Biography
Barbara Ann Duffy has garnered cult status in the neo-burlesque world and beyond with her French maid alter ego Bibi Poubelle, appearing in countless live stage shows, films, documentaries, and publications as an actress, singer, dancer and model. Along with her identical twin Vera Elizabeth Duffy, aka Fifi Poubelle, she's also cultivated a decade+ international career as one half of the Mexican wrestling tag team, The Poubelle Twins.
Born into a family of animators, and as a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, she has also worked extensively in animation, writing, directing and starring in Six Point Harness Studio's pilot "Twincesses", as well as creating numerous self-produced shorts and contributing to many network series, earning two Emmy nominations for her editorial work.
Her writing extends to music as well, with the 2002 release of the album "Night of Joy" with her band Suki Tawdry on Soul Shard Records. Her voice has been featured in projects as diverse as Angela Bettis' directorial debut Roman, Cartoon Network's Y'All So Stupid and the weekly comedy radio program "Simul-Trek".
Her largely improvised podcast "The Slap Booth Show" ran for one season and featured a diverse array of guests (Robert Greene and Selene Luna, to name two). She can be heard now on the try-weekly/monthly "Datey Ladies" podcast, as well as seen performing comedy with Vera in their live "The Slap Booth Show" ("where volunteers allow us to slap them...because we are twins"), burlesque and other variety acts, both in the US and internationally. She is a cast member of Toby Huss' long running "The Rudy Casoni Boozebag Revue", was featured in Dana Gould and Dave Koechner's "Carnyville", and is one of only a few original members of Los Angeles' Lucha VaVOOM's de La Liz, the lucha libre, burlesque and comedy spectacle, who remains a regular contributor.
"The Mortified Guide's to Family", in which she stars, screened at Sundance and her episode of Dana Gould's "Stan Against Evil" - Larva My Life - can be viewed somewhere because she still gets quarterly cheques for it.
