PeachyMembers
Meet the DSD Board of Directors, who steer the cooperative's high-level strategic, financial, and business goals.
Board of Directors
Buster von Strapp
He/Him
Director of Production
When Buster takes the stage, you could get anything from a sultry striptease to a maniacal visit to the dentist. One thing is for sure, though: you won’t be able to look away as he challenges and redefines conceptions of masculinity everywhere he performs. He’s Atlanta’s Boy Wonder Bombshell, Buster von Strapp!
Delilah Delights
She/Her
Director of Finance
Delilah Delights is a Double D Diva and member of Down South Delectables. She is a lifelong performer, poet, and multimedia artist. Although her passion for burlesque started later in life, it is her greatest love to date. Her hashtag personified: #sixtyisthenewsexy
Minnie Mercury
She/Her
Chairperson
A connoisseur of the creepy, executor of Excel, and master of the maudlin, Atlanta’s award-winning deranged darling, Minnie Mercury, brings her talents for dancing, choreographing, stage managing, and spreadsheets to the national and international burlesque arena. You never know if you’ll find her lurking in the shadows backstage or singing Sondheim in the spotlight, but you can guarantee that she has a Google Form ready for any occasion!
Mona Lata
She/Her
Secretary
The bad ass with a good ass, Mona Lata is a trained musician and dancer that brings a toe-tapping, booty-bumping good time to every performance. Mona is the Desi dream that specializes in Bollylesque! Her taunting gaze and sensual moves will lure you into submission and make you wanna Mona Lata.
Obsidian
She/Her
Director of Membership
Charming, flirty, and a little dirty, she leaves the audience wanting more of Her Royal Thighness. All who are blessed to behold her are immediately obsessed with Obsidian. All hail the Queen!
DSD has six elected members responsible for managing specific operational areas of the cooperative. They support the Board of Directors' goals.
Committee Stewards
Clementine Grinds/Jefff
Any
Outreach
Clementine Grinds is freshly picked and ready to squeeze! And their juice is always worth the squeeze. A GRINDuate of The Atlanta School of Burlesque in 2021, this citrus sensation drips across the stages of Atlanta, GA. Her sultriness can only be matched by her silliness. Clementine also performs draglesque as their super sexy persona, Jeffffff. He loves finger guns and flirtatious winks. Whether Clementine or Jefff, you'll always be served an abundance of face.
Eva Mae Sway
She/They
Recruitment
Eva Mae Sway is a Southern broad with indelicate sensibili-tease. She started shaking a lil’ something in the Deep South in 2020 and has twirled her tassels at Fatlesque Fest Northwest, Land of the Sky Burlesque Festival, Emolesque Fest, and Kiss My Grits! Vaudeville and Burlesque Festival. Now that they’ve eased on down to Atlanta, they can’t wait to sway into your heart!
Juniper Fizz
She/They
Marketing
Effervescent as a shook up bottle of champagne, she’s here to pop your corks. Glamorous and gam-orous, she can sing, she can dance, and she’s got one permanently cocked eyebrow. This teacher with the Atlanta Creative Arts and aspiring pin-up cartoon is mixing fizzness with pleasure! It’s Miss Juniper Fizz!
Lola LeSoleil
She/Her
Bookkeeping
For over 15 years, Lola LeSoleil has launched crowds to their feet from coast to coast with a repertoire ranging from reverent to ridiculous. Her affinity for burlesque history suffuses her creativity with context and depth. Lola is an instructor at Atlanta Creative Arts and a founding member of Down South Delectables. She’s also a frequent headliner, adjudicator, and presenter. You might also find her combing thrift stores…still in search of a 30 lb chandelier headdress.
Tupelo Honey
She/Her
Historian
Burlesque's "Hourglass and a Half," Tupelo Honey is steeped in a concoction of the silly, sexy, spooky, scholarly, and sartorial. She languidly pours across the stage: unhurried, deliberate, inevitable... and thick with heat. When not performing, she would almost certainly rather be at home reading.
Vida LaKitt
She/Her
Internal Conflicts
Hailing from Atlanta, GA, Vida LaKitt made her festival debut at the Asheville Burlesque and Sideshow Festival. This sultry siren hit the scene solo in 2023 and has been luring audiences into streamy places ever since. Whether her flow is sensuous or eerie, this brown sugar babe will tempt you with a smile and leave you craving more of her PHAT mystique.
Meet the co-op's Full-time Members, the entertainers and member-owners of this diverse burlesque and cabaret group.
Full-time Members
Axel Estelle
They/Them
Axel Estelle has lived on stage since birth. Theater is in their DNA. Sure, it put them in student loan debt, but at least they have a pretty diploma! Axel is an emcee and masclesque performer for multiple productions (including The DragonCon Burlesque Show) and teacher. They are also a member of Down South Delectables.
Greta von Danse
She/Her
Mount Saint Helen
She/Her
After years of bumping and grinding on her own, a seismic shift brought Mount Saint Helen to the burlesque stage. Her goal is to take you to the peaks of entertainment and make you erupt with applause and dollar bills. She gyrates, emotes, and entertains her way through festivals, conventions, and main stage shows. Mount Saint Helen is the mountain mistress with explosive allure.
Platinum Pussycat
She/Her
A fan of the silly, the sexy, and everything in between, Platinum Pussycat became a member of The Candybox Revue in 2022. She is a proud founding member of the Down South Delectables co-operative. Through group performance, she’s gotten to wriggle and writhe through sexy shows and spooky dances as well as create social commentary on America’s obsession with diet culture. Atlanta’s joyful wrecking ball is here to amuse and seduce you all.
Zara Estelle
They/Them
Zara Estelle is a multidisciplinary artist and educator dedicated to liberation of the creative spirit. They have two decades of experience and a foundation in technical dance. As the founder of Atlanta Creative Arts (ACA), Zara has built a cultural hub that empowers artists of all backgrounds. A Black, Queer, Woman/Non-binary leader, Zara prioritizes the visibility of marginalized voices, ensuring every body is celebrated and every story is told with integrity.
Meet the co-op's Part-time Members, the entertainers and member-owners of this diverse burlesque and cabaret group.
Part-time Members
Davina (the Chad) Dauntless
She/Her
Davina Dauntless, with cameos as the Chad, started burlesque back in 2022 and has moved through styles including comedy, slow burn, and a variety of characters. With thick thighs, those eyes, and moves that memorize. From 7 minutes in heaven being too long to your next insatiable habit, she’s burlesque’s holder of the smolder.
Dorothea DuMonde
She/Her
Kat Asstrophy
She/Her
Margot Moon
She/Her
Margot Moon wants to help bring weird to life by shining her light on both stage and screen. Whether it's through her own performances or making video projects with fellow DSD members, Margot is always ready to explore and support everything it takes to make a fantastic show happen!
Shy Riot
She/They
Slinking her way to the burlesque stage, Shy Riot brings sensationally sweet and sassy moves with a tang of ballroom. While her strides are long, her eyelashes are even longer. Appearing as both a playful pixie and a sultry siren, this Midwestern fae will enrapture your senses. You can’t have one without the other…. Shy Riot.
Vixie Todd
She/Her
Vixie Todd is the red-headed stepchild of Atlanta Burlesque. She has a BA in theatre (because she makes good decisions) and has performed in improvisational and interactive theatre around Atlanta. She’s a silly stargazing storyteller who writes, wiggles, and does witchy shit! And she is ready to make things weird. Call her pretty, call her odd! Attend the tale of Vixie Todd.
Our Reserve Members are founding members or former full-time members who have moved away from the Atlanta area but are still dedicated to DSD's mission.
Reserve Members
Desta Del Carmen
She/Her
Talloolah Love
She/They
Talloolah Love, Atlanta-based burlesque baddie in a body! She founded ABC’s and 123’s of Burlesque in 2009. She led Burlesque Atlanta Society for ten years, co-founded Atlanta School of Burlesque in 2013, and the award-winning CandyBox Revue in 2014. She was the mind behind the #IamBurlesque body empowerment movement in 2016, and was the Phil Slomski Artist of the Year in 2019. She truly is “The Queen of the Subtle-Tease!”