About the Creator
Talk and Tease was created by, and is solely owned and produced by, Scarlett Furi; a Sydney born performance artist, vaudevillian show producer, and published poet.
Spawned in Paddington from bohemian parents, Scarlett grew up on the Persian rugs of artists, drag queens and fallen socialites.
At 10yrs of age Scarlett began training trapeze with close family friend Chiquita the Fire Eater in Chiquita's warehouse abode. This ignited a love of performing aerial acrobatics.
After pursuing circus, Scarlett slipped, tripped and fell onto a career as a burlesque performer, the influenced and inspired by her God Mother and iconic adult entertainer Elizabeth Burton.
Some of her earliest childhood memories had been listening to her mother and Elizabeth smoke rollies and gossip in Elizabeth's Surry Hills kitchenette, while marveling at Elizabeth's old striptease promo shots and impressive lounge room jungle of free growing houseplants.
Despite a highly successful sold out season in Adelaide Fringe with her first feature length debut as a burlesque show producer, after the birth of her son, Scarlett soon renounced the Sydney burlesque scene to focus on a more established career path.
That did not last long.
After accepting that she prioritised a travelling dance revue over university exams, and spent for time drawing pin-ups than taking notes in lectures, Scarlett dropped out of law school in 2016. She then turned her focus to creating Sydney’s premiere burlesque dinner show experience in Kings Cross during the height of Sydney's lockout fiasco.
Surviving the lock-out, she pressed on to persevere the lock-downs and them more trials and tribulations, to eventually emerge in 2025 as the sole owner and producer of Sydney's longest currently running burlesque cabaret dinner show. Just like Talk and Tease, Scarlett still calls Kings Cross home and has no plans to ever leave.
Apart from her career as a show-maker, her favourite career highlights include shooting a fetish calendar in the Italian Alpes for a Danish lingerie brand. She has also had the pleasure of acting in various productions including the awarding winning Sci-Fi film “Risen” in 2021. However her most recent and perhaps favourite achievement was becoming a paper published poet (twice) this year.
When she is not working, you will find Scarlett cuddling her Sphynx cat or her son and staying up too late, or literally smelling the Roses at the Botanical Gardens which is still her favourite place in the world.