Sparkletown Productions is a collaboration between Boston-based performers Femme Brulée and Jane Doe. Together, they strive to showcase the best and brightest burlesque and cabaret in Beantown. Each of our shows is carefully curated to bring you diversity of genres, styles, and performers. Sparkletown aims to bring you burlesque that pushes the envelope and blows your mind.
THE PRODUCERS
You may have seen Femme Brulée around town diving into cakes, leading a chorus line of tap-dancing lobsters, or falling in love with a giant piece of poop. She is the founder and choreographer of the Glitter Bombs (Boston’s Premier Strip Hop Troupe), a member of the Bloodstains burlesque troupe, is a founder and producer of Alterna-TEASE: The New England Neo-Burlesque Festival, now in it's second year. Ms. Brulée has performed in the holiday burlesque spectacular, The Slutcracker, for six years, and has appeared in oodles of burlesque shows across the country. You can find more Femme Brulée at femme-brulee.com.
Jane Doe is a Boston-based burlesque performer and producer — and a very busy bee. She's a proud co-founder of local Boston troupe Bitches of Destiny, and she performs with two other local-troupes: The Bloodstains, and strip-hop troupe The Glitter Bombs. She is also one of the producers of Alterna-Tease: The New England Neo-Burlesque Festival, along with festival co-founders, Femme Brulee and Lolli Hoops.
After working together at Axe to Ice Productions, Jane Doe and Femme Brulee founded Sparkletown Productions in 2012, and they've been partners in sparkle-crime ever since. Jane is obsessed with blood, badassery, burlesque, and finding ways to combine the three. You can find her elsewhere online at www.thatjanedoe.com.
After working together at Axe to Ice Productions, Jane Doe and Femme Brulee founded Sparkletown Productions in 2012, and they've been partners in sparkle-crime ever since. Jane is obsessed with blood, badassery, burlesque, and finding ways to combine the three. You can find her elsewhere online at www.thatjanedoe.com.
OUR HOSTS
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Madge of Honor Madge of Honor is a high-concept stripper and queer showman who has performed across the US and UK. Madge takes an incisive and subversive approach to drag and burlesque without sacrificing a single ounce of glamour. Madge is well known for sharing too much personal sexual information while hosting the annual holiday asstravaganza "The Buttcracker." Madge won a Judge's Choice Award at the Alternatease Festival in it's inaugural year. To see more of Madge's work, visit www.madgeofhonor.com.
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Mehran Khaghani is a standup comedian, emcee, actor, event producer, upstart, social advocate, serial yeller, trouble-maker, love-spreader, line-pusher and brain to be reckoned with who is currently living in the Boston area. Remarkably gay and of Iranian descent, Mehran has a well earned reputation as a performer who can make any event a raucous, joyous, memorable success.
He has raved extensively, bartended to the point where he’s burned every imaginable bridge in the restaurant industry and really threw his loved ones for a loop when, for a period of four years, he held a series of rather serious administrative positions at Harvard University. In 2007, he began his career in standup comedy and took to the medium like a fish to water. In his second year in comedy and first year competing, Mehran made the finals of the Boston International Comedy Festival. He has been nominated in the Best Comedian category of the Boston Phoenix’ Best of Boston poll every year since 2010, winning the title his first year. Word on the street is that he was slated to win in 2012, but the damn magazine went out of business. Ain’t that bout a bitch.
He has has worked with global acts such as Maz Jobrani, Eugene Mirman, Amanda Palmer and Tom Green and has no intention of ever stopping to regale the masses with his unique brand of highbrow vulgarity– not until he dies or he makes enough money to fund a private militia. Just like Celine Dion.
He has raved extensively, bartended to the point where he’s burned every imaginable bridge in the restaurant industry and really threw his loved ones for a loop when, for a period of four years, he held a series of rather serious administrative positions at Harvard University. In 2007, he began his career in standup comedy and took to the medium like a fish to water. In his second year in comedy and first year competing, Mehran made the finals of the Boston International Comedy Festival. He has been nominated in the Best Comedian category of the Boston Phoenix’ Best of Boston poll every year since 2010, winning the title his first year. Word on the street is that he was slated to win in 2012, but the damn magazine went out of business. Ain’t that bout a bitch.
He has has worked with global acts such as Maz Jobrani, Eugene Mirman, Amanda Palmer and Tom Green and has no intention of ever stopping to regale the masses with his unique brand of highbrow vulgarity– not until he dies or he makes enough money to fund a private militia. Just like Celine Dion.
THE SPARKLE-TOWNIES
Dinah DeVille If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will... Big heels, big engines, big dogs, big hair, big dreams.
Red lipstick, red wine, rock and roll. Veteran slut, Sparkletownie and proud Lipstick Criminal. Mother of “The Bloodstains.” Producer/director/performer at other fun times like Punk Rockin’ and Pastie Poppin’, The Cahd-Fish Ball, Return to Candyland and All Cramped Up. You may already stalk me, but heres some help with that:
facebook.com/Dinah.DeVille
Red lipstick, red wine, rock and roll. Veteran slut, Sparkletownie and proud Lipstick Criminal. Mother of “The Bloodstains.” Producer/director/performer at other fun times like Punk Rockin’ and Pastie Poppin’, The Cahd-Fish Ball, Return to Candyland and All Cramped Up. You may already stalk me, but heres some help with that:
facebook.com/Dinah.DeVille
Honey Pie may sound all warm and sweet, but she will perform solos for you that will eat your heart out, spit it back in your face and have you asking for more... and it will turn you on in a way you didn't think was possible. Honey Pie can be seen performing with Babes in Boinkland, The Glitter Bombs, The Bloodstains, and in everyone's favorite naughty holiday extravaganza, The Slutcracker. Honey Pie has shared the stage with the rest of the Sparkletown family the last couple of years and in many other productions at Oberon and has danced in Montreal, Las Vegas and New York.
Claude Kitten is a burlesque and drag artist, queering pop music and popular culture with his narrative-driven performances. Claude regularly performs in Boston and is often described as small, strange, and clever.
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Kid Vicious is a tiny, tap dancing terror. She's a trained dancer, a punk rocker, and the newest resident of Spahkletown. Vicious is also a member of the Bloodstains, a Boston-based burlesque troupe infamous for their filth and that time of the month. When not performing, Kid Vicious likes to spend her time sipping margaritas in the company handsome men and her cat.
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