Our host Bobby Knauff is an award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, voice actor and puppeteer. He has appeared in numerous commercials, tv shows & cartoons, has toured across Canada as a headliner with Yuk Yuks, and has participated in top festivals NXNE, JFL Toronto, Icebreakers Comedy Festival and the Toronto Festival of Clowns. He has a widely played comedy album “Rock Bottom” and performs regularly with his puppet buddy Andre the Alien or Harold the Sasquatch.

Chris-Liz is a Queer Afro-Indigenous interdisciplinary artist with an interest in playful technology, audience interaction and devised creation. They developed the system for controlling theatres with video game controllers as part of their research residency at Nightswimming.

Honeyball Puppetry creates strange, thought-provoking worlds: exploring, adventuring, and experimenting.

Mark Terrett is a filmmaker and puppeteer based in Toronto. On stage he has been seen as Nicky and Trekkie in Avenue Q (Puppetco) and Audrey 2 in Little Shop of Horrors (TheatreTO), and has worked behind the scenes with Underknown Inc, Spotlight Productions and Skyship Productions.

Sweets is Toronto's favourite meow meow girl, a purveyor of camp and feline ferocity! Previously based in Oslo, Sweets has brought her signature combination of kooky comedy and knack for musicality to Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, and beyond. An award-winning burlesque performer, this ginger bobblehead has been taking over stages one stop, drop, and roll at a time.

If you've never had a Tarot Reading before, relax, you can still say that after we're done here! Alien Tarot is about abducting you into your own best timeline through sci-fi comedy, pop lyrics and expert timing.

Ruy Nieves is a versatile actor, clown, and multi-instrumentalist with broad experience across screen, stage, and community arts. He loves engaging audiences through physical comedy, interactive festival roaming, and puppet animation across the GTA. Ruy blends story, music, and play to connect with people of all ages.

Tiffany began her clowning journey at Sweet Action Theatre, two years ago where she attended classes with Jesse Buck. Since then, she has met Shishitzu, a fine lady who’s shaken her world and led her down many surprising paths. She hopes she can keep up!

She-wee Herman is a burlesque performer who has celebrated nerdy curds and whey their entire life. They enjoy naked puzzling, playing farkle on the beach, sweating to the oldies, debating life's biggest philosophical question: "I know you are but, what am I?" and practicing long, long, looooooong division. They believe nerds are sexy and deserve to take up space - not just in their pocket protectors. One final question: Got any cheese?

Our host Dank Sinatra (they/them) is the sexiest clown in town! A drag thing, librarian, and award nominated theater artist, Dank has been singing, dancing, and flailing their way into hearts across Turtle Island since 2018 with their special brand of old-school influence, gender hazy sensuality, and straight up clownery.  

Christine Moynihan has spent the past 50 years working in the live performing arts as actor, producer, technician, administrator and executive director. In 2019 she returned to performing with her one-woman clown show, Outside Ethel: Inside; in 2022 with Inside Ethel:Outside and is working on part 3: Ethel Everywhere. Nonna Gina is NOT Ethel.

Randy Boots puts the grand in daddy - exposing himself to audiences with acts that are silly and strange. His crafty creations have been tossed off at burlesque festivals in Saskatoon, Halifax, Toronto, and Montreal - and he has also been lucky to appear twice before at What The Festival. Randy always goes that extra inch to show the world his love of peeling, puns, props, and puppets!

Sizzle Disco is a queer Brazilian burlesque performer based in Toronto. You may have seen her at local stages like the Sugar Shack, Nerd Girl Burlesque and Rocky Horror TO, or at the Atlantic Burlesque Festival in Halifax.

With a background in filmmaking and a passion for cinema history, Sizzle is known for celebrating characters from TV and movies through joyful, outlandish, genderbending acts that astound, amuse and allure!

Herbie is a queen of all trades! You’ll never know what you’re going to get from her, from zombies to aliens to being drop dead gorgeous it’s all Herbie and Herbie can do it all!

Pulling up in the clown car from Buffalo, New York- Marzipan is the clown that your therapist warned you about. They’re pissed at the government, but working overtime to distract you from it. Here to remind you, if you want to cry at the collapse of society, make sure laugh at the side of your friends! Marzipan is know for many circus talents but the magic of seduction might be the most powerful of them all.

Princess Sparkle Penny is an emerging performer in the Toronto burlesque scene. Their skills in costume design and creation, hula hooping, and bad acting combine with their expansive imagination to create joyful, unforgettable acts.

Kuya Atay is Toronto’s FilipinX Ube Babe, your "Hello M'am/Sir'' of Burlesque. Pulling faces in Nerdlesque, dripping in Boylesque, and unzipping with pinoy charm with a dash of stupid. Part of Canada’s premier Boylesque troupe, BoylesqueTO. As a Sculptural Visual artist, they are versatile in prop making and stage masks that lend to their performance magic of Kuya.

Hot Honey Ham is a stubborn Toronto queen who is ALL ass, plenty of sass, allergic to cheap jewelry, and is not quite sure how she got here! She’s SWEATY, She’s SWEET, and she’s a bonifide HAM.