Audra is a writer, editor, actor, & filmmaker with an MFA from Mills College. She is the co-writer/director of the short film Souls of Splendor, which is about gay comic book fans in San Francisco. Audra is also known as Odessa Lil: Mistress of Ceremonies. Ever since she ran SpeakEasily, the first-ever weekly neo-burlesque show in Oakland back in 2004, Odessa Lil has been whipping audiences into shape all around the Bay. Catch her burlesque talk show SPEAKEASILY on YouTube!
Hey Southern California! Tight and Nerdy: The First and Only All Weird Al-inspired Burlesque Troupe’s Al-Stravaganza with Odessa Lil, Pickles Kintaro, and so many more awesome weirdos is coming for you!
It’s been a while, but we are happy to announce that we are releasing Souls of Splendor to the internet, taking it right to the people! Here is Part 1 of 2:
Friday, 3/22: FILM CULT & Speakeasily present:
VORTESQUE! The Vortex Room Show! A LIVE BURLESQUE and FILM HAPPENING with a very special WILLIAM SHATNER BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE!
Featuring the Very Best of SAN FRAN-SIZZLE from Laika Fox, Mistress Pon-Farr, Szandora LaVey, The Indra, and Odessa-Lil! Screening SCREAMING MIMI (1958) & more!
I am so honored to announce that I'm Ms. Noir City 2013!
Don't believe me? Don't make me take out my wrench!
As a long-time fan of the genre and lover of the Noir City film festival, it's a dream come true really. Plus, working with monster talents Eddie Muller, Bill Selby, and David Allen to create this poster was an amazing experience. Not only did I get to go "behind the curtain" of the Alameda Naval Air Station's old theater (now Michaan's Auctions screening room) and hang around one of the oldest functioning projectors in the Bay Area, but I learned quite a bit about lighting, posing, and staging from these three masters.
Consistently, year after year, the Noir City posters are viscerally compelling; they grab you by the guts and sell you on the seamy shadow world we long to escape to. These posters manage to sum up what we love to characterize about the genre, all at once in one astonishing moment. Danger, sex, sweat, escapism, oblivion, Death. We got it. You want suspense? Look at what's about to happen to Eddie's glasses in that poster!
But the honor doesn't stop there. This year's festival line-up, released at last night's Noir City Xmas event, is full of iconic classics, rarities, and surprises (HELLO! 3-D NOIR!) that makes me think this year's festival is the best yet. Listen to me...I'm holding a huge wrench.
Happy holidays and all that junk!
Odessa Lil has a lot going on in December. If you are looking for something to do this month, you came to the right place!
12/11: Bombshell Betty's Everyday Bombshell Scholarship Fund Benefit Show
TUESDAY, December 11th
Doors @ 9:00PM, Show @ 9:30PM
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St in SF
21+ w/ valid ID
Celebrate the Holidays with the Burlesqueteers! It’s nice to be naughty and our performers will warm you up for the Winter with their acts of talent, beauty, and sensuality. Santa would approve! You will also be supporting the Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Fund.
HOSTED BY: Odessa Lil, your *thwack!* Mistress of Ceremonies!
Featuring burlesque performances by:
Bombshell Betty! Bella D! Belle Phenomene! Cleo Torres! Dolly Dior! Jayne Minx! Red Delicious! Ruby Cosmic! Savage Rose! Sindee Rose! Trixie Fou Laurant! Valhalla Voom! Violet Streak! Yve Jobs!
$10 - General admission
$35 - Table for two (includes general admission)
12/21: Diva or Die Burlesque
Friday, December 21st
9pm
The Exit Theatre
156 Eddy Street
December is just around the corner! Already tired of the holiday season, Christmas decorations, and shopping? Well, plan ahead and get your tickets to the next DIVA or Die Burlesque! Also, the show is at the end of the Mayan calendar, so, please come join us for our special end of the show ritual to hold off the end of the world until the next millenium!
Get your tickets now for this amazing show at the wonderful Exit Theatre, before you miss out!!
Our show features the one and only Odessa Lil as MC!
Our talented and beautiful performers include:
Tasty Temptress! Elyse Elaine! Dangerous Delilah! Sgt. Die Weiss! Rosey Booticelli! Laura Borealis! IfNWhendy! Red Velvet! Red Delicious! CoCo Jewelle! and more!!
Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate little theater!
Watch our special Halloween episode of Speakeasily in which we delve into psychics, serial killers, channeling the dead, and the backwoods of Pacifica! Scary sexy! With The Indra, Raya Light, Dorian Faust, and SAssyhot Buns!
Guests Masquerotica's Scott Levkoff, Red Velvet, IfNWhendy, and Trixie Fou Laurant talk about the burning issues of our time: shoe fetishists, pubic hair, prop comedy, and puppets:
Check out the first episode of SPEAKEASILY, the Bay Area's Burlesque Talk Show, with Odessa Lil, your Mistress of Ceremonies (that's me!).
My guests were Casey Castille, Comrade Tang, and Lady Satan and they were fabulous! We talked about bad burlesque names, the '90s, Shelley Duvall's teeth and so much more.
Odessa Lil, your Mistress of Ceremonies, brings you behind the curtain so you can get up close and personal with the Bay Area’s most provocative burlesque, variety, and drag performers. She uncovers everything you want to know about the glitz and glam but are afraid to ask…and you never know what will be revealed!
STARTS OCTOBER 4th on TradioV!
Watch it streaming live at 5pm on TradioV with our special guests Lady Satan, Comrade Tang, and Casey Castille! http://tradiov.com/sf
Tuesday, September 11th: All Kinds of Sexy™ Burlesque Benefit Show at the Elbo Room!
Enjoy and evening of naughty bedtime stories and nighty-night burlesue, pillow fights and sleepover shenanigans BURLESQUETEER STYLE! This show will knock your socks off, AND it is a benefit for BOMBSHELL BETTY'S Everyday Bombshell™ Scholarship Fund.
HOSTED BY ODESSA LIL, Mistress of Ceremonies
With performances by:
- Bombshell Betty!
- Belle Phenomene!
- Candy Pie!
- Chardonnay Sweet!
- Cleo Torres!
- Coco Jewelle!
- If-N-Whendy!
- Lily Shagswell!
- Lolita LaBella!
- Red Velvet!
- Savage Rose!
- Sindee Rose!
- Scarlett Black!
- Tawdri Mynx!
- Trixie Fou Laurant!
- and MORE!
SPECIAL APPEARANCE by:
Lynn Ruth Miller, The Stripping Granny!
Including graduates from Burlesquercise!® classes, including:
INTRO TO BURLESQUERCISE®, INTENSIVE I, BURLESQUE INTENSIVE II, CARDIO CAN-CAN WITH RED VELVET, SHOWGIRL CHORUS
Sunday, September 16th: Odessa Lil and MicroDisco host the 2012 FRINGE FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY!
Only for Fringe Fest participants!
Friday, September 28th:
DIVA OR DIE BURLESQUE
Come out and see DIVA or Die Burlesque's new show!
Featuring the MC Odessa Lil
With performances by:
IfnWhendy Darling, Red-Velvet Dancer, Bunny Von Tail, Erzulie Rose, Pretty Pretty Please, and special appearance from the Bohemian Brethren!
Come strip away your inhibitions in this intimate theater!
Right now, there's only 15 seats left! OCTOBER YOU SAY?
Why yes...there's a shit-ton of fun that month too!
Monday, October 22nd: FISHNET FOLLIES at the UPTOWN in Oakland!
October 19th - 31st:
HALLOWEEN -- THE BALLAD OF MICHELLE MYERS
Yep, Odessa Lil's alter ego Audra Wolfmann will once again take the stage as Mrs. Skerritt!
This fall we answer the age-old question: What happens when you mashup your favorite slasher movies with the scariest television show of all time...The Facts of Life!
San Francisco's original horror musical, HALLOWEEN: The Ballad of Michele Myers!, returns for a second murder spree:
“Mrs. Skerritt chaperons 4 school ‘girls’ up to the lake for a fun-filled Halloween dance over at the boys’ camp. But someone also invited crazed tranny killer Michele Myers to crash the party! Watch her slash through her victims to a disco beat! Dos-i-do and try to evade her bloody gaze! Rock out with your cock out and it just might get snipped! Shriek in horror at her unmasking! Freddy, Jason, and Michael scared your breathless…now it’s HER TURN!”
CounterPulse
1310 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 (at 9th Street in SoMa)
Calling all Al Heads! It's time to bust out the checkered Vans and don the aloha shirts for what could possibly be the first ever all Weird Al-themed burlesque show. Seems overdue, right? Well, finally Mr. Yankovic is getting his due on Monday, August 13th at Oakland's Uptown as The Hubba Hubba Revue and Pickles Kintaro present The Al-Stravaganza!
It doesn't matter if you are a "My Bologna" purist or just "White and Nerdy;" the hits will be dropping as fast as the clothes at this burlesque bonanza. And make sure you dress for success to enter the Weird Al look-a-like contest! Can you believe that you get all this quality entertainment for just $5! Cheap!
Hosted By Weird Kingfish & Weird "Kevin" Hancock With: Honey Lawless,Pickles Kintaro, Lady Satan, Odessa Lil, Lola Martinet, Pearl E. Gates, Mistress Marla Spanks, and JD Limelight.
Doors 9PM -- Show 10:15PM 21 & Up w/ID
THE UPTOWN CLUB 1928 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just 1 block from 19th Street BART!)
Here are some of Al's finest moments in no particular order, so says the Amoeblog!
7.31.2012
Odessa Lil & Cerebreau.
Hubba Hubba Revue, 7.19.12.
Mike Lloyd (www.shutterstopphotography.com)
