Paige Turner
One of NYC’s most recognizable names in drag is “Showbiz Spitfire” PAIGE TURNER! Known as the love child of Barbie & Pee Wee Herman, this 2-time Glam Award winner tours internationally in her All-Live Sung one woman shows.
She is a headliner for OUTBOUND TRAVEL and has a summer residency in Provincetown at the acclaimed Post Office Café & Cabaret. Paige coined the phrase Slurp! which was NYC’s longest running drag show for 9.5 years.
She was an original cast member of the reality show Shade: QUEENS OF NYC (Fusion Network) and has been featured numerous times on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE! With Andy Cohen (Bravo), even portraying Mary Poppins for Dame Julie Andrews! Most recently she guest starred on Law and Order in a Drag Story Hour-related episode.
“Paige Turner is the ultimate theater queen and always gets everyone to sing along.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Paige has a Broadway powerhouse voice, filled with good cheer and openness!
CABARET SCENES
“Hilarious and delectably witty!”
OUT MAGAZINE
“In the same vein as the Carol Burnett Show and Pee Wee Herman!”
HUFFINGTON POST
“Paige is an excellent singer and performer with a gift for selling songs!”
BROADWAY WORLD
Jack Barrow
Jack Barrow could easily be the love child of Freddie Mercury and Liza Minelli if they had a child that ended up being just as fabulous as they were.
Actor, dancer, educator, good old fashioned lover boy and co-producer of burlesque variety shows alongside GoGo Gadget. Catch the Crack, Rack & Sack Revue, every first Thursday of the month at C’mon Everybody and Rock Solid, every second and fourth Tuesday at NYC’s Rockbar.
Barrow has been nominated for a wide array of burlesque awards including:
The Perfect Perfectionist
The Heartthrobber
The Peacekeeper
Ginger Maraschino
Since getting her start in 2022, this cabaret singer quickly began producing in her hometown of Kingston with the support of her local burlesque and queer community. In 2025, she produced the Hudson Valley’s first ever burlesque bash, a weekend dedicated to celebrating and honoring the art of the tease.
Equal parts cute and cheeky, it’s no wonder this babe is inspired by the infamous drink, the Shirley Temple. She’s the crimson kiss of chaos, Ginger Maraschino!
Rify Royalty
Drag-artist and gogo boy, Rify (“ree-fee”) Royalty, has been a mustachioed and glitter-speckled staple in Brooklyn and NYC nightlife for years. His characters and performances blur the lines between the traditionally masculine and feminine, and make us rethink what it means to be sexy. Pulling inspiration from everything from childhood memories to Pam Anderson to The Cell, Rify’s work tempers light-hearted play on pop culture with his own intimate, personal, and sometimes macabre sensibilities.
Forever reinventing his onstage personas, Rify pushes the boundaries of gender, and pushes for a more open and inclusive queer performance scene.
Scarlet Rose
She’s a the ultimate triple threat: Black, trans and disabled. Slaying all over the Hudson Valley, she inspires others with her performances showing that’s she’s not limited because of her physical limitations.
This is Scarlet’s first appearance at HUNG With Care.
Broody Valentino
The “Teddy Bear With Claws,” is a Boylesque performer based in New York City.
Balancing theatricality and camp has garnered him the epithet “The Telenovela of Burlesque” which has allowed him to: perform for the 2020 Virtual Burlesque Hall of Fame (VHOF), the 2018 Life Ball in Vienna, Austria, headline at the 2019 Capitol Burlesque Expo in Ottawa, Canada, receive the Legends Award at the 2018 Burlypicks World Championship, and be crowned the reigning King of New Jersey Burlesque at the New Jersey Burlesque Festival.
His other awards include the titles Best Overall, Master of Improv, and Master of Amazement at the first New Jersey Burlypicks Regional, the Golden Tassel for Best Boylesque at the 2017 Philadelphia Burlesque Awards, and The Beautiful Weirdo award at the 2017 Alterna-tease Neo-burlesque festival.
A proud member of the Latinx Burlesque community, Broody enjoys challenging the concepts of masculinity and body image through the use of humor, sensuality, and style showing audiences that the big guys can sparkle with the best of them!
Pearls Daily
An award winning showgirl, actress and filmmaker based in NYC, Pearls Daily has accumulated numerous credits onscreen and in theater, Most notably as “Mina Margery Crandon” in the macabre, Drama Desk Nominated Off-Broadway hit “Play Dead” directed by Teller and created by Todd Robbins, as “Minky Woodcock” in “Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini” and for her work on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”.
Her body of work includes film, TV, stand-up, sketch comedy, theater, improv, magic, and burlesque and both critics and peers have called Daily “Masterful”, “Transcendent” and “High Energy”.
The New York Times has dubbed her “Glittering and talented”, ”Spirited” and “Ebullient”. Best of Off-Broadway has called her “Superb. A true comedic actress who deserves great accolades for her work.” Ms. Daily has entertained at such prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center, The Magic Castle, Radio City Music Hall, The Geffen Playhouse, The Box, The Hangar Theater, The Liberty Theater , Duane Park, 34 Below, and The Slipper Room.
Mizzaddy
Mizzaddy (they/them) is a Puerto Rican Queer burlesque performer & producer based in New York City. Mizzaddy won the title of Mx. Kink at the NYC Leather & Lace Competition, has been nominated for Silver Tusk Awards, and is a 3X Best Burlesque nominee at the Glam Awards, celebrating NYC Nightlife.
They have performed across the U.S in many burlesque festivals. Outside of performing, they have also created spaces for Latine performance. Catch their Co-produced all Latine Burlesque show, Suavemente Mi Gente, every fourth Saturday at Pink Metal BK! Also, catch ¡MUÉVANSE!, an annual NYC Latine Burlesque Festival. Mizzaddy will twirl, kick, jump, and split into your hearts!
GoGo Gadget
as Stage Hunk + After-Party DJ
A pioneer in the world of male burlesque, GoGo Gadget has earned many awards including the title of The Bouncing Bubble Butt Beefcake of Burlesque. In 2019 he served as a headliner at the London Burlesque Festival and over the years has performed in Boston, New York City, Denver, Toronto, Paris, Stockholm and Vienna.
Known in the theatre world as Alberto Denis, he’s been involved with a wide range of productions including the Bessie’s Awards winning “Then She Fell” , “The Grand Paradise”, “Ghost Light” at Lincoln Center in 2017 and “Confection” commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC in 2019.