“We give audiences a bunch of colors through which to feel sexy that run that gamut of what we think of as masculine and feminine and dark and light. You can take what you like,” Cunning says of the show. “As an emcee, I love playing with control and acknowledging that my audience has grown up in a patriarchal world, but in my house, I want to make sure to challenge them, take care of them, and send them home excited to try things they’ve never tried before.” Cunning began their career by performing in "baroque-burlesque operas” with the Brooklyn-based Company XIV and has performed on Broadway in productions of