Kat Mon Dieu

The Gal with Nine Lives and A Thousand Disguises

Kat Mon Dieu, "The Gal with 9 Lives and 1000 Disguises!" is a NYC based actress, burlesque dancer, singer, costumer and Marilyn Monroe tribute artist, and writer.

She’s taking a break from performing to work on a book about her experiences building and living on her “Skoolie” in New York City for three years. In spring of 2020, after 4 years of bus life, she gutted and rebuilt the current iteration of her tiny home.

Kat currently works on an organic farm. In her free time, she devotes her time to writing and making art aboard her homemade house-on-wheels “BRIGANTIA” a retired Freightliner FS65 school bus.
Combining life, nature and art, she’s been living in her converted school bus, on and off since 2016 in both the Catskills, Hudson Valley and New York City.

Kat's past performance art projects include the role of Baroness Marie-Helene de Rothschild (aka "Demeter") in the first two seasons of "The Illuminati Ball". (www.theilluminatiball.com) She designed and made the 60+ masks worn by the actors and patrons alike.

Prior to that, Kat played the roles of Anna Held, Marion Davies and Billie Burke in the "Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" (an off Broadway immersive play) which ran from April until October 2015 at the Liberty Theater on 42nd Street. (www.speakeasydollhouse.com)
She also played Lena Doino and Hope Dare in another immersive production; "The Bloody Beginning", at the Back Room and The Weylin B. Seymour, for a run of 5 years.

Kat produced "Cabaret Exotica"; a show that combines singing and burlesque, as well as "Dark Carnival Burlesque" (hosted by Gothic Hangman), at various venues around NYC; a bizarre variety theme show. She's modeled as Marilyn for the "Bombshell Cookbook" by Dakota Kim, and appeared in various shorts and music videos. Ms Mon Dieu has also written blogs for the Dr Sketchy's NYC Anti-Art School, where she models (and occasionally hosts). She's burlesqued in such shows and venues as Dark Carnival, Kitty Nights, Victrola Burlesque, Shaken and Stirred, Chronologie, !BadAss!, The Goat Girl Review, Hot Mama Burlesque, Lincoln Park Tavern, Wits End, Le Poisson Rouge, The Delancey, Nurse Bettie, Coney Island USA, Le Scandal, Room 69, Parkside ( Burlesque and Excelsior)...and countless others.

Kat volunteered her time and artistry to the NY Burlesque Festival, the Coney Island Gala Fundraiser and Mermaid Parade. She was a guest host on the "Rew and Who" radio show, and designs and creates her 1000 disguises (an ongoing goal!)

Her plans for 2023 are to travel around the United States and write about her experiences along the way.

News

Rule Brigantia!

October 06, 2017

Kat has been converting a 2002 Freightliner Schoolbus into a tiny home on wheels (Brigantia-Lofty One/Victorious). She moved onto her creation on September 26th, 2016 and recently completed three years of full time boondocking in New York City.

Kat is a "tiny homesteader" who's happily living off grid with her 3 cats...first 3 years in one of the most densely populated and expensive cities in the world, now in the Catskills.
She designed the interior, and with some donated carpentry by old art school pal, Gothic Hangman, built the inside to accomodate 6 people: twin bunk, queen master and a dining area that converts to a full size bed. Kat wanted there to be places for all of her children to sleep so they can come on trips with her.
Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic Extended 5 times since April Opening!

August 15, 2015

Cynthia Von Buhler's latest brainchild, "Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" has been extended again! We will be going until the fall 2015. Don't miss this amazing immersive event, showing in the heart of Times Square. Kat Mon Dieu has been cast as Billie Burke, the tenacious and loyal wife of Forenz Ziegfeld. Be prepared to time travel and wear your best 1920's threads for the party of a century!
Confessions of a Shapeshifter

March 31, 2014

Kat Mon Dieu wrote the first short story in her "Shapeshifter" series under the pen name Jules Reine. Part 1, "Confessions of a Shapeshifter" is available on Amazon. Adventures of a Shapeshifter and Travels of a Shapeshifter are coming soon!
Cabaret Exotica

March 31, 2014

Announcing Cabaret Exotica, Sirens by the Seashore!
In cahoots with Bambi the Mermaid and Coney Island USA, Kat Mon Dieu has decided to launch a beautifully simmering idea that has been brewing to perfection for some time now: An All Burly-Q Songbird Revue! Yes! Each of our beauties will sing as they remove their skivvies! our debut show will feature the amazing warbles and wobbles of Honi Harlow, Boo Bess,Nina La Voix,Plucky Charms,Dot Mitzvah, Ruby Solitaire & Man-ee Champagne

Keep your eyes peeled for the Canaries of Carney, June 5th 2014!
Dark Carnival Burlesque Does Horse Trade Theater's Burlesque Blitz!

December 01, 2013

Look out for the latest installment of insane delights from Dark Carnival as they gather up the naughtiest of playthings in their latest show "Recalled Dolls".
Dark Carnival Burlesque Moves to the Cutting Room

June 15, 2013

The Masterminds behind Dark Carnival Burlesque; Kat Mon Dieu and Gothic Hangman are moving their fantastic odd-ball variety show to Midtown Manhattan on August 9th at midnight. Kat Mon Dieu states it is a "Gorgeous Venue worthy of a colorful 'off-color' Variety show such as ours." The duo are concocting a night to remember for audience and artist alike for their debut at the Cutting Room (44 East 32nd St, NYC). Hangman is already designing a new "puppet" to introduce to the show along with his current "figure" Lil Horn, a Blue Devil and Hangman's hosting sidekick. Hangman and Kat are excited to produce Dark Carnival in a venue with room for greater performances and spectacles than ever before. "We got our feet wet and cut our teeth over the last few months and we see what works for us," states Hangman. "Now we want to spread our proverbial wings and fly".
Dark Carnival Burlesque Presents "Moonshine Menagerie", August 9th 2013 @ Midnight at
The Cutting Room
http://thecuttingroomnyc.com/

Links

The Skoolie Life: A Couple Embraces Tiny House Living with Adjacent School Buses

Snyder and Quick's paths crossed in New Paltz when the 2017 tiny house festival brought Snyder and her skoolie to the area. ("Skoolie" is the affectionate term used by the community of owners for a school bus that's been retired from service and repurposed as a living space.) "Most of the homes were tiny modular homes, I was the only school bus," says Snyder. Snyder invited Quick to tour her bus and he realized he had met a like-minded soul. "I knew meeting Julie and seeing her bus was exactly what I came for."
Book Me Via Gig Masters!

A wonderful way to see more photos and facilitate your online booking of Kat Mon Dieu! Kat is a NYC based burlesque performer and Marilyn Monroe impersonator/lookalike.
She sings and performs burlesque as Marilyn Monroe, and various other characters. Available for parties, shows and various venues, she has been a Marilyn impersonator for many years. Contact her with to discuss various performance options for your special event.
Book Me Via Gig Salad!

Kat is a NYC based burlesque performer and Marilyn Monroe impersonator/lookalike.
She sings and performs burlesque as Marilyn Monroe, and various other characters. Available for parties, shows and various venues, she has been a Marilyn impersonator for many years. Contact her with to discuss various performance options for your special event.
I am a Marilyn Monroe tribute artist. I perform a variety of ways, from socializing in character at parties, to live singing and burlesque dancing.
My most frequently requested character is Marilyn Monroe, but I have many guises such as 20's flapper, Catwoman, Barbarella, Elizabeth Taylor, Cindy Lu Who, Tank Girl, Nico, Magenta, Pocahontas and a plethora of other characters. If you want a specific character not mentioned, Just ask! I create my looks to be as accurate and recognizable.
I am a performer in the NYC burlesque scene and a producer of "Dark Carnival Burlesque". I'm also a professional registered nurse.
Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic

A hidden theater lies within the Heart of Times Square, and the Glorifier of the American Girl, Florenz Ziegfeld, invites you to join his Follies for an evening of music, magic, mystery, mayhem, and of course, plenty of spirits.

Audience members will be free to pursue their interests across an expansive environment exploring the wonders and the dangers of the Golden Age of Broadway. Reimagine Ziegfeld's 1920’s extravaganza, The Midnight Frolic, with lavish showgirls, risque burlesque, thrilling aerialists and more. Choose your corruption at Montmartre's Cabaret du Néant while a garish garcon regales you with tales of guillotines and deadly bacteria. Sleuth the luxury suite at Hotel Ritz Paris where Jack Pickford ''allegedly'' tried to save his wife, Follies’ star Olive Thomas, after she drank poison. Take a gander at the glories and gutters that created the American Dream.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: THIS SHOW CONTAINS JAZZ, LIQUOR & FAST WOMEN
Confessions of a Shapeshifter

Kat Mon Dieu has published the first in a series of short stories, under the pen name "Jules Reine".
Synopsis: In a rural area of 1970's England, a teenage girl wakes up one morning, covered in blood and feathers. This is the turning point that leads her face to face with her hidden nature.
Her unexpected gifts once revealed, would burgeon into strengths she learned to integrate into each aspect of her life, with unexpected and often humorous results.
Confessions of a Shapeshifter is part fantasy memoir, part social commentary, from the perspective of a human chameleon:
The first in a series of musings and anecdotes of a North American Therianthrope.
Dark Carnival Burlesque

Dark Carnival Burlesque is the name of several Variety Shows produced by Kat Mon Dieu. It presents a range of performers, from Burlesque and Tribute Artists, to Magic, Comedy, Live Music, Sideshow Acts, Ventriloquism and Vaudeville.

The show began in 2013 with Kat Mon Dieu as producer and performer along with Gothic Hangman as MC in 2013; they first met as Artist & Muse back in 1989 at The Art Student's League of New York. They reconnected 22 years later and joined their irreverent minds to launch "Dark Carnival Burlesque". Little Horn (the diminutive Blue Devil) was introduced to the stage, and so it began...
Speakeasy Dollhouse

Travel back in history to help solve the mystery of a murder that happened in the 1930's NYC. All the characters in the play are based on actual people who lived back in the 1930's NYC. I play a good time girl by the name of "Lena Doino" in this interactive off Broadway play by Cynthia Von Buhler. It tells the story of her grandparents, the owners of a Bronx Speakeasy, and people involved in a curiously tragic incident...
During the play I sing and perform burlesque, flirt and play matchmaker. I'll even teach you some dance moves if you ask me. I also sing a set at the end of the show, so stay and dance with me!
(All the main characters are based on actual historical persons)
Hot Mama Burlesque!

The world's original ALL-MOMS BURLESQUE REVUE returns to the Slipper Room! This all-new edition features a dozen burly-Q breeders exploring all sides of motherhood through striptease and song: the upside, the downside and the backside. The brainchild of bawdy burlesque hostess (and proud parent) Raven Snook, and presented in conjunction with Mamapalooza, the show includes performances by many veteran hot mamas, including Little Brooklyn, The Incredible Edible Akynos, Ginger Baker, Kat Mon Dieu, Miss Ivy League, Cosmic Girl, Suga' Bomba, Camillicious, Fritzi Collins and two new additions: Dot Mitzvah and Niki Tiki.
Dr Sketchys NYC Blog

Kat Mon Dieu is the official Blogger for Dr Sketchy's NYC Art Sessions! Enjoy her narratives of the Creative Contingent with photos supplied by Kate Black
Cabaret Exotica

Cabaret Exotica is a New York City based All Singing Burlesque show produced by Kat Mon Dieu.