Cherie Sweetbottom

Cherie Sweetbottom, the Ambassador of Skin, is a professional actress, stage combatant, and performing artist who has mesmerized audiences across the country with her signature blend of elegance, wit, and wicked charm since 2011. From high glamour to nerdlesque, sultry to silly, she does it all with a hypnotizing posterior and a megawatt smile. She performs regularly with Astro Pop Events, the demented minds behind the cult classic Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club, now in its 15th year. As an actor and stage combatant, she is a company member with DeBracey Productions joust/stunt show, performing at Renaissance festivals all over the country; a member of the Maryland Renaissance Festival professional acting company (where you may have seen her menacing the village as Constance Payne); and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.

Cherie was voted DC’s Best Performance Artist first runner-up in the 2016 and 2017 Washington City Paper’s Reader’s Poll and was a finalist for the 2017 New York Burlesque Festival’s Golden Pastie Award for Rear of the Year. She has appeared in the New York Burlesque Festival, the Philadelphia Burlesque Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, Charm City Burlesque Festival, the Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival, the New York Nerdlesque Festival, several regional tours, the George R.R. Martin-approved Burlesque is Coming national tour, and has performed with a number of live bands, including the Brian Newman Band, Jonny Grave and the Tombstones, Moonlight Society, Foggy Bottom Whomp Stompers, and Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band.