For thirteen years Susan Wayward has been a clothing relocation specialist in the lap dancing parlors of the United States. She is a fan of all types of dance in which the clothing removal is integral, from the exotic dancers of the sideshow to the cooch dancers of the sixties to the neo-burlesque performance artists of today.

Her introduction to burlesque performance came in 1997 while filiming a small role as a stripper in a B-movie. She was requested to “do an old-school striptease” and promptly hammed it up on a chair at the former Antenna Club in Memphis.

In Austin, TX, she performed at several shows put on by Burlesque for Peace, who coordinate benefit performances as an excuse for getting a lot of people to get on stage and do interesting things while wearing the bare minimum. She has also competed in the more mainstream strippery Miss Nude Oregon pageant in Portland, and performed at the premiere of The Velvet Hammer Burlesque in Austin.

Currently Ms. Wayward lives in Portland, Oregon, but she travels much of the year perfecting her pants-raising techniques across the country.