02/04/2026
DAD’S BALL ROYALTY 2026 ANNOUNCED! 👑
APOSTROPHE
The life of the party…if you can get him there. The Times Square Elmo of New Orleans, serving high-concept/lowbrow chaos for decades. Performance art, comedy, horror, and utter stupidity collide.
COLIN SELF
Diva clown and community organizer crafting brave, improvisational liberation through music, performance, and puppetry. Always doing the most and assembling temporary communities between the living and deceased.
EDDIE LOCKWOOD (She/They)
Floating down from the heavens is your trans Colombian Goddexx. A nonbinary fairy and nightlife visionary, Eddie is the divine feminine incarnate and co-producer of Prettie Boi Presents.
FATSY CLINE
Ask her for a hole pic and she’ll show you her stigmata. Diva of the darkroom, patron saint of twinks, and bearer of many crowns. Come unto her, she has forbidden fruit for saints and sinners alike.
LA REINA
“The Ten Minute Stare Down.” A New Orleans cryptid hatched from the heart of Compton—mysterious, feral, and always hunting.
LUCERNE
Performance artist and designer transmuting fear into primal freedom. Forged 17 years ago in NYC’s Lower East Side burlesque clubs, Lucerne has terrorized stages across the U.S. Raised in a Christin cult, they revel in demonic form to question binary, spiritual, and moral systems.
MISTRESS VICTORIA DEVILLE
“The Twin Cities’ Dirty Little Secret.” Dragging since 2002, this bold, bald badass is creator of Suck It: Gag on the Drag and , and a competitor in EOY and Miss Gay USofA.
PUDDIN’ TAINE
Is evil inherited or learned? Born of decadent ancestors and fermented excess, Queen V Puddin’ Taine’s reigns in glorious debauchery. She tasted the forbidden fruit (whiskey breath and all) and liked it. Expect bacchanalia, rot, and indulgence spread like phylloxera across the dance floor one final night. Always the elephant in the room. Hail the Queen!
QUEEN QUAN
A sultry bird of paradise, fan maker, dancer, and predator of the stage. Voted 2024’s #1 Most Influential Burlesque Figure and 2025 Burlesque Hall of Fame’s Most Dazzling. A princess and a Qween. Open your mouths, hearts, and wallets for this Venusian creator of q***r content.