"..nothing less than revelatory" The Australian “She is sensational. 5 Stars.” The London Times
Named
top ten “Best of Cabaret ” by Time Out New York, “cabaret diva of the
highest order” by the New York Post and “A phenomenon” by the
Australian press, the “Post -post- modern cabaret diva” Meow Meow has
wowed audiences globally with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and
performance art exotica.
She’s
won numerous Australian Green Room Awards and the New York Franklin
Furnace Performance Art award. Her solo programme has been curated by
David Bowie for his NY High Line Festival (alongside Laurie Anderson,
Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire and Ricky Gervais), and by Pina Bausch for
her legendary dance-theatre festival 08 (alongside Baryshnikov, Sylvie
Guillem, de Keersmaker and Paris Opera). The Sydney Opera House has
presented several seasons of her works: “Beyond Glamour” and “Meow to
the World: Crisis is Born”, and with Malthouse Theatre commissioned her
full-length original music theatre piece VAMP! (with composer Iain
Grandage). Sydney Festival and NY’s Performance Space122 have curated
her piece “Insert the name of the Person You Love” – an ongoing work on
the time it takes to fall in love - in collaboration with scientists
and psychologists from Rutgers, Stonybrook and Oregon State
Universities. Her concerts for the Carnegie Hall “Berlin in Lights”
series at Neue Galerie NY have had sell-out performances, she has had
extended seasons at the home of German cabaret, Bar Jeder Vernunft,
Berlin.
In collaborations
she has worked with John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig, Shortbus), Rodney
Fisher, John Jesurun, Lance Horne, Anthony Coleman (John Zorn), Iain
Grandage, toured the US with Amanda Palmer and the Dresden Dolls, and
with Pink Martini’s Thomas M Lauderdale has written and recorded the
album “Here Kitty Kitty…The Lost Sessions” due for release in 09. She
is a regular guest in the Olivier Award winning La Clique on the West
End, and with the Weimar NY collective in NYC (with such performers as
Justin Bond of Kiki and Herb, Penny Arcade, Taylor Mac and Julie Atlas
Muz).
Meow has also performed in venues as diverse as SF MoMA, Sydney Opera House, Joe's Pub NYC (her home in NYC), Highline Ballroom NYC, Hiro Ballroom NYC, The Neuberger Museum, American Repertory Theatre, Boston Orpheum, The Glamour Room Shanghai, the Berlin Philharmonic, Famous Spiegeltents globally, Darcelle XV, London's West End and numerous international arts festivals including Time Based Arts (US), Ann Arbor, Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Brisbane, Darwin, Queensland Music Festival, New Zealand, Braga Portugal and Festival Estuaire, France.
Meow
has recorded for WDR, RBB (Germany), ABC (Australia), Radio France and
Sonic Arts (UK), and embarks next on a return season of “Wundersch?n”,
the Schoenberg Ensemble’s reworking of Schubert and Schumann with the
Australian National Academy of Music ensemble, and a solo season in the
US for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Ringling International Arts Festival.
“a deconstructive tour de force that turns cabaret inside out… Her shows blaze a wild trail” THE AGE
“Meow
Meow catapults the genre of Entertainment into a hitherto unknown
dimension” Ulrike Borowczyk, Berliner Morgenpost
