In The News Lukki has been featured in Bust Magazine (April/May, 2008), NPR's Morning Edition, NY1, Washington Square News, Washington Square News (again), Time.com, The WIC, and her image has graced the pages of the Washington Post, Washington Blade, Express (DC), Bizarre, L Magazine, and many others. She has appeared in documentaries including 5'2" and Showy and WCTV's critically acclaimed Chronicle, among others. Other awards and accolades include being voted "Sexiest Alien" at Coney Island and being featured in the New York Burlesque Calendar as "May."   The Story of Lukki Then Lukki (a.k.a. Lucky), the burlesque legend of stage and screen, began her illustrious career at Texas Guinan's 300 Club at the tender age of 18. She became a regular fixture in speakeasies and clubs around the globe including, in New York City, Club Intime, Club Argonaut, the Century Club and, in Chicago, the Paramount, the Copacabana (with the Wally Wanger Girls) and at Club De Lisa (with Sun Ra). Lukki also appeared on Broadway in Padlocks of 1927 and toured throughout the country as a principal fan dancer in Too Hot For Paris (which, incidentally, turned out to be apropos as the show was banned in France!). Lukki performed at the Chicago World's Exposition (The Century of Progress, 1933) as Sally Rand's back-up dancer and also as a hoochie koochie dancer in the Tunisian Village. Gracing the silver screen with her angelic presence, Lukki appeared in a number of Hollywood blockbusters including I Am Suzanne and Boys and Girls Together. Lukki also penned a number of important exposes and articles about her glamorous life, the collection of which--along with new commentary and never-before-seen photographs--is currently under contract with a major New York publisher. The Story of Lukki Now Renowned scholar and performance artist has carefully reconstructed the obscure yet fascinating career of Lukki from the scant remaining archival materials that still remain documenting this infamous performer. Thanks to careful archival work and the occasional artistic license, Lukki has been modernized for a discerning 21st-century audience and, once again, has been placed center stage where she belongs. On Stage Lukki has become a regular fixture in New York City clubs and theatres and has performed at the Slipper Room, Galapagos Art Space, Coney Island's Sideshow by the Seashore, The Supper Club, Crobar, Avalon, Bowery Ballroom, PS 122, the Marquees, Marion's, Jane Street Theatre, Cutting Room, Rafiffi, Collective Unconscious, The Stonewall, Triad Theatre, Lillie's, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Producer's Club, Lanski Lounge, Swing 46, Lotus, and a host of others. She can often be caught out of town with her pants down and has performed across the country to critical acclaim! She joins forces regularly with Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey to cause havic and spread glamour around the world. Their original full-length show -- described as "smart, funny and dumb in all the right ways" and "better than Wicked" -- premiered at the Washington DC Fringe Festival in 2007. "Dial P for Pasties" has since been reprised in venues across the Eastern Seaboard to standing ovations and critical acclaim. Lukki was honored to perform at the Miss Exotic World Competition in 2006 and 2007 and co-hosted the Legends night with the World Famous *BOB* in 2008. She has performed at every New York Burlesque Festival since its inception and headlined in 2008. Over the past 7 years, she has been a featured performer in a number of World Famous Pontani Sister Productions and starred with the sisters in the Los Straight Jacket music video Mad Scientwist (2006). Smarty Pants & Teacher On the cerebreal side, Lukki's alto ego teaches "The History of American Burlesque" to New York University Undergraduate Drama students. She teaches the students how to think critically about burlesque and how to take their clothes off (that's right, for credit!). For the work she does on the stage and in the classroom, she was featured on NPR's Morning Edition. Lukki is thrilled to be a faculty member of Jo "Boobs" Weldon's School of Burlesque in New York City. She has co-taught w/Professor Weldon and has developed and taught a five-week intensive persona and character development course. She regularly conducts practicum workshops and classes including pastie-making workshops for City Paper in Washington DC and a performing persona workshop for Movement Research in NYC. She also has presented papers on burlesque at academic conferences including "Girls! Girls! Girls!: Scantily-Clad Women as the "World of Tomorrow" at the New York World's Fair, 1939-40," "'It is the Ugly That is so Beautiful: The Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque," "Ephemeral Scenes: The Coterminous Relationship between World's Fairs and Burlesque Bodies," and "You Won't Find This in the Guidebook: Side Shows, Show Girls, and In Situ Display in ' 39-'40 at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair." Producer & Curator Lukki has been producing shows and curating performances for many, many years. She is the master mind and producer behind Sin-O-Rama, an evening of blue burlesque starring the brightest and bawdiest stars of the burlesque stage including Miss Exotic World 2006 Julie Atlas Muz, Mr. Exotic World 2006 Tigger!, and Miss Exotic World 2006 Best Duo Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey. Sin-O-Rama premiered at the Palace of Wonders in Washington DC and was met with critical acclaim and the occasional threat from police for "indecency". Some of her evening-length shows at Galapagos Art Space include "American Beauty: the 2004 Election" which featured an installation art "voting booth" constructed out of Village Voice "escort" pages in the shape of an American flag as well as countless holiday and themed shows. Her New Year's Eve 2007 "Burlesque O-Teque" was selected as the #1 Pick for "New Year's Eve in New York: Avoiding Times Square" Top Picks! Other evening-length shows include her "Dr. Lukki's School of Burlesque" which features a lecture on the history of burlesque with original dances, skits, and acts performances by her NYU students. In 2006, she conceived and performed a 12-hour durational performance art piece in the Coney Island Museum entitled "Coney Island and Spectacle as Total-Body Experience - A 12-Hour Academic Spectacular in Which We Find Our Heroine Chained to a Podium for an Interminable Period, With All the Agony and Sublime Joy That This Might Entail." In 2008, she began producing "Wanted! The Wild Bandits of Burlesque" with Julie Atlas Muz featured monthly at Rodeo Bar.