Booking Nasty
Want Nasty Canasta to be a part of your show or event? With over 25 different numbers in active rotation (and more added all the time), plus several seasonal and special occasion acts, she's sure to have something that fits your affair perfectly. Email to book Nasty solo. Or perhaps you'd like Nasty to bring an entire show to your venue, town, state, country, or continent? Email for the whole shebang.





Known Associates
Known associates include Wasabassco Burlesque, Revealed Burlesque, erstwhile mayoral companion Jonny Porkpie, and potentially evil twin Kobayashi Maru.

Nasty Canasta: Performer
Watch video of some of Nasty's signature acts: The Unknown Stripper, Lojack, Mariutch and Insomnia.



Nasty has performed with these fantastic shows: Wasabassco, Revealed, Monday Night Burlesque, Casino O'Fortune Productions, The G Spot, Anita's Underground, Starshine, The Skulduggery and Skin Show, Sugar Shack, Badass, Mr. Choade's Upstairs/Downstairs & The Hot Box, Le Scandal, Fisherman's Burlesque, The Bing Bamboo Room, Lobster Boy Revue, The Whoopee Club (London), Tease-O-Rama, The New York Burlesque Festival, The Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz, The Burlesque Hall of Fame Exotic World Pageant (2nd Runner Up for Miss Exotic World in 2010 and, in 2007, the first-ever winner of the "Most Innovative" award), The London Burlesque Festival and more. In addition to burlesque, she is a snake charmer and contortionist with the world-famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow in Brooklyn, NY.

And at these fantastic venues: NYC: The Slipper Room, Joe's Pub, Performance Space 122, Under St. Marks, The Living Room Lounge, Union Hall, Red Room, Mo Pitkin's, Don Hill's, The Delancey, HERE, Lucky Cheng's, Thompkins Square Park, The Flea, The Zipper Factory, Bowery Poetry Club, The Cutting Room, Rose Live Music, Element, WOW Café, The Women's Project, The Royale Brooklyn, Parkside Lounge, CBGBs, The Edison Hotel, The Kraine Theater, The Woolworth Building, Arlene's Grocery, Lotus, The Cock, Skate Key Roller Rink, Southpaw, North Six, Galapagos, Public Assembly, Lucky Cat Café, Juvie Hall, The Frying Pan, Union Pool, Crobar, Niagara, The Museum of Sex, Studio B, Anthology Film Archives, IFC Center, The Players Club, Le Poisson Rouge, Dixon Place (and many more); Montauk NY: Solé East; Albany NY: Savanna's, Red Square, Club Phoenix; MA: The Beehive Boston, The Hancock Center (Boston), Club Helsinki (Berkshires); Las Vegas NV: The Palms Casino, The Orleans Casino, Krave, The Celebrity Theater, The Plaza Casino; San Francisco: Bimbo's; Washington DC: The Warehouse Theater, Chief Ike's, The Palace of Wonders; OH: Gilly's (Dayton), Circus (Columbus), Oberlin College (Oberlin), Sachsenheim Hall (Cleveland); London, England: Last Days of Decadence, Bethnal Green Workingman's Club, Bush Hall.

Additionally, she has taught private and group burlesque classes, lectured at Seattle BurlyCon, and is a guest professor with Sugar Shack South (Richmond, VA).

Nasty Canasta: Producer
Nasty is the producer of Sweet & Nasty Burlesque, and co-producer of Pinchbottom Burlesque and the NYC branch of Naked Girls Reading, as well as a member of the Burlesque Alliance. As such, she has produced shows in Manhattan at Collective:Unconscious, The Flea, Performance Space 122, The Slipper Room, RiFiFi, Siberia, Corio, Madame X, Fontanas, Spiegelworld, and Off-Broadway at The Zipper Factory and The Bleecker Street Theater; in Brooklyn at Coney Island's Burlesque at the Beach, Southpaw, North Six, Galapagos, and Public Assembly; in Asbury Park, NJ at Asbury Lanes; in Boston, MA at The Beehive.

Nasty Canasta: Pimp
Some of the fabulous burlesque & variety performers in New York City:
Jo Boobs
Little Brooklyn
Clams Casino
Anita Cookie
Schaffer the Darklord
Darlinda Just Darlinda
Bastard Keith
GiGi La Femme
Legs Malone
Naughtia Nice
Peekaboo Pointe
Jonny Porkpie
Creamy Stevens
Tigger!
Delirium Tremens
Ruby Valentine

... and beyond:
Black Cat Burlesque (Boston)
Indigo Blue (Seattle)
Sparkly Devil (San Francisco)
Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey (Baltimore)
Des O'Connor (London)
The Von Foxies (Seattle)