Hire a Burlesque Performer in Chicago: Red Hot Annie
Chicago · Private Events · Corporate Entertainment
An unforgettable moment, made for your room.
Featured burlesque, immersive hosting, and curated cabaret experiences from $1,250. Tell us your date, location, audience, and vision.
Elegant featured performances, immersive hosting, and curated cabaret experiences for private celebrations, corporate events, and extraordinary evenings.
Looking for a burlesque performer in Chicago who can do more than simply arrive, perform, and leave?
Red Hot Annie brings more than twenty years of performance, producing, and creative direction experience to private events, corporate celebrations, luxury parties, and immersive gatherings throughout Chicago.
Every booking begins with the same question:
What should this room actually feel like?
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Red Hot Annie is available for select Chicago events including:
- Private birthday celebrations
- Bachelorette weekends
- Cocktail parties
- Speakeasy events
- Corporate receptions
- Awards dinners
- Holiday parties
- Fundraising galas
- Brand activations
- Executive events
- Luxury hospitality experiences
You do not need to know exactly what kind of entertainment you need before reaching out.
Tell me about the room, the guests, the occasion, and the feeling you want to create.
I will recommend the format that makes the most sense.
Featured Burlesque or Cabaret Performance
Hire Red Hot Annie for one polished feature act designed to become a focal moment within your event.
This works particularly well when your evening already has a strong structure and you want one theatrical performance to punctuate it.
Ideal for:
- Luxury birthdays
- Cocktail parties
- Anniversaries
- Private dinners
- Intimate celebrations
- Selected corporate events
Beginning at $1,250
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Performance + Immersive Hosting
Sometimes the most interesting part of an event happens before and after the act.
This format combines a featured performance with elegant guest interaction, atmospheric hosting, character work, or carefully designed transitions throughout the evening.
Rather than entertainment appearing suddenly and disappearing again, the performance becomes part of the social world of the event.
Ideal for:
- Bachelorette weekends
- Speakeasy parties
- VIP celebrations
- Private clubs
- Themed dinners
- Cocktail receptions
Beginning at $1,850
Curated Cabaret Experience
For hosts who want something more intentional than a single act, Red Hot Annie can shape multiple performance moments around the atmosphere and flow of the evening.
This may include:
- Creative direction
- Multiple performance moments
- Character concepts
- Guest interaction
- Musical pacing
- Entertainment timing
- Transitions
- Additional Vaudezilla artists when appropriate
The goal is not simply to add more entertainment.
It is to make the entertainment feel as though it belongs to the room.
Beginning at $2,500
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Why Hire Red Hot Annie?
Clients are hiring more than a five-minute performance.
They are working with a performer and creative director who understands how entertainment changes the energy of a room.
That means considering:
- Who the guests are
- What they are expecting
- When attention is naturally available
- How formal or playful the room should feel
- Whether guests should watch, interact, discover, or participate
- How the performance enters and exits the evening
- How much spectacle the event can actually support
The result should feel intentional rather than inserted.
Luxury is not necessarily louder.
Very often, it is more precise.
More Than a Performance
A strong live performance changes more than the five minutes it occupies.
It changes the conversation around it.
Guests look up.
People lean toward one another.
The room suddenly has a shared event.
The best performances create a before and an after.
That is what I am looking for when I design entertainment for an event.
Trusted by Organizations That Value Guest Experience
Red Hot Annie and Vaudezilla have created performances and live entertainment for organizations including:
Harley-Davidson • Soho House Chicago • Curatrix
The work has ranged from private cabaret and immersive performance to branded entertainment, corporate celebrations, and large-scale live events.
Planning Something Larger?
Some clients arrive looking for one performer and discover that what they actually need is a larger entertainment concept.
For events involving multiple performers, specialty acts, roaming characters, large guest counts, or full entertainment production, Vaudezilla is usually the better home.
Corporate Entertainment
Galas, awards dinners, executive events, receptions, and large celebrations.
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Brand Activation Entertainment
Product launches, branded experiences, guest engagement, and experiential events.
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Corporate Holiday Parties
Interactive entertainment, specialty performers, themed characters, and full entertainment packages.
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Full Productions
Need more than performers?
Vaudezilla can build complete entertainment packages around your event.
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Looking for Creative Direction?
Some clients initially inquire about a performer and eventually realize the bigger question is not: Discuss creative direction with Annie →
“Who should perform?”
It is:
“What should this experience actually be?”
As a creative director, Red Hot Annie works with clients to shape entertainment, guest interaction, performance structure, characters, atmosphere, and the overall emotional rhythm of an event.
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Burlesque Performer in Chicago?
Professional burlesque pricing varies according to:
- Performer experience
- Event date
- Location
- Preparation
- Costuming
- Performance format
- Rehearsal requirements
- Customization
- Guest interaction
- Production needs
Red Hot Annie’s Chicago event offerings currently begin at:
Featured Performance — from $1,250
Performance + Immersive Hosting — from $1,850
Curated Cabaret Experience — from $2,500
These are professionally designed performance experiences rather than marketplace-style hourly dancer bookings.
For multiple dancers, atmosphere performers, specialty acts, or larger production, request a Vaudezilla proposal.
For a deeper look at pricing, read How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Burlesque Performer?
Selected Event Work
Harley-Davidson
Immersive entertainment created for one of America’s most recognizable brands.
Soho House Chicago
Cabaret and live performance created for an iconic private hospitality environment.
Midtown Athletic Club
Masquerade entertainment designed to transform a rooftop celebration into a more theatrical guest experience.
Templeton Rye Whiskey
Performance and guest experience created around brand atmosphere and storytelling.
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Curatrix
A fragrance launch where theatrical performance became part of the guest experience itself.
What Clients Say
“Our guests couldn’t stop talking about the atmosphere. Annie understood exactly how to elevate the evening without ever overwhelming it.”
“Professional, elegant, incredibly easy to work with, and unforgettable.”
“She didn’t just perform. She transformed the room.”
Frequently Asked Questions
We’ve never hired a burlesque performer before. Is that a problem?
Not at all.
Many clients are hiring burlesque or cabaret entertainment for the first time.
You do not need to know the terminology, format, or exact number of acts before getting in touch.
Tell me about your event and I will recommend the direction that makes sense.
Is burlesque appropriate for corporate events?
It can be.
Red Hot Annie has worked within private clubs, corporate events, nonprofit galas, hospitality environments, and branded experiences where professionalism and guest comfort are important.
The tone, costuming, interaction, and performance style can all be adapted to the event.
For larger corporate entertainment needs, explore Vaudezilla.
Does burlesque always include stripping?
No.
Burlesque is a theatrical performance tradition that may include costume reveals, striptease, dance, comedy, character, cabaret, or none of those elements.
The tone and level of reveal can be adapted to the audience and setting.
If you want to understand the form more deeply, read What Is Burlesque?
Will my guests be expected to participate?
Only when participation makes sense for the event.
Guest interaction should feel inviting rather than coercive.
Participation is never required simply because a performer is interacting with the room.
Can the performance be customized?
Yes.
Music, pacing, costuming, tone, character, performance style, and guest interaction can all be adapted.
More elaborate customization may fall into the curated cabaret or creative-direction formats.
Can I hire more than one performer?
Yes.
For multiple burlesque performers, specialty performers, roaming entertainment, or a complete cast, the project is generally produced through Vaudezilla.
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Reserve Your Date
Tell me what you are planning.
You do not need to decide whether you want a featured act, immersive hosting, a curated cabaret, or a larger production before reaching out.
Send me:
- Event date
- Venue or city
- Approximate guest count
- Type of occasion
- What you want the room to feel like
I will tell you what I think would work best.
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