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Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotised, inspired, and terrified audiences globally with unique creations and sell-out seasons from New York’s Lincoln Center and Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft to London’s West End and the Sydney Opera House.
THE TIMES
Named One of the Top Performers of the Year by The New Yorker, the spectacular crowd-surfing tragi-comedienne has been called “Sensational” (The Times), “diva of the highest order” (New York Post), “The Queen of Chanson” by the Berliner Zeitung, and “a phenomenon” by the Australian press. Her award-winning solo works have been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, and Mikhail Baryshnikov and numerous international arts festivals. As well as being a prolific music and theatre creator she specialises in the Weimar repertoire and French chanson, and recently appeared as Titania in Emma Rice's revolutionary A Midsummer Night's Dream season at Shakespeare's Globe. She has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic with Pink Martini, then Brighton Festival with Souvenir - a fantastical song cycle she has written with composers Jherek Bischoff and August Von Trapp on the Theatre Royal, then conjured a bespoke creation for Liverpool Culture's Sgt Pepper at Fifty involving the city's brass bands, a riot and a requiem in a graveyard and her Sleepless Beauties, incl designer Andrea Lauer.
2017 saw Meow’s Pandemonium with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall as well as Shakespeare’s Globe presenting Apocalypse Meow: Crisis is Born. And her show Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid performed for the entirety of Edinburgh International Festival. Following that, in 2018, she appeared in NY in July and joined Pink Martini in Madrid and Monte Carlo. She also played the role of Miss Adelaide in the Stephen Mear directed and choreographed performance of Guys and Dolls at Royal Albert Hall and starred in Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret at The Barbican.
Original works: Meow Meow's Little Matchgirl, (Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Festival, Southbank Centre London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, dir Marion Potts ). Meow Meow's Little Mermaid (Malthouse Theatre/Sydney/Perth/Auckland, Brisbane, Edinburgh International Arts Festivals, dir Michael Kantor). An Audience with Meow Meow (Berkeley Rep, dir Emma Rice) (Boston Cutler Majestic, dir Leigh Silverman). Meow Meow in Concert (Apollo West End, Kennedy Centre DC, Lincoln Center NY, CAP UCLA at Ace Theatre, Symphony Davies Hall, SF). Feline Intimate (Sydney Opera House, London Wonderground, Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, Maribor Festival Slovenia, Austrian tour). Vamp (Malthouse Theatre, Sydney Opera House, dir Michael Kantor). Beyond Glamour (Australian Festivals, Edinburgh, UK tour incl. Soho Theatre London, Bar Jeder Vernunft Berlin, North American Tour incl. Koerner Hall Toronto). Insert the Name of the Person you Love (Sydney Festival, Pilgrim Theatre). My Mouth is a Wonder/ Meow Marathon (Time Based Arts Festival, PICA, Portland Oregon). His Master’s Choice (Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival). Tales of Love Most Monstrous (Melbourne Festival), Meow’s Pandemonium (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, cond Iain Grandage, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, cond Ben Northey, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Arlene Schnitzer Hall, cond Kalmar, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Benaroya Hall, cond Randy Fleischer, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Concert Hall, Bergen Festival Norway, cond Guy Noble, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Sydney Festival, WA Symphony Orchestra, Perth Concert Hall, Perth International Arts Festival, cond Iain Grandage), Rita Riots/Rita Dreaming/Rita Requiem (Sgt Pepper at 50, Liverpool City UK, Oratory and Graveyard), Souvenir Royale (Theatre Royal Hobart, Festival of Voices, Theatre Royal Brighton, Brighton Festival, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide). Apocalypse Meow (Southbank Centre UK, Shakespeare’s Globe London, Malthouse Theatre Melbourne, Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM Next Wave Festival)
Other Theatre: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe, dir Emma Rice, Titania/Hippolyta), Brecht/Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper / Threepenny Opera (London Philharmonic, Paris Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Royal Festival Hall, cond Jurowski, Jenny), Die Sieben Todsünden/Seven Deadly Sins (Opera Victoria, Hamer Hall dir Cameron Menzies/ United Ensemble Berlin Konzerthaus, cond Jurowski, Anna I and II), Michel Legrand/Demy, Kneehigh Theatre’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (West End, dir Emma Rice, La Maîtresse), Le Bel Indifférent (Cocteau, Greenwich Music Festival US, dir Ted Huffman), De Materie (Andriessen, LA Philharmonic, Disney Hall, cond Reinbert de Leeuw). Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Schubert /Schumann /de Leeuw, Australian National Academy of Music, Malthouse Theatre, Perth International Arts Festival, Port Fairy Spring Music Festival, dir Rodney Fisher/ Hebrides Ensemble Edinburgh, Glasgow). Sitwell/Walton’s Façade (United Ensemble Berlin Konzerthaus, cond Jurowski), Tom Waits/William S Burroughs’ The Black Rider (Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera, dir Matthew Lutton, Pegleg), Venus and Adonis (Malthouse Theatre, Bell Shakespeare Co, Sydney Theatre Co, Auckland Festival, dir Marion Potts), David Chesworth’s Cosmonaut (Melbourne Festival, dir David Pledger), Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery (Melbourne Theatre Company, dir Simon Phillips), Noel Coward’s Design For Living Melbourne Theatre Company, dir Rodney Fisher) Richard Mills’ Tis Pity (Victorian Opera, dir Cameron Menzies), Liza Lim/Beth Yahp’s Jue Ling Jie (Moon Spirit Feasting, Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Brisbane Festival, Hebbel Theater Berlin, Zurich Theater Spektakel, Saitama Japan, dir Michael Kantor), Babysitting Caspar (Robyn Orlin Company, Altes National Galerie Berlin), When I take off my skin and touch the sky with my nose… (Robyn Orlin Company Theatre de la Ville Paris, France, Germany tour), Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane Concert Halls, Cadogan Hall London, Usher Hall Edinburgh International Festival, Tanglewood Festival US, Barbican Season London (with Aurora Orchestra)). Guys and Dolls (Royal Philharmonic, Royal Albert Hall, dir and choreography Stephen Mears, Miss Adelaide), Sieben Todsünden/ Fürchtet Euch Nicht, Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal (Opernhaus, Berlin Festspiel, Moscow)