Veronique Chevalier (born Berenice Chloe Sztuczka) is a French-born American mistress of ceremonies, singer-songwriter, music producer, comedian and parodist popular in the steampunk community.
Since 2005, Chevalier has been producing and hosting "Veronique's Red Velvet Variety Show", a live vaudeville and cabaret production featuring local as well as "big name" musical performers, unusual acts, magic, burlesque and comedy.
[4] In 2008 she produced the album, "Polka Haunt Us", featuring guest artists including Lili Haydn, Kerry Christensen, Marion Ramsey, and Vinny Golia.
In October 2011, she was asked to MC Amanda Palmer's solo show (kicking off a West Coast tour) in San Diego, and in November, she performed the Welcome Song at the opening ceremonies at the steampunk convention TeslaCon in Madison, WI.
Her career was cut short while the company was on the Tehachapi leg of their most recent US tour, when she took a tumble into the orchestra pit during her solo, due to a sudden blackout, caused by a drunken cowboy shooting out the headlights of the pickup truck that served as the stage lighting.