Riv is a queer visual and performance artist who uses chaos and humor to both disarm and captivate her audience. She produces, performs in, and edits her own comedy show, Stupid Hawt Cooking Show, a blend of improv, satire, bad cooking, and feminine rage. The show also weaves in messages on social issues such as sustainability, ableism, and consent. In 2021, Riv co-founded Stripper Co-op, and in 2022, she went on strike and successfully unionized Star Garden. In previous roles, she has produced art shows and managed music programs at three Boys & Girls Clubs in Southern California.

Reagan (she/her) is a queer stripper of over 16 years, a performance artist, activist, union organizer, and AEA Union theatre artist, with BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from St. Mary’s College of MD and an MFA in Acting from CalArts. When L.A. clubs shut down in 2020 she co-founded the Cyber Clown Girls virtual show which collectively raised over $50,000 for nonprofits and mutual aid during the COVID-19 crisis as well as financially supported out-of-work members of the stripper community. In 2021 she co-founded the Stripper Co-op, and in 2022 she helped to unionize Star Garden.

Kyler O’Neal is an actor, singer, songwriter, model, dancer, recording artist and self-published author. Through her arts she exposes others to a different point of view in the name of awareness, social justice, romantic justice, expression and equity. For more info or creative indulgence, visit www.kyleroneal.com

Antonia Crane is a writer, queer sex worker, filmmaker, and PhD candidate at USC. She is the author of Spent and Pandemic Peep Show, and a longtime advocate for sex worker rights. A founding member of the first stripper union at The Lusty Lady in the ’90s, she received Antioch University’s Outstanding Community Service & Activism Award. Her writing appears in The New York Times, The Nation, N+1, and Whorephobia, edited by Lizzie Borden. Her debut short film Lady Los Angeles won Best LGBT Film at the 2024 Palermo International Film Festival. She lives in Los Angeles. 

Coco Ono, aka Kayla Tange, is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist whose work uses dark humor and satire to confront the commodification of emotional and physical labor—shaping performances, installations, and archives from lived experience. She has danced in clubs across Los Angeles and beyond for nearly two decades, and her work is shaped by that intimacy with spectacle and transaction. Tange co-founded Stripper Co-op, Cyber Clown Girls, and Sacred Wounds, and co-created Private Practices AAPI Sex Worker and Performance Art Collection at the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. www.kaylatange.com

Mariah Darling is an activist performer and published author. She has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, and the Los Angeles Independent for her activism work. Her proudest moments were working with the West Hollywood Social Justice Coalition. She is a proud member of the stripper co-op, which is dancer owned and operated pop-up burlesque show here in Los Angeles.

A divine mix of strength, seduction, and stage presence, Halo (he/they/she) isn’t just a dancer—they’re an experience. From sultry floorwork to gravity-defying pole tricks, they bring raw energy, grace, and power to every performance. Known for their hypnotic flow and unapologetic confidence, they create a space where fantasy meets freedom. Whether you’re here for the tease or the talent, you won’t forget the vibe. Catch them under the lights—dripping in sweat, velvet, and pure bad bitch energy. They don’t just perform, they embody desire.

Ace Exotic is a Latina and Middle Eastern sex worker who runs Acro Strip Show—an inclusive strip show celebrating performers of all shapes, sizes, and gender identities.

NatsHoney is not just a dancer — she’s a disruptor. From the main stage to the meeting room, she spins magic into movements. President of Strippers United, VP of YAS Work.org, Co-coordinator of Stripper Co-Op, and a devoted mother, she mentors artists while slaying the pole with glow-in-the-dark whips. A policy poet and Canva sorceress, she transforms advocacy into art and strategy into spectacle. Whether raising funds or raising fists, she’s a velvet-wrapped battering ram for artist autonomy and labor liberation. Celebrate her brilliance as we honor the radical heart of Stripper Co-Op at Circa Queer Festival!

Charm is an actor, writer, and dancer from Michigan living in Los Angeles California. Featured in film and television series’ for networks such as Apple TV, HBO, OWN, Netflix, and most notably as “Diamond” in Cannes Film Festival’s 2024 Palm d’Or and 2025 Oscar’s Best Picture winning film Anora by Sean Baker, much of her creative work is influenced by her experience as a sex worker and labor rights organizer.

VELVEETA, aka Leona Skywalker (she/her), came to Los Angeles from the midwest in 2017. She started her career at Star Garden that same year. In 2022 she led her coworkers in a walk-out protesting unsafe working conditions. They picketed for 8 months and officially became union strippers in 2023. She co-founded Stripper Co-op in 2021 to establish a worker-owned and operated strip club, paving the way for co-ops in the adult entertainment industry. She is also a feature entertainer known as Butt Rock Barbie, the Chainsaw Stripper™️, on the strip club circuit. You can follow her at buttrockbarbie.com.