Biography

Trixie Little is Beatrix Keri Burneston.

Trixie Little is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning “pint-size powerhouse” who has pioneered absurdist-physical-comedy-cabaret since 1998. A master of innovation, she creates character-driven performances that combine acrobatics, striptease and humor to outrageous effect. In 2015, Trixie was crowned the Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World by the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, the highest honor in that field.

Since May 1, 2020, Trixie has been building an art production studio / artist’s lodge in Northern California called The Nest, which offers a monthly Secret Brunch Cafe & Cabaret, weekly partner dances, creative workshops and lavish original productions. The creative shenanigans going on at The Nest are also the subject of Trixie’s documentary YouTube series, Artist in the Wild.

Champion of the weird and eccentric, Trixie's work is dedicated to bringing outsider art to the mainstream by making a game out of transforming taboos and using humor to push against restrictive societal conventions. Trixie is a creative risk taker, using fantasy and imagination to embody realness and authenticity; seamlessly combining strength and vulnerability, humor and sexuality, glamour and power; bringing the technicolor treasures from her imagination to the stage, page and screen.

Career Highlights

Elf Colored Glasses— writer / actor / producer / art deptartment for the original campy holiday short film, available on YouTube.

Vive La Renaissance— creator / host of a podcast about artists and eccentrics who followed their dreams.

Tiger Style Love School— Blog Writer / Founder of a spiritual coaching business working with artists and entrepreneurs struggling with life transitions, who want to re-center their life around their passion and receive support pursuing their dreams.

Temple of Happiness— performer /producer of surreal instructional yoga video.

Queen of Everything— A Fuckloric Folktale— Performer / producer of an experimental cabaret-play.

Trixie & Monkey— Spent 13 years touring as a duo act with The Evil Hate Monkey; started in a punk rock club in Baltimore, two years in circus school, 4 Australian tours, TV appearances in 6 different countries, and an off-Broadway residency in NYC, as well as…

Us Naked: Trixie and Monkey— a feature length documentary which followed 7 years of our life and won Best Documentary at the Coney Island and DocFeed Film Festivals. The film is currently available on Amazon.

Fluid Movement— Founded a Baltimore-based non-profit performing art troupe in 1998 that stages synchronized swimming and roller skating shows in pubic parks with diverse community performers.

The Basics

I grew up moving around Maryland, but spent my teenage years on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

I’m a classically trained painter, with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

I consider Baltimore my hometown because it’s where I became an artist and have lived the longest.

In 2005, I earned my 200 hour yoga teaching certification from Kim Manfredi.

From 2007-9 I studied professional circus, acrobatics and trapeze at the New England Center for Circus Arts in Vermont.

I lived and worked primarily in NYC from 2008-2017.

I moved to California in 2017, living first in Los Angeles from 2017-2020 and Nevada City from 2020- 2023.

I’m in Baltimore a lot as of 2024.

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