Holly Dai- FOUNDER and PRODUCER
Portland’s long legged lovely debuted in 2009 alongside the Rose City Shimmy. She founded the very first school in Oregon to teach burlesque and has been teaching since 2010. Notable performances include the Windy City Burlesque Festival; Chicago Illinois, The Great Burlesque Exposition awarded Most Classic 2011; Boston Massachusetts, The Las Vegas Burlesque Festival. Holly Dai has toured the West Coast performing in Seattle, Oakland, Ventura, and San Diego, California to name a few. She’s taught classes for the Portland belly dance convention JamBallah and has been accepted to teach classes for the national convention for burlesque instruction, BurlyCon.

Lola Coquette-PRODUCER
The Pitbull of Burlesque Lola Coquette is a multi-award winning international showgirl, producer & instructor based in Portland, recently voted #15 in the 21st Century Burlesque Magazine Most Influential Burlesque Industry Figures in the World! Lola is a founding member of The Bees’ Knees Burlesque Revue, rotating cast member of DIva Drag Brunch & Sinferno Cabaret, executive producer of Lola Coquette Presents & CuriosiTEASE, co-producer of “Signature Burlesque! with Kit & Lola”and executive co-producer of The Oregon Burlesque Festival.  A blaze of fire on & off stage, she is an activist for BIPOC & Latinx rights, celebration and historical representation, she is also the co-producer of BurlesqueLatinx, co-curator of #burlesqueLatinx Social Network platforms and co-founder of the Burlesque Latinx Performer Database, coming to you soon! During quarantine, Lola co-produced the Virtual Weekender Rhinestone the Vote; An ACLU Benefit Show. This past year Lola has the honor of being in two showcases for 2021 Virtual Fundraiser for Burlesque Hall of Fame and a 2021 What The Funk All BIPOC Funk Festival PNW Featured Performer! Recently in 2022, Lola was inducted into the Seattle Burlesque Hall of Fall, returned to world-renowned Show-Me Burlesque & Vaudeville Festival’s Spectalaire in St. Louis has embarked on the LIVE production of 2022 Rhinestone the Vote with Industry Icons Nina NIghtshade & Bee Bee Sanchez, this October!

RiRi SynCyr-PRODUCER
Originally hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and founder of the original BurlesqueFests.Com spreadsheet in 2010, RiRi SynCyr has worked with and studied under some of the biggest names and legends in burlesque. Her passion for continuing education extends to her role as Director of Development for BurlyCon. She currently calls Portland, Oregon her home and loves keeping it weird alongside her PNW familia.

Kissy LaMay-STAGE MANAGER

Our amazing stage manager and kitten wrangler for the Oregon Burlesque Festival is Kissy LaMay. After a lifetime of acting, dancing, and singing lessons, she paraded into burlesque 6 years ago and never looked back. She has performed in festivals across the country and can regularly be found onstage in Portland, Oregon where she lives and works. She is 1/3rd of the Bees Knees Revue, a burlesque troupe known for keeping it classically weird with their vintage-inspired dance routines. Kissy is also the newest instructor at All That Glitters Burlesque Academy. In addition to stage managing for the Oregon Burlesque Festival, she is also the stage manager for Portland’s long-running classic burlesque show, Papermoon Cabaret. Whether she’s picking up panties or dropping them herself, Kissy’s bubbly charm will enchant you!