Holly Ween

HOLLY WEEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY SANDY KAUFMAN

2020 Silver Tusk Awards
 •  nominee: Quality Kitten
 •  nominee: Versatile Visionary
 •  nominee: Strangest Thing
 •  nominee: Theatre Majeure

2019 Silver Tusk Awards
 •  honored: Entertainer of the Year
 •  winner: Bed Wardrobe
 •  winner: Grandmaster of Grandeur (w/ Broody Valentino)
 •  nominee: Most Utterly Ridiculous
 •  nominee: Creepy Creature Cutie
 •  nominee: The Chameleon

2018 Silver Tusk Awards
 •  winner: Comic Genius (w/ Tiger Bay)
 •  nominee: The Many Faced God/Meryl Streep Award
 •  nominee: Geek of All Media
 •  nominee: Keeper of the Sacrilicious
 •  nominee: Master of the Macabre
 •  nominee: The Great Showstopper

2017 Silver Tusk Awards
 •  honoree: Life Sentence Award
 •  winner: Perfectly Cromulent
 •  winner: Backstage Mom (shared w/ Anja Keister)
 •  nominee: Most Darksided
 •  nominee: Fall Risk
 •  nominee: Most Epic
 •  nominee: Stage Kitten's Nightmare
 •  nominee: Least Like Dita
 •  nominee: Master of the Sweep

Holly Ween is WEBurlesque's Scream Queen or Miss October All Year 'Round, bringing horror and camp to the world of burlesque. Holly has been performing since 2008 and is known for her elaborate costumes and off-the-wall acts.

Holly created Cosplay Burlesque in 2008 as a way to get started in the burlesque scene, and directs and performs all over the nation with them.

In addition to her home troupes, White Elephant Burlesque Society and The Noir Dames, she has performed with D20 Burlesque, Homo Erectus Boylesque NYC, Speakeasy Burlesque, Brunswick Basement Burlesque, Full Front Street, Looking Glass Revue, and Liberty City Kings -- just to name a handful!

Holly is a tremendous resource for costume-making and cosplay creation, and has been on several panels to discuss a range of nerdy topics.

2016 New Jersey Burlesque Festival
 •  participant: Queen of NJ

2016 Fucking Burlesque Awards
 •  winner: WTF Award (for her Alien Queen act)

2015 Alternatase Banana Awards
 •  honoree: Psychotic Erotic Engineering Award (for her Alien Queen act)

Philadelphia's Burlesque Battle Royale 2014 (first cycle)
 •  Top 3

Mx. Vagina Dentata 2013
 •  winner: Miss Vagina Dentata 2013