ARTISTIC Leadership

Fosse Jack and Sailor St. Claire, co-Artistic Directors

Noveltease Theatre is a shared vision that emerges from a past history of collaboration between Artistic Directors Fosse Jack and Sailor St. Claire. They are the creators and producaers of The Tennessee Tease, a full-length burlesque play based on the memoirs of Tennessee Williams. With Sailor’s direction, and scripting and choreography by Fosse, the show was performed both in 2015 and 2018 at Theatre Off Jackson, as well as at SEAF in a one-act format.

In addition, both have worked on related projects as individual creators and producers, and with other producing companies that share similar artistic DNA with the work that has become Noveltease. Fosse Jack has artistic directed and choreographed three short burlesque ballets through his production company, OtterPup Productions: Draculesque (based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Coppafeelia (based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman), and A Metamodern Prometheus (adapted from the introduction to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). Sailor St. Claire has concepted and performed her own short-form literary acts that combine text and dance, based on sources as diverse as Frank Norris’s McTeague, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the entirety of Act V of Hamlet. With Evilyn Sin Claire, she co-wrote and co-directed Sinner Saint Burlesque’s much lauded burlesque adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2017 and 2018. She is also the producer and host of Accio Burlesque, a long-running burlesque tribute to Harry Potter performed in a variety format.

While working on A Metamodern Prometheus in Fall of 2018, Fosse and Sailor found themselves on the same page creatively, and decided to turn their shared love of literary burlesque into Noveltease Theatre.