Mistress Iris.  Hotelier.

Iris runs the Gilded Canary, a laneway burlesque bar in the capital. She’s a hard nut but she shares her years of experience, and her stage, with anyone who has a spark.

Whiskey drinker.

“It takes real emotion to open your heart for an audience.  But it takes real guts to hand it over.”

Mistress Iris is played by Kath Duncan.