Paris Green is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed burlesque troupe, The Belmont Burlesque Revue. She fell in love with burlesque when she saw her first striptease as a wee lass in the windswept fields of Kansas and has been finding creative ways to take her clothes off ever since. Paris has been a featured performer in the Best of the Midwest Burlesk Festival, Varietease Cabaret, Vaudezilla Productions, Viva La Muerte’s Hot & Heavy Burlesque, Mo Roses’ New American Review and the Late Night Late Show and has made special appearances for the Howard Brown Health Center, AIDSCare, Camenae Theatre Ensemble and the Gay Games. Paris has served as an expert on burlesque for syndicated radio host and columnist Dr. Laura Berman, the KC Stage, the Daily Northwestern, Medill News Service and many other fine publications.
Paris Green has been involved in a wide variety of ways in the Chicago performing arts community since 1998. She is the founder and executive producer of Full Deck Productions, a small independent arts company which has produced original theatrical shows and the indie film showcase, Twirly, seen on CAN – Channel 19. In addition to her tantalizing teasing with the Belmont Burlesque Revue, Paris Green has also performed and produced improv comedy at venues around the city of Chicago including the Playground Theater and ImprovOlympic. She is also a proud card-carrying member of the Showmen’s League of America since February 2008.
What exactly is Paris Green?
In addition to being the stage name of a fabulous burlesque performer and model you might have seen on such websites as this one, Paris Green is actually a highly toxic form of arsenic. In addition to its use as a poison, the bright emerald green powder was highly admired as a pigment for oil painting, clothing dye and fireworks. A favorite of many Impressionist painters, it is rumored to be the cause of Van Gogh’s madness and Monet’s blindness.
