The Bijou Team
Jac Bowie – Artistic Director
When it comes to cabaret, burlesque or vintage style entertainment, the name Jac Bowie is synonymous.
Jac is internationally renown as the leading agent and producer in this genre, and is the creative director of The Bijou Group, an entertainment and events agency featuring the who’s who of burlesque’s top names and shows.
From the first Burlesque Ball in 2006, an influx of media attention and booking enquiries flooded in, and The Jac Bowie Agency was born. In 2010, she joined forces with Cassandra Atkins to create a new business, The Bijou Group which features a roster of over the world’s most elite Burlesque performers including most Miss Exotic World Winners & Runners Up (the Oscars for the Burlesque industry). Talent are placed into events and festivals worldwide, including several lucrative contracts in Europe seeing the artists on 3 month professional theatre placements. Other notable clients include Sony Music, The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, The Museum of Modern Art New York and Pacha Moscow.
Along with The Burlesque Ball annual tour, The Bijou Group also has a host of regular events throughout Australia including Miss Burlesque International, The Ruby Revue (monthly in Sydney & Melbourne) and Dr Sketchys Sydney (fortnightly in Sydney).
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Cassandra Atkins – Co-Director
Leaving Tasmania at 18, with little experience and money in her pocket, Cassandra head to Melbourne and started her own fashion label “Plastic Bat” and partnered with current gothic fashion boutique “Phantazeum”, the partnership proving highly successful, and expanding the business from a small inner city shop into a larger premises in Prahran.
During this time Cassandra had the opportunity to learn the craft of corsetry, focusing on steel boned corsets. It didn’t take long for her to develop her own client base of performers, who would encourage Cassandra to return to performing herself. Surrounded by beautiful costumes, feathers and incredible props, Cassandra decided to pick up dance again.
She spent 8 months training and rehearsing with a 7 piece Show Girl revue that were set to be housed at Melbourne’s famous Crown Casino. The contract unfortunately fell through, but refusing to give up, Cassandra worked with 3 of the girls and 1 other performer an created her own troupe, The Cyber Kittens, and after 4 weeks of rehearsing, organised a 3 week tour from Melbourne to North Queensland and the troupe stayed together for 2 years. They would reform again in 2004, touring again and performing for corporate events – always to rave reviews.
After The Cyber Kittens, Cassandra continued to create custom made corsets, and started developing her own solo routines and signature costumes and pushed her way to the top of the Australian show girl scene. She went on to win Miss Nude Southern Hemisphere, and placed 3rd in the USA for Miss Nude World and won Entertainer of The Year.
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Vanessa Morgan – Director of Sponsorship
Starting as a journalist having worked at Pacific magazines, Fairfax, Derwent Howard and Next Media, Vanessa has also freelanced for ACP and News Ltd.
Having been editor for titles such as Official PlayStation, K-Zone and launched Australian Ink. She moved on to marketing within the magazine world due to her understanding of the need to do more than just write interesting stories.
Vanessa has joined The Bijou Group as our Director of Sponsorship, looking after all new accounts and existing relationships with Sponsors for The Burlesque Ball, Miss Burlesque Competition and all our other events.
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