been lauded as the “Best Burlesque” in NYC by New York Magazine and the Village Voice. His burlesque game show "The Naked Truth" toured to over 30 cities in 5 countries on 3 continents. After a celebrated run last December, his “Filthy Lucre: A Burlesque Christmas Carol” returns to the Laurie Beechman theater for the holiday season, and his (2nd!) Marx Brothers homage “A Day on the Boardwalk, A Night at the Stripshow” can be seen this May as part of Marxfest 2024. He has, ludicrously, an MFA in Creative Writing for Children.

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Jo Weldon

nternationally recognized performing arts instructor, essayist, and author of two books, The Burlesque Handbook and Fierce: The History of Leopard Print. Jo has worked as a strip joint stripper, call girl, centerfold, dominatrix, burlesque performer, and more since 1979. She has been an adult entertainment workers’ rights activist and advocate since 1994, lobbying at city hall meetings, legislative events, and conferences, including at the United Nations. In 2023 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from GANYC (Guides Association of New York City) in recognition of her activism and contributions to the culture of the city. She is currently a scholar-in-residence at the New York Public Library Center for Research in the Humanities, where she is exploring the intersections of adult entertainment work, fashion, and culture. Her one woman show "What I Wore to Work" continues at the Laurie Beechman Theater through 2024.

Porkpie Productions & Jo Weldon in association with Spin Cycle present Parlour Peignoir

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