Annie A-Bomb is a modern burlesque

Burlesque

Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...

 and vaudeville

Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

 performer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Education and Early Life

Born in Philadelphia on January 4, 1976.
According to a few articles about her in the Philadelphia City Paper, her upbringing was quite conservative.
Annie studied design at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Institute of Technology

The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...

 and Anthropology at Temple University

Temple University

Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...

.

Performance History

Annie began her burlesque career with the Peek-A-Boo Revue and performed with them 1998-2005.
She founded the troupe Revival Burlesque in 2007. Revival is known for its sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 mixed with sexy strip tease.
Revival has been called "Saturday Night Live" with boobs" by the Philadelphia City Paper

Philadelphia City Paper

Philadelphia City Paper is a free alternative news weekly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in November 1981 as a spin-off of the now defunct WXPN Express newsletter. New issues are released every Thursday....

.
Revival continues to perform monthly in Philadelphia.

Annie A-Bomb is also the co-director, with Peter Gaffney, of the agit-prop and politically charged Cabaret Red Light

Cabaret Red Light

Cabaret Red Light is a theater group based in Philadelphia that performs vaudeville, burlesque, spoken word and puppet theater, set to original music by The Blazing Cherries. In their first season, between November 2008 and July 2009, Cabaret Red Light staged the series "The Seven Deadly Sins"...

, a vaudeville, burlesque and puppet theater company also based in Philadelphia.
She has created shadow puppets

Shadow puppets

Shadow Puppets can refer to:* A synonym for shadow play* Shadow Puppets, the 2002 novel by Orson Scott Card* Shadow Puppets , 2007 horror film...

 for their "adult" puppet shows.

Modeling

Annie is also a pin-up model.
She has been painted by illustrators Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....

, Julie Bell

Julie Bell

Julie Bell is an American painter. A fantasy artist and wildlife artist, she is a former bodybuilder and fantasy model for her husband, painter Boris Vallejo.-Career:...

, and was pictured in their 2008, 2009, and 2010 fantasy art wall calendars.
She has graced the pages of Heavy Metal Magazine in illustrations by Dave Palumbo.
She was a model for Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is both a burlesque cabaret and life drawing event originating in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Lucky Cat . Dr. Sketchy's was founded in New York City in 2005, by illustrator and former artist's model Molly Crabapple and illustrator A.V. Phibes who later left to...

 Philadelphia chapter in 2008, and 2009.

Other Information and Projects

Annie founded the Philadelphia School of Burlesque in 2009.
She is known for her political involvement and has participated in demonstrations and actions including with Axis of Eve

Axis of Eve

Axis of Eve was a women's political advocacy group and non-profit business based in the United States and active in the 2004 election run-up. Its name was a play on words satirizing US President George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" epithet for Iran, Iraq and North Korea. They described themselves as...

 in 2004.

Links

• Article about the Philadelphia School of Burlesque http://citypaper.net/articles/2009/05/07/sex-ed

• Article on Revival Burlesque

• Article on Anna Frangiosa in Philadelphia City Paper

• CBS News on Annie A-Bomb's Burlesque class with Cabaret Red Light footage