Grace Gotham is an International burlesque performer, chanteuse, and producer who was one of 9 women featured in the award-winning 2016 Dove beauty campaign #MyBeautyMySay encouraging women and girls to define and express beauty on their own terms. In September 2016, she was crowned “Queen of the Lake 2016” for winning the competition showcase at the Como Lake Burlesque Festival in Italy. She then returned to Como in 2017 as a CLBF Headliner.

Grace has also been featured in Marie Claire Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue.com, Woman’s Day, Time Out New York, Fox News Latino,

The Dallas Morning News, Austin Chronicle,

Corriere di Como (Italian Press), as a guest on Oprah Radio, as a guest on Cosmopolitan.com’s TV podcast, and on an episode about burlesque in the critically-acclaimed webseries The Sartorialist for AOL.

Declared, “Deceptively Demure” by the Austin Chronicle, Grace produces and stars in her own monthly show, “Peel Me A Glove,” at Sid Gold’s Request Room in Manhattan (every 4th Tuesday of the month) accompanied by Chris Johnson on piano.

For nearly a decade, Grace has performed in countless shows internationally, nationally, and locally, including recently in London at Proud Cabaret; in Italy at both the Como Lake Burlesque Festival (2016 & 2017) and in the Rome Burlesque Festival (Caput mundi International Burlesque Award 2014); The Show-Me Burlesque Festival in St. Louis, Mo. (2017); as well as multiple years in a row in The Dallas Burlesque Festival and The New York Burlesque Festival. She has also performed in many locations throughout the Southern U.S., including with Wasabassco at the City Wineries in Nashville and Atlanta, as well as numerous times as a Headliner with the Ruby Revue, La Divina, & Diamond And Ruby Joule Productions in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, Texas.

In addition to sizzling on the stage, Grace is a star over a hot stove in the kitchen.  Her buzz-generating cooking website, Tasseltotable.com, as well as her Tumblr blog, “Grace Gotham Gourmet: Tassel To Table Cuisine,” showcase “sexy and simple meals from a burlesque showgirl to your table.”

Grace is also a writer who, not only writes most of her own original performance material, but whose works have been published in Marie Claire, Brides, Nylon, Not For Tourists Guide to NYC, The Dallas Morning News, 21st Century Burlesque, and in Zelda Magazine - which features her regular column, “Gotham Etiquette.”

Originally from Dallas, Texas, Grace has lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for nearly 20 years, where she has gone from renting a room in a women’s residence run by nuns to owning an apartment filled with hats. Despite being married to a native New Yorker for more than 16 years, she still proudly has her Texas accent.