Along with a team of very creative and dynamic performers, Pearl Pistol is posing the question "What is Love?"

A cabaret inspired theater piece; a cheeky look into cultural perceptions & directions of love, lust, sensuality, sexuality...... 
Dare we say more?

Through a multimedia creation synced w/ live performance art, blended w/ song, dance, a touch of the old school bump & grind, the group will direct answers to their posed question.

We invite our sweet city to join this small ensemble as they explore the simple notion of what love really is and everything that lies between!

Featuring:Kyle Greer, Harper Horan, Nadia Oussenko, Frank Mares, Meredith Miller, & Pearl Pistol.

Kyle Greer is southern boy with classical training turned northern lad. He has an extensive background in both music and theatre. In Chicago, he has performed with theatres such as the Jeff Award-winning Theo Ubique and The National Pastime Theatre as well as queer venues such as Girlie-Q, Homolatte, and Cake Chicago. He was a regular performer on the recently departed acoustic Unpugged series at the Wild Pug. He's also been the musical sidekick at the Wild Party Variety Hour and at Uncommon Ground with the Dolls of Doom variety show, Dinner and a Floozie. Check him out all over those social networks on the internet and at www.kylegreerrocks.com Part theatre rock, dark cabaret, and chamber pop, he combines them all for your viewing and listening pleasure.

Harper Horan: Mostly nocturnal, you can often catch glimpses of this songbird performing in variety shows throughout the city and sometimes tweeting and fluttering around the local burlesque scene. Harper is a local bird that, unlike her distant cousin the Harpy, enjoys bearing good tidings and has been entertaining audiences as a singer, songwriter and actor since early childhood. She has fronted for bands and ensembles big and small of varied musical genres and has held roles in several musical theater and theater productions in the Chicagoland area.

Nadia Oussenko is a choreographer, filmmaker, and photographer. She completed her MFA in Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Ms. Oussenko recently premiered her dance film, On Falling. . . funded by Chicago Dancemakers Forum, at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL. She has co-directed dance films with Chicago artists Molly Shanahan and Erica Mott, and has had her films screened at festivals such as ADF Dancing for the Camera Festival of Video and Dance, and Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen in Manchester, England. Nadia has also choreographed stage works for Ameba and Dance Chicago. 

Meredith Miller/Claire De Lune is a Chicago-based puppet designer and cabaret performer who is known for her unique fusion of the two art forms. Recent performances of her work include The Great Smalls Toy Theater Festival in New York, Toy Theater After Dark at Open Eye Figure Theater in Minneapolis, Banners and Cranks: A festival of Cantastoria,  The World is Flat! A Weekend of Toy Theater, The Rustbelt Revival (curated by Holly Hughes)--all at Links Hall in Chicago, on the mainstage at The Windy City Burlesque Festival, and in the Sissy's Butch Brothers' renowned Gurlesque Burlesque events . Throughout the years has appeared regularly in local burlesque and variety shows such as Vaudezilla's Show and Tell Cabaret, The Belmont Burlesque Revue, The Girlie-Q Variety Hour, The Backyard Variety Show, and Heartless B!tch Productions at Spin Nightclub.  She has also toured nationally and internationally as a member of the drag/burlesque troupes The Windy City Blenders and A Sordid Collective, and as a performing puppeteer with Blair Thomas and Co.  Additionally, Meredith/Claire appeared as a contestant in Comedy Central's short-lived revival of The Gong Show--on which she was gonged by (ironically), a dog puppet.  As a puppet designer, her recent credits include Aladdin, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream, Willie Wonka (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and collaborative work with Blair Thomas and Company on productions including The Snow Queen, Moby Dick, The Cabaret of Desire, The Ox-Herder Tale, Reflections on the Nature of Water, A Rabbit's Tale, and Pierrot Lunaire.  Meredith holds a degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied puppet animation, and spends her free time working as a specialty props artisan for regional theaters. 

Pearl Pistol: As lead creative and producer of Pearl Pistol Productions,  Pearl Pistol just loves to create old school & classic vaudeville burlesque.  A class act with real class, Pearl honorably shakes her influences from the  likes of Gypsy Rose Lee, The Minksy Brothers, Betty Boop, Dita Von Tease and many  others of gyrating glory and fame. You can find Pearl Pistol all over the Chicago burlesque scene playing in a variety of shows & reviews including  Pearl Pistol Productions and many more! Also keep your eyes peeled for Mz. Pistol as she oft makes a random stop in many a city away from home.

For more information visit http://www.whatislovechicago.webs.com/