Meet the Cast of HUNG With Care’s 2024 Season

The 2024 season features three performances:

• Black Friday November 29th @ City Winery Hudson Valley (Montgomery)
• Saturday November 30th @ The Rosendale Theatre (Rosendale)
• Sunday December 1st @ Lark Hall (Albany)

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

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.

A master of transformation with a wicked wit, Cheeky Lane takes the art of strip tease up several notches with her flawless surrealist sculptural costumes and her over the top stage presence that is at once smart and the most delicious naughtiness you’ll ever encounter.

Twinky Boots is a 2-time Glam Awards winner for Best Burlesque & co-director of Members Only Boylesque.

Teasy Roosevelt has been performing burlesque for over ten years and has incorporated their love of history and their extensive comedic experience into their burlesque persona. They are the producer of the American history burlesque show, Teasy Roosevelt’s Guide to Titstory (NYC) and is a co-founder of the burlesque troupe, Pop Culture Provocateurs in Albany, NY.

Teasy has performed in such festivals as the Empire Burlesque Festival, the Midwest Nerdlesque Festival, Lebowski Fest, the Mile High Burlesque Festival, FlameCon, and the Vermont Burlesque Festival to name a few. They were voted, “2018’s Best Burlesque Performer in the Capital District” by the Alt Weekly (now Collaborative Magazine). Teasy can also be found in various cities teaching burlesque and improv comedy. Right now they are probably somewhere shaking their ass-sets and twirling their tassels in a Nixon mask. God Breast America!

Jon Joni is a queer Black aerialist, dancer, and burlesque performer. Their performances give you a gender fluid rendition of the power that is black magic.